Tennessee Colonial wrote: "Had to go when we were up near the end of regulation. We lost?! WTF Horrible. Didn't they have a big lead? And they blew it to Richmond? Well, this coach is not doing a very good job. Where did he coach before Miami? And did he win? Will we win another game? Sad. "

Yes, this was sad. Where did CC coach before? He was only an "Assistant" Coach on Jim Larranaga's staff at Miami & George Mason. I don't know what his responsibilities were but it would seem that in-game strategy was someone else's job. Today's mishandling of game strategy was NOT his first. The current AD will be able to find a better coach going forward. Will it be someone on the level of Mike Jarvis or the UConn connected Karl Hobbs? I doubt it. 

How come no more press conferences? How about asking Caputo to publicly account for this slide?

Gwmayhem wrote:

In this corner, hailing from Mandeville, LA, 6'10" and 235 pounds, wearing the navy blue trunks, Hunter Dean.

And in this corner, from our nation's capital, they stand at a combined 13' 7" and weigh in at a combined weight of 475 pounds, wearing white, here are Makhi and Makhel Mitchell.  The Mitchells!

Doesn't sound like a fair fight to me.  URI is 8-0 at home, 12-4 overall, 3-1 in the A10 with the loss coming by just 4 points at undefeated Davidson.  Oh, and if that wasn't enough (and don't you think it ought to be..shoutout to Letterman), we kicked their asses in DC last season.

Just 9 more days until Fordham.

Unbelievably, the Fordham program has finally made a U-turn so I wouldn't get my hopes up for an automatic win here. They're not going to be the league's doormat anymore, sorry to say. 

I'm with the overall tone of the board right now. I'm really frustrated that we lost to Umass-Lowell. I also think we will look a lot better at some point in the season than we do right now. That being said, I share the sentiment that the coach has lost my faith in his ability to turn things around here. I've seen enough to believe that upgrading the talent won't be enough and that to truly take a step forward, he needs to fundamentally change the way he holds players accountable and creates roles for them. Suffice it to say, I don't think that is a change he will be making any time soon. 



AMEN

Deleo wrote:

I know people say to give JC more time, but this is atrocious.  What are we settling for here?  We would struggle against Div 2 teams right now.  Sorry, but the coach and AD need to go.  It’s difficult to think of starting over, but what do we have to lose?  Nothing.  

I just don’t know how anything will even happen.  There probably isn’t a lot of money on the table, and there is an interim President.  So we are stuck.  This is bad.

Agreed! As one respondent stated earlier, we're stuck through next season. Terrible situation!

It wouldn't surprise me at all.

Uh oh, guess what?
Unless Dayton is incredibly bad this year they just lost at home to UMASS-Lowell. Will GW's slide continue at home? Oklahoma State managed to shut down UMASS-Lowell's guard who lit up Dayton? Does GW have the personnel now to accomplish that? I guess we'll see.

Dr Mike wrote:

I think you guys have expertly identified the deficiencies in the head coach. That raises an important question on the recruitment of JC and due diligence. In most cases the recruitment for a head coach includes speaking with opposing coaches, conference commissioner, graduates and transfer basketball players, watching his games in person (if possible), speak with former assistants.

The GW AD does not have a background in basketball. 

Did GW put too much faith in the search firm? 

I raise this question (s) because JC did not learn how not to coach at GW. These same faults would have been identified at his other stops with good and broad diligence.

Apparently Vogel doesn't have a background in basketball or those connections. GW appears to have been in a rush to get past the incident (Lonergan/ Nero) so their focus could return to other serious issues. I agree that due diligence was most likely not exercised properly.
 

Gwmayhem wrote:

We had no answer for Joel Soriano last year.  Hunter Dean?  You are a hopeful answer.

After watching Soriano more than once last year, you would think JC would tell defenders to force JS to go to his left, something he couldn't or wouldn't do last year. Just overplay Soriano on his right side!!!

As for Hunter Dean, he looks like just another 3 point shooter who stays out of the paint....unlikely to mix it up inside. I wouldn't expect any defense from that guy at all. What about relaying that Soriano info to GW's 6'9" Vanderbilt/ Syracuse transfer??

Regardless, I don't expect GW to win up in the Bronx given how they've played thus far. The Fordham coach knows what he's doing and his players respond to him. But given the competition from other big schools Fordham can't hold their most promising players. The Digger Phelps & Tom Penders era is long gone and the landscape for US college ball in general has radically changed.
 

Agreed, Mentzinger!
That was disgraceful. With all the hype surrounding Christian It's about time to get back to the drawing board again. Start with a quality AD.