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Originally Posted by OKchiefs
I think you can somewhat get by if you’re good at either recruiting or coaching/Xs and Os, but when you’re not particularly good at either one? CM gets a pass more than he probably should because he’s squeaky clean and he’s a good mentor to his players.
The problem is that’s all you hear about him. You never see negative press, just some article titled something like “It’s About More Than Basketball With Cuonzo Martin”. The funny thing is, I struggle to see similar statements around Self, Calipari, Williams, etc. It’s about whether they win or lose and not much more. I guess you can’t expect that much at Missouri, but you also probably shouldn’t pay over $3 million a year for a motivational speaker.
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God, I remember being so excited for him his first year here. The Porters, Tilmon, Harris. That 2017 class was by far the best class MU basketball has ever had and we just got rid of the worst coach to ever coach a power 5 conference.
It all comes crumbling down very quickly and becomes extremely obvious that Martin had very little to do with the class and Michael Porter was 99% responsible for recruiting those guys.
Since then he's had a bunch of classes that resemble a Kim Anderson recruiting job and then you have the 2020 class, 163rd in the country!
Good ****ing God.
He could have at least used the momentum from 2017 to build something. He was supposed to get STL back and be able to talk to those kids, but from 2018-2021 he has 3 STL commits and has lost a ton of kids to other schools. Maybe Drink could teach him a thing or 2 about recruiting.