***Ask The Experts — Wednesday Edition***
- By bslax91
- The Round Table
- 178 Replies
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The overall team effort looked like it was there against Wisconsin.Pike and Cronin had the same issues and concerns. They both made it known the effort wasn't where it needed to be. Pike at the last press conference said he did a bad job getting these ready to play. The right way to tell the team (and the media) the effort wasn't acceptable.
Are they going back and forth on the idea?Now if we can just lock up the Wafle brothers....
He can’t have a losing season but look at NW. they turned things around after reverting to dumpster status after finally breaking through. Pike has earned a chance to show he can again win through defense next year. Let’s see what happens before writing him off.Next year's team will probably be no better than this year's, and I don't care how good a defense the play, if they have a losing season there isn't a chance in hell he gets an extension.
what’s the goal ? would anyone here prefer a nice guy who can’t get to the Big Dance even with a couple of superstars or a ‘terrible leader’ who wins consistently ?Almost feels like a Gundy rant (ok st. Football coach).
He comes off as a terrible leader.
One time back when I taught Expos at Rutgers (I no longer work there). I saw Ron Jr. come in to Lucy Stone Hall B wing for a meeting with his professor. I believe it was his freshman year. I also had Billy Janzer and Jalen Jordan in my Expos class that year. They were both above average students in class discussion and did well in the class, especially Janzer. When I was a graduate student at BU I worked in the tutoring center for athletes where the D1 hockey players would have to come in and do two hours of homework. My impression from all of this is that, generally, D1 athletes in the pre-NIL era were doing their work and taking it as seriously as necessary. Not sure if it's still the same these days and I mostly have nothing but contempt for online classes.
But are they really “student” athletes anymore? I’m sure the lesser players still are anyway.Wow. Curious to see if putting everyone (his players and his staff) on blast publicly works out.
The players are supposed to be student athletes. He should be working harder than them because this is his job. NIL definitely increases the expectations but they don't just play ball.