1. Well another year and I didn't see The University of Missouri on selection sunday. Very dissapointing. I have bought into the theory that M.A deserves time to recruit his players. This is understandable. I have identified two problems: 1. Though the players he inherited aren't particuarly talented (other than Lyons), I didn't see progress. If you have lemons to work with, make lemon-ade. 2. I noticed other coaches who were in their 1st or 2nd year guiding teams to the tourney. What about Mike Pelphrey at Arkansas? They improved in his 1st year. Think how terrible UK was and the turnaround they made in conference play? Even Rick Majerus at SLU took a team with only two legit players and showed signs of progress. If you watched the final minute of the 1st and 2nd halves of the tourney game vs. Nebraska you would have sworn Dr. Quin Medicine Woman was on the sidelines.
2. Now as I have aged and my family grown I don't pay as much attention to the talking heads at ESPN, especially the basketball heads. Tell me this? When did the term " eye test" come into existence when judging a teams tournament worthiness? I don't know how many times I heard those two ACC freaks throw that term around. Just b\c ACC teams look more athletic doesn't mean they are better teams. Am I the only one missing the boat?
3. Whats the story on NCAA bracket?
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I will try to be objective here but I do not get the MU situation either. They have the resources to field a team that should go the tourney every single year. It seems that they gave up at the end of the Nebraska game and then you have the Hannah situation earlier in the year. It is a shame that millions were spent on a brand new basketball arena that now sits half empty unless the hawks are in town.
I'm willing to give Mike Anderson two more years, but I, too, am not encouraged by the early signs. His insistence on playing Darryl Butterfield is absolutely baffling.
Everyone keeps saying, "Wait til next year when he has HIS players in there." And sure, he supposedly has 4 or 5 nice recruits coming in suited to play Mike's "style". But how often are true freshman going to make that big of a difference? See Justin Safford this year.
Yes, where is the defense and the 40-minutes of hell mentality I heard so much about in 2006?
Norm Stewart got more out of guys during probation years than Anderson has in the last two.
I wonder if the pressure to succeed is too high for this guy? I know he received far less scrutiny @ UAB.
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