Welcome to the Hardcore Husky Forums. Folks who are well-known in Cyberland and not that dumb.

Copy and paste hilarious doog pro-Romar comments here

12346

Comments

  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    Tone
    8 hours ago

    Bad, bad, bad decision. I don't see how they retain the core of the current team nor recruits. I don't see how they establish the connection with the local community in less than 5 years. I don't see how this doesn't look like Don James Part 2. Hope I'm wrong, but if the players loved Romar so much, despite the rest, it seems the last thing you change is the coach. In the world of marketing, emotion is king.


    Romar...simply, thanks. You will be missed.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Gladstone said:

    Bonehead move by people who know nothing about college basketball, from the UW AD to the author of this article.

    Cohen let the Petersen hire get to her head. She didn't hire Petersen, Petersen picked us.

    What real coach will want to come here with a bare cupboard, and an AD who just nuked the best recruiting class in the history of the program?

    You guys are obsessed about the NCAA tournament, we won't see it this decade at least. With Romar we would have had a shot at it next year. We almost made it last year, but refs swallowed the whistle when OSU travelled. That call killed our program, turns out.

    By giving him at least one more year, you at least get this recruiting class in the door, so we have a more attractive team with which to attract our next coach if Romar underperforms again.

    This was not Willingham, not even close. The team was playing hard to the end. We just got killed by all of the early draft entries, and lack of depth. Yeah, Romar had flaws but Cohen just killed the hoop program, just like Hedges destroyed UWFootball. She thought she was smarter than Don James, too, it took two decades to fix that, and UW hoop tradition can't hold a candle to UW Football tradition.

    My over/under on getting the next hire right is 3 1/2 hires. You wont get a Chris Petersen, what real coach will take over a 2-16 team, a WAC recruiting class and an AD who knows nothing about basketball but mumbles something about Championships every year? You would be lucky to get a Sark, under the circumstances.

    Stupid, stupid move, due to the timing. Next year, ok, evaluate. You don't break up a 15-year marriage over one bad year.

    Sign me, former Hec Ed scrub during Harshman era (Harshman was also similarly kicked out, for a much better performance....but the fallout will be the same....idiots!)

    SpadoFS?
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • AlCzervik
    AlCzervik Member Posts: 1,774
    Gladstone said:

    ClearSkies
    11 hours ago

    I have to disagree with Matt Calkins on this. Matt makes good and logical points, and the eventual dismissal of Coach Romar may have been inevitable, however I disagree with the timing. After such a horrible year, doesn't he deserve the chance to show that this is correctable? Even if he weren't welcoming the nation's #3 recruiting class it seems only right to give him this chance.

    This is not some throw away guy, after all. He is the winningest coach in program history. A former Husky player. A guy who exudes the character of what we all want to see in college students. By jettisoning such a fine man, Jen Cohen must know that she must hire someone MUCH BETTER than Coach Romar. No lateral talent will suffice. No fill in will do.


    Jen, why didn't you tell Coach Romar that he has one more year. If he makes the tournament next year, then we can talk about a contract extension, if not than we can amicably part ways. He could have gracefully left on good terms. Coach deserves a more dignified exit than what he was given.

    This isn't even considering the huge effort in rebuilding that this change will take. New coaches. Lost recruits. Buy-in. Now everyone's new savior seems to be Brandon Roy. Who knows, but whoever it is he will have big shoes to fill.

    It looked pretty good that next year might have been a tournament team...now, it all depends on how many of these superstar recruits decide to fulfill their commitment and who Jen hires.


    All across the country, basketball courts bear the signature of their winningest coach. Coach K court, Coach Boeheim court, etc. If the UW ever wants to do this for Coach Romar, it will always be a reminder of the premature way in which he was dismissed.


    Thank you Coach Romar for never embarrassing. For always taking the high road. For giving fifteen years as a coach and even more as a student-athlete. Wherever you land, the welcoming party there will be greeting a very good man.

    image
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    MelloDawg said:

    Sufficed to say, the tears of the doogs nourish me. I enjoy reading the ST bored, knowing that the firing (and it is a firing, not a dismissal, he was fired) turns so many people off to the program.

    A firing is a dismissal is a firing
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • MelloDawg
    MelloDawg Member Posts: 6,843
    dnc said:

    MelloDawg said:

    Sufficed to say, the tears of the doogs nourish me. I enjoy reading the ST bored, knowing that the firing (and it is a firing, not a dismissal, he was fired) turns so many people off to the program.

