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We gonna lose Cashius?

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While nothing is official and McNeilly is still technically on staff, I wouldn't be surprised if you don't see McNeilly, neither the coach or the player, on the A&M sideline next season.

We will update you if/when things become official.

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Mikeyshooter said:

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I still don't understand why they redshirted Mcneilly. Wasted half of avyear we could of had with him.

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No one knew there was a pandemic on the horizon.

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But why would you ever redshirt the best player on your team when he would certainly have helped for all of conference play?

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He was hurt for an extended period and missed a lot of preseason practices and early season games. For the Buzz approach to work, guys have to go through boot camp and learn the systems. McNeilly didn't go through it and likely was going to struggle as a freshman. Buzz has never been a guy that recruited elite players and rolled the ball out and let them play.

You can complain that he's the "system coach" and not the "recruiting coach", but we knew what we were getting when he was hired.

Here's my view point of the last two years and some of the decisions made...

For those that say Buzz's first two years have been underwhelming, think about this:
1. First year started slow and had bad losses to multiple bad teams, but turned it around and won 10 games in SEC play AND named SEC Coach of the Year.
2. May have made the tournament in his first year, had some work to do in the SEC tournament, but was trending as a "first four in" type selection.
3. Covid cut that run short
4. Covid season, where he didn't bring his team to campus until well into September to start working out as a team.
5. Hardly got a routine and for a coach that is sooooo routine oriented, that is hard for not just the team, but the main man and when the head guy doesn't have a routine to follow, like he did, every day for the previous 37 years of his life, it can be tough on EVERYONE.
6. didn't play a single game in the month of February
7. had a tough year

At the end of the first year, everyone was ecstatic about what he had done and how he turned the team around in the second half of the year and the future is bright.

Then Covid hit and now everything is doom and gloom.

Everyone knew it would take some time, and Covid has extended that time frame by just a year, but don't forget about the first year and winning SEC COY and a 10-8 record in conference play.

I absolutely think they were trending in the right direction to make the tourney.

I didn't say they were locks, and I did say they had some work to do, but from what the conversations were about A&M and Buzz being the COY, they had a chance to be on the bubble and making it.

I don't think they would have had to win the tournament, but I do think they had a chance to win the first two games, which I believe would have put them in the saturday game. Anything could have happened from there. The NIT was a lock after last season.

Once again, not saying it was a lock, but they werre trending in that direction. They would have had work to do, but it was work that was feasible.

It wasn't like this year where they won 2 conference games and then had to win the SEC tourney to get in. They were TRENDING in that direction, which is why conversations were starting to rumble about the possibilities.

I'm not gaslighting anything. I'm saying it was possible.

I follow the conversations on this board. I know the level of knowledge of the posters in here. For you to follow up with a comment that there could have been two 68-team brackets and the Ags not get in is outrageous.

I agree with this year and how the team handled Covid, in comparison to everyone else.

I think this year had just as much to do with Buzz as it did with anything else. The reason I say that is because Buzz is a very routine oriented person and he has his set schedule each and every day, each and every week, each and every month. His days are timed out and he sticks to said schedule.

This year, there was no schedule to follow. There was no routine to follow. In my opinion, it through him off course and that had the team off course. People reacted to Covid differently and while Buzz handled it the best he could, the lack of routine probably affected those people who rely on a scheduled routine more than others.

As for next year, Buzz will have a lot of work to do. This past year the team took steps backwards and they have to make up those lost steps and gain more in the same year.

They have recruits in place coming, but Buzz will have to figure out how to get them all together and on the same page in record time. And let's not forget he will most likely bring in a couple of transfer to add tot he mix and that looks like it's going to take longer than originally expected, which means less time to make it work.

Uphill battles for sure.