JL21 wrote:If you think Quin Snyder's failings were being a junkie, or that his improprieties weren't intended to better his program, you have no clue WTF you're talking about RE: what got Mizzou on probation.
What exactly don't I know?
God save the Quin had all the talent in the world, many times ranked top 10 pre-season, recruting like a mad man and got out of the 2nd round what 1 time in 7 years. He was a [expletive] coach. Pure and simple.
JL21 wrote:If you think Quin Snyder's failings were being a junkie, or that his improprieties weren't intended to better his program, you have no clue WTF you're talking about RE: what got Mizzou on probation.
What exactly don't I know?
God save the Quin had all the talent in the world, many times ranked top 10 pre-season, recruting like a mad man and got out of the 2nd round what 1 time in 7 years. He was a [expletive] coach. Pure and simple.
He's now in the NBADL, right?
I'm not saying he was a good coach by any stretch. He was a horrible coach. His recruiting was wildly overrated- he basically pulled one very good recruiting class, and Linas Kleiza.
My point is that his improprieties were pretty much right on par with Pearl- phone calls when he wasn't supposed to be making phone calls, helping players out by giving them clothes and stuff... You said that Pearl's offenses were trying to better his program, as if Snyder's weren't. I think that's grossly inaccurate. If I misinterpreted, then fugedaboutit.
Don't they just need to overhaul these rules? I'm not sad Kelvin Sampson's gone from IU but when all that was going on I found a lot of the rules ridiculous. It's always seemed strange to me that Bob Knight is some kind of saint because he followed the rules the NCAA chose to employ (as opposed to rules of basic decency) and Sampson was made to seem like a criminal for making x number of phone calls over an arbitrary limit.
The Ohio State football penalties seemed especially weird, at least the ones I heard about.
JL21 wrote:
I'm not saying he was a good coach by any stretch. He was a horrible coach. His recruiting was wildly overrated- he basically pulled one very good recruiting class, and Linas Kleiza.
Snyder couldn't tell a B-12 grade point guard from a shot glass.
A couple of those stiffs would have had trouble in a respectable D-II league. Brought some interesting shooting guards and interesting bigs in but failed utterly in developing them.
On top of that, he was too stupid to realize that he might actually get caught on the things the NCAA nailed Mizzou for.
I will be suspicious of former Duke Assistant's/former Duke point guards as coaching candidates for a good long time after what I saw during Pretty Q's reign of error in Columbia.
