Sun Belt Basketball Coaches Rank the Best Jobs in the Conference

[VObserver]

Oh no, we not going to do that again, and again and again!!!!!

As long as they make excuses, I will remind them how pitiful we are against decent teams.

[BeauCajun]

Oh no, we not going to do that again, and again and again!!!!!

And again.

[ManAboutTown]

As long as they make excuses, I will remind them how pitiful we are against decent teams.

Keep reminding them Charlie. The only thing that stands between us and total irrelevance is people like you. Fight the good fight.

And this thread needs to be resurrected during the basketball season.

[ULvictory]

Oh no, we not going to do that again, and again and again!!!!!

If our coaches try to over-inflate our program again after losses this year (“we are the standard”/“teams celebrating like they won the super bowl because that’s what it’s like to beat the Ragin’ Cajuns”), I fully support it.

[VObserver]

All of that is true, but I can give you a ton more examples of universities more like us with more similar results or worse than us. you are correct about everything you stated, but those are the exceptions not the rules. Oh and by the way LR went from first to worst over night again.

Their are many more examples of our results or worse than the couple you listed above.

LR went from worst to first in one year, then first to worst the next. Both trips happened because they changed coaches.

[Cajunsmike]

Good. As they should.

But at the same time, one of the assistant coaches called it a "great season" after getting bounced out of the conference tournament to the #8 seeded team. So, I can see why a good number of fans feel the way they do about the program, which is apathetic.

That was probably not the best comment to make at the time. However your players had to be devastated at that time so they likely did not want to make things tougher for them. Still what is said publicly often is not how people really feel. With the passage of time they have likely come to realize things have to improve.

[zephyr]

Oh no, we not going to do that again, and again and again!!!!!

You don't have to

[ULvictory]

That was probably not the best comment to make at the time. However your players had to be devastated at that time so they likely did not want to make things tougher for them. Still what is said publicly often is not how people really feel. With the passage of time they have likely come to realize things have to improve.

The best thing for him to do at the time was to not say it at all because the perception to the fan base is that “this is acceptable.” It’s PR 101. I never hear Napier tell the media that other teams celebrate like they win the Super Bowl after they beat us because we are some kind of juggernaut. If anything, he always says that “we still have work to do.”

Outside of you and a few other fans that say that they know they can do better, I don’t usually get that vibe from them.

[CajunRebel]

It is funny how people can take one single word and interpret it in opposite ways.

I honestly don’t understand how anyone could think he meant that our fan base had low expectations given basic context.

First of all, let’s be honest. We’re one of the few Belt fan bases who even gives a damn about college basketball. Second, besides maybe Georgia State, I don’t know of any other Belt team whose fans have higher expectations than ours. Third, we know that having a fan base with high expectations is not good for a coach’s job security. Because this article is about good vs. bad coaching jobs, “high expectations” will naturally fall under the “where they lose” category.

[cajun4life]

It is funny how people can take one single word and interpret it in opposite ways.

I honestly don’t understand how anyone could think he meant that our fan base had low expectations given basic context.

First of all, let’s be honest. We’re one of the few Belt fan bases who even gives a damn about college basketball. Second, besides maybe Georgia State, I don’t know of any other Belt team whose fans have higher expectations than ours. Third, we know that having a fan base with high expectations is not good for a coach’s job security. Because this article is about good vs. bad coaching jobs, “high expectations” will naturally fall under the “where they lose” category.

We don’t have high expectations. We have realistic expectations. Big Guppy just has excuses. He hasn’t had a win against a top 100 program. He isn’t very good against top 200 programs either. Our scheduling is terrible until this year when Maggard got involved.

Big Guppy is all about reaching weak milestones/contract infinitives. Padding your schedule to tech them is almost like stealing. Farmer allowed him to do so because he was a small time AD.