While I’m not a fan of the guy given the brief time we saw him this weekend, I’m willing to see what he can do at Tulane. I’d imagine he’d be able to recruit better at Tulane than he could at Georgia State, and with bigger and better players, his team’s style of play might look different than what we saw.
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And they still couldn’t guard us.
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He is a breath of fresh air, if not a bit egocentric. For you youngin’s, revisit this…
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This!!! I thought the Grandpa comments were stupid but I dont think he meant them maliciously. Not sure it’s a move up for him but the food is way better in NOLA!
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Right. In Dunleavy’s three years at Tulane, two of those were the worst seasons Tulane has had since 1990. Turner did a really good job at Georgia State. This is almost certainly an upgrade, and probably a pretty big one.
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His team beat Tulane by 4 points earlier this year…that must count for something!
He seems like a really good hire to me. It’s not like top notch coaches are lining up to go to Tulane.
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Only beating Tulane by 4 points should make the Tulane folks wonder if this is really the guy they want? Seats are empty enough as it is.
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Tulane should be in CUSA. Thanks commish
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This thread exposes how many people on this board started following this sport closely in January. Ron Hunter is a home run for Tulane. He took 2 resource-poor programs to levels of success they never saw prior to his arrival.
It may be (probably is) an impossible job in this league given the soon to be 25 year NCAA tournament drought, the strength of the rest of the league and lack of fan interest. Good as this hire is, I’d still be surprised if Tulane had an NIT berth in the next 4 years.
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You’re right about his accolades, I just don’t like his style of play. Reminds me of Penders ball, jack up a bunch of threes, except Penders had that weave. It did the job though and sustained us through those years when facilities and many other things were pretty bleak. I’m sure Hunter will be competitive there. I wonder if he can win conference championships there though.
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Who knows what can happen…Tulane just needs to give him time to build their program.
It cracks me up still thinking about the announcers saying he considers rebounds as one of the least important stats.
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Just as a reference, 18 of the top 50 teams in rebounding margin are in the tourney. The only team in the bottom 50 in rebounding margin that made the tourney, Georgia State. If Tulane’s goal is being good enough to win the Sun Belt Conference. They have their man.
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To me that stat shows there is much more to the game than rebounding. Stating your stat differently, 32 teams out side the top 50 teams in rebounding made the tournament. You need rebounding of course but the advent of continued influence and importance of 3 point shots has spread the game out on the court.
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the question is his philosophy… i think he’ll be fired in a few years…
i think he is the perfect mid-major coach, but his ideology wont work in the p5…
he thinks rebounding is overrated, he will literally a run zone no matter the situation, and he essentially plays 5 guards…
you arent going to meet any dominant athletic teams in the mid-major …that is every day life in the the high majors
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Tulane will gain some press for his facetious and flippant comments every time he is asked legitimate questions about his team or his opponents. Otherwise, I don’t see them gaining ground on the rest of the league.
66 teams made the tourney. 286 teams did not. If rebounds were more of a random category, the top 50 would have around 12 to 13 tourney teams as well as the bottom 50.
So 18 of 66 possible tourney teams are in the top 50 versus 32 of 286 possible non tourney teams are in the top 50. 1 out of 66 possible tourney teams are in the bottom 50 versus 49 of 286 possible non tourney teams are in the bottom 50. Can’t simplify much more than that.
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“Grand Pa” gets to beat him every year.
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How much is that different from what we ran when Penders was here? The three-man weave and jacking up threes all looked very familiar to me.