Re: Brownell vs. Barnes. CU in good hands.

Ok,I'll give you the one year to rebuild LittleJohn.
After that,no excuses.
It's not even a question of better talent.IT'S ABOUT SHOOTERS.
Other teams outside of Tobacco Road,or the Wisconsin's/Michigan State's can recruit shooters.Why can't we?
You want to know why?It's because Brad has this thing that shooters can't defend.
Don't know where that brillant idea came from.
Brad ,as much as I love him recruits defensive minded players.
And when he does recruit a shooter,seems they don't pan out.
Follow the NCAA Tournament.Every team in it ,even Texas has at least one good shooter.Heck,Wisconsin has two good 6'9" guys who can not only shoot,but dribble.Maybe they are not a good defensive team,but they know how to take care of the basketball while slowing the tempo,and limiting the other teams possessions.And they know how to look for,and hit the open jump shots.
Clemson plays a faster pace offense,for sure,but when you have as many scoring droughts in a game like Clemson,it doesn't matter what your facilities are like,or what you can expect from your fan base.

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What makes "Brownell a great coach"?

Mar 30, 2015, 12:20 PM

Even Brownell's biggest supporters would agree that recruiting isn't Brownell's strong suit. But I often wonder if Brownell's actual coaching is that great too. He has the reputation, but I don't see our players' having better basketball fundamentals or skills than the opposing teams' players. I don't see us running crisp offensive sets. I don't even see us having great results out of timeouts or when running out-of-bounds sets.

Where does the great coaching that everyone claims Brownell is known for come into play? Our defensive numbers are above average, but not elite, and a lot of it can be attributed to our slow pace of play as much as anything. With no NCAA Tournament apperances and just 1 NIT appearance in the last 4 years, we're approaching the level of futility we had under Larry Shyatt.

Also, I don't see the talent as "big upgrades". KJ McDaniels is far better at the SF position than either Blossomgame or Grantham, and we couldn't make it to the NCAA Tournament with that NBA player. DeVoe had a few good minutes at the end of the season, but according to ESPN, he was only a 2-star player coming out of HS. He also only shot 27% from the field this season. Sure the guards could make huge jumps, but we haven't really had a guard develop under Brownell yet. Hall, Roper, Harrison (a former 4 star out of HS), Rooks, Coleman, Filer, and Sapp never really took off here. Several of those players were known as good shooters coming into the program, but none of them left the program with that same reputation.

People will criticize Barnes and Purnell because they subsequently got fired from their next job, but who cares about that? The fact is, they won here (and Barnes also has the most wins in Texas history). They consistently took us to the NCAA Tournament after they built up the program. The program improved from year 1 to 2, year 2 to 3, etc. under those two coaches. Under Brownell, we were basically the same team this year (year 5), as we were in year 2. Years 2-5 have been a complete waste, and we're basically floundering around. I get Brownell is locked in as coach for at least the next 2 years, but I don't understand the mindset that "We're extremely lucky to have him." The truth is, he's very lucky he has that huge buyout, or he'd be on the hotseat right now with next year improvement being seen as a necessity to be retained.

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^^^^^ Still thinks of the Bowden era

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Missing the postseason your 5th year is overachieving?

So true. A lot of big name football coaches didn't want to coach

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