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<blockquote data-quote="NJILLINI" data-source="post: 1401609" data-attributes="member: 628126"><p>The last half-dozen years of Guenther were bad. He had an inflated sense of his abilities, IMO. Hiring Weber instead of at least trying to throw the bank at Self was a huge mistake but typical of his decisions. If a coach had a flaw, the pendulum swung the other way on selecting the next one. Turner could no longer recruit so he brought in the master recruiter Ron Zook. But all of the top-tier talent from Zook's first few years started leaving the program. Still, Guenther left Zook and his brain-damaged coaching in place until the cupboard was completely empty. I contend that had Guenther made a move after 2009, there was enough talent to attract a coach who could have built upon that. And I also agree that Mac Thomas, however, took things to a whole new level. Hiring Tim Beckman? John Groce? </p><p></p><p>Hard to believe that a dartboard and a blindfold wouldn't have yielded as good of decisions since 2005 from our prior two ADs.</p><p></p><p>We can argue about those two but one thing I do know is this -- if it wasn't for the B1G Network, we'd be in twice the world of hurt we currently find ourselves. As bad as it is, it could have been death-penalty like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NJILLINI, post: 1401609, member: 628126"] The last half-dozen years of Guenther were bad. He had an inflated sense of his abilities, IMO. Hiring Weber instead of at least trying to throw the bank at Self was a huge mistake but typical of his decisions. If a coach had a flaw, the pendulum swung the other way on selecting the next one. Turner could no longer recruit so he brought in the master recruiter Ron Zook. But all of the top-tier talent from Zook's first few years started leaving the program. Still, Guenther left Zook and his brain-damaged coaching in place until the cupboard was completely empty. I contend that had Guenther made a move after 2009, there was enough talent to attract a coach who could have built upon that. And I also agree that Mac Thomas, however, took things to a whole new level. Hiring Tim Beckman? John Groce? Hard to believe that a dartboard and a blindfold wouldn't have yielded as good of decisions since 2005 from our prior two ADs. We can argue about those two but one thing I do know is this -- if it wasn't for the B1G Network, we'd be in twice the world of hurt we currently find ourselves. As bad as it is, it could have been death-penalty like. [/QUOTE]
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