after reading through its twatter/IG feed, id like to think im getting trolled/"he poasts here" but after the other comments people have made im not so sure.
To go along with all the pro-doog comments, Ian Furness wants to remind everyone that UW is losing a lot of money and couldn't afford to buy romar out without boosters. He loves his broke ass programs.
To go along with all the pro-doog comments, Ian Furness wants to remind everyone that UW is losing a lot of money and couldn't afford to buy romar out without boosters. He loves his broke ass programs.
UW ran in the positive this past year, so fuck off Furness. It's one of the reasons it was probably a bit easier to take on that buyout hit.
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!)
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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?
That was always my favorite part, the idea this was "one bad year" and that the other bad years can't be counted because of X, Y, and Z (he changed his style, the recruits weren't his usual kind of recruits, the tournament committee screwed him). All of a sudden, 6 crap years is only 1 crap year and he can be credited with getting great players who failed because of exterior influences, not their coach
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.
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.
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.
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Why did it take this long?
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!)
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.
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.