curiously--or maybe not--we are not hearing from those posters who vociferously criticized Lavin for recruiring Sanchez, or said Sanchez was leaving to play in Europe, or claimed he had already left, or castigated the staff for misleading Sanchez about his prospects, or accused Lavin of lying , etc, etc. How about some posts saying --gee, I jumped to unwarranted conclusions, accused when I knew nothing, criticized with no basis in fact, etc, etc. How about a resolution to think before spouting? Then again, how silly of me to suggest such a sensible conclusion. Same type of unwarranted assumptions-criticisms going on now about Coach's decision on Harrison. Will some of us never learn? What is it they say about people who continue to repeat the same mistakes?
At the end of the day, we should forget the details. If you win 16 games, and play in the CBI, you've had a bad season. Slice it up any way you like. But it's a bad year.
this was a pretty bad year. not norm bad...but bad.
If we win 16 games, and lose 15, we will finish w the exact same record we had after Norm's 3rd season.
the difference is norm never won anywhere...so what else could we expect? at least lavin had a positive track record in the past.
That's true. Lavin was successful by our standards at UCLA. However, IMO, if he loses out the rest of the season, he needs to answer for this. It is not our place to question the Harrison decision because we don't know what happened. The team's record however, is 100% fair game.
Losing Sanchez was totally unexpected as was losing Harkless a year ago...with one or both, results are much different...any comparsions to the Norm years are just plain stupid
I don't think that is an objective comparison. Before year 3, Norm had an expected starting line up of Hill, Kitchen, Thomas, Hamilton & Spears. Injuries and eligibility changed our season. We won 16 games. Just like we have 16 now in year 3.
I would never trade lavin for norm but that argument is very valid.
If this was year 10 of the Lavin era, then it would be a bad year. Considering where we were as a program when he took over, its an improvement over the following year. As long as I see progress as a program then i'm satisfied because I see the forest through the trees. It's year 3! Do any of you not see the progress? I think many of you really have unrealistic expectations, only complain but offer no realistic solutions. Year 3 is nothing, look what Tom Crean did in year 3 at Indiana. It takes time folks, and we are not Indiana!