Vader's Post Game
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I agree. And that leads me to believe that Capel is completely unqualified to coach here. A lot of people could perform well being the lead recruiter at a school that recruits itself.
If Femi and Hugley leave and Mintz goes elsewhere, its lights out for Capel, he isnt going to be given the opportunity to coach this lineup
PG - Onye
SG - Santos
SF - Jeffress
PF - Payton
C - Collier
That team would go winless in the A10 and finish below .500 in the NEC
What was absolutely frightening, with an entire year and half in our S&C program and what would be considered "practice", Jeffress and Collier were having trouble getting rebounds and converting layups against.....the Citadel. I mean it should be a dunk contest against them. Stumpy, crew cutted white dudes. And these guys were rushing shots, missing the rim, not dunking like me playing against Gannon varsity players when I tried to take it in for a layup in pick up games.
How does the S&C coach still have a job? He was here under Stallings and Capel kept him. Howland cleaned house when he got here and those players worked their a## off in the weight room as opposed to sleeping like they did under Willard.
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There nothing wrong with s & c. That's a ridiculous scapegoat when you have not enough talent.
Horton isnt the best SG in the ACC as Capel portrayed him but he is an ACC level SG
I am blaming Capel for retaining him, and that absolutely is part of the problem. One of many problems under Capel. You need someone that is going to set the tone in the off-season and hold these guys accountable. The entire staff from top to bottom needs fired. The ONLY good thing from the Capel Era was Justin Champagnie. Everything else (on and off the court) has been a train wreck.
I wouldn't blame him for that. It's ridiculous. They work out hard enough. They just can't play well.
Go look at Gonzaga. You don't have to be jacked to play basketball and all our players got bigger and stronger.
It doesn't matter.
Id actually argue its the opposite.
They need less time in the weight room and more time on the court.
The S&C coach is the most overrated thing in college sports. I could google some workout plans for football and basketball and the teams wouldn't win any less games if I were S&C coach.
It's an insane topic. Tell me how many muscles Timme or Chet Holmgren have?
None. Because it doesn't help you play.
It helps maximize your potential, i guess.
But to think the s & c coach has any relevance to how good or bad a team is ridiculous. It can maybe marginally make you 1% better. Every team runs and lifts.
The problem is this year is going to be bad. So we’re just throwing away this year and we’re hoping he puts together a better team next year.
I blame Capel for really no involuntary changes. Jason Richards moved on, but that was his own deal.
Pro sports too. I met former Steeler Mike Wagner once and somehow the conversation got on that and he just laughed when asked if thought an S&C coach made any difference.
Finally! This is 100000% true, look at Terrell Brown, dude got weaker each year. We need someone making Hughley a f'n man and getting us to be a bad@ss defensive stalwart again.
This decision by Mintz came in probably the last 24 hours. It was about 2 or 3 days ago his own grandfather was talking about him coming to Pitt.
But with a blowout loss, people calling for Capel to be fired everywhere, and zero crowd support at the game, its not all that shocking looking at it when we are down to 1 guard on the roster as it stands. And obviously Buchanan is not coming here either without Mintz.
Capel has nobody to blame, but himself. Excuses are like a-holes. Everyone has one.
Had Capel had a babysitter for Horton (and based on the last few years, he definitely needs a staff of babysitters), or had signed more than 1 HS player, or had created a culture where players wanted to stay than leave, maybe we beat Citadel by 30 and Mintz isn't even thinking of leaving. Everything is ultimately Capel's fault.
About as well as the Coulibaly ORTG love.
He is busy. Just as it is tax season for accountants, the recent barrage of transfers means it is ORTG season for Vader. He is busy plugging numbers into his machine that will spit out metrics that will convince us all not to believe what we clearly see with our own eyes.
And when this happens, hundreds of Pantherlair's most loyal Vadermaniacs will like his posts and rush to his defense when he pontificates about what a solid, potential-laden team Coach Capel has assembled heading into the season. And then, after finishing a robust 14-17, we'll get to do it all over again next year.
Wow, you're very optimistic about next year with 14 total wins! I see it being a 10-21 season, maybe worse. We don't even know who is on the team. But we do know who isn't...so far. There will probably be more. And I doubt the players we might get in the portal will be any kind of difference makers. We got Gueye....that was an anomaly.
Some people just like to be told what they want to hear. This is why Vader has a fan club on the Lair.
You suck man. Digging this type of stuff up after like 5 months?? You must really have wanted to say “I told you so” and have a lot of time on your hands. Everyone has crappy takes. I was fully on the fire Narduzzi train after western Michigan. Looks pretty dumb now.
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