Sly Fox wrote:I admit that I was a bit surprised to see Myo so skilled in transition. I've seen him be a back-to-the=basket scorer but going coast-to-coast breaking ankles. I'd love to see this not be an outlier game for him.
On the other side of the ball, the Hose have flat out nothing. Nibert must be an exceptionally nice guy to keep his job for this long. Because he isn't showing anything with the squads he's running out on the floor year after year.
PC is going through a change at AD right now, so I'll be curious to see what happens once they get a new person in that role. I know Nibert has been there forever, had some decent success at lower divisions, and helped guide them through the transition process (even when the school botched the process and made it a year longer than it needed to be)....so I'm sure the school doesn't want to fire him. But something has to be done. And this can't be fun for him at this point, so maybe they meet after the season and mutually decide to change directions (and he can get a role in the athletic department so he's not fired)...they haven't had a winning record in the league since they've moved up (this is their 9th year now where they've counted in the standings, and they finished .500 their first year, and haven't gotten to that point since). And they have only gotten worse after losing a pretty good roster that they had during their transition years into a full D1 program...Barring a crazy turnaround this season, this will be the fifth straight season where they will finish in the bottom 25 of the nation in KenPom (they are currently 2nd worst right now...they finished 3rd worst in 2013-14). It will be tough for them to ever be a regular 'power' in the league in basketball based on their location/facilities/budget/enrollment...but they can be better than this. I've heard nothing but good things about Nibert as a person, but he just doesn't seem to be a D1 level coach.
And nice job by LU last night. I turned the game on early and the Flames were really struggling offensively, but the defense kept the Hose from pulling away, and then it became obvious that LU was going to control things in the final 5 minutes of the first half.