Do you want Durham fired?

CatGrad00 · Post by **CatGrad00** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:13 pm

AZCAT21 wrote:Not sure if putting a man with no charisma in a position like assistant ad would be a good idea. How easy would he be to work with when he is bitter because he got booted from his alma mater.....not sure how much his pride would get in the way but I don't think it would be a good situation.

Another thing for all the supporters of durham....next time there is a close game walk on over by the bench and look at durham in the huddle, he acts like he is going to break down and cry. He shakes uncontrolably and never seems to know what to say. But before he goes into the huddle watch as he wastes half the timeout standing outside the huddle talking to his assistants in order to only have to shake and stutter for the other half of the timeout. Not A GOOD LEADER what-so-ever!!

Coach Durham has forgotten more basketball that you will ever know....like you know what goes on in a huddle! Come on!

Post by **rtb** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:42 pm

CatGrad00 wrote:Coach Durham has forgotten more basketball that you will ever know....like you know what goes on in a huddle! Come on!

Durham has probably forgotten more about basketball than any of us know. Also the Schwab on ESPN has probably forgotten more about hoops than any of us know but I haven't seen him getting any coaching offers. Just beause we aren't coaches doesn't mean we are unable to recognize when things aren't going south.

Michael Moore has forgotten more about making movies than I know, but that doesn't mean he is any good at it!!

Ponycat · Post by **Ponycat** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:50 am

Bleedinbluengold wrote:I agree that he's not the most charismatic person, but he has a plan, and I, admittedly, it is a good plan. He's committed to making the program better, and that has been proven by who he has as assistant coaches (Johnny Brown especially) and who he has recruited since Coach Brown has come to Bozo.

Is this the 18 year plan or the 20 year plan. At least we'll have things turned around for the 08 season.

AZCAT21 · Post by **AZCAT21** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:56 am

Trust me catgrad, I have been in PLENTY of Durham's huddles! Not saying he doesn't know his stuff but go check it out sometime, last night would have been a great one.

CLUB 126 · Post by **CLUB 126** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:01 pm

loyallbball or whatever, unlike you some of us have been CAT fans long unuff, to know that even at 7-1, MICK has not got it done in 16 TEARS

CatGrad00 · Post by **CatGrad00** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:53 pm

AZCAT21 wrote:Trust me catgrad, I have been in PLENTY of Durham's huddles! Not saying he doesn't know his stuff but go check it out sometime, last night would have been a great one.

former player? coach?

AZCAT21 · Post by **AZCAT21** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:42 am

Player

tetoncat · Post by **tetoncat** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:16 am

Watch most big time college games and all of the pro games. Every time out they go first to the assistants to discuss options and then to the team to tell them what they want done.

CatGrad00 · Post by **CatGrad00** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:13 pm

AZCAT21 wrote:Player

I would assume you would know then....my apologies.......nothing like being there first hand.

AZCAT21 · Post by **AZCAT21** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:51 am

No problem....

Ponycat · Post by **Ponycat** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:48 am

whitetrashgriz wrote:
GOKATS wrote:I'm a huge fan and friend of Mick. I don't think this is the right time of the season to be discussing this, but here's some food for thought. No coach or team has really dominated the BSC the last 10 years.

1995-96- MSU
1996-97- NAU
1997-98- NAU
1998-99- WSU
1999-00- UM
2000-01- Northridge*
01-02- MSU
02-03- WSU
03-04- EWU
04-05- PSU
what team has dominated the big sky the last ten years? what team has won 3 titles or more? are all these teams terrible? should all these coaches get fired? or should we realize that a conference like the big sky is hard to recruite in? and for the most part...the luckiest coach wins... and mick is doing just as good of a job as anyone. as sson as some coach in the big sky starts doing what mick has done, and consitently wins a lot of games, then i dont want to hear it.

