SJHooper wrote:Does it exist for us? I had to sit here through the Lavin and now Mullin years constantly told that we were a year or two away. We are in a perpetual cycle of "just wait!", "we are young!", "well, we had some injuries", "we had bad luck", "we played a great team", "this conference is tough", "give it time", "hammer to rock", "trust the process", "we were in some of the games". I've heard every excuse in the book and not nearly enough straight talk regarding results and the lack of accountability. At times I honestly feel like I'm one of the very few SJ fans that demands results at the end of the day. Syracuse felt great, Butler felt great. DePaul is DePaul, we were supposed to beat them. But to act like those 2 wins made up for this dumpster fire of a season is outrageous. People seem to forget the expectations coming into this season. There was chatter of an NIT berth and even a possible dark horse NCAA berth. Reading Redmen I even saw some predicting 21+ wins. Maybe one poster predicted 15 and that was the extreme low end but this is what I believed was doable. We brought in some good recruits and we knew we would likely struggle some games but figured we would be able to take care of business against the LIU/Delaware State/Penn State's of the world. We figured we could snag at least 1 game in the Atlantis tournament but could not even beat ODU.
I wrote to our Athletic Director and I urge you to do the same. I urged him to install accountability and separate emotions from results. We all love Mullin, but it's clear he is not the answer. He got a little break from the pitchforks and torches when we won those 2 big games, but any real college hoops fan knows 2 games is nothing in an entire season. I used to get the feeling under Lavin that he was an awful coach and the only reason they won 20 games a few times and went to the tourney was because of their talent alone. I get the sense that no matter who is coaching this team, we can beat Cuse/Butler on rare occasion just based on talent and red-hot shooting. Our season is akin to failing 10 tests miserably then getting 90's on the next 2 before getting 3 more failing grades. Those two 90's don't even come close to washing away all the failing grades and your final grade will still be very low. So I ask, is anyone else on board? I know most of you are way more optimistic than me (I think to a fault...it goes both ways), so for that crowd, what exactly will it take to get you to realize we are on a train with no conductor?
Hooper, what in the world are you talking about???
You want accountability? What does that mean? That you wanted Mullin fired at the end of last season? Today? At the end of this season?
Your main criticism of Mullin here is that "he's clearly not the answer" and that there have been some bad losses along the way this year. Well, that's nowhere to start if you want accountability. You need to be more specific and offer more substance. In other posts you've said that you don't like his body language. Huh? You want his accountability to be based on posture?
In any industry, accountability is based on results, on achieving performance goals, not on fan reactions or body language. Throughout your diatribes against Mullin, you seem to set unrealistic goals. But that's just my opinion. And you're entitled to yours. In the real world his accountability is not going to be based on either of our opinions, it's going to be based on the goals that his employers set for him.
Claiming that there's no accountability because they haven't done anything to publicly a knowledge your opinion that he's not up to the job seems extraordinarily self-centered. For all we know, they completely agree with you and plan to fire him at the end of the season. If that were the plan, would you expect them to announce that now?
OTOH, they may have a different opinion than you about his job performance. Having a different opinion than you doesn't mean there's a lack of accountability. It simply says that they're measuring his job performance differently than you are.
If Mullin's unfitness for the job were as obvious as you say it is, everyone here would be agreeing with you. But they're not. So, it seems that this is a subject about which reasonable minds can disagree. Again, we're back to different points of view, not lack of accountability.