Is it OK to judge Tom Osborne on the hires he made as AD, or is he completely free from criticism solely because of what he did as a football coach? The two should be judged separately because they were totally separate jobs, but unfortunately some people don't seem to be able to separate them.
Exactly. And just as his record as a coach should not positively influence one's opinion of his record as an AD, neither should his record as an AD negatively influence one's opinion of his record as an AD. I'll defend and argue in favor of TO's record as a coach to anybody, but I think he was mediocre at best as an AD-in fact if not for moving us to the B1G(which I think absolutely was the right move and I give him credit for being involved in it), I think he was pretty close to a failure as AD-certainly with his biggest coaching hires.
Morrow leaving only concerns me from a standpoint of his work ethic, energy and him being the son of alums. Ed was a guy without a position. He's undersized for a big, struggles at the line, can't dribble and can't shoot from outside of 5 feet. He gets abused on defense by opposing bigs and the necessity of having to help on his guy ALL the time, in some part contributed to our terrible perimeter defense. Hopefully Jordy and a newcomer can take up the slack but from a purely basketball standpoint, I don't think he's as big of a loss as some think. It appeared to me that we struggled on both ends late in the season when he was in the game. He should be a role player off the bench in limited minutes in the B1G. IF Miles told him that his minutes were going to be tougher to come by (as they should be) then I can see why he might want to leave. I know this will ruffle some feathers, but that's the way I see it. People want to bring up 6-7 guys that played in the paint in the NBA, but those guys could all shoot the ball. Ed can't or at least hasn't shown that he can. Fire away. I call it like I see it.
So did Harvey just sit on his thumb and do nothing throughout all of the BIG ten negotiations? Guess so. Tom did it all just like all his work in D.C im sure.
IF we are going to EVER be competitive, we have to have better players than Ed. GREAT kid. Hard worker. Should not be a starter on a B1G team.
Yet, Miles STILL recruited Morrow despite the above being true! And...his injury was used as an excuse by some on here and other boards as to why we had another collapse. Imagine that.
I would rather have Jordy playing more and Ed less and I suspect that was what Ed was told by Miles precipitating his transfer. We struggled at both ends with Ed in the game at the end of the season. Ed is not a B1G caliber 5. He could play the 4 IF he could shoot but he can't.
I thought Watson, Morrow and Tschminga would only transfer if they were following Miles to another program? "The way you see it" sure seems to shift magically based on the hard-and-fast rule that absolutely nothing should ever stick to Miles.
Go watch replays of Ed getting ABUSED in the paint game after game by opposing bigs. I know everybody loves Ed including me but that's what I saw.
I don't recall using Morrow in that post BECAUSE I thought his deficiencies hurt us when he was in the game. I don't view him as an irreplaceable player. If I recall correctly I used Watson, Jordy and Roby. I'm as surprised as anyone about Morrow, but if he was told that Jordy was going to get more of his minutes next year, yeah I could see why he would leave. Tough but that's college sports. Go ahead and vent. He's better suited to play the 5 at a mid major than in the B1G. Let's see where he lands.
He got the new basketball arena which no one else would have gotten done. Got the Hendricks training complex and Devaney done.
He likely doesn't want to play the 5. But he was forced to here because Miles crapped his pants for years recruiting the five. Also, last I checked in order to receive more minutes you have to be able to not foul. That's a major issue with Jordy. Now..instead of Morrow picking up minutes we have to rely on Miles AGAIN scouring the earth for any big guy or will have to watch Jacobson get beat down at the five.
I don't think Eichorst will be around too long. He might have 3 or 4 years left.
He can't play anywhere but the 5. He can't shoot. He can't dribble and he isn't quick enough to guard most of the 4s in the B1G. IF he's anywhere outside the low post his guy just bags off him to clog the paint. He is ZERO threat unless he has the ball deep and then most of the time he's so undersized that he can't get off a shot. And, I think Jake is better at guarding a 5 than Ed.
No, no, no - "Jake" is gonna log 30-35 minutes at the 4 because of his uncanny ability to handle the ball and knock down jumpers at a 30% clip. I mean, as long as we're dreaming up explanations for why Morrow was totally going to lose playing time and that's why he's transferring, might as well toss that one out there.
I don't care who the coach is, Ed is not a B1G 5 and no coach could ever make him that. JMO.
Lots of guys...sometimes. It's a problem. I've posted it multiple times. We have the best talent we've had in years, but yet we don't have some of the young talent that other B1G teams with more tradition have. Almost all of our guys have holes in their games other than Roby. Of course I watched KU throwing up bricks the other night too so even they have off nights and a helluva lot more on the bench than we do.
Well Jordy sure as hell got better as the year went on but he has a lot more to work with than Ed.
