All Kentucky is talking about today ...

[Argyle Pony]

All Kentucky is talking about today is that fact that McCoy went to SMU but the got a commitment from an 8th Grader...robbing craddle huh?...Go Mustangs!!!

[smu diamond m]

Ken got an 8th grader committed? Is that a joke?

[Argyle Pony]

No joke...it is already all over their board...he is 6'4" in eighth grade...Arkansas has a 6'5 9th grader committed also...

[mrydel]

...Arkansas has a 6'5 9th grader committed also...

Yeah but he is 23 years old.

[smu diamond m]

...Arkansas has a 6'5 9th grader committed also...

Yeah but he is 23 years old.

Isnt that the average age in Arky?

[expony18]

...Arkansas has a 6'5 9th grader committed also...

Yeah but he is 23 years old.

but he reads at a sophomore level

[CalallenStang]

Great quote from the UVA board on Kentucky's commit:

"They don't want to lose him late to SMU and DohMatt"

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 020232.php

[PonyDoh]

Great quote from the UVA board on Kentucky's commit:

"They don't want to lose him late to SMU and DohMatt"

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 020232.php

DohMatt is a phenomenal nickname and pretty much how the ACC will view ol'Doh, until he gets to the dance consistently

[mathman]

Great quote from the UVA board on Kentucky's commit:

"They don't want to lose him late to SMU and DohMatt"

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 020232.php

DohMatt is a phenomenal nickname and pretty much how the ACC will view ol'Doh, until he gets to the dance consistently

Why is that?

[PonyDoh]

Great quote from the UVA board on Kentucky's commit:

"They don't want to lose him late to SMU and DohMatt"

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 020232.php

DohMatt is a phenomenal nickname and pretty much how the ACC will view ol'Doh, until he gets to the dance consistently

Why is that?

b/c they mean it as doormat

[mathman]

Great quote from the UVA board on Kentucky's commit:

"They don't want to lose him late to SMU and DohMatt"

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 020232.php

DohMatt is a phenomenal nickname and pretty much how the ACC will view ol'Doh, until he gets to the dance consistently

Why is that?

b/c they mean it as doormat

I knew that. Just wondered why you thought it was phenomenal.

[PonyDoh]

Great quote from the UVA board on Kentucky's commit:

"They don't want to lose him late to SMU and DohMatt"

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 020232.php

DohMatt is a phenomenal nickname and pretty much how the ACC will view ol'Doh, until he gets to the dance consistently

Why is that?

b/c they mean it as doormat

I knew that. Just wondered why you thought it was phenomenal.

Well, considering their frame of reference, it's on point. I love Doh for SMU, but his tenure at UNC was comical at best. The nickname fits the man during that tenure

[Alaric]

Great quote from the UVA board on Kentucky's commit:

"They don't want to lose him late to SMU and DohMatt"

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 020232.php

DohMatt is a phenomenal nickname and pretty much how the ACC will view ol'Doh, until he gets to the dance consistently

Why is that?

b/c they mean it as doormat

I knew that. Just wondered why you thought it was phenomenal.

Well, considering their frame of reference, it's on point. I love Doh for SMU, but his tenure at UNC was comical at best. The nickname fits the man during that tenure

Doherty was young a young and inexperienced HC at UNC with only 1 year of HC experience. His problems were related more to the alienation of the team than his coaching. I think most of his problems were well documented.

PonyDoh keeps saying he's a horrible on the court coach but that he can recruit. I'm willing to give someone a pass for EARLY in their career for not being up to ACC on the court coaching standards. I'd love some analysis/examples of his poor coaching. I'd also like to see PonyDoh's analysis on whether or not he's improved those problems now that he's no longer in his 2nd, 3rd and 4th year coaching at the highest profile job in college bb. Please don't just say he lost to Prairie View or similar general comments...I can just as easily make a broad statement that he was playing with a ton of freshman.

[carolsmu]

I actually think Doherty made a scheduling mistake last year. I know what he was trying to do: Really young team so you schedule lots of mid-majors in order to get confidence for the young ones. Problem is that mid-majors these days often beat bigger name schools in regular season and tourney. And when bigger name school loses to mid-majors, confidence suffers esp with freshmen. Probably would have been better to schedule big name programs, take some serious lumps: losing big to a name school probably is less emotionally damaging than to a a mid-major (you EXPECT to lose to the name program with a young team and see it as part of gaining experience).

He's obviously a terrific recruiter. From watching him in passing at ND, UNC and FAU, I actually think he is a quite solid (not Bo Ryan great but improving) teacher and game coach. Obviously with any coach with 5-7 years of HC experience you are learning as you go and time will tell

[RGV Pony]

I actually think Doherty made a scheduling mistake last year. I know what he was trying to do: Really young team so you schedule lots of mid-majors in order to get confidence for the young ones. Problem is that mid-majors these days often beat bigger name schools in regular season and tourney. And when bigger name school loses to mid-majors, confidence suffers esp with freshmen. Probably would have been better to schedule big name programs, take some serious lumps: losing big to a name school probably is less emotionally damaging than to a a mid-major (you EXPECT to lose to the name program with a young team and see it as part of gaining experience).

He's obviously a terrific recruiter. From watching him in passing at ND, UNC and FAU, I actually think he is a quite solid (not Bo Ryan great but improving) teacher and game coach. Obviously with any coach with 5-7 years of HC experience you are learning as you go and time will tell

I don't know that I'd classify the likes of Centenary, Alabama St, SC Upstate and Southern as "mid-majors." Any of these teams, in their best of seasons, would be relegated to the play-in game were they to make it to the dance.