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Cohen talks Romar
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On Softy's show the other day.
https://www.iheart.com/show/139-Softy-Interviews/?episode_id=28057910
If you don't feel like listening, here's the summary:
This wasn't a "Lorenzo gave us good years, built a good foundation, we thank him for his service, but it's time to move on" interview.
It was more of a "Romar was lazy and wouldn't put in the work and the culture of program sucked" interview. It's worth a listen because it's a remarkably subtle trashing of the guy she just fired. She couldn't muster a single positive thing to say about Romar and routinely circled back to fairly scathing criticisms.
Having never heard much of anything she's had to say before, this interview made her come off as fairly ruthless.
https://www.iheart.com/show/139-Softy-Interviews/?episode_id=28057910
If you don't feel like listening, here's the summary:
This wasn't a "Lorenzo gave us good years, built a good foundation, we thank him for his service, but it's time to move on" interview.
It was more of a "Romar was lazy and wouldn't put in the work and the culture of program sucked" interview. It's worth a listen because it's a remarkably subtle trashing of the guy she just fired. She couldn't muster a single positive thing to say about Romar and routinely circled back to fairly scathing criticisms.
Having never heard much of anything she's had to say before, this interview made her come off as fairly ruthless.
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Romar has been one of the biggest jokes in Basketball coaching circles for exactly what she stated. Culture of the program, effort of the program, defense, creating offense. Romar was paid something like 25 million, can people stop acting like he's a saint and that he somehow brought a NC to UW and now we're doomed?
The argument for keeping him around for Porter is stupid, but whatever. They are just dumb or mesmerized by how great Porter is. And he is great. There aren't many guys 6'10" with his handle and shot.
The ones that really piss me off are the ones pretending like he didn't deserve to be fired.
Any coach that doesn't go to the tournament for 6 years deserves to be fired. The fact he had some NBA guys makes it even worse.
We went 2-16 with Fultz and most of it was because the team didn't play hard and played stupid. The team quit on the coach and people still think he shouldn't have been fired.
Cohen calling him out and not paying any lip service to the "he's a nice guy" bullshit was refreshing.
Romar threw in the towel a long time ago.
The one seed team had Nate and B-Roy with a bunch of fringe NBA guys like Conroy and Bobby Jones. Tre Simmons was a great college player who would have played in the NBA if he took that route. Crawford once said he was the best player not in the NBA. That team was unbelievably loaded.
Same for 2010-11. That team getting a 7 seed and playing UNC in the 2nd round was bad coaching. I've always said IT was held back at UW.
Boobs could have coached either of those teams to the tournament.
The #1 seeded team with Nate lost to a Louisville team that was a terrible matchup for UW because they could abuse them on the interior/rebounding and the zone that they played was long enough to be able to keep our ability to penetrate to a minimum and force us to shoot from distance (wasn't our strength).
The BRoy team that lost to UConn was Romar's best shot at getting to a Final Four and they really found ways to lose that game. I still get pissed at how bad the defense was on the game tying 3 at the end of regulation (and it has nothing to do with the decision to foul or not foul). There were a lot of things that went wrong in that game ... but there were a lot of things that went right as well.
Two comments were telling: First was her saying over last year it was obvious both the on and off court b-ball results were broke and second later in the interview saying the program was so bad overall that the "current management" would be unable to fix it.
Tequilla is exactly right in that you don't come to that conclusion in just a years time. Had she not been the intern AD March 2016 on the job for about a month she would have pulled the plug last year.
When you pay people state lottery salary you have to be very watchful of how much they really care. I've been told by more than a few people that Slingblade was a different person after the Ohip State game. Mariota isn't walking through the door again and you're guaranteed to be worth $20+ million win or lose.
If Pete Carroll missed the playoffs for six years in a row, his ass would be terminated. Period. End of story.
And that's in a business that makes money. College athletic budgets are generally in the red every year.
These long-term sliders are just that, sliders. Romar DNGAF about the program with his $3M+ severance. He's banging Costa Rican waitresses or doing blow off hookers's asses or whatever it is that people that have made millions over the past 15 years do. (yes, I sound poor, I know).