Since Mick was promoted up to Head Coach
Year MSU in Tourney Tourney Champ
91 -no tourney for MSU -UofM def. Idaho
92 -no tourney for MSU -UofM def. Nevada
93 -0-1 loss to Weber -Boise St. def. Idaho
94 -0-1 loss to Boise -Boise def. Idaho St.
95 -1-1 W vs. Idaho and L to UofM -Weber def. Uof M
96 -2-0 W vs. Idaho and Weber -MSU def. Weber
97 -0-1 loss to Northridge -UofM def. Northridge
98 -2-1 W vs. UofM and Weber, L to NAU -NAU def. MSU
99 -1-1 W vs. Northridge, L to Weber -Weber def. NAU
00 -no tourney for MSU -NAU def. Northridge
01 -0-1 L to NAU -Northridge def. EWU
02 -01 L to UofM -UofM def. EWU
03 -no tourney for MSU -Weber def. EWU
04 -no tourney for MSU -EWU def. NAU
05 -0-1 loss to Uof M -UofM def. Weber

Mick/MSU is 6-9 in tournament games, 1-1 in championship games.
UofM has gone dancing 5 times and 5-1 in championship game
Weber has gone dancing 3 times and is 3-2 in champ. games
EWU has gone dancing once and is 1-3 in champ. games
NAU has gone dancing twice and is 2-2 in champ. games
Idaho St. had not made the NCAA's and is 0-1 in champ. games
Portland and Sac St. haven't made the NCAA's and haven't made a championship game.
Northridge won once and was 1-3 in champ games
Boise went twice and was 2-0
Idaho 0-2 and Nevada 0-1

Not sure if this is good or bad but some more food for thought.

AZCAT21 · Post by **AZCAT21** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:01 pm

So basically we are above Idaho St/Sac St/and Port St/ in terms of going to the chipper and then to the NCAA tourney. below Nau/Mt/Weber/Ewu so 5th place in terms of conference in 16 years. My feelings still are unchanged, you would like to think that the all-time winningest coach in league history would have gotten his teams to more than 2 conf championships and 2 tourney championship games. Looks like to me its just a case of longevity with below average results.

Bleedinbluengold · Post by **Bleedinbluengold** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:06 pm

Ponycat wrote:
Bleedinbluengold wrote:I agree that he's not the most charismatic person, but he has a plan, and I, admittedly, it is a good plan. He's committed to making the program better, and that has been proven by who he has as assistant coaches (Johnny Brown especially) and who he has recruited since Coach Brown has come to Bozo.

Is this the 18 year plan or the 20 year plan. At least we'll have things turned around for the 08 season.

Gotta admit - I got a good chuckle from this post, Pony.

Post by **rtb** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:15 pm

So almost a third of the time(5 out of 16) we ended up either 7th or 8th in the Big Sky??

Ponycat · Post by **Ponycat** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:19 pm

Mediocrity killed the Cat...oh wait... thats Curiosity.

El_Gato · Post by **El_Gato** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:24 pm

2 title game appearances in 15 years.

In an 8 team conference, the "law of averages" says you should play in 4 title games in 16 seasons.

By that standard, we have been significantly below average.

Post by **rtb** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:39 pm

El_Gato wrote:2 title game appearances in 15 years.

In an 8 team conference, the "law of averages" says you should play in 4 title games in 16 seasons.

By that standard, we have been significantly below average.

And do we really want to be average? I don't want to be average!!

Cat Gal · Post by **Cat Gal** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:38 pm

PonyCat--Are you a stand-up comic in real life? Love your posts.

Ponycat · Post by **Ponycat** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:41 pm

Cat Gal wrote:PonyCat--Are you a stand-up comic in real life? Love your posts.

Thank you...I'll be here all day.

HelenaCat95 · Post by **HelenaCat95** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:57 pm

Ponycat wrote:
Cat Gal wrote:PonyCat--Are you a stand-up comic in real life? Love your posts.
Thank you...I'll be here all day.

I know Ponycat...and he's not a stand-up anything.

Just kidding Pony
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