Palmetto Proving Grounds

The atmosphere surrounding our coaching staff was described to me as "dead man walking" by a friend who knows them well.

Curious but how did you watch the Vandy staff at halftime? Did your buddies get you into the locker room too? Or does the weirdness that is the Vandy facility mean that they have no locker rooms and just sit right there on the baseline during halftime too?

The foul calls don't have anything to do with the rest of what the OP stated. A lot of good points made about the team as a whole. I've been in the minority in that I wanted to give Horn another year, but now I really don't see what this team would gain from that. I will not attack Horn in the way that some posters do and say that he is a pitiful baskeball coach because he's not. I don't think he's laying down on the job or not trying real hard. It just seems that he's not the guy to get the job done here. I think he'd have a great run of success if he went back to the mid major ranks.

Really?? Is that all u got now in your defense of Horn and our pathetic play? Blame it on the refs? Pathetic. Wake up! We are by far and away the worst team in the Conf and it isn't going to get better next year or anytime under Horn.

Sorry I meant during time outs....had a little to much to drink lol

What coach worth a damn would take the job as a lead assistant for a coach who is subject to be fired at any time? As a top level assistant you look for job SECURITY, and that is something Darrin Horn simply cannot offer. Why do you think the one good coach he hired got up an left at his first opportunity? Why do you think we had to rehire a guy we demoted to assume that position?

Horn is done. His future at this program is over, he knows it, the players know it, and recruits know it. Let's just all hope that Eric Hyman sees this reality as well. Horn has already set this program back at least 5 years. If Hyman doesn't fire him and go full bore after Gregg Marshall or some other competent coach, it is evidence that Hyman puts pride before program.

i feel like i am at the mortuary....the corpse is in the casket, nice black & garnet arrangement....its got that funeral home smell we all know. lets make this a wake not a funereal type event. i recall the old guy back in the mcguire days. quite a program he was.

rip usc hoops

You can't compare anyone on this team to Shaq. Not even in the same universe. Bad logic here. Yeah Shaq could never shoot a freethrow - but in his prime the man was good for 28-30 and 10 per game and acutally averaged 27 and 11 for a CAREER. We don't have anyone that can sniff that. So yeah - if you don't have that size and ability in the paint then you best be able to shoot FTs...Shaq didn't need to as that wasn't what teams had him for.

You are here...................................................................................................................................the point is over here. Nobody compared Shaq to our current players. But Shaq played his entire career as a late game liability. Teams devised a foul based defensive scheme for him he was so inept at FT's. To say he didn't "need" to shoot FT's is silly. Imagine what his numbers would have been if he could have shot 70% form the stripe?
The point is that some of the greatest coaches in the history of basketball couldn't teach him to shoot FT's.
Likewise, it's not Horn's fault ths team can't shoot FT's. There is much you lay at his feet. FT shooting isn't one of them.

Roy's current team shoots in the 60's from the free throw line by the way. They do that with 5 guys that are likely lottery or 1st round NBA picks. Pretty sure it's not a coaching issue.

Maybe cockoracle could take 'em out back and teach them proper form.

Some of you guys need to lighten up.

Thanks for the well thought out post and calling out what you see without delving into "Horn sucks". I agree with you and think there's no way around making a change.