Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 11327018)

Lol. It's the easiest sport to turn around quickly

Originally Posted by PackerinMo (Post 11327055)

Very true, its not like football, in basketball it only takes 2-3 solid players to turn things around but Glorydays is also correct, kids don't want to play for Mizzou and therefore they will never get out of the hole.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 11327066)

Do you think kids were screaming to go to Wichita State or Butler ten years ago? Notice how Memphis and UMass shriveled up once Calipari left? Duke was a damned joke before K got there.

If you hire the right coach you can build a solid basketball program. Unfortunately for us, Missouri hired the only human being I've seen who could destroy a men's collegiate athletics program faster than Title IX.

In fact, that's what I'm calling him from now on: Title IX, or TIX.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 11325691)

1) Mike Alden cannot hire a basketball coach to save his life

2) Because Alden ****ed up so colossally and embarrassingly with the Snyder hire, he turned into a micromanager, which made no coaches want to work for him.

3)Dumb **** blue hair alumni thought that the Norm years were something to aspire to rather than long stretches of mediocrity interspersed with some nice regular season records and a horrendous tournament record. Thus, they think that Norm's last lead assistant, who couldn't recruit a straight man to dive on a naked Kate Upton, would somehow be able to recruit to players despite not having been at this level since his Freshmen were wearing Pull-Ups.

Long story short--Norm had problems with a lot of black players. His "True Son" can't relate to them worth a damn either, and rather than try to bridge a gap in age and culture he continually utters offensively ignorant and out of touch platitudes while being wholly unable to actually do the one thing he was praised for--draw up an intelligible offensive or defensive scheme.

Because the vast majority of Mizzou fans are mouth-breathing idiots who yearn for the nostalgia of mediocrity, they applaud this pathetic and transparent act of "discipline" (which is really closer to unintentional racism), acting like it is going to accomplish anything other than a mass exodus of talent and make sure that nothing beyond MIAA to OVC talent comes here in the future.

Basically, Kim Anderson is the neutron bomb that the True Son set detonated over Columbia. Yeah, you don't see any physical damage to the facilities, but the program will shortly be depopulated of anything resembling a DI basketball player.

Given the relative level of talent on this team (they have more 4 star players than they have since 2002-3), Anderson should and likely will go down as the worst coach in the history of both revenue sports at Mizzou, even though none of the aforementioned mouth breathers will ever admit it.

He will never win more than 18 games in any season here.

From a Kansas perspective: imagine if you took the personal skills of Mark Mangino along with the tactical and recruiting incompetence of Turner Gill (along with the wholly misguided disciplinary priorities). Now, imagine that the hire was also driven by affiliations with an overrated prior regime (like say the Chiefs hiring Kurt Schottenheimer).

That's Kim Anderson. The mere thought of him makes me want to vomit.

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 11327018)

Lol. It's the easiest sport to turn around quickly

Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 11327334)

Well, we only lost by three, but still disappointing that they couldn't win at home. My general observations:

1) This team has no low block presence. None. Rosburg is the world's largest flightless mammal. He plays like he has oven mitts on his hands. He can tip balls out, but he can't rebound. He can't position to rebound. He can't drive. He has no post moves. And still, he had a career game yesterday because MSU was terrible defending the rim. The Canadian dude Post had two fouls in the first four minutes, so Rosburg played most of the first half. Those two combined are basically the Haley twins without the rebounding ability.

2) Mizzou has no outside shooters. None. I was watching Gill-Caesar, Bello and Wright during warm ups. None of them could hit a jump shot from anywhere. I mean they literally missed about 90 percent of their shots in warm ups. And that's unguarded. In the KC Star this AM, it said Gill-Caesar and Wright were a combined 3 of 15 from the field, 1 of 9 from 3-point and 1 of 4 from the stripe.

3) The only players who looked like they belonged in a D1 NCAA game were Williams 3 and Shamburger. Shamburger is not a a good point guard. He never hits a cutter, he can't drive to draw the defense and dish. He's just a very average shooting guard. He can shoot a little, but not enough to carry the whole team. Williams 3 had a career game. They ignored him the whole first half, and he had a monster second half or Mizzou isn't in the game. Not even close.

4) Mizzou was 14 of 21 from the stripe. Not near good enough. If they hit four more free throws, they potentially win.

5) I can't name one thing that this team does well. I don't put this on Kim Anderson. But I can't see where he gets more than maybe two years to turn this around. Very important that he recruits for next year. They have to win at least a few home games. If they don't show some improvement, whoever the new AD is, may want to bring in his own guy. Mizzou only has two guys from Missouri on the current roster, seems like Anderson should have a better shot at recruiting players in-state.

Oh, I did see Jeremy Maclin and Chase Daniel. I pleaded with Maclin to sign with KC and gave him the chop. He just smiled and waved.

Here's some pics from my seat yesterday. Even though we lost, me and the boys had a very good time and it was a nice day.


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