Re: I think this post is kind of ridiculous

How many times has TNet endorsed a coach after a lousy season? Every time. Patience is preached while anyone with an objective opinion is marginalized.

Clemson basketball will not get better next year. Save this post, screen shot it if you must, but Clemson will not be a better team just because three guys (who lack serious experience) look good in a shoot around. Brad Brownell is Larry Shyatt Jr. His wins are decreasing. More to the point, Barnes and Purnell each increased the number of wins in each of their first three seasons.

Of course, I don't blame Brownell. I think he's in over his head. I blame TDP. Under Terry Don Phillips, Clemson regressed in nearly every sport. Remember when Clemson soccer was a big deal? Or when winning the ACC Baseball Tournament was something Clemson did almost every spring? Or golf? What the hell happened to Tiger golf?

Clemson athletics, as a whole, is in bad shape. One ACC football title may satisfy some, it doesn't satisfy me. TDP was a terrible AD (see: Tommy Bowden contract). I'm glad he's gone. Like Brownell, he was in over his head.

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I think this post is kind of ridiculous

Mar 20, 2013, 2:21 AM

You're making all these absolutes about a coach that just had his first losing season in 11 years as a head coach. To me that's pretty silly.

Now I'm not gonna sit here and defend this season. It was poor, it was ugly and we can't have another season like this again.

I'm willing to give Brownell the benefit of the doubt though. There were a lot of things that I saw that I liked his first 2 seasons. I think he is an excellent coach when it comes to x's and o's and I think he is a very good teacher of the game.

This year we seemed snakebit from the start. Injuries hurt us, then a transfer popped up. Not to mention we had absolutely zero leadership to guide a young team. It seemed like the perfect storm for disaster.

I also think Brownell had a bigger transition in creating his team after taking over for OP. I liked OP and I liked his style. But OP left us not the other way around. OP seemed to go more for the athlete than the basketball player. He wanted up tempo and he wanted his defense to create offense. When teams took care of the ball and forced us into the half court that's when we got in trouble. It seemed to me teams in the tournament were able to do that and we struggled in those games. Brownell wants to play the exact opposite and he likes a halfcourt game that needs fundamental basketball players and good shooters. We've struggled to adjust to that so far.

The departure of our last 2 seniors marks the end of that regime. To me they were just poor fits for Brownell's style and unfortunately we had nobody else to lean on. We did have some flashes of hope from some guys at the end of the year and I hope that continues. As guys get healthy and others mature I hope we start to grow a bit as a team and our offense starts to flow better.

One thing is for sure, I don't want to see another season like this again. It was almost unbearable to watch sometimes. Sometimes that happens though. I've seen it at Duke, I've seen it a UNC. We're certainly not a program that is immune to it.

I do think Brownell is a good coach though. Is he a good fit for Clemson? Well, that remains to be seen. Time will tell how well he can lead us and progress definitely has to be made next year. The jury is still out if it will happen though. I just think that it is waaaay to early to jump the gun on a new coach and saying he can't turn things around is absolutely premature. That's my 2 cents.

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Tigernet is ridiculous.

I hadn't heard that before...

He doesn't use his real name because he used to be in the

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I think this post is kind of ridiculous