Steve wrote:

How dare anyone ever speculate! If Barry can please ban all theorizing, speculation, or conjecture - and while he's at it, editorializing, we can all have more fun! We can read each other stat lines and respond uniformly with, "Indeed. This is fact." 

GWRising, as much as I honestly, truly appreciate your insights, it's hard to blame fans for speculating, especially when the inner-workings can be such a black box (as they probably are with most programs). The speculation is sort of inseparable from the fandom itself! If its too painful to bear, just remember if you know otherwise, you probably know better! Protect your gentle heart!

 
Understand Steve's very apt point.
Isn't this what every fan board does? Our is much milder than many,given the raging dumpster fire that is GW basketball.
  Even if most here have no D1 coaching experience,the administration should be very,very concerned when the hardcore GW fans stop speculating.

Having watched the game last night, I agree we looked terrible. However, I'd say VCU, like Dayton, is one of the top teams in the A-10 and could easily be tournament-bound.  I feel it's no surprise we were outclassed. In fact, we normally lose by large margins to VCU.  I believe all the complaining and discussion about finding a new coach is just opportunistic bashing of a coach who's not had a chance to build his team.  The last two years have been excruciatingly bad and unusual in so many ways for so many of us.  I can't imagine how hard it is to recruit and retain players for Jamion who came in to an enormous mess.  I feel that, given an appropriate opportunity, JC will prove himself beyond worthy as GW's head coach.

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Whether or not GW will or won't get rid of JC (and whether they have the financial ability to do so) is not the point, to me. The point, to me, is that this team with JC is just awful. Awful to watch with an awful record. He may be back for business reasons. But I hope to hell he does something on the recruiting front because I'm not particularly excited about who is coming in so far and I don't want to watch this mess again. COVID plays a role for GW and other schools- but as I said last year, I don't see a strategic plan on or off the court to improve this team. I still don't. That's a problem.

I don't have the money to pay for a buyout, nor do I care enough about GW basketball to make such a payment (even if I could). That doesn't mean I can't bitch about how shitty JC's teams have been.

Loved your post danjsport!

100% this. For us fans without inside knowledge, all we see is zero progress (some could even say regression). There are no signs this team is getting better, no discernible signs of coherent offensive or defensive flow, etc. Recruiting has not been up to par. We've brought in some talented transfers and one decent-looking freshman in three years. However, now that they're here, the don't look like a team that's growing and improving. Covid can excuse some sloppy play and poor shooting, but it can't excuse not looking like the team has any plan or strategy on the court.

If there is an insider here who can help me, I have a totally serious request: What signs should I be seeing right now as a non-insider that this program is headed in the right direction and won't continue to be scratching to avoid the play-in game in its own conference tournament each season? What are the tangible signs that can give me optimism?

danjsport wrote:

Whether or not GW will or won't get rid of JC (and whether they have the financial ability to do so) is not the point, to me. The point, to me, is that this team with JC is just awful. Awful to watch with an awful record. He may be back for business reasons. But I hope to hell he does something on the recruiting front because I'm not particularly excited about who is coming in so far and I don't want to watch this mess again. COVID plays a role for GW and other schools- but as I said last year, I don't see a strategic plan on or off the court to improve this team. I still don't. That's a problem.

I don't have the money to pay for a buyout, nor do I care enough about GW basketball to make such a payment (even if I could). That doesn't mean I can't bitch about how shitty JC's teams have been.

Thanks Dan. Was watching the St. Bonaventure game yesterday and was wondering why we are so bad and they seem to get it right. Is upstate  NY so much better than Washington, DC? It's fun to watch a winning team. Our program has been a disaster for years. It's time to clean house and fire these incompetent  "leaders". A buy out for people who have destroyed the program?  What recourse do we have. Make the AD pay for her bad decisions.  .