Jake, would you please...

[Deke3]

Re: Jake, would you please...

You can try to polish this turd of a post all you want, but it still sucks. Chill out and enjoy the rest of the year.

Gonna have to agree with this! I vote burn it!

[MediaPanther]

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Why is Kwadzo starting over Eric Coleman? What is Jake thinking? The Panthers would be 24-0 without Kwadzo at the point.

[BMPanther]

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Like I said, KA can be great at times.

He is playing in streaks of greatness and streaks of being out of control, with some very sloppy passing 25 feet from the basket.

When UNI moves the ball around the perimeter, 2 or 3 guys will move it quickly making the defense react, and then KA will catch and hold for a 1 or 2 count before deciding what to do. It gives the defense a breather and breaks the flow of the offense. What purpose does it serve?

I've seen virtually every game this year, and it feels to me like a well oiled machine with one very talented player trying too hard to assert himself as the focus of the offense.

I appreciate that we're 22-2. But every player has room for improvement.

I think we could put more teams away early if there was improvement on this issue. Our experience has pulled us through in the end of a lot of games. Tonight it was a couple of 25 foot three pointers. That's not going to happen every night. I don't want to settle for getting to the dance and making an early exit again this year.

I disagree with Blue. I think Jake is a great coach...coach of the year maybe even! We should all melt down all the gold we own and make a statue of him. Oh how I love Jake!

[SMK4UNI]

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i agree with you blue. I think coach jake understands the theory of basketball just fine, but i do not think he is a good coach. I think he has gotten lucky that mac's recruits stayed after mac left, and after this season, we will see what kind of a coach he really is...and i think it will be ****ty. He doesn't know when to pull ka, he doesn't leave the right players in for the right situations, and he is a horrible big man coach. I know i'm gonna get crucified for this and i know were 22-2, but i don't like coach jake, i think he's a ****ty coach, and to me he will always be alford junior. If you don't like my opinions, don't read them!

wow!!

Wow!!

[Panther Daddie]

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BMPanther-- please put down the airplane glue.

[Born-a-Panther]

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I agree with you Blue. I think Coach Jake understands the theory of basketball just fine, but I do not think he is a good coach. I think he has gotten lucky that Mac's recruits stayed after Mac left, and after this season, we will see what kind of a coach he really is...and I think it will be ****ty. He doesn't know when to pull KA, he doesn't leave the right players in for the right situations, and he is a horrible big man coach. I know I'm gonna get crucified for this and I know were 22-2, but I don't like Coach Jake, I think he's a ****ty coach, and to me he will always be Alford Junior. If you don't like my opinions, don't read them!

I think my jaw dropped so far it literally hit the floor while reading this. You are unbelievable. Go away.

[ryan19]

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I agree with you Blue. I think Coach Jake understands the theory of basketball just fine, but I do not think he is a good coach. I think he has gotten lucky that Mac's recruits stayed after Mac left, and after this season, we will see what kind of a coach he really is...and I think it will be ****ty. He doesn't know when to pull KA, he doesn't leave the right players in for the right situations, and he is a horrible big man coach. I know I'm gonna get crucified for this and I know were 22-2, but I don't like Coach Jake, I think he's a ****ty coach, and to me he will always be Alford Junior. If you don't like my opinions, don't read them!

Blue42 & BMPanther

[r54uni]

Re: Jake, would you please...

I agree with you Blue. I think Coach Jake understands the theory of basketball just fine, but I do not think he is a good coach. I think he has gotten lucky that Mac's recruits stayed after Mac left, and after this season, we will see what kind of a coach he really is...and I think it will be ****ty. He doesn't know when to pull KA, he doesn't leave the right players in for the right situations, and he is a horrible big man coach. I know I'm gonna get crucified for this and I know were 22-2, but I don't like Coach Jake, I think he's a ****ty coach, and to me he will always be Alford Junior. If you don't like my opinions, don't read them!

How about Coach Mac had all his success because of his assisant Coach Jake!!!! Who do you think actually recruited most of these kids and why do you think they "stuck around".

We've had some good posts this week but this is one I wish I would have never read. You should have warned us at the beginning of your post and not in your last sentence!!!

