I don't know why there is an anti anything regarding this situation. We need players and people think you can recruit if a new coach from Stony Brook goes 7-24 because we are stripped down to bare bones. Yes there is a difference between 7-24 and 13-19 or better, if the product is better and you can show better recruits that you can do something with the existing pieces on campus.....if that means Shoes stays, so be it.
On the other hand, I don't see why there is this notion that these coaches don't already have a pre-existing relationship or knowledge of each other or that no one existed prior to RU. This is coaching and everyone knows everyone, period. If Pikiell makes the decision that is best for his career path and that means we keep Shoes on board, it's his career at stake, not anyone elses....his reputation takes an enormous hit if we gets destroyed with a mindset of starting from scratch, when you don't have to.
Players that are 2017 and 2018 recruits specifically will want to see what RU does next year....the better the rotation/product/roster looks in Year One is most important in this type of situation.....there is no "throw away years", with a coaching staff that is coming in from Stony Brook....if you brought in Roy Williams, Jay Wright, Calipari and he wanted to clean house, my guess would be their track records would dictate that it will be fine and work out. Pikiell and whatever staff assembled doesn't have that luxury.
As far as the Flood vs Ash comments, Ash wanted to keep at least one or two holdovers but some other hurdles prevented that from happening.....he wanted to do that to retain as much talent that was clearly recruited by the prior staff.....to say anything otherwise would be 100% wrong. Pikiell is playing this situation perfectly IMO.
On the other hand, I don't see why there is this notion that these coaches don't already have a pre-existing relationship or knowledge of each other or that no one existed prior to RU. This is coaching and everyone knows everyone, period. If Pikiell makes the decision that is best for his career path and that means we keep Shoes on board, it's his career at stake, not anyone elses....his reputation takes an enormous hit if we gets destroyed with a mindset of starting from scratch, when you don't have to.
Players that are 2017 and 2018 recruits specifically will want to see what RU does next year....the better the rotation/product/roster looks in Year One is most important in this type of situation.....there is no "throw away years", with a coaching staff that is coming in from Stony Brook....if you brought in Roy Williams, Jay Wright, Calipari and he wanted to clean house, my guess would be their track records would dictate that it will be fine and work out. Pikiell and whatever staff assembled doesn't have that luxury.
As far as the Flood vs Ash comments, Ash wanted to keep at least one or two holdovers but some other hurdles prevented that from happening.....he wanted to do that to retain as much talent that was clearly recruited by the prior staff.....to say anything otherwise would be 100% wrong. Pikiell is playing this situation perfectly IMO.
