Still in the same place...
Haase must be a GREAT guy, and he absolutely should write a book and hold seminars on how to keep your job when you aren't very good at job.
I am just at a loss for how, even now, there are so many that will say he just needs his own recruits, or he just needs a few recruits that don't jump to the NBA early, or he needs a few guys to stay healthy, etc.
The pattern has been repeated almost every year now.
Team is borderline amazing in November and early December. Experts praise the incoming talent, and declare that Stanford has improved since the end of last season.
Then in the first round of the Pac-12 schedule the team wins ugly against bad opponents, loses road games against almost all middle and top tier teams in the conference. However, people and experts remember a few games in November and declare Stanford is a bubble team that just needs to string some wins together.
By the second half of February the team loses to almost everyone.
I know many think Shaw should go but he is a 4 time Pac-12 COY. He is also the winningest coach in Stanford history. 2 of the last 3 years were tough, but at least he has had some success while coaching at Stanford.
Haase has nothing like that. He has yet to have a season where the team looked better in March than in November. He has not won a conference title. His Pac-12 tournament record is awful. And if by some miracle Stanford ever gets enough wins in November and December to sneak into the NCAA tournament, I am very confident Stanford under Haase would lose its first game even if that game was the 12 v 12 play-in game.
And yet, I need to remind myself that I still believe that none of the coaches will be fired this year because it has been really hard to win at Stanford during COVID. The campus environment is brutal, the travel for a basketball team seems crazy. Many of the world's elite athletes have found competing during the pandemic to be mentally and physically challenging, but they have it easy because they aren't also trying to get a Stanford degree during COVID while living on a campus with an environment clearly impacted by COVID protocols.
Tara should be hailed as a goddess for her ability to get through this, but most of the mere mortal coaches at Stanford have struggled. To me their shared struggles are probably not on Muir, they are likely on COVID.
I suspect the administrators at Stanford know this too, so I will be forced to "enjoy" another year with Haase in 2022-2023.
FWIW - I do think Stanford will actually lose all of its remaining games this season so I believe Haase will survive even though the team will finish with a 15-16 record. This year will just be another chapter in the book/seminar, "How to keep your job when you aren't good at your job."
Haase must be a GREAT guy, and he absolutely should write a book and hold seminars on how to keep your job when you aren't very good at job.
I am just at a loss for how, even now, there are so many that will say he just needs his own recruits, or he just needs a few recruits that don't jump to the NBA early, or he needs a few guys to stay healthy, etc.
The pattern has been repeated almost every year now.
Team is borderline amazing in November and early December. Experts praise the incoming talent, and declare that Stanford has improved since the end of last season.
Then in the first round of the Pac-12 schedule the team wins ugly against bad opponents, loses road games against almost all middle and top tier teams in the conference. However, people and experts remember a few games in November and declare Stanford is a bubble team that just needs to string some wins together.
By the second half of February the team loses to almost everyone.
I know many think Shaw should go but he is a 4 time Pac-12 COY. He is also the winningest coach in Stanford history. 2 of the last 3 years were tough, but at least he has had some success while coaching at Stanford.
Haase has nothing like that. He has yet to have a season where the team looked better in March than in November. He has not won a conference title. His Pac-12 tournament record is awful. And if by some miracle Stanford ever gets enough wins in November and December to sneak into the NCAA tournament, I am very confident Stanford under Haase would lose its first game even if that game was the 12 v 12 play-in game.
And yet, I need to remind myself that I still believe that none of the coaches will be fired this year because it has been really hard to win at Stanford during COVID. The campus environment is brutal, the travel for a basketball team seems crazy. Many of the world's elite athletes have found competing during the pandemic to be mentally and physically challenging, but they have it easy because they aren't also trying to get a Stanford degree during COVID while living on a campus with an environment clearly impacted by COVID protocols.
Tara should be hailed as a goddess for her ability to get through this, but most of the mere mortal coaches at Stanford have struggled. To me their shared struggles are probably not on Muir, they are likely on COVID.
I suspect the administrators at Stanford know this too, so I will be forced to "enjoy" another year with Haase in 2022-2023.
FWIW - I do think Stanford will actually lose all of its remaining games this season so I believe Haase will survive even though the team will finish with a 15-16 record. This year will just be another chapter in the book/seminar, "How to keep your job when you aren't good at your job."