Vandy loses by 30 as Stackhouse adds another loss to his resume

1. In a pretend scenario where Stack becomes the Head Coach at the start of SEC play in 2018, no doubt in my mind we win 5-6 SEC games. Stack would definitely bench Shittu, and he would definitely be able to unlock Nesmith and Lee like he did the next year, and he would get a lot out of Ryan and Wetzell too.
2. In a pretend scenario where we can just have last years team facing this year’s schedule (the team as counstructed last year), I think we’d make the tournament. I’ve said that if Robbins and Chatman were healthy all year we would have made the tourney last year. Even if they had the exact injury timelines they did last year, I think we’d make the tourney playing this years teams. The SEC has a few teams at the top with a large middle group that isn’t the best with several teams dropping off from last year.

Conclusion: The SEC has often been strong lately, but it has been by no means impossible to win in. There are many strong coaches in this league for sure. But the difference will always be the players. You can’t just roll the ball out there, but plenty of good basketball coaches have failed in this league. The teams that win consistently in this league have consistently good rosters. It’s not just bringing in 5 stars or transfers like Cal or like Musselman, for every 5 star Rick Barnes or Bruce Pearl bring in, they have an underrated 3 star who becomes a good player.

Having a good coach is a requirement in this league, but only the ones who can consistently have good rosters will succeed. Guys like Ben Howland, Tom Crean, Frank Martin, Cuonzo Martin have been great coaches but they couldn’t cut it in the league any more largely because they didn’t bring in and retain the guys consistently enough. Guys like Kermit Davis or Buzz Williams may have the same fate this year. Jerry is a good basketball coach despite certain issue I have with what he does. But him being that is irrelevant because he can’t do the most important thing to succeed in this league

February 4th ?

Alabama with the 26 point win over the Wildcats from Lexington. UK shot 28.8 % from the field. Other than Wheeler and Reeves they shot 7 of 44.

Meanwhile UT has literally doubled up USC at halftime, 42-21.

I had a really great reply. Can a mod please open the locked thread for just a few minutes please?

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Sedrick Alexander already in Nashville. Ethan Crisp, Jailen Ruth, and Aeneas DiCosmo will also be early enrollees. We will get a chance to see these guys in spring practice.

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I've got two, and another almost mistake.

This was BEFORE the three point shot was around in college basketball, I was at a Vanderbilt vs UTjr basketball game in the early 80's. With 45 seconds left in the game, VU was down 9. I had a date with me, so I was like, ok, this game is over, lets leave. We walk to my car, get in, and I turn on the radio to listen to the post game show. What I got to hear instead when the radio came on was Phil Cox at the free-throw line shooting to win the game. Again, this was BEFORE the three point shot. Biggest regret leaving early right there by far.

Found a documentary covering Deion Sanders and Jackson State this past 2022 season on Amazon prime

I like this guy as a head coach. Calm, reassuring, positive, building a family culture, but will light the fuse when needed

I haven't followed him at all as a head coach, so I was coming into this documentary knowing nothing about what he did at Jackson State. i'm impressed, I see why Colorado hired the guy. It will be interesting to see what happens on a bigger stage

Jason Sanders has protected his tweets.

Most likely candidates:

@ChesterCopperpot1
@NashNative615
@stackhouseburner
@Friedas_Boss
@kt4dores
@Ooopsxl
@glh4vu
@tcstephenson
@Chris Lee


PS - I also predict that @VUSmackdown will change his username to @TreyThomasFanBoy

We talked about the blueprint for our success in another thread, but Mizzou has done what we can’t do. Dennis Gates is a great coach no doubt, but in terms of his year 1 success we can’t do what he’s doing. Kobe Brown is the only non-transfer of their top 7 scorers. 2 of those guys Gates brought from his previous stop. Stack did bring in 4 transfers a couple years ago, but only 2 of those guys could even play at this level. When we do get into a rebuild, we have to give the next guy some time to flip the roster, but a good coach could get things going quickly

South Carolina could be our only SEC win this year.

Will Stack, now forever aka Jason Sanders, lose his s*** before January is over? Will he still be employed by Vanderbilt at the end of January? How many games will Jerry/Jason get tossed out of this year? Will Candice's head explode dealing with all of this? Will @ChesterCopperpot1 have to change his ass tat to Jason Sanders? Will Stack put a hit out on @Chris Lee and @tcstephenson for reporting the facts?

