re: Late Night Thoughts (Men’s BBall)

Better and better as a coach is accurate. After the first 2 seasons, even though we won the SEC year 2, he began to experiment with defenses because we weren’t up to par in comparison to the offense. In his last year he found something that worked to an elite level on D that could match our offensive production. When you don’t really follow the sport you can’t know this but people who did saw the big improvement in having a top 10 defense nationally to match the consistent top 10 offensive production we’d been getting from his teams. You also ignore that we had 4 starters injured his last year, 2 of them for extended periods of time yet still managed a 6 seed in the NCAA tourney for a coach who was still under 40 years of age.