Untitled Document
Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale



Username Post: Georgetown        (Topic#20219)
Penndemonium 
PhD Student
Posts: 1878

Reg: 11-29-04
04-08-17 12:57 AM - Post#228637    

There has been a lot on the Harvard Board about Georgetown's search and whether Amaker was a part of it. I thought I'd raise one parallel with Penn. I wonder if they are setting themselves up for a Jerome Allen situation - what do you do when your school's hero may not be the right long term coach?

I think Ewing will be better than most people think. The question is whether he'll be good enough, though. He needs to be great to stick long term.




 
weinhauers_ghost 
Postdoc
Posts: 2125

Age: 64
Loc: New York City
Reg: 12-14-09
Re: Georgetown
04-08-17 09:37 AM - Post#228639    
    In response to Penndemonium

One significant way in which Ewing's situation differs is that he has 15 years' experience as an NBA assistant coach.

 
Jeff2sf 
Postdoc
Posts: 4466

Reg: 11-22-04
04-08-17 11:29 AM - Post#228641    
    In response to weinhauers_ghost

yeah, ewing may fail miserably, he's never had to "recruit" but his qualifications are about a billion times greater than Jerome's

 
Penndemonium 
PhD Student
Posts: 1878

Reg: 11-29-04
04-08-17 01:18 PM - Post#228642    
    In response to Jeff2sf

True. Coaching is an incredibly tough profession with a mix of tactics, recruiting, leadership, team building, executive skill and hard work. Not everyone can succeed and not everyone can succeed in all situations. It takes a lot of skills to come together in a system, which is why Jerome would have benefited from an apprenticeship - the kind he is getting now.

I couldn't tell directly, but he seemed to have issues in executive skill (Italy trip), tactics (atrocious D and clueless offense), and recruiting (getting a solid PG). There were positive glimmers in each area, but overall a sad outcome.

Still, he's a hero to me as a player and human. Hoping for better coaching days ahead for him.

 
Go Green 
PhD Student
Posts: 1124

Age: 52
Reg: 04-22-10
Re: Georgetown
04-10-17 12:38 PM - Post#228664    
    In response to Penndemonium

  • Penndemonium Said:
what do you do when your school's hero may not be the right long term coach?




Three Ivy football teams are currently being coached by alums, for whatever that is worth...

 
Icon Legend Permissions Topic Options
Report Post

Quote Post

Quick Reply

Print Topic

Email Topic

1394 Views





Copyright © 2004-2012 Basketball U. Terms of Use for our Site and Privacy Policy are applicable to you. All rights reserved.
Basketball U. and its subsidiaries are not affiliated in any way with any NCAA athletic conference or member institution.
FusionBB™ Version 2.1 | ©2003-2007 InteractivePHP, Inc.
Execution time: 0.014 seconds.   Total Queries: 8   Zlib Compression is on.
All times are (GMT -0500) Eastern. Current time is 09:23 AM
Top