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A UWDP reminder on stupidity

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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Bender and Nance only had 1 season under 10 wins total. In Bender's first year. Romar did that in his last year.


    Washington AD Jen Cohen’s decision to fire head coach Lorenzo Romar is a bad choice and one that has a better-than-reasonable chance to send the program back to Lynn Nance / Bob Bender kind of levels.
  • jhfstyle24
    jhfstyle24 Member Posts: 3,255
    The best part is that he got absolutely roasted in the comments. He's written some good pieces, like the one on why this year's team could be considered a failure, but there have also been some laughably bad takes. This is one.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    Could argue that Bender had as much NCAA success as Romar
  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,720 Founders Club
  • FremontTroll
    FremontTroll Member Posts: 4,744
    edited February 2018

    The best part is that he got absolutely roasted in the comments. He's written some good pieces, like the one on why this year's team could be considered a failure, but there have also been some laughably bad takes. This is one.

    We finally have the answer to the age old question of how dumb do you have to be before the uwdp commenters will actually criticize you.
  • FreeChavez
    FreeChavez Member Posts: 3,223
    Results matter during the NCAA Season, not NBA draft slot, not recruiting rankings. What a thought, a coach who resides in the world of building a team who wins for the fucking job he's hired for.

    This isn't anywhere near saying he's on this level, but i love that he's building a system like boheim or izzo. You build a defense and an offense to win in college and once in a while you get a top end guy who makes it big, but your job is to win in college. Romar and his moronic fans had it backwards. They wanted huge recruiting rankings and then prop up NBA results. Wrong fucking order. Especially when you watch top talent not even be able to execute out of bounds plays.
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Tequilla said:

    Could argue that Bender had as much NCAA success as Romar

    Dafuq?
  • Neighbor2972
    Neighbor2972 Member Posts: 4,330
    I got considerably dumber reading this
  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,633 Founders Club
    "Most coaches Lorenzo Romar can't take a base roster of average talents and turn them into contenders"

    I actually like reading posthumous articles about how Cohen had made a devastating mistake. The ability of this town to settle for mediocrity or to reward past success in the face of current failure is numbing. Watching change for the chance of greater reward pay off immediately pleases me more than I thought it would.
  • whatshouldicareabout
    whatshouldicareabout Member Posts: 12,990
    "I fully acknowledge that Lorenzo Romar had done nothing to justify keeping his job."

    3 minutes later...

    "The only relevant question was whether or not it is in the best interests of the program to blow it up or to build it up."

    In summary, Romar did not deserve to be the coach because of his failures but I'm not sure if we should fire him because of his failures.
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    I’m not sure UWDP means what you think it does.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    I tried to read that shit.

    Couldn't get very far.

    FTG