(02-10-2012, 12:16 PM)Farm93 link Wrote:We need him to be hired away from us. Is there an ACC or SEC program looking to be mini-Duke?
His W-L record this year is not bad. Maybe some school will want him. I think in the right situation Dawkins could be a great coach. Playing in the Pac-12 with Stanford's recruiting philosophy is probably not the best fit.
Why, I bet he could coach any number of SEC or ACC teams to the Final Four, if given a chance. Please!!
Come to think of it, some commentator [on ESPN, IIRC] at the beginning of the season speculated that LSU's coach might be on the hot seat this year if things didn't turn around. I think a former Stanford coach would fit in quite well there...
More seriously, we really do appear to be in a bind... Unless he pulls a Coughlin and we go on to win the Pac-12 tournament, there's really no solid basis for speculating that this group of purportedly talented sophomores [plus Randle] is going to start achieving at a dramatically higher level under Dawkins, even with one [or two] more year(s) of experience.Â
If we get a [good] new coach NEXT year, they have one year to do well under the "new coach replacing under-achieving old coach with good players" dynamic, followed by a second year in which they do "even better because they now have one more year developing under the new coach's system," which also results in some good recruiting to keep the whole thing going. However, if he stays for one more year and things continue on as they have, there is probably no good recuriting and the new coach who comes in the following year only gets the "new coach 'bump'" dynamic for one season before they all graduate and, lacking any good recruits, things go south [again] the following season.
Barring a complete melt-down [okay, an even MORE complete melt-down], however, it's hard to see Bowlsby cutting Dawkins loose at the end of a season that started with extending his contract. Forecast: six more weeks of winter...