Beamer didn't look like he had an offensive plan for the first 1.5 years. Getting the right players / coaches in place and having them buy into the process goes a long way to success.
GG appears to have checked out…
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Other places hire people with baggage and once they win everything is forgotten except the championships...see Bruce Pearl, Rick Pitino, Bobby knight etc.
Does this surprise you?
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This.
(screaming from the highest point in South Carolina) THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. Don't get me started on Knight. He was available when we hired NIT Dave.
We can only wonder how many NCAAT Marshall would have taken us to.
Honestly, a little bit. I guess it shouldn't. All ADs presumably have a short list ready at any time. I'm certain Paris wasn't on any such list.
Hear, hear! 2022-23 MBB was shaping up to be a darn good team...right up until the coach was run off and 5-6 of his best players vaporized.
lol, that's all we heard for pretty much every season after we pi**ed away any momentum from our FF run. "Next year is shaping up to be a darn good team!"
Outside of one year, it was always "next year" with Martin. Yea, 2022-23 would have been a darn good year. Right!
No. It shouldn't. Ray Tanner the AD has been a disaster only VERY SLIGHTLY above King Dixon.
It was kind of comical, actually. It was a broken record. Every season, certain fans had an excuse as to why the current team was underperforming but assured us all that things were shaping up for next year. Then when next year's squad underperformed, they had an excuse as to why that was happening but assured us that NEXT year was the year. No, for real this team. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
He has had some missteps, for sure. But, honestly, if the Beamer works out, nothing else matters.
Come to think of it, it actually would have pretty humorous to see GG play for Frank. GG has been petulant at times and that was NOT Frank's bag. It would have been interesting to see how GG's fragile emotional state meshed with Frank's tough love approach.
Running the floor is practice and repetition. Nothing more. I teach 12 year olds to do that. This is my point. We aren’t doing this.
Hey I’m all for it but once he was accused of physical abuse that’s a different animal.
You can teach 12 year olds to block the person in front of you also. Yet, we couldn't do it for Beamer's first 1.5 years.
I agree that is all 99% of the fan base cares about. I am the 1% that cares about sports. Love what tanner has done for sports such as men's tennis. We are more than competitive. Great coach and we have very nice, new facilities.
Give the man time for cryin out loud - he will be fine when he has an opportunity to recruit for more than 15 min. Go back a few years and look at Wisconsin around 2014-15 or so in the NCAA's - Paris recruited that team so I think we will be ok in time.
The guy to hire would be Pat Kelsey from Charleston,but it looks like he'll be moving to a bigger job before Carolina comes open again.
Looks really interested doesn't he. All about him always has been always will be until someone sets him straight or he tries to grow up and stop acting like a spoiled brat that has to be the center of attention all the time regardless of the fact of when you look at his stats from last night...another epic fail.
Read the following with regards to comments made by Coach concerning Jackson.
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Read the following with regards to comments made by Coach concerning Jackson.
Everything Lamont Paris said about GG Jackson
Lamont Paris talks about GG Jackson being benched against Ole Miss and frustration boiling over against Vanderbilt.
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Is it us doing nothing with him? Or maybe it’s him not doing what he should. But as it goes nowadays, no one is accountable for themselves and it’s always someone else’s fault.
You certainly are 100 times better than the other poster with your name! @TN-Gamecock
I'd argue Eric Hyman as the worst. He ran off 40% of the fan base in a revenue neutral move. Constantly interfered with Spurrier with Garcia. Was responsible for the warchest, Darrin Horn and FM (instead of Marshall x2). He wrecked the baseball stadium causing it to be completed 2 years late at nearly 250% of the original price.
His vast screw ups were somewhat covered up by the success of Steve Spurrier and Ray Tanner coaching the 2 sports we care about. A&M fired him after a year.
I agree with you about the constant excuses but he did go 18-13 and 9-9 in the SEC last year. When do you see Paris improving on that record? Was it worth 20 million to make him go away?
I think the relationship had just run its course. In 2019-2020 he went 18-13 (10-8). Two years later he had basically the same record. He wasn't doing a bad job. We just had to decide if we were ok with pretty much always being ok. So we made the right call. Was it a gamble to get rid of a coach who was always going to do alright? Yeah. But it was necessary to try taking a step forward.
Now, I think we made some missteps after dismissing him.
You make excellent points. Eric Hymen was the devil. Loathed him.