The Paul Hewitt Series
by BirdGT on Jul 29, 2009 11:15 AM EDT
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Paul Hewitt has been performing a series of short interviews for Ramblinwreck.com. Here are parts I, II, and III. Feel free to breeze through them. I think the interesting quotes are about the justification of poor past season performances and speculation about this coming season. Hewitt is really high on Gani Lawal's return:
...After that, I can't tell you who is going to be the go-to guy. You hope it's Gani, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be. He's got things to improve on, but hopefully at the end of games we can run something to get him the ball in the low post. He plays with a level of toughness and strength and can finish around the basket... ...but we know as a coaching staff that the most important things that have happened to this program are D'Andre Bell being cleared and Gani Lawal making the decision to come back to school...
Any thoughts on Paul Hewitt's interviews? I'm ready for basketball season every year. I know a lot of people are down on Hewitt but I think this should be a solid team this year. Talented youngsters and crusty veterans. Tournament or bust is definitely the season's motto.
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CPH
I’m not one of those who have been overly ‘down’ on CPH recently, but I also don’t believe he’s invincible (though his contract does make it difficult to buy him out). Do I think that his career hinges on this upcoming season? No, not entirely, but given that I only had choices of opposite extremes, I went with ‘his days are numbered’.
I don’t think that this one season alone is a make or break year for CPH. He has a very stable class coming in that may not mature to its full potential until a couple years down the road and I believe we have to at least allow that to happen. However, it should be monitored and maybe even micro-managed to an extent. What has upset me the most more than anything else, is the simple fact that last years recruiting class had one sole individual. How the hell that’s even possible I don’t know, but if something like that happens again then I am going to want D-Rad to start looking for a new coach.
With what we have incoming, he needs to hit that recruiting trail just as hard this year and the next to ensure that we don’t dwindle because of attrition. I’m not going to blame him for going after one-n-done because any coach worth his salt would be remiss not to. But if he can’t keep the stables full of thoroughbreds each year, then no one, not us nor he, will have anything left to blame for yet another slide.
yeah
Sorry about those poll answers. I pulled an AJC-poll-style and went black/white with no gray. I thought the two extremes were pretty good representations of most GT fan’s sentiments – apathetic or outraged.
Fight, win, drink, get naked
Shoot....
I’m not outraged. But his years are still numbered. It’s cool that we are bringing in a class full of “potential”. But how is he going to grow and cultivate that potential into a product?
by Winfield Featherston on Jul 29, 2009 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Contract
I think the only thing that makes CPH invincible is his contract. The GTAA is already struggling for money, and spending $7 million to buy out a coach is not happening (unless, of course, a huge donor steps up).
He used up the goodwill from the Final 4 run last year. IMO, his contract, Favors, and that run (in that order) are the only things that kept him employed.
Dave Braine hosed us on this one
After the Final Four run, it was certainly appropriate to give Coach Hewitt a contract in the numbers he got. Giving someone—anyone—a rolling contract with no end, though, is foolish. You do what everyone does. You give a four or five year contract that you plan to renew every two years.
by Ramblin Jeff on Jul 30, 2009 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Down On Hewitt
I have been down Hewitt for several years. While the final four run was fantastic and he should be given appropriate credit for it, the last few years have been terrible.
Even the Young\Crit season was really basically one of underachievement. His teams seem to lack fundamentals, and that has the main problem since 2005.
That said if he can’t this loaded 2009-2010 team to the NCAA’s that should be the end of the run.
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