Long time lurker, first tenuous post:
I really like John Groce's personality. But I'm not going to continue to squint, trying not to see what is readily apparent: He's not fit for this job.
It's not purely the W/L results, though those have been alarming and unacceptable. (People will always counter that Coach K had a horrible record his first few years, etc.)
It's the obvious lack of successful, coherent on-floor schemes, on both ends of the floor. For years.
And yet we keep hearing about what "the next few games will tell us", or, "We'll know after we see what he does with a real PG," or "Next year will reveal a lot."
We shouldn't have to keep learning the same thing, over and over. We're just refusing to see.
We just want to make it work. But it's like other forms of denial - like when a woman refuses to see her handsome boyfriend's obvious fatal flaws, and marries him anyway. Or when I go to buy a car, and conveniently dismiss the rattling noise because I love the car's look and stereo.
I'm afraid we'll lose the incoming class, JT and TF in particular, but this can't continue. We're well past small sample size concerns. The jury is not still out. The verdict is in.
It's too bad, because we all sure wanted it to work.
Amen.