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Date Posted: Friday, March 21, 03:02:03pm
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I might be clinging to hopeless naïveté, but I still think an ambitious aggressive Coach could come to NU, and tell 5 kids, “Come to NU with me. You will get the coaching, development, minutes and opportunities to cash into a nice NIL deal when we compete in or even win the MAAC. Then he targets 4-5 kids with some flaws and tells them, give me 2 years, we will develop you, work on your flaws, improve your game and set you up to move on.
I know we aren’t going to get 4 year kids, but a good coach (salesman) can bring in enough talent to win.
Being in Huntsville, I am amazed at the talent at D2 UAH. I am sure they would beat NU.
Then I look at Jim Crutchfield at Nova Southeastern, who is a perennial D2 power. His shtick is full court press all game long. He is phenomenally successful despite losing kids to NIL.
I don’t pretend it’s easy, just that it’s possible, and yes, if it worked, that Coach would move on quickly, but that’s the deal today.
I think the worst move is sticking with a guy for 6 years or so, and not ever being successful, not generating any community or campus excitement and basically just watching the whole thing rot. If that’s the case, better to go D2 or 3, cut down the travel and expenses and be done with it.
As many of you noted, this years team brought no excitement or anything that could generate fan enthusiasm. Most of us push ourselves to watch a NU game instead of being excited about it.
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