AggieCrew44 said:

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NyAggie said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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NyAggie said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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NyAggie said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Judging a coach purely by how they do in a single elimination tourney remains a fool's errand, yet people still do it

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See Sean McDermott

Dude was a consistent winner in the regular season with multiple division titles but continually failed in the playoff

Result?

Fired

Eventually you need to do some damage in the postseason or you'll be thought to have hit your ceiling and will get the boot

Marty Schottenheimer was another one who was really good in the regular season but a failure in the playoffs and got the boot because of it


Those are both nfl examples, but the same can be said for college hoops

Why do you think calipari jumped to Arkansas?

Because he was failing in March and knew that one more March failure and he'd be fired

So he reset his clock at Arkansas

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Football and basketball/march madness are not even remotely the same

It would probably take me 5, 6, maybe 7 runs at the tourney with first round exits before i go "you know what maybe this isn't going to get much better and we should go a different direction".

The best predictor of a deep tourney run is how often you get there. You'll eventually break through.

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I do agree with just get there a d let the chips fall, but I can also see the other dude where frustration starts to set in when you keep getting in but having early exits

There's definitely a breaking point

If you can't at least make a sweet 16 in 4 or 5 tourney appearances it might be time for a change

It does help Immensely to make a sweet 16 when you are getting high seeds instead of 8/9/10 etc..

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Oh I agree. Say buzz had stayed and had 2 more straight first rounds bounces, I'd be frustrated too and probably wanting to go a different direction at that point because I expect more out of our program than that. I just personally feel like a 3 year sample is still pretty small in a tourney that is kinda flukey at times with matchups and stuff

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Yeah, 3 years maybe not enough but when you tack on a couple of years of not even making it before that, it's easy to see why fans would want to go in a different direction

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Sure. The sport was also different then when he got the job. It was impossible to flip a roster like you can now. The portal wasn't a thing. It was almost expected to have a 2-3 year rebuild

What Bucky has done in year one is incredible. We can also acknowledge that this wouldn't have been possible 7 years ago with the rules

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Aston04 said:

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rlb28 said:

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Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman on Buzz Williams:

“Buzz is diabolical enough to bottom out in Year 1 so everyone can say what an incredible job he does in Year 2 when they go to the NIT or the Crown. Coaches don’t get 4-5 years like in the past. Now it’s probably more 3-year window.” pic.twitter.com/s5raUTpe9u

— Inside Maryland Sports (@Terrapins247) February 6, 2026

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100%. Amazing how fast Maryland fans are catching on.

I wouldn't be so bold to say that Buzz purposely lost when he first got here. But A&M was horrible and I blame the staff in large part. He then went into hero mode making A&M competitive by the very end of the first season.

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bobinator said:

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I think we more or less did that his whole time here when we were out of rotation. It was so frequent that it was obviously on purpose.

I do wonder if he's changed his defensive approach at Maryland. I haven't watched them a ton other than last night and they were running a little more traditional halfcourt trap from what it looked like.

That's the thing I was pretty sure he was going to have to change. His defense is just insanely complicated in this era with so much roster turnover. We sucked on defense to start basically every season until last one right?

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JJxvi said:

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The Big Ten has two teams worse than Maryland in it. Together they make up a total of 3 that are worse than the SEC's worst team, Mississippi State.

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BQ_90 said:

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i'm thinking more across the athletic department. I can't remember a coach we fired before their original contract ran out. Maybe some w. golf coach that Woodward overpaid for from USC west.

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bobinator said:

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Hot take: I think people using Kennedy's tournament results as a huge positive is worse than people using Buzz's as a big criticism.

We were Northern Iowa making one different decision in the last minute of a game away from getting knocked out by an 11 seed as a 3 seed.

And then both times we made the sweet 16 we got absolutely housed.

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rab79 said:

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Wrong forum,

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Longhorn Nation said:

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JJxvi said:

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The Big Ten has two teams worse than Maryland in it. Together they make up a total of 3 that are worse than the SEC's worst team, Mississippi State.

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Let's give credit where it is due. OU is by far the worst team in the SEC - and lost by ~20 to Miss State.

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TyperWoods said:

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bobinator said:

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Hot take: I think people using Kennedy's tournament results as a huge positive is worse than people using Buzz's as a big criticism.

We were Northern Iowa making one different decision in the last minute of a game away from getting knocked out by an 11 seed as a 3 seed.

And then both times we made the sweet 16 we got absolutely housed.

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In my mind Kennedy had one good group of players that Avery Johnson recruited.

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bobinator said:

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Hot take: I think people using Kennedy's tournament results as a huge positive is worse than people using Buzz's as a big criticism.

We were Northern Iowa making one different decision in the last minute of a game away from getting knocked out by an 11 seed as a 3 seed.

And then both times we made the sweet 16 we got absolutely housed.

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