Brownell needs another 12 yrs to get his players

ClemCE09® said:

Brownell didn't get any further than OP in the Tournament his first year. He won a play-in game.

At some point he was going to run out of OP's players and have to recruit.

Worst funding, facilities, and history and...He still made it to the ACC championship game, had ranked teams, and really good recruiting classes. You make a really good case for how good OP was here.

Correct. We did make the acc championship game 1 year. It was the year that only 3 ACC made true NCAA tourney. In that tourney he won 2 games, which were 2 of his 3 ACC tourney wins in 7 years.

He did finish a few years ranked in the 20's. Good for him. Those years were fun, but ended in disappointing fashion.

And lastly, his recruiting. He definitely was a better recruiter than brownell. He actually only
Had 1 class that had any fire power and it ended up being very overrated. He definitely had the eye for talent as he hit in several under after players such as Trevor booker, cliff hammonds, if rivers, etc

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Re: Brownell needs another 12 yrs to get his players

Mar 14, 2022, 11:12 PM

ClemCE09® said:

I may be wrong, but I don't think Brownell's ever won more than a game in the ACC tourney and has never upset a higher seeded team.

The point isn't that Purnell is the greatest coach ever, it's that he was better than Brownell. He had to deal with exactly the same issues Brad had with the addition of trying to recover from the Shyatt years. He turned us into a consistent program from that mess. He couldn't seem to get over the hump in the tournaments which may have played some part in him leaving.

After 12 years we have not returned to that level of consistency and he took over a program primed for another tournament run.

I agree with some of what you said. The only difference in OP and BB's success/failure in the ACC tournament is that OP beat Duke 1 year in the tournament. If that's how you are basing your opinion, then that's on you.

I think brownell is the way better coach. OP was able to recruit better players.

I can see reasons for firing brownell as well as keeping him for 1 more year and seeing how it plays out. Regardless, next year is sure to be entertaining.