He had Delon, Yakob, and Kuzma all who went on to long NBA careers, and especially in the case of Kuzma, it can be said that they underperformed in college relative to what they’ve accomplished in the NBA. But something about Larry and his system never parleyed that brief success into filling the pipeline with similar talent. So, with marginal talent, Larry’s lack of coaching ability was exposed and we went into the duldrums for the next 5 years. Including the two subsequent seasons that should have been much better than they were but due to his bad coaching, we ended up in NIT and losing early. His teams had no heart, and what’s more his players seemed to get worse year over year.
Larry’s 3rd year was 21-12 (9-9). We are currently 12-6 (3-3). At this point in the season in 2013-2014, we were 14-4 (3-3) in conf. So we had two more non-conf wins that year, but take a look at the schedule:
Evergreen, UC Davis, Grand Canyon, Lamar, Savannah State, Ball State, Boise State(L), Fresno St., Idaho St, BYU, Texas St., St. Katherine.
I’m sorry, but losses to Houston and St. Johns are respectable. Had we played Our Lady of the Blind instead, we’d be 14-4.
Further, Larry won just 8 conf games TOTAL in his first two seasons, 3 then 5. Craig has won 4 then 10 for a total of 14.
Further, Smith has won everywhere he’s been. What did Larry do?? Two decent seasons at U of Montana, 19-9 overall in Big Sky Conf??
Your argument just doesn’t hold up. Larry was never any good, we all know that now. So let’s just let it go.
As for next year, let’s see how it plays out.
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