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hardly ever post. But, I look at this in a bigger picture. In the 5 years Groce has been here I admit that this program is not where it was in the past. So when Groce first came in he took Richardson, Paul, etc... to the Dance! Everyone was just estatic that we got the right coach, Hooray! Then as most know we went down on our level of point guards or simply could not recruit one. And that was the next compliant from every fan for the next 2 years "was we need a point guard" or "he missed again", heck got snubbed on Signing Day. Again Groce learned from his mistakes and figured out how to balance a "A-list" recruit and a "B-list" recruit where we get at least one. Well guess what, yes it took longer than most would of liked, but we got one. As far as last year I am sorry we cannot count that against any coach Not even Tom Izzo could of got that tournament to the Dance. But Groce played who he had and made what improvements he could make for the following year. Example, Maverick Morgan which kinda reminds me of Jack Ingram of the 05 team his senior year. He went from a Body that subbed in for Powell and Augustine but was not really looked at as a threat until about half way through his senior season. then all of a sudden he was a different player and teams had to pay attention to him. Sorry, Now back to the current year and our guards. Yes we finally had our true Point Guard but even then he did not start right away and people were upset. But when he did take over this team you all have seen the changes and the direction this team is heading. And guess what next year we have more True Point Guards (Mr. Frazier, Mr. Williams, possibly Mr. Smith) coming, and one is averaging 27 pts in the largest class in Florida. Oh and between them and Tejon they can drive past defenders, and pass cause they have better court vision than anyone on this current team, oh I forgot defend. So instead of us being beat by Maryland, Indiana, etc... by 20 to 30 pts earlier this year cause they just drove past us like we were scarecrows in a field we will be doing that to them. Which will make it alot harder for teams to guard us and open several opportunities for shooters or Bigs to score easy baskets which we have seen more of lately. But I will give some people Partial credit cause I do believe there needs to be a coaching change. So this is where Mr. Whitman comes in and lets John know I have confidence in ya but there has to be a change if you would like to stay at the Assistant level and like most think Mr. Ford can Go bye bye. In my eyes he has done nothing toward the improvement of this team in recruiting or coaching. Bring in a Mr. Powell or Deon Thomas, etc... to help our Bigs and recruit them also. Sorry but if Mr. Ford walked into my house and told me he was going to coach my son and look at his resume I would laugh. So before I get to deep that is my big picture! So I guess we will see in short time.
