Re: Some perspective on the hoops team...

The last time we went to the tournament in hoops is the same year we went 6-7 in football and lost to South Florida in a bowl game.

At this point, and whether you like him or not, whether you think he has had the proper resources or not, whether you think he was left with a dumpster fire by Purnell or not, whether you blame the new ACC teams and schedule or not, whether you think he is a good game coach and just can't get the recruits or not, the bottom line is that Brownell simply has not gotten the job done.

I don't think most of us are asking for NCAA tourney bids every year, but we are clearly expecting more than one (and in his first year with the prior coach's players) every seven years. Regardless of our history and resources, that shouldn't be too much to expect. Moreover, why shouldn't we expect better? Other coaches at football-first schools have had recent success (Florida State and Miami come to mind in conference alone). We have a renovated arena with a national brand right now in football, so why can't we get good in basketball?

This said, I would love to see us go on a run, make it to the NCAA and BB save his job, but I just haven't seen any evidence that we are capable of doing so. Heck, at this point, it appears we may have had a better team last year.

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Feb 6, 2017, 12:53 PM

The Florida State game was a stark reality check on the state of our basketball program:

1. This game was perhaps the greatest loss in the history of Clemson basketball.
2. The current coaching staff cannot motivate this team appropriately for the riggors of ACC competition.
3. No success in the ACC can be achieved without a strong inside game which this coaching staff has never
been able to provide.
4. The current one post man inside and four perimeter players scheme only cannot have success in the ACC
without a higher level of gifted players which we have never had under this coaching staff.
5. We are continually being outcoached by our ACC opponents' coaching staffs.
6. We continue to come out at the start of the second half at a lower level of execution than our ACC
opponents and we do not know how to finish games.
7. We continue to take ill-advised long-range outside shots during key possessions of games.
8. We continue to use our best player on the perimeter too much, he also taking too many ill-advised shots
from the outside, when his best gifts lie in his mid-range and to-the-basket play.
9. We continue to be out-recruited by our ACC competition, expecially in the area of nationally-gifted big men,
but rather tall project type players only, or transfers, who only end up giving us maybe one good year of
true productivity, when most other ACC teams are getting 2-4 years our of such taller players they have
recruited.
10. Our basketball program will continue to go nowhere as long as this current coaching staff remains.

The truth here really hurts doesn't it!!!! How much longer must we endure this????

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Some perspective on the hoops team...