    A firing is a dismissal is a firing
    Words matter to me, I am a limp wristed liberal
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Petersen3098
    Petersen3098 Member Posts: 365
    edited March 2017
    I'm amazed so many dawg fans don't want their teams to win lol. All these comments are hilarious
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Petersen3098 said:

    I'm amazed so many dawg fans don't want their teams to win lol. All these comments are hilarious

    Why are you surprised? You're one of these Doogs.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Petersen3098
    Petersen3098 Member Posts: 365
    TierbsHsotBoobs said:

    Petersen3098 said:

    I'm amazed so many dawg fans don't want their teams to win lol. All these comments are hilarious

    Why are you surprised? You're one of these Doogs.
    lol, I never made these comments.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    For all those that wanted Romar gone, I hope you guys are ready to stay mediocre... remember the best recruiting class in school history... BEST EVER
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Petersen3098
    Petersen3098 Member Posts: 365
    edited March 2017
    Already can see UW fans watching MPJ dominate next year, taking Missouri to Elite 8 and complaining, "That could've been us."

    -Brian Piercy
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Gladstone said:

    I apparently wasted hours going to watch Garfield and Nathan Hale play a couple of times

    Sure will be great watching them light up March Madness next year….. on other teams…

    As much as I like Jen, seems like she set herself up to either look like a genius or an idiot.
    Posted by Rhaego on Mar 16, 2017 | 10:49 AM


    LOL

    That was apparent long ago, RhaegoFS
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • QuornDawg
    QuornDawg Member Posts: 1,162
    Doog article of the week

    Whichever way it goes, I’m having trouble reconciling the fact that we traded Romar, a couple of key pieces from the roster and most of the #2 rated incoming class in the nation for one of the options noted above. It’s like the contestant that handed over to Monty Hall of “Let’s Make a Deal” the keys to the Corvette he just won so that he could see what was behind door #3.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    So over the past few days, I have been pondering​ what was the main reason for the termination of Lorenzo Romar? He was a man of strong moral character, the recruits really liked him and outside of failing to lead the team to the tournament the last 6 years it seemed as he was accomplishing the most important part of his job, educating young men and preparing them for life a feat that can not be measured by wins and losses. So the further I thought about this I thought why did Jen Cohen make her decision? And even more so why make the decision to hire someone who lacked the big name recognition? I came to this as my theory to why Coach Romar is gone. The decision to let Romar go has ensured that we will lose many pieces of what was lauded as the greatest recruiting class in school history. This is why I believe that is why Romar is now gone. I believe that many of the circumstances surrounding the recruitment of the Porters may honestly be the key begin Jen's decision to let Romar go and then to hire a coach who has dealt with the NCAA on numerous situations. Honestly can you say that it was coincidence that Brandon Roy starting coaching High School Basketball? I love my huskies through and through and this is the only thing that makes since. Because now the school does not have to worry about the kids playing for them!!!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    These people make my head want to explode ... how FS can they be

    My favorite are anytime somebody points out how corrupt Seattle AAU basketball is as an indication that that's the way it is and how it will always be as if there's no other options to recruiting players going forward.

    I'd really like to ask these idiots how they think programs like Iowa St, Creighton, etc. are able to have good programs year after year when they are in the middle of fucking nowhere.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419

    There are wide spread reports that the interview process played a big part in Romar’s firing. Cohen asked what Romar’s plans were for turning things around, and he said, basically, we will win more games with better players. This is a reasonable comment. Almost all losing programs can look back at the quality of the players they recruited, and almost all successful programs can do the opposite. The UW is no exception. Five years ago, we recruited no one — not a single player — to replace three quality players (Ross, Wroten and Gant). That is terrible, and yet similar to the years before and after. The only decent player Romar got during that period was NWG, and he left.

    But it was the wrong thing to say. The timing was terrible. Cohen doesn’t know that much about basketball, and probably hasn’t followed the men’s basketball program through the ups and downs in both play and recruiting (which have a strong correspondence). What she sees is three NBA players recruited in two years, and she probably assumed that all three were key to the wins, and that Romar had always recruited like that. But that simply wasn’t the case. Murray and Chriss were good players, but on the last Husky team that made it to the tournament (2010) they would have come off the bench. But the team was dependent on them because of the recruiting failures in the few years prior to that.

