Coaching Rumors and Changes that Affect VCU

The NCAA has undergone numerous rules' changes in recent year none of would have thought possible a decade ago .... with that, how about a new rule allowing the same person to coach multiple teams at same time .... that way, Odom could remain as VCU coach, thus smoothing Rams fur, while also coordinating the programs at U.Va., NC State .... and possibly Old Dominion. Assistants, dividing time across the different locals, would include newly available Anthony Grant, Jeff Capel, Mike Rhoades ... and perhaps Sonny Smith, as senior advisor. I like the idea although scheduling and practice routines could be an issue.
 
I like musicals and basketball...I had a dream that I was attending my first game at the Stu...and the Peppas, the crowd, the coaching staff's, the teams, the refs and table officials stop to play and sing "My favorite things" midway thru the second half.



..ESPN didn't know what to make of it.. but I did wake up happy..
 
Mercury said:
A failure of scheduling is a failure of coaching. Odom, ultimately, controls who we play. Even if he is held to a certain number of home games they don't have to be buy games. There is a lot of space to operate between "No P4 will play us" and the home slate we put out.
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All true, but VCU has no control over MTE slates. The Charleston Classic was weak this year, and VCU's inexplicable loss to Seton Hall may have killed us. A loss to Seton Hall in a normal year would have been a minor downturn, not a resume-crashing defeat. Normally, a win over Miami would have been a nice consolation prize, but this year it meant less than beating Kennesaw State.

Before the season, the MTE mixed with games against Boston College, Colorado State, and New Mexico sounded like several decent opportunities for quality wins to me. The MTE didn't do anything but provide us a terrible loss and a weak win. There is variability every year. It happens, unfortunately.
 
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SteveMM said:
All true, but VCU has no control over MTE slates. The Charleston Classic was weak this year, and VCU's inexplicable loss to Seton Hall may have killed us. A loss to Seton Hall in a normal year would have been a minor downturn, not a resume-crashing defeat. Normally, a win over Miami would have been a nice consolation prize, but this year it meant less than beating Kennesaw State.

Before the season, the MTE mixed with games against Boston College, Colorado State, and New Mexico sounded like several decent opportunities for quality wins to me. The MTE didn't do anything but provide us a terrible loss and a weak win. There is variability every year. It happens, unfortunately.
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I agree with you 100% which is why my initial response focused on the home slate.
 
Mercury said:
I agree with you 100% which is why my initial response focused on the home slate.
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I guess my point was that if the MTE had been stronger and Boston College had been more like the top 100-ish team they usually are, our OOC would have been better regardless of the home slate. It would have been nice also if Colorado State started their current run of good play a little earlier, but that's a nitpick.
 
Mercury said:
A failure of scheduling is a failure of coaching. Odom, ultimately, controls who we play. Even if he is held to a certain number of home games they don't have to be buy games. There is a lot of space to operate between "No P4 will play us" and the home slate we put out.
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You say that and yet here we are speculating which P4 school will be Coach Odom's next stop next year. I guess the business model he is using works pretty well for him personally.
 
SteveMM said:
I guess my point was that if the MTE had been stronger and Boston College had been more like the top 100-ish team they usually are, our OOC would have been better regardless of the home slate. It would have been nice also if Colorado State started their current run of good play a little earlier, but that's a nitpick.
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But see, that's the thing... the MTE was plenty strong enough. Especially on our side of the bracket. Sure, Seton Hall sucked, but Nevada is 79 in the NET and Vanderbilt is 43. Had we gotten through Seton Hall we play either of those two teams and then would've had a shot at the winner, Drake, who is 56 in the NET. We see this year's MTE as weak because we lost twice, then had to play Miami who is terrible this year which gave us two games against sub-200 NET teams. It comes back to winning those games. Had we won, there were quality win opportunities there for the taking. The MTE was not nearly as weak as everyone says it was, ESPECIALLY on our side of the bracket, which is funny because going into the tournament, I was upset we were not on the other side thinking it would be better quality teams and that turned out to be wrong. Even still, FAU is sitting at 107 and Oklahoma State, despite a really down year is sitting at 91 in the NET respectively. Again, because of our own performance, we ended up playing the weakest teams in the tournament. There were opportunities for quality wins, we just needed to win to get to them and we didn't. The NET rankings of the teams in that MTE were not the issue, it was that once again, we left there with a losing record.
 
vcu2016 said:
But see, that's the thing... the MTE was plenty strong enough.
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let's contrast the NETs of the teams in the Maui MTE
Auburn (2), Iowa St (9), Michigan St (10), Uconn (32), UNC (40), , Memphis (48), Dayton (67) and Colorado (90)

6 of 8 teams would have been quad 1 games (dayton got to play 3 quad 1 games there )

sort of the luck of the rotation of the MTEs (Maui and Atlantis are normally 1-2 in strength of teams for the obvious reaaons they are great trips and then the Charleston & Orlando MTEs are next

with the $1 million NIL guarantees being offered in Vegas that will upset the applecart going forward on where the best P4 want to play if at all

go rams
 
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