[Newsbreaker]

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I agree with you Blue. I think Coach Jake understands the theory of basketball just fine, but I do not think he is a good coach. I think he has gotten lucky that Mac's recruits stayed after Mac left, and after this season, we will see what kind of a coach he really is...and I think it will be ****ty. He doesn't know when to pull KA, he doesn't leave the right players in for the right situations, and he is a horrible big man coach. I know I'm gonna get crucified for this and I know were 22-2, but I don't like Coach Jake, I think he's a ****ty coach, and to me he will always be Alford Junior. If you don't like my opinions, don't read them!

It takes a special kind of mind to produce this product. Bravo.

[Felis P. C. Schorgeri]

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I agree with you Blue. I think Coach Jake understands the theory of basketball just fine, but I do not think he is a good coach. I think he has gotten lucky that Mac's recruits stayed after Mac left, and after this season, we will see what kind of a coach he really is...and I think it will be ****ty. He doesn't know when to pull KA, he doesn't leave the right players in for the right situations, and he is a horrible big man coach. I know I'm gonna get crucified for this and I know were 22-2, but I don't like Coach Jake, I think he's a ****ty coach, and to me he will always be Alford Junior. If you don't like my opinions, don't read them!

Jordan would be proud to know his family...his Sunday school teacher I thought....would be talking about his coach like that. Pretty sure that Johnny, Ali, Jake, Sonnen, James, O'Rear, et al. were all "Jake's Recruits". Heck, wasn't the last class of Mac's recruits the class of 2006? That would mean that anyone not a SR this year (plus Kwadzo) wasn't a recruit of Mac, and they seem to be working out pretty well for us.

[Panther'73]

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BM and 42 - you seem to know how to coach - what would you do different???????
(There ALWAYS has to be a nay-sayer - UNBELIVEABLE!!!!!)

If it wasn't for Jake, MAC wouldn't have had success @ UNI. Look how MAC is doing @ ia. state.

[BCPanther]

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I still don't know why Jordan isn't playing 40 minutes a night and getting a minimum of 50 shots a night...

[Khan4Cats]

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Is this some kind of early April 1st post?

Seriously, what the heck is wrong with some people?

We should probably bench Johnny too since he is down about half from what he was scoring last year.

And Adam Koch was a 22% shooter from 3 coming into this year, why is he allowed to shoot from outside.

Dang. We could be SOOOO much better.

[ProwlingPanther]

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KA has been shaky at times but I think that Jake understands that sometimes you need to let your good players play through their bad streaks.. Ali stepped up big last night and KA had some amazing passes.

A lot of the KA "Selfishness" is called plays by Jake and we have all seen what KA can do when he is on.

KA does drive me crazy sometimes with his turnovers and ill advised plays but I think he is kind of a Brett Favre, "Gunslinger" type of a PG. He is going to make some incredibly poor decisions but he is also going to make some plays that make your jaw drop. We are 22-2 right now and I am enjoying the ride. As long as we are winning, I think we can afford to let our good players ride our their "slumps." We all know what KA is capable of, he has been a very clutch player for us through out his career.

As for Jake being a poor coach and even worse, an "Alford Junior."

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Jake is the reason we had the success that we did under Mac. The idiot that mentioned that Jake was lucky to keep the recruits that he did, look what happened when Mac went to Iowa State, to a team with "Superior Talent." Wesley Johnson jumped ship and the team has under achieved. The reason the recruits were here in the first place and the reason they stayed was because of Jake.

We have a great recruiting class coming in next year so he has already proved that he can recruit.

Doug McDermott, Chip Rank, Nate Buss, ever heard of em?

I lived in the CR/IC area for a couple of years and Alford was hated in the community, he was a self centered jerk who thought his feces didn't stink.

I met Jake briefly and had the pleasure of running into him and his wife in public a few months later.

I had no intentions of bothering him and to my surprise, he approached my family with his wife and introduced himself and his wife to my wife and kids.

I never in a hundred years would have thought that he would even remember meeting me and if he did, he owed me no greetings. I would have thought that a head nod or a wave would have been great but never would have even expected that.

I promise you that he is no "Steve Alford"

The man is a class act and one hell of a coach. We are very lucky to have him and I pray that he stays the head coach of our rising program for a VERY LONG TIME....

Sorry for the rant but those are fighting words dude!!


Thats whats up...

PantherN8..OUT!!

[dustj888]

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And he was a ri-tard.