    Again, the timing was terrible. Romar had to basically explain that the main reason they struggled was because he had to rebuild the program — a program he built. Oh, and it takes a while. Things are better now — he is recruiting better players, yet they still haven’t been to the tournament the last couple years. This is something that happens to new coaches all the time. Hopkins, for example, will have four years (at least) to show that he can win with these players. Romar was basically asking for a reset — to be treated like a new coach who took the job two years ago. That was when he finally figured out how to recruit. He had some success the first year, but the unexpected loss of both Murray and Chriss cost him the second year. The third year (next year) everything was going to come together, as he would have the combination of good experienced players (Dickerson, Thybulle, Crisp, Johnson, Timmins) to go along with great new players (Porter, Harris, Nowell, etc.). The following could have been even better, as another Porter comes along, and everyone but the older Porter just gets better. Again, that is normal for a new coach, but very unusual for an experienced one. That is because most coaches that start losing also fail to recruit. The only situation I can think of like Romar’s is UCLA — a program where recruiting good players is relatively easy. They had a dramatic turnaround in one year under the same coach (because of the combination of experience and great new players).

    What bothers me most is that Cohen put so much emphasis on the interview. It reminds me of when Neuheisel was hired. Everyone in the room said they loved the answers he gave. It suggests that if Romar could have been like Slick Rick, and spread the BS, he would still have his job. Other than firing some of his assistants, I don’t see how Romar could have made any concrete changes. What exactly, was Cohen expecting, other than BS. If Romar said "there would be an increased emphasis on defense", would he still have his old job? Again, BS. If Cohen wanted Romar to do something (like fire an assistant and get better ones) and he refused, that is one thing. But to have a check list, or base your decision on interview answers is ridiculous and unprofessional.

    The quality of the team was dependent on the maturity of players and coaching staff, along with the addition of new players. That is the case with about every team and it has been the case with Romar. The last time Romar had a team with as much talent and experience as we would have had next year, we made the tournament. Firing a coach because of the answers he gave in an interview just seems ridiculous to me.

    Posted by RossBl on Jun 26, 2017 | 10:48 AM
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • NEsnake12
    NEsnake12 Member Posts: 3,795
    I love that he admits Romar drove his own program into the ground because he couldn't figure out how to recruit, coach, or develop talent after being here over a decade... but still defends him.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    edited June 2017
    Heard that the players think this coaching staff is way way way better.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    NEsnake12 said:

    I love that he admits Romar drove his own program into the ground because he couldn't figure out how to recruit, coach, or develop talent after being here over a decade... but still defends him.

    This RossBi (not that there is anything wrong with that) guy is insanely fucking stupid ...

    If you're trying to save your job by basically admitting that you were incompetent and that you need more time because you have finally figured it out should earn you an auto pink slip
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    backthepack said:

    Heard that the players think this coaching staff is way way way better.

    This is why I need to see Hop in action before I get too excited ... with these kinds of comments the bar is set really low

    If there is a positive it would be that the buy in is taking place fairly quickly
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    Tequilla said:

    backthepack said:

    Heard that the players think this coaching staff is way way way better.

    This is why I need to see Hop in action before I get too excited ... with these kinds of comments the bar is set really low

    If there is a positive it would be that the buy in is taking place fairly quickly
    No you dumbass they prefer coach Hop over Romar said the development is way way better. They actually workout too now lol.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    Tequilla said:

    backthepack said:

    Heard that the players think this coaching staff is way way way better.

    This is why I need to see Hop in action before I get too excited ... with these kinds of comments the bar is set really low

    If there is a positive it would be that the buy in is taking place fairly quickly
    They've already bought in.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    backthepack said:

    Tequilla said:

    backthepack said:

    Heard that the players think this coaching staff is way way way better.

    This is why I need to see Hop in action before I get too excited ... with these kinds of comments the bar is set really low

    If there is a positive it would be that the buy in is taking place fairly quickly
    No you dumbass they prefer coach Hop over Romar said the development is way way better. They actually workout too now lol.
    Missed my point ... because Romar sucked balls the whole buying in and seeing that Hop is a way better coach isn't surprising

    I want to see on court performance, how LoRo's players handle adversity (it will happen because they will not be very good), and whether the culture shift holds with the process and guys playing hard throughout the year

    I've long said I'm cautiously optimistic about Hop ... but we need to see performance before we bow down to him
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter