The listing and debunking of every stupid pro-Romar argument

unfrozencaveman said:

ThomasFremont said:

bananasnblondes said:

My (least) favorite excuse is "Romar has done more for UW basketball than any other coach/UW is not a basketball school/ UW wouldn't be able tofind anyone better". It's the ultimate loser mentality

The bold part is technically true.

The problem is that the program has been trending backwards for years now. All his past success is meaningless.

Sounds like you've changed your tune...refreshing

huh?

I support coach Romar.

Mosster47 said:

Dana Altman lost three starters way after he could really recruit to do some damage control, was picked to finish 12th and went on to finish 2nd in both the league and league tourney.

In 1,000 chances would LoRo ever pull that off?

No chance in hell

Mosster47 said:

Tequilla said:

Mosster47 said:

Dana Altman lost three starters way after he could really recruit to do some damage control, was picked to finish 12th and went on to finish 2nd in both the league and league tourney.

In 1,000 chances would LoRo ever pull that off?

No chance in hell

That's the point. Altman is a great coach of the game of basketball. His recruiting and everything else not directly related to game coaching isn't great. If Altman could recruit like RoLo he'd be at big time school kicking ass.

UW needs to get a great basketball coach, win consistently, and once they are a winner go for the recruiter type.

Someone really needs to explain this to me. The last four years romar has recruited awful. On top of that, the vast majority of his successful players came out of his backyard. So are we saying that he was the only reason they picked UW? Are we really trying to argue that almost anyone at UW couldn't have been able to pull in a lot of these seattle kids?

I consider someone a good recruiter when they can adjust to surroundings. Figure out talent is down and go find it. Bring in the majority of your guys make a mark on the program. I'm not saying every player will work out, but 75% of romars guys are failing, not the other way around. It's been years since we had legit 6th, 7th, 8th guys to actually carry a team.

That isn't recruiting.

Hopefully this next season is all the romarloves need. But if it's any indication of how things have gone for half a decade almost, you're going to whining about youth, injuries and transfers by december.

Altman is the kind of coach that you can have a lot of Top 20 or 25 teams with, maybe you get a lucky break or two or nice team that gets deep, but will never be a title contender. In that sense, he's very similar to Romar. The big difference is that I don't see Altman having the same kind of lows that Romar is capable of throwing out there and his biggest weakness (probably recruiting) is offset by his ability to get the most out of his teams (Romar is the reverse). Being at Oregon helps Altman in that he's probably able to pull in some slightly better players than he otherwise would be able to due to the Oregon name.

In probably 2-3 years Uncle Phil will tire of being a Top 3-4 team in the conference and 1st weekend bounces from the NCAAs and question what needs to be done to get deeper into March. Then he'll throw a $15M per year offer out to Callipari to coach the Ducks.