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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I'll certainly blame Alden to an extent, but Suitcase really put us over a barrel, too. Ultimately, he always picks the wrong coach. He chose Quin over Self and Haith over anyone else.
Gregg Marshall wasn't Gregg Marshall yet, but it's Alden's job to see that progress. He needs to be able to identify guys like Cuonzo, who, incidentally, has recruited better than the all-hat-no-cattle Haith.
When this team goes 14-18 next year, a bunch of dipshits are still going to say you can't fire a guy after four years when he's won over 80 games. Truth is, every situation is unique, and anyone who says "You'll never get anyone else in here" is completely full of shit. If you pay good money they'll come here.
If we fired Haith today, all we'd have to do is show a candidate the tape of the last two Missouri teams. Firing Haith has nothing to do with impatience and everything to do with incompetence. He's Herm Edwards without charisma. He has the ethics of Jerry Tarkanian and the coaching ability of Gerry Faust.
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You moved to a… “the” football conference. As long as you do well, no pressure will be put on Alden regarding the Basketball team. You don’t even have KU for the Boosters to Hate. MU basketball has traditionally been competent with an occasional excellent team. I think being anything more that competent became far more difficult by switching to a league where Basketball is a 2nd tier sport to everyone except KY and FL.
I’m a KU homer that thinks MU leaving the Big 12 was bad for both KU and MU’s basketball program. The sort of animosity between the two programs is really hard to manufacture artificially and the intensity level in their games was always like a tournament game in basketball. Hell even in Football as poor as KU has traditionally been the record separating the two after a 100 years of playing could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Honestly I think what mu needs to do is let Haith fail another year then bring back a MU lifer that bleeds the black and gold or back up the Brinks truck for a Rent a coach wanting one more big payday before they retire to get the program turned around.