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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefIllini" data-source="post: 1411306" data-attributes="member: 588522"><p>Every coach will have strange things happen to them. The thing with Groce is that yeah he had tough luck on a lot of recruitments and injuries. If Abrams never gets hurt, if we land, at the least Snider, Groce might have had a couple more tourney appearances.</p><p></p><p>And you might argue he had more things happen poorly out of his control than other coaches. That's true. He probably did. Without even diving into how he was in game or at teaching, Groce never had backup plans deep enough to account for things like that. Good/great coaches do that. Sure shoot for the moon, miss 9/10, but always have an above mediocre backup plan. Jaylon Tate should've never averaged more than ~12 mins a game any season he was here. He also shouldn't have been a starter. Groce's lack of depth and PG play are in large part because of misfortune, but he needed to plan better, plain and simple.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, I think his ceiling at UIUC was a first weekend NCAAT. He met that quota once in 5 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefIllini, post: 1411306, member: 588522"] Every coach will have strange things happen to them. The thing with Groce is that yeah he had tough luck on a lot of recruitments and injuries. If Abrams never gets hurt, if we land, at the least Snider, Groce might have had a couple more tourney appearances. And you might argue he had more things happen poorly out of his control than other coaches. That's true. He probably did. Without even diving into how he was in game or at teaching, Groce never had backup plans deep enough to account for things like that. Good/great coaches do that. Sure shoot for the moon, miss 9/10, but always have an above mediocre backup plan. Jaylon Tate should've never averaged more than ~12 mins a game any season he was here. He also shouldn't have been a starter. Groce's lack of depth and PG play are in large part because of misfortune, but he needed to plan better, plain and simple. At the end of the day, I think his ceiling at UIUC was a first weekend NCAAT. He met that quota once in 5 years. [/QUOTE]
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