Crean: How much time do we give him?

Teddy

@CoachRob16 said:

@jgf1031 said:

@WCDawg said:

@Silver_Britches said:
Considering how long Fox and Richt stuck around, I'd say 9 to 15 years. Once we lock down the in-state talent, The Peaches & Crean show is going to be an exciting brand of basketball to watch!

Give him time!

GO DAWGS!

Why do people lump Richt who won right at 10 games a year, 2 SEC titles, 6 East titles, finished in the top 10 8 times and came very close to playing for 2national titles in with Fox who won nothing of note ?

10 wins a season was nice, don't get me wrong. But I for one got tired of losing big games. Anytime after 05, when we appeared in the SECCG, we either lost in heartbreaking fashion (2012) or just got straight up creamed (2011...) Our fan base wanted more trophies and with an avg of 10 wins a season, we should've had more.

Kirby lost two Big games this year. At Auburn and NC game and Auburn wasn't close and NC was heartbreaking. So really no difference in that relation.

Hmm, Kirby within a play of being national champs (or as close as you can get 1 out of his 2 years), and Richt getting kind of close 2 out of 15 years. Difference is Richt lost on average 3 out of 13 games, Kirby lost 2 of 15... All while Kirby had 2 years of true freshmen QBs, had to completely rebuild an offensive line, find reliable receivers, and work with what he had in his 2 and 3 star DBs Richt left him. Yep, no difference there. All while smoking Richt in recruiting, so that he doesn't have those holes on his team anymore.

dbrown7494

Honestly though not many teams would have one that Saturday afternoon against Auburn the first time around. That was a buzz saw waiting to happen. It was just about as much of a trap game as you could get.

ghostofuga1

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Red_N_Black

@BiffLowman said:
As with any new coach, there will be many who will have unrealistic expectations. My question is how much time do we give him to get his own people in and (hopefully) win? When we got CKS, I told everyone to give him 3 years before we can really judge him and see what his program looks like. What about basketball? Is three years enough? 2?

Let's see - We been playing basketball at UGA since 1891. That's 127 seasons of mostly bad to occasionally mediocre basketball. What's the rush all of a sudden. Lets ease up on our new coach a little bit.

WCDawg

@Red_N_Black said:

@BiffLowman said:
As with any new coach, there will be many who will have unrealistic expectations. My question is how much time do we give him to get his own people in and (hopefully) win? When we got CKS, I told everyone to give him 3 years before we can really judge him and see what his program looks like. What about basketball? Is three years enough? 2?

Let's see - We been playing basketball at UGA since 1891. That's 127 seasons of mostly bad to occasionally mediocre basketball. What's the rush all of a sudden. Lets ease up on our new coach a little bit.

Crean will make more than Tony Bennett, yes Virginia got owned, but they average 28 wins a season and came into the tourney #1 overall.
That doesn't mean we should demand that level of success, but he should be a big bump up from where we've been.
If I was calling the shots I would have done what Bama did to lure Saban, I would have QUIETLY made an obscene offer to a few of the true superstar coaches and see if one bit.

pippin888

@BiffLowman said:
As with any new coach, there will be many who will have unrealistic expectations. My question is how much time do we give him to get his own people in and (hopefully) win? When we got CKS, I told everyone to give him 3 years before we can really judge him and see what his program looks like. What about basketball? Is three years enough? 2?

looks like 6 years

christopherules

Tom Crean begins with a clean slate at Georgia. Georgia has had zero basketball tradition in the ways of winning, fan interest, or serious recruiting to keep up with other SEC schools of Georgia's size and budget. Thinking about this..... with the size of the school that Georgia is, AND with the ASSETS that are already in place?? Why not now in 2018? Why not this man in Tom Crean? I can see ONLY upside here in this case! Perhaps I do have on a pair of "rose colored glasses", but perhaps a man who is a fire breathing "blow-torch" of thoughts & ideas, and HE appears to be AS DRIVEN as any coach that I have ever seen... HE could be EXACTLY what UGA men's basketball needs at this moment in time. GO DAWGS!!!

BullyDawg

Don't know how long we "SHOULD" give him, but I "EXPECT" to be in the Dance by Year 2.

Actually, I agree with @cfc136: give a coach the length of time of his first recruiting class to produce (3-4 years).

bikerhino

As a fan of an IU rival, I hope you get value out of that salary. I can't imagine that he wouldn't have been thrilled to have taken the Georgia job for much, much less. If he can land superior talent, he can probably win some in the SEC. Not a great coach, but he isn't terrible either. Just completely mediocre.

Dawg19

@bikerhino said:
As a fan of an IU rival, I hope you get value out of that salary. I can't imagine that he wouldn't have been thrilled to have taken the Georgia job for much, much less. If he can land superior talent, he can probably win some in the SEC. Not a great coach, but he isn't terrible either. Just completely mediocre.

If you think Tom Crean is completely mediocre, I'd love to hear what you think of coach Fox. I'm pretty excited about the hire. We got a big name coach at a not so big name program. I'll take it.

WCDawg

@BullyDawg said:
Don't know how long we "SHOULD" give him, but I "EXPECT" to be in the Dance by Year 2.

Actually, I agree with @cfc136: give a coach the length of time of his first recruiting class to produce (3-4 years).

Any building process where recruiting and developing is involved needs at least 3 full years. In year 2 his first class of recruits will be true freshmen.
That said, I won't be surprised if we're in it next season. We have some talent on roster.