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Pure Stockholm Syndrome. Wojo is not a good leader and there would be a long list of very qualified head coaches willing to take the job. This is a high paying Big East job with incredible physical assets. My sincere hope is that MU does well enough this year so he gets hired away. His flirtation with VA tech showed there is some takers out there.
Herman - I don't normally respond to folks who dump (Stockholm Syndrome) on me, but I do have a question pertaining the remainder of your post. First, I understand your frustration, but have a leadership question. Is Coach K a great leader? The reason I ask, is in my years of working with great leaders, they always surrounded themselves with good leaders as well. Personally, I like to hire people who have the potential to replace me. The best leaders always seem to have guys that are great leaders or learn to be great leaders in a short period. The fact Wojo lasted so long under a legend has me believing we got a good hire. Just wondering about your thoughts on why Coach K would have stuck with him (and promote him) for so long if he is that bad?
VA Tech flirted with Wojo. Wojo didn't return their attention.
You shure bout dat?
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Coach K is a great leader , as his record shows. That said, having worked,partnered and advised with many successful leaders myself, it is not axiomatic that they surround themselves with great leaders. Many times they surround themselves with stuffed corporate shirt types as buffers. My thesis on Coach Wojo is that he falls into the Corporate brown noser type. It is where his highest and best comfort level is. That skill set may be valuable in certain circumstances but in a merit based world like college basketball those guys always gets exposed in the end. The video of Wojo screaming at the young guys to " Play Angry " before the defenestration administered by Murray State was a perfect audio visual of his lack of true leadership ability. Leadership ,Motivational ability whatever you want to call it, is just not Wojo's best skill set . Wojo is good enough to keep us where we are at, but does not have the Je Ne Sai Quoi that can take us to the next level.
I'm not saying that Wojo has it one way or any other but I 100% remember buzz saying things along the lines of "play angry" the bottom line is you've never like Wojo and it's ok to say that but using something like play angry comment as rationale, when we know that the legit timeout conversations aren't broadcast and we've seen it with buzz, is just poor evidence.
No kidding. I've seen a version of "play angry" during inside the huddle at one time or another from every Big East coach and from a lot of top coaches, I can specifically think of a time I heard it from Izzo. It's a common coachism.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
Wojo is not a good leader and there would be a long list of very qualified head coaches willing to take the job.
I don't see any brown noser in him, personally. I also have never been around him, so I might be a poor judge there. I fail to see why Coach K would have kept a brown noser around. They don't last long in the presence of demanding people. That is probably my best point. As to playing angry? They were pretty passive. They needed a butt chewing, but we don't know what is said in the real huddles that don't have cameras attached. We don't know what is said at halftime. It's all hearsay. Love to know what your Je ne sais quoi is supposed to be. Sounds mysterious and something we won't know about at hiring time. I have to agree to disagree for now. Hope it's you and not me that gets to eat crow down the road.
Q. So you say Coach Wojo isn't a good leader?A. Correct.Q. But you can't state a specific leadership quality or qualities that he lacks?A. He doesn't have the je ne sais quoi, as the French say -- "I don't know what." But whatever it is, it's critically important. And Wojo absolutely, most definitely, 100% doesn't have it. No question whatsoever.Q. Uh-huh.A. Stockholm syndrome! Stockholm syndrome!
I didn't realize you were so anti-Stan and anti-Killings. Wojo is the leader that hired them and is ultimately responsible for every player they recruited.You can criticize coaching decisions, even to some extent player management, but every aspect of those things that owes the slightest bit of credit to the assistants is 100% on the guy that hired and continues to lead them.
I think he and his staff have done a nice job developing guys, and the recruiting has been solid. But the game coaching is where he loses me. Consistently lacks a counter move to any adjustments the opposition makes, and I think his teams come out tight because he's wound too damn tight. I hope he figures it out, but I remain very skeptical that he can do much better than what we've seen over the first five years.
I'm sure that all the different types of jobs have their own unique sets of challenges. I prefer head coaches from successful smaller programs because they know the pressures of the big seat that don't come with the assistant job no matter where you are. Sure, you scrap for recruits, but you also know how to manage your resources, rather than being a managed resource. You know how to work refs as opposed to just watching your boss take on that task. You have to be the lead dealing with administration, boosters, professors rather than someone who is delegated.
And frankly, after losing the Hausers, any NCAA bid will probably be enough, even without a NCAA win.
Yes. I can't think of a single coach who was fired immediately after earning a 5 seed or better in the NCAA tournament without an off the court scandal. I'm sure it's happened in the history of the NCAA but I'm 99% sure it hasn't happened in the 2000s.You can be frustrated all you want with the results, it's your right as a fan. But the reality is that Wojo isn't currently close to the hot seat. To everyone besides a vocal minority of Marquette fans, he is one of the better young coaches in college basketball.
Agree he is not close to the hot seat given our administration. One of the better young coaches? I would say you are very kind.
If you're looking for an example, look no further than the Hauser situation. Wojo has/had been around the Hauser family probably more than any other family. he had TONS of time to get to know the type of person Joey was. At the end of the day, Wojo evaluated Joey and asked him to join the MU team.Wojo (the leader) then could not manage a bunch of strong personalities and ended up losing control of his team. Examples of this include the losing streak to end the season, fights in the locker room and on the plane home, Letters written to the coaching staff. Correct me if I'm wrong, but i bet coaches like Izzo, Williams, Bennett, and coach K do not have these things going on. Maybe one of them, but not all... at the same time.