Ben Howland, non troll

[Lettuce]

I’ve been one of his tougher critics…and this may come off as contradicting…however you want to shake it…Ben Howland is a good coach. He hasn’t made it exactly easy on himself but I admire him trying to install a system …an effective system…the downside..like any system, it gets better with time

Ben’s rarely returned a core group longer than 2 years..and the attrition with transfers and covid…

Surrounded by a cheating scandal in the middle of his best run…

Somewhere in there, he had a moon growing in his jaw!

His bad games are as horrible as basketball can be…

But as a whole, his teams play hard…it just has never quite come together.

I do believe he is a good person with great leadership qualities and a HOF resume. He’s been good here, hampered by his system and things out of his control.

As ****** as my troll was, it showed different perspective. This will hopefully do the same.

Lets see if Ben can make one last push …he’s shown as much passion this season as all the others put together.

 

[Shmuley]

Hopefully he retires on a good note.

 

[57stratdawg]

This team is a tournament team if Tolu is healthy all year. Honestly, maybe a Top 25 team.

 

[Seinfeld]

Howland creates quite the dilemma for State fans because I’ve come to a conclusion that we’re only going to have one of three types of coaching tenures.

1. Just bad basketball - Ray
2. Some high highs and low lows - RW and Stans
3. Steady Eddie - Howland

In the grand scheme of things, Howland’s teams are competitive, and he’s done a reasonably good job, but the obvious issue is that he just can’t seem to ever get that boulder over the hill. I’m ready for him to move on because I feel like it’s pretty dang clear as to what we get with him, and that’s frankly not enough for me. I want those high highs even if it means an occasional step or two back. I definitely respect the man though