If there is a change, it has to be quick. Recruiting and the use of the portal to rebuild a program are paramount and there is NO time to wait on a decision. Wait for the MAAC tournament to be over and if you're going to move, DO IT!
If our MBB coach is getting paid a base of approx $300k, how can we be taken seriously in our commitment to advancing the program? That 990 report was shocking.
#HireJT3? Surprised nobody has talked about that one yet...
Just stop, please. John Thompson III is not gonna leave his hometown, his job with the Wizards, his charity work, his friends...basically the entire life he and his wife have built...to coach some so-so mid major because his son attends the school. Everyone needs to get a grip.
If our MBB coach is getting paid a base of approx $300k, how can we be taken seriously in our commitment to advancing the program? That 990 report was shocking.
300 plus use of the facilities for youth summer camps. Coaches can do extremely well with those. 3 weeks x 450 x 150 to 200 attendees per. After expenses, HC takes home 40-50%.
If our MBB coach is getting paid a base of approx $300k, how can we be taken seriously in our commitment to advancing the program? That 990 report was shocking.
300 plus use of the facilities for youth summer camps. Coaches can do extremely well with those. 3 weeks x 450 x 150 to 200 attendees per. After expenses, HC takes home 40-50%.
The report showed base 315 plus other income approx. 42.
300 plus use of the facilities for youth summer camps. Coaches can do extremely well with those. 3 weeks x 450 x 150 to 200 attendees per. After expenses, HC takes home 40-50%.
The report showed base 315 plus other income approx. 42.
That income is outside the U. The 42 might have been use of the facilities, some benefits, possible tuitions (not him but I know that’s on there for some), temporary housing-lots of non w2 type things.
Post by reindeerfan on Mar 8, 2023 21:39:32 GMT -5
Well I am not in the business of calling for anyone's head. But let give my thoughts on why Jay Young's coaching approach is in my view unlikely to ever be successful.
1. Young never tries to beat the press. Team can press on Fairfield at will and they pay no price for this. They are going to get their share of 10 second violations, steal, and sloppy turnovers with no risk of ever giving up an easy basket. If I was the opponent I would press. Seems like St. Peters, and Iona got that memo. 2. This offense will never create great open looks. If you offense is based on always running set plays that take 20 seconds to develop you are going to have a lot of situation where you don't have enough time to get off a shot or late in the shot clock a player is not open and a shot must be forced. Might this have something to do with a low team shooting percentage from players that historically are better shooters? 3. Jay Young in my opinion will never recruit an impact point guard. First, IMHO he doesn't actually think he needs one. Indications are he feels he needs someone who can run a system offense. So he is not concerned about someone who can draw defenders and create openings. Don't count on him ever recruiting this kind of player. No really good point guard is going to want to come to Fairfield to run this kind of offense. My view is Jay wants players like Caleb and Caleb at point guard. He's not looking for the second coming of Jon Hahn, Jared Jordan or Doremus Bennerman. 4. Jay does the same things over and over again whether or not he has the personnel to do what he wants. If he has guys that are too small to defend an opponent in man or two slow. We play man and we get beat. We never make adjustments based on our personnel or an opponents personnel. u can't win when you do one thing and you don't have the personal able to effectively do that one thing. Asking TJ, Jake, and Maidoh to play straight man 40 minutes a game was misusing these players. 5. The team is too easy to develop a game plan against. Everyone knows what Jay is going to do, There are no surprises. Good coaches spend the week before Fairfield practicing set plays to exploit our man defense. And the result always is a barrage of lay-ups. As a coach I would look forward to playing someone who thinks like this, I would almost always beat them even with lesser personnel. 6. Jay expects players to adjust to his plan. He doesn't develop a plan based on the strengths of the personnel he has. I will give an extreme but easy to understand example. If Jay had Deng Gai, the nations leading shot blocker and Tyquan Goode, the shortest player in division I and one of the nations steals per minute leaders, he would be asking Tyquan not to ball hawk, and at 5'8 to try to play man to man on players that are 6'4." And Deng Gai would not have led the nation in blocked shots because he would be out on the perimeter manning up some center while players drove to the basket at will for lay-ups that Gai could have blocked if he played zone. You have Tyquan you let him gamble on some steals, and if a player gets by you have Gai under the hoop to swat the ball away. Young had Chris Maidoh and in my view wasted his abilities for 4 years. 7. Young never traps. He never presses. His teams rarely get steals. He puts no pressure on opponents guards to perform. Turnover ratio is an element in winning. I wonder, have we ever had a favorable turnover rate since Young arrived?
Listen, I know how difficult it is to coach. Your existence is based on the abilities of 18 year olds. Your fate can be decided by one injury. I understand all that. My questions are, do you think someone who coaches with this philosophy will ever win? I understand recruiting is a big piece. Do you think this coach has demonstrated an ability to bring in MAAC level recruits?
I'm not going to answer these questions, but the answers are obvious to many. I like Jay and wish him the best. But I can't agree with a great number of things he did this season.
Last Edit: Mar 8, 2023 22:26:26 GMT -5 by reindeerfan
RF, I like many agree with your thoughts. Jay's overall philosophy is too focused on defense, which feels strange to say after the SJ years. Might we see a staff shakeup with an offensive-minded coach brought in.
I hope the coaching staff reads Reindeer’s synopsis. It’s on the money. Two things I would add. Jay and crew have not developed players to their full potential. Most of the guys on the team have not shown marked improvement in their games. Cook is an example. Yes he is our best player, but really he should be a layup machine on just about every possession. The other point is that from a fan perspective the Jay Young brand of basketball is just not fun to watch. It sputters, it’s boring, likely from all the things Reindeer mentioned above.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Cook should be a layup machine, but assuming we don’t lose any of our key pieces to the portal (a big assumption, I know) —- I think we need to improve how we feed the ball into Cook as well as getting Cook to quickly pass it out if he gets double or triple teamed. It seemed to me that the spacing was the best when AJR and Cook were on the same side of the court and the other three players were outside the arc. Ideally, AJR would be a scoring threat from outside the arc but everyone in the MAAC knew that wasn’t the case this season. Which led to the guy guarding AJR sloughing off him and making it difficult to get a good entry pass into Supreme. When AJR did get the pass into Cook, he was immediately doubled as AJR’s man was already near Cook because he didn’t need to guard AJR closely on the perimeter. Can AJR put in enough work this offseason that he can make a three point attempt often enough that the other team can’t simply play off him on the perimeter? Obviously there were additional problems with our offense this season, but hopefully both Supreme and AJR come back next year and the two man game with those two will be far more effective than it was this season.
I agree with AJR and Cook working better in tandem, but Cook also misses so many layups right under the basket. He just has to work on hitting that backboard in the right place.
