re: 2017-2018 Rebel Hoops 12-20 (5-13): USCe L; HIRE THAD MATTA

^^^ Thanks, and I agree.

Pitt and Georgetown are also much better basketball programs than Ole Miss has ever been. It is what it is. Our peak basketball culture has come under AK, and it’s ok to solid at best, but much better than our resources historically would dictate. If we make a move, it has to be a definite upgrade because it’s orherwise a wasted gesture to jettison the best coach Ole Miss has ever had because the rest of the conference has done a better job building up. We’ve built new buildings and expected it to offset the sheer recruiting expenses other programs have invested that we haven’t. This team sucks, but I don’t think some hot assistant will improve the situation necessarily

I've always thought Kennedy was our guy but I'm at the game and they don't look motivated.

It was embarrassing god I hate TN fans

That's the thing. Tennessee is very good defensively, so I can accept our lack of offense tonight to some extent. However, our defense has been horrid all year and beyond. That's obviously Kennedy's biggest weakness as a coach. You play enough basketball in a good league (and the SEC is that again) and you are gonna get blown out occasionally. Sure hasn't been much of a basketball season. Lastly, it looks like some of our guys are digressing. (i.e. TDavis, Hymon, Furmanavicius, along with very little depth). Either that or they just aren't motivated enough to be preparing in the right way anymore. It happens. Sure wish I felt better about it not being the case next season though.

I think Kennedy gets fired. I don’t think the players want to play anymore.

One thing is almost certain, there's not much difference between our performance tonight and what we could get out of just about anybody coaching us. But I'm still hesitant to say it's time to run him off. It's. A. Really. Tough. Call. Now on the radio they are saying Bruce Stephens isn't available for a post game interview. Why do you even try and interview a player when you lose by 30?

I just wish we'd invest more in recruiting before we ditched our best coach in program history. Yeah, we have an awesome building that's still new enough to be exciting, but it's not the newest arena in the conference anymore, and everyone in conference, especially in the West, has stepped up their crootin' game. I'd love to see what would happen if we could get at least one massive prospect of the caliber LSU, Alabama, and Auburn have gotten lately, and until we're at least in the running for those sorts of kids, we're no more than an occasionally overachieving team in a conference of programs more dedicated to and capable of getting to the tournament. I don't know who we could hire outside of someone like Tom Crean who could do much better than what we've got in AK

It's obvious that to be consistently successful in basketball you have to invest more in recruiting but I'll be totally honest I'm not at a point where I'm ready to do that if it cuts away from football and baseball.

I honestly think Kennedy will be here next year since he has one more on his contract. Ncaa tournament = extension and anything else we let it expire.