Billy Clyde
Active Member
No one with a brain would argue that JD hasn't done great things for us. Greatly improved the status of the program from terrible to respectable.
For those who want to continue ascending, I feel, based on JD's past teams/record, we may be who we are. He'll always have us competitive but will never win a natty/Final Four team. We haven't shown any ability to contend near the top of this conference thus far.
Really hope the new influx of talent, his guys from DFW that we should've always been targeting, raises this ceiling.
Disagree with the thought he has plateaued. Look at his history at Pitt. His boss got the UCLA gig because he had Pitt at a high level, so it was not a scrape job for Jamie, like TCU kinda was.
Look at the nucleus for next year. Noi is proven greatness, Davis has much upside but needs experience which he is getting now, and Samuels can be one of the best centers in the country. I don't really get why so many have dogged him this year. He's a rookie, who is just now starting to have the light turn on, and now that he does, he looks awesome.
Jamie will get this program to a point where he is consistently among the top 4 or 3 in the conference, and winning some titles. It's what he did in the Big East, which I'd argue was as good a league at that time as B12 is now.
Edit: For anyone needing a little perspective and perhaps some irony on this topic, go back and look at the TCU fan comments when we were flirting with Jamie- Essentially, "Haha, those idiots at Pitt who are pissed because they go to the tournament every year but don't win it!"