Stay tuned for another season of " As the Basketball Turns" to find out.

I’ve watched both games, and both end in a tie. This is why soccer won’t catch on to the level of Football. Yes Nfl can end in a tie but it’s very rare. 1 or 2 games a year. Biggest stage for the sport and there isn’t a winner.

I know next to nothing about Anchor of Gold, but Stack blocked them. Pretty unprofessional.

Stack spoke to the media today, unfortunately I wasn't able to be there since I'm still home for break. Think this should be the last mid-week one I miss this year.

On Mizzou:
"Very good team, they play really hard, they try to pressure you, try to play at a really fast pace, I think it's gonna be important for us to take care of the ball and make sure that we continue to do the things that we've been doing offensively and continue to stay stingy defensively as well."

Also mentioned that they are a bit unconventional as a group, specifically in how they run the pick and roll with unconventional players.

Compares its pressure to what VCU brought. Says Vandy has to control turnovers and get offensive rebounds. Thinks they will double-team and trap often.

Stack said that he thinks Vandy could take advantage of its size advantage.

Said that he heard this will be a sellout and that they will have to bring energy early because of it.

General:

Stack said he likes where the team is at, cites his groups' versatility, how they've won in different ways, and the way they've been trending on the free throw line.

Mentioned again how his team is still in the process of learning of how to win.

Stack said he likes how his lineups are working and his group is embracing coming off the bench. Says it's still a game to game decision based on matchups.

Says Liam Robbins is doing a lot of good things, wants to help him more in P&R coverage and by throwing him better passes.

They're working on continuing to balance playing through the post and getting up a good amount of threes.

Rebounding continues to be an emphasis point, cites QMB and Ansong's rebounding vs SC.

Still thinks defense is the strong-suit of his team.

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Seemed like an inevitable move. Be interesting to see what effect this has on the coaching carousel this Spring.

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I'm in the process of setting a time with Mike, this will probably be the first one I'll do.

He keeps blocking Vandy fans on Twitter. Do other coaches do this? Maybe he needs to put the phone down and focus on coaching.

Obviously Stackhouse’s recruiting has been subpar outside of the nice class he brought in this year, and he has whiffed on most of the transfers he has brought in as well. I’ll always appreciate Bryce for shooting for the stars with recruiting as that’s something that Vanderbilt hasn’t always done, but I don’t know if consistent one and dones could work at Vanderbilt. Bryce has recruited well at Grand Canyon, especially in the portal, but similarly I don’t know if that could work here either. Disregarding his coaching ability, I don’t think either of those facets of his recruiting really fit what Vanderbilt can do. In all sports we’ve generally relied on continuity and experience to win and I don’t think that’s something that we can go away from. You can’t stay away from the portal either, but we can’t rely on it.

As we’ve talked about before on here, Kevin Stallings recruiting was really the sweet spot of what Vanderbilt needs to succeed. Outside of his last two years which were awful classes (he lost his main recruiter on the staff) his average classes were around the same quality as the current class Stack brought in, with many being better. He’d have the occasional dud like the Jeter class but many of his classes were really solid. He got a 5 star in Jenkins, and had players like Jenkins, Jones, and Baldwin who were good enough to go to the NBA early, but his rosters weren’t built solely on those guys. Very solid high school recruiting coupled with efficient use of the portal for guys who have production are how you win here. That’s what I want to see from the next coach

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Georgetown set a dubious Big East record on Wednesday night, losing its 25th straight regular-season conference game to break a tie with DePaul for the longest such streak in the history of the league.
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Ewing is now 73-95 during his six years in charge of his alma mater, and just 26-68 in regular-season Big East play.
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After the Hoyas reached the NCAA tournament in 2021, Ewing received an extension that reportedly fully guarantees his contract through 2026.

Ewing's roster has seen repeated turnover because of students transferring away from Georgetown, and before the start of this season, he overhauled his staff by replacing all three assistants and brought in several transfer players, including Spears, who came over from Duquesne.
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"I'm a very prideful person, and Georgetown is a very prideful university,'' Ewing said at his postgame news conference Wednesday, "and we don't want to be associated with a losing streak, but it is what it is.''

Ole Miss.

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