DiamondDeuce said:
Bruh I aint denying racism... but lets look at the full picture. You a fellow UNC alumni you know how much pressure a coach has to be a championship conetender at certain schools (UNC, Duke, Kentucky, UCLA, Kansas) you can't be a coach at these schools and merely be "good". If you are not in the Final Four the its considered a disappointing season.
Hell let Roy Williams go six straight years without making it to the Final Four and see what happens to his azz at UNC
But the college basketball landscape has changed
The same schools aren't gonna win EVERY YEAR like they used to
There's more parity than ever before because of the top players leaving early for the NBA
And now you've got these mid-major schools seriously challenging these big schools now because the players actually stay four years
My point is, the expectations put on Tubby Smith at UK were UNREAL considering the climate of college basketball today
If you listen to the chatter, most of the people in Kentucky haven't wanted him there almost from the start
He won a national championship in '98 but they've wanted him out ever since about 2000
Remember, Tubby wasn't gonna be fired YET, but I'm sure he could see the writing on the wall
If he was such a terrible coach they would have fired him already
Roy Williams is a GREAT coach, but in a lot of ways he underperformed while he was at Kansas
He only got to the Final Four 3 times in the 15 years he was there and had several early exits from the NCAA despite having some of the best teams in the country
Yet, there was never any talk at all about getting rid of him
And yeah, I know about my team not going to the Final Four for an extended period of time and stinking it up (from 2002 to 2004) which seemed like an eternity although it was only 3 seasons
That's why we had to bounce Matt Doherty's wack ass outta there