Tubby Smith is the coach at High Point,he just keeps rollin'.
Holtmann has done a nice job getting 12 wins from this group thus far. They are just flat out not that talented. Best NBA prospect on team is Muhammed and he is marginal. They will be better next year when Holtmann's best recruiting class ever comes in led by DJ Carton who is a top 20 player in that class and the first true point guard we have had in a while. 2 other forwards in class are top 50 players as well and they will help immediately. Transfer point guard from FSU will be eligible too so they will have two point guards vs. none this year. CJ and Woods are not point guards. Some other guys playing now will probably be struggling to get minutes next year. I doubt Jallow plays at all and Andre W minutes will go down. Muhammed and Washington will play and Big Wesson and Young will as well. This years teams is not really a top 20 team as currently ranked....next year's will be!
Guard play has been very disappointing. Will see how rest of the season plays out, right now not looking very good. Next year could be Holtmann's last if significant improvement is not made, Smith is not going too wait long to pull the trigger on a new coach.
Guard play has been very disappointing. Will see how rest of the season plays out, right now not looking very good. Next year could be Holtmann's last if significant improvement is not made, Smith is not going too wait long to pull the trigger on a new coach.
LOL, bad post.
Smith should go before this coach who I think has been outstanding,it's the players really letting him down.
LOL, bad post.
OSU should be good next year, lot of returnees and a good recruiting class coming in, but I get tired of people blaming this years record on Matta. Like I posted Matta took over a team that was on probation won 20 games his 1st season and went 26 - 6 his second season. What did put OSU behind the 8 ball was the timing of the firing of Matta, if anybody wants to place blame on this years record it should fall on Smith who fired Matta in June of 17 although Matta took over in similar conditions as he was hired in July of 04 taking over for O'Brien. Matta was fired because he was not hired by Smith, as Matta had only one season where he did not win 20 games and that was his last season when he went 17 - 15.Holtmann isn't going anywhere. The first 2-3 years of this were going to be a major rebuild as the program had been rapidly trending downward in Matta's final years.
Last year they vastly outkicked reasonable expectations, and they started off this year the same and have started to come back to Earth. Hopefully they'll turn it around, but they were picked to finish 12th in the Big Ten for a reason. The talent top to bottom simply isn't very good, and it takes a great team effort and coaching for them to beat most league teams.
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OSU should be good next year, lot of returnees and a good recruiting class coming in, but I get tired of people blaming this years record on Matta. Like I posted Matta took over a team that was on probation won 20 games his 1st season and went 26 - 6 his second season. What did put OSU behind the 8 ball was the timing of the firing of Matta, if anybody wants to place blame on this years record it should fall on Smith who fired Matta in June of 17 although Matta took over in similar conditions as he was hired in July of 04 taking over for O'Brien. Matta was fired because he was not hired by Smith, as Matta had only one season where he did not win 20 games and that was his last season when he went 17 - 15.
Can put a fork in this season. Team lacks intensity, one thing not to be very good on the offensive end but not very good defensively either. As I stated in another post, Holtmann better win next year or he will be shown the door. People can make the excuse this is only his second year but Matta went 26 - 6 his second season at OSU and he took over for a team that was on probation.
It was an excellent post because it is the truth, Holtmann is getting paid good money to fill the Schott and next year will be make or break season for him. I hope he succeeds but if he doesn't, bring somebody else in.