Grey, some quick thoughts:
– You brought up the past, so I answered why it is pertinent. I’ve said on this thread DD is probably here as long as Yow is. If so, then so be it. Any coach we hire is going to be a gamble. But with a coach that really hasn’t proven anything, there’s one eye on what has been done and one on what might happen better. Seems reasonable, no?
– I’m one of the more positive ones on Keatts and was so fairly quickly after getting past the initial sting of anyone not named Archie Miller. I’ve argued his longer track record of success made him much less risky than Will Wade (and I thought if it wasn’t Archie, we were getting one of these two).
– If Keatts goes winless in the ACC next year and then 4 years later has yet to do better than .500 in conference or get out of the first round of the NCAA tournament, you’d better believe there are going to be people grumbling. While I disliked Gott from the second that hire was announced (much like I felt about TOB), if those are Keatts’ results at that time, you’d better believe we’ll be hearing about Gott’s “two Sweet 16s.” The media will mak them out like they were two National Titles.
– Yow has done a good job at NC State and the Director’s Cup results, APR and lack of major scandal all reflect that. She’s human though, and thus not perfect. She has not handled press conferences well. She may judge on one criteria, but she says she judges on another.
– Tigers don’t change their stripes. Eventually there’s enough body of work for one to just see that that is all someone is really going to accomplish in that role. They’re just not the right fit for the job. How many years is that? What consitutes the success metrics? What’s really the potential given the inputs? I’m not the AD or the money people, but evidently many had seen enough part of the way through last year. I cautioned during that period last year that much was right and if we were going to do something, maybe it was to see whether we had in Kitchings out own version of Dabo. I also argued that the real travesty was men’s basketball and that the pitchforks should be put down and saved for that, where we were clearly doing a lot less with a lot more.
– I think it is fair to say that DD is a good coach 6 days a week, but is a pretty mediocre (to bad one) on game day. He reminds me an awful lot of HWSNBN in basketball. Giving HWSNBN another 10 years wasn’t going to change the complete lack of killer instinct, baffling in game tactical decisions, momentum killing time outs and substitutions, or general Charlie Brown trying to kick the football level of meltdowns when on the verge of anything significant.
