Comments on: A Tip For Rebel Fans: You Don’t Blow Up The Best Coach You’ve Ever Had

By: I4Bama

I4Bama — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:41:51 +0000

Texas fooball fans should read and heed this as well.

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:53:50 +0000

@Statesman

This is just my take, but if he’d shown some sort of decline then I’d see a need for change. But the guy consistently wins 20 per year, has a winning record in the SEC (so it can’t all be chalked up to a poor non-conference schedule), and he’s doing it while recruiting kids to play in a what amounts to an armory.

The NCAA Tournament is clearly the goal in Oxford — as it should be — but I think Kennedy has shown that he’s a pretty good coach. A break or two and he might have been picked to make an NCAA tourney or two (let’s not forget that a panel picks the teams each year). So, if it were me, I’d give the winningest coach in school history a chance to use a new arena as a lure for players. As I stated, if he tanks the next two years or if he fails to elevate things in the new digs, then make a move.

But winning 20 games every single season isn’t bad. No one else in Ole Miss history has been able to do it.

Again, just my feelings on the matter.

Thanks again for reading,John

By: buddha22

buddha22 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:48:55 +0000

@Statesman @John at MrSEC I’d take it as sage advice. He should get to recruit to the new facilties!

By: Statesman

Statesman — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:34:54 +0000

@John at MrSEC
John how long should Ole Miss give Kennedy to make the tournament? There is always a risk involved when replacing a coach. You never know if you are going to get a Buzz Peterson or a Bruce Pearl, but at some point you have to change direction.

Thanks, I enjoy the site.

By: bigreb

bigreb — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:20:02 +0000

@CowbellCruiser @John at MrSEC Hood wasn’t gone until Stans left. You might be correct, but Hood according to his own words wasn’t going anywhere.

By: bradking2001

bradking2001 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:06:53 +0000

“But for those UM fans who feel Andy is the worst Kennedy to impact Ole Miss since Jack” GGGGRRROOOOAAAAANNN…*facepalm*

By: CowbellCruiser

CowbellCruiser — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:42:45 +0000

@John at MrSEC

We wouldn’t be much better. Ray can’t help the injuries, and the only player we lost that we’d still have is the PG that went to Texas Tech. Hood was gone, Moultrie was gone, Bost was gone. We were losing all of last year’s team regardless, so this idea that we’d be much better with Stansbury is misguided. We’d be much better if half our team hadn’t spent the season injured. Even with 5 scholarship players and giving two terrible walk-ons significant minutes, we’ve got 3 SEC wins.
We were going to be bad regardless.

Thanks!

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:39:13 +0000

@Statesman

Rod Barnes was 141-109 and 50-78 in the SEC. He had three 20-win seasons in eight years.

Andy Kennedy is 146-85 and 64-64 in the SEC. He has had six 20-win seasons in seven years.

I’d choose the latter if it were me, but that’s just my take. If Ole Miss fans want a new coach, I wish them the best of luck in luring a big name to the Tad Pad. But if they think it’ll be easy to find someone who’ll walk into place that just fired a guy with Kennedy’s recent track record, well, I think they’ll be in for a surprise.

Mississippi State fans sure didn’t expect Rick Ray — who most of them had never heard of prior to his hiring — would be the best their program could do.

No skin off my back either way. I’m just trying to give the folks in Oxford a little free advice… as I did with the folks in Starkville last year.

Thanks for reading the site,
John

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:28:52 +0000

@CowbellCruiser

I know that State fans aren’t blaming Ray for the losses. I didn’t write that they are. Seems that before making such a comment you’d have bothered to read what I actually wrote.

What I’m pointing out — and you can judge this by the attendance in Starkville — most Bulldog fans aren’t enjoying their 8-20 season. And if Stansbury had stayed, MSU would not be 8-20 this year.

Thanks for reading the site,
John

By: Statesman

Statesman — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:09:51 +0000

Andy has been there 7 years and has never made the NCAAs. The winningest coach has built his record on horrible teams, see his overall strength of schedule. The coach before him was fired after a couple of down years, but he took the team to the tournament and did not pad his record against the ‘lil sisters of the poor”. Finally when he loses to a team that has lost 13 in a row, and is down to a few scholarship players, then he should be fired. Maybe they will need to call Bobby the Kennedy that would cut your throat.

By: CowbellCruiser

CowbellCruiser — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:56:51 +0000

Wrong, John. The majority of State fans blame this season on Stansbury’s dumpster fire and are not longing to see him return. Seems like before writing an article making such a statement, you’d have bothered to find that out.