Terrance Williams Appreciation

I've thought the same. Recruiting is his strong suit compared to everything else. He should have a team like LSU had when we beat them in the tourney. Get 5 stars and roll the ball out and don't emphasize defense or rebounding and just let them play.

He's had more talent rejected by admissions than we have on our current roster. 

He's had two players rejected, in two years.  Neither should have been a surprise given our admissions stance (that undergraduate players need to complete a majority of their credits here).  It was a mistake to target them in the first place, and worse, we had no Plan B when they didn't get in.

Our struggles go beyond this.  His roster management in general has been poor (why so few guards on the roster?) and the team is utterly atrocious defensively, despite having decent experience and athleticism.

He might be better off in the NBA, where he would just coach and wouldn't have to assemble a roster.  Also, NBA players don't need as much fundamental development.  In hindsight, hiring a coach with no college experience at all was probably a bad idea.

If our coach wasn't named Juwan Howard, but was just some guy who hadn't been a legendary player, would you really be carrying this much water for him?

Admissions rejected one guy (Caleb Love) last offseason.  They also let three other transfers in.  They didn't make Juwan leave multiple roster spots open.  It's also not their fault this team can't defend a closed door.

With Franz Wagner on the team, Juwan went 42-17.  Without Franz, he's 44-45.  

Duke doesn't have trouble.

Which is why he was never a good fit in the first place. He went here FerGodsakes, does he not know what types of players to recruit? Why's he so stuck in the 90s in assuming it has to be like it was when he was here? He should know better. But he's from Chicago. My bad, I forgot. 

I will forever be puzzled by people who think his “good years” were because of him instead of despite him. He’s the same coach. Just didn’t have the benefit of guys getting good coaching before him.

He's looking more like Larry Coker.  He inherited a great program and kept it going for a bit, but the wheels eventually came off.

To be honest, his heart surgery is like his Covid season (shortened and stressed).

I used to like Shaka until he bombed out at Texas.  Aren't you concerned that would happen here?  He may be just cut out for a smaller school situation.

Offer him a contract that Marquette can't match and let's roll.

Good luck with that. We lost a world series baseball coach over $700k and a legendary S&C coach as well. Maybe they both were leaving no matter what but Ive got a strong inkling they werent offered "fuck it im staying money". That also means we probably have a guy that aint offering "fuck it im leaving money" to anyone anytime soon. 

We have no way to know if this is true unless he states it but if so, he is quite honestly the worst possible individual to be a leader.  You don't lead by seeking support, you lead to make good on your commitment as a leader.  If Warde is seeking to have everyone agree with his decision, he is a failure.  Leaders ALWAYS have detractors.  It is inherent in the role.  Leaders make the tough but necessary decisions.  To those who are contriving to say that the heart issue is the reason this team is what it is ignores the pattern of ongoing decline year to year and the lack of development of the players and team.  You ignore that they are a poorly constructed team, regardless of admissions or NIL.  There are players who you can and should recruit to build out your team.  Have a back up plan, all good leaders do.  He has and will continue to fail.  He is not a good leader, and if Warde does as you say, he is a worse leader than any AD before him.

If this team loses 20+ games, how many Juwan supporters are there going to be?  

No. Beilein left for an NBA job. NBA jobs open up in May. You can't get an NBA job in March. It sucks, but it is what it is. Beilein wanted to give the NBA a crack. Given that he single-handedly resurrected a program that hadn't had a pulse in almost a decade and elevated it to elite status (without a hint of scandal along the way), he earned the right to leave on his own terms.

Also, Warde had a viable internal candidate in Luke Yaklich. He could have gone the safe route and elevated Yaklich for the sake of continuity, but he chose to take a gamble on Juwan. That's not Beilein's fault.

Uh, what? What does a coach in waiting matter? Howard was a very exciting choice at the time. But, he hasn't panned out.

And roster is everything! Beilein left a ton of talent, Carr chased talent away. Not remotely similar. This is a  strange angle to play. 

I agree that a succession plan should be in place for every head coach, but I put that on Warde not Beilein.  As the administrator, Warde should make sure that he has either a succession plan or a clear list of alternatives in place for each of his top revenue generating coaches.  This is a business, and it's his job to make sure that things don't fall apart when changes like this happen.  This is no different than a GM for a professional sports team.

Similarly with Carr, I put that on Bill Martin for not having a plan.  I will say that Carr was a little short sighted to the organization in not helping Bill Martin better prepare for his departure, but it was still Bill's responsibility to be prepared.

I will never understand why people think it is the coaches duty to have a succesion plan when they leave. The AD should have a list of multiple potential succesion plan coaches ready for a coaching search. 

Any good leader has a back up plan.  It is essential to the role.  Warde obviously didn't.  He really had nothing and reached for a guy because of his name, not abilities.  Now he is holding on because of????