Two big years ahead, I am on team CC 100%, I think he's laying great tracks but the wins need to come and I do believe they are coming and coming in the next 2 years

What's a realistic goal for the next 2 years in terms of

record ....and NET ranking??

Looking ahead more than one year doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the current transfer era. Who knows what the team will even look like a year from now? It should all be about the coming year.

Team record and NET ranking look at results rather than process. Of course they are important (it will be easier to quantify those after seeing completed league rosters and the schedule for the upcoming year - I more or less agree with what Ryan said as benchmarks) but at this point I'm looking to see the "small" things improve. If they do, I think results/improved metrics will take care of themselves.

To start, can next year's team play competent defense? That includes closing out on shots along the perimeter without fouling, staying with the opposition on drives, generating pressure, and finishing missed shots by the opposition with a rebound. It feels like it has been a decade since GW was even respectable on this side of the ball. GW has to improve there first and foremost in order to improve to the level we all want to see. It would be nice to be known for something outside of just being a team that doesn't foul a lot.

Under CC, the offense has been decent but in both years the scoring wasn't balanced. In year 1, interior scoring was strong while three point shooting was spotty. Last year, GW finished better outside the arc while struggling inside the lane. There needs to be equal ability both inside and out this year (includes scoring from the post), and the team needs to move the ball better. GW was one of the worst assist-generating teams for much of the year although things improved a bit at the end of the year. Can that carry over to this year? As talented as JB/Max were, the team honestly played the best together when it was the freshmen playing so I'm glad that we were able to keep the core together for now.
 

There is no more building a program with roster continuity at least at GW. Each year will be a different roster with some but not all carry-over regardless of class. Impossible to keep more than 8-9 guys remotely happy in this environment and even then some of the 8-9 will leave for greener NIL pastures or more playing time no matter what. This is the new age of mercenary basketball. As dmvpiranha states ... one year at a time.

Last edited by GWRising (4/25/2024 12:18 pm)

I think CC is going to win big in the next 3 years and then bolt for a bigger job

I'd take it

Your thoughts??

Karl Hobbs did not win big at GW??

Sustained success at the just short of Power 5 level means making a sustained period of good hires (VCU, Xavier, Dayton) or holding on to someone for the long haul (Richmond, Davidson, Gonzaga).

Given our resource limitations and what seems like the difficult restrictions coaches face with admissions, facility scheduling, etc., I think we're going to need to be the type of place where coaches stick around 2-3 years and leave a decent cupboard for the next coach up. Let them come in full of energy and passion, get to a tournament, and get to the next place where there's an actual infrastructure to work with before they burn out.

That means Tanya and Pres. Granberg need to know exactly what they want (and who they can afford) when the time comes to make a hire to keep as many players as possible out of the transfer portal in the same way that Kim English was able to keep Oduro around at Mason.

 

CC needs to show some progress in Year 3, but GW will still have a pretty young team. Year 4 will be the decider on CC's fate at GW, in my opinion. The team showed my a lot of good things in the first half of last year, although the season went sideways the second half, which is concerning. But the fact that CC was able to keep all for of the freshmen that played regular minutes is huge for me. That means that his players still believe in what he is trying to do at GW. Yes, Max left, but although I thought he had great talent he never really seemed to fit in with what CC was trying to do. I can't wait for next season to start and see what these sophomores do. And hopefully the upperclassmen he's bringing in work out better than those that came last year.

Obviously a very disappointing second half of last season. I think we all believe that CC still has to show this coming season that he can coach and, unfortunately, in the new basketball climate, Caputo and all future GW coaches will have to deal with literally half of their roster being different each season and NIL problems. Clearly injuries hurt the team last season, but I still believe that, unlike in his first season, Caputo's in-game adjustments were few and far between. Coach is a nice guy and has been and will be a credit to the university. As such, I'm sure that all of us wish him much success at GW.