It may very well take Mullin until year four to make the Ncaa tournament. That's what happens when you inherit a program that is the worst team in the history of the school.
So why didn't our legend deserve the same patience and understanding from the traitors?
He inherited a team that was a relevant program. Who had post season play in 4 out of 5 years. Back to back 20 win seasons. Back to back over .500 conference record. A team coming off a NCAA birth. He inherited a team who had CO, and Jordan. Who had Samir and Sampson committed. Who was building a European pipeline. Had Ponds gift wrapped.
The team Mullin ended up having was the team HE built. He didn’t want CO, Jordan, Samir or Sampson. I gave him year one and two and did not criticize him even though we looked terrible. Was looking forward to year 3 and we started BE play 0-11 with 2 maybe 3 NBA players in the starting line up and Clark coming off the bench.
He didn’t care about defense and rebounding. He didn’t care about recruiting. He didn’t care about building personal connections with his players. He didn’t care that Mitch was dead weight. He didn’t care he wasn’t the one running practices.
Yes last year we made it to the play-in game and lost. It was the first time in four years we had post season play. It was the first time in four years we had a overall winning record. We still hadn’t achieved a winning BE record in four years. We had one player signed for this year who would have left when Matt left.
Unless we brought in Pitino we were going to be terrible this year with Anderson, Mullin or whoever else they were considering for the job. That’s why he deserved to be let go, we were going to be terrible this year, mainly because it was clear he didn’t know how to tuna program.