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On Softy's show the other day.
https://www.iheart.com/show/139-Softy-Interviews/?episode_id=28057910

If you don't feel like listening, here's the summary:

This wasn't a "Lorenzo gave us good years, built a good foundation, we thank him for his service, but it's time to move on" interview.

It was more of a "Romar was lazy and wouldn't put in the work and the culture of program sucked" interview. It's worth a listen because it's a remarkably subtle trashing of the guy she just fired. She couldn't muster a single positive thing to say about Romar and routinely circled back to fairly scathing criticisms.

Having never heard much of anything she's had to say before, this interview made her come off as fairly ruthless.
 
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So b/c Romar made a couple sweet 16's and hadn't made a 68 team tourney in the last 6 years, she should erect a statue instead of speak truth?

Romar has been one of the biggest jokes in Basketball coaching circles for exactly what she stated. Culture of the program, effort of the program, defense, creating offense. Romar was paid something like 25 million, can people stop acting like he's a saint and that he somehow brought a NC to UW and now we're doomed?
 
So b/c Romar made a couple sweet 16's and hadn't made a 68 team tourney in the last 6 years, she should erect a statue instead of speak truth?

Romar has been one of the biggest jokes in Basketball coaching circles for exactly what she stated. Culture of the program, effort of the program, defense, creating offense. Romar was paid something like 25 million, can people stop acting like he's a saint and that he somehow brought a NC to UW and now we're doomed?
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It's amazing anyone could actually be upset that Romar was fired.

The argument for keeping him around for Porter is stupid, but whatever. They are just dumb or mesmerized by how great Porter is. And he is great. There aren't many guys 6'10" with his handle and shot.

The ones that really piss me off are the ones pretending like he didn't deserve to be fired.

Any coach that doesn't go to the tournament for 6 years deserves to be fired. The fact he had some NBA guys makes it even worse.

We went 2-16 with Fultz and most of it was because the team didn't play hard and played stupid. The team quit on the coach and people still think he shouldn't have been fired.
 
So b/c Romar made a couple sweet 16's and hadn't made a 68 team tourney in the last 6 years, she should erect a statue instead of speak truth?

Romar has been one of the biggest jokes in Basketball coaching circles for exactly what she stated. Culture of the program, effort of the program, defense, creating offense. Romar was paid something like 25 million, can people stop acting like he's a saint and that he somehow brought a NC to UW and now we're doomed?
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It's amazing anyone could actually be upset that Romar was fired.

The argument for keeping him around for Porter is stupid, but whatever. They are just dumb or mesmerized by how great Porter is. And he is great. There aren't many guys 6'10" with his handle and shot.

The ones that really piss me off are the ones pretending like he didn't deserve to be fired.

Any coach that doesn't go to the tournament for 6 years deserves to be fired. The fact he had some NBA guys makes it even worse.

We went 2-16 with Fultz and most of it was because the team didn't play hard and played stupid. The team quit on the coach and people still think he shouldn't have been fired.
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Lest us not forgot that he also has a nice parting gift of close to $4Million. Romar did not get jobbed.
 
No shit. Not only did he not get jobbed, he basically turned the program into a shitty AAU team with a shitty AAU attitude.

Cohen calling him out and not paying any lip service to the "he's a nice guy" bullshit was refreshing.
 
Doesn't surprise me. Remember in an interview earlier this year with NWG he said they didn't even watch film when he was at UW? Lol

Romar threw in the towel a long time ago.
 
Doesn't surprise me. Remember in an interview earlier this year with NWG he said they didn't even watch film when he was at UW? Lol

Romar threw in the towel a long time ago.
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He quit years ago. When defenses changed, he didn't want to evolve. He got annoyed with some one/done losses, but had his head up his ass so much he forgot he had talented team(s) that needed coaching. Really, he should probably be on TV. Say nice things about everyone. Hand out participation ribbons to All. Outside of that, I wouold e shocked if he ran back into the coaching world anytime soon. he lost his edge and I think retired with 2 mill a year the next 2 will just solidify that retirement
 
Doesn't surprise me. Remember in an interview earlier this year with NWG he said they didn't even watch film when he was at UW? Lol

Romar threw in the towel a long time ago.
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He quit years ago. When defenses changed, he didn't want to evolve. He got annoyed with some one/done losses, but had his head up his ass so much he forgot he had talented team(s) that needed coaching. Really, he should probably be on TV. Say nice things about everyone. Hand out participation ribbons to All. Outside of that, I wouold e shocked if he ran back into the coaching world anytime soon. he lost his edge and I think retired with 2 mill a year the next 2 will just solidify that retirement
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His best teams had multiple NBA players. Some weren't just on rosters, but all stars.

The one seed team had Nate and B-Roy with a bunch of fringe NBA guys like Conroy and Bobby Jones. Tre Simmons was a great college player who would have played in the NBA if he took that route. Crawford once said he was the best player not in the NBA. That team was unbelievably loaded.

Same for 2010-11. That team getting a 7 seed and playing UNC in the 2nd round was bad coaching. I've always said IT was held back at UW.

Boobs could have coached either of those teams to the tournament.
 
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The B-Roy and Nate team way underachieved
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How do you figure?

The #1 seeded team with Nate lost to a Louisville team that was a terrible matchup for UW because they could abuse them on the interior/rebounding and the zone that they played was long enough to be able to keep our ability to penetrate to a minimum and force us to shoot from distance (wasn't our strength).

The BRoy team that lost to UConn was Romar's best shot at getting to a Final Four and they really found ways to lose that game. I still get pissed at how bad the defense was on the game tying 3 at the end of regulation (and it has nothing to do with the decision to foul or not foul). There were a lot of things that went wrong in that game ... but there were a lot of things that went right as well.
 
Didn't listen to it but if that was the tone by Cohen hen my guess is that behind closed doors Romar was being a dick and telling her she couldn't fire him because of the next recruiting class and she probaby said fuck you.
 
Didn't listen to it but if that was the tone by Cohen hen my guess is that behind closed doors Romar was being a dick and telling her she couldn't fire him because of the next recruiting class and she probaby said fuck you.
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Or that Cohen would have fired Romar well before now if she really had control but the timing wasn't ideal given when she took over the job officially last year (couldn't have made the move as interim AD) ... the fact that Romar imploded made it really easy for her to make the change without being overly opposed by those inside the UW community ... the Seattle hoops community is a completely different issue altogether ... but they've been largely content with doing less with more and not living up to expectations for a while now.
 
Didn't listen to it but if that was the tone by Cohen hen my guess is that behind closed doors Romar was being a dick and telling her she couldn't fire him because of the next recruiting class and she probaby said fuck you.
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Life lesson: Be careful who are a dick to on the way up because they can fuck you on the way back down.

 
I love the non-pc way she speaks and tells it like it is (sounds like the female version of Coach Pete)

Didn't listen to it but if that was the tone by Cohen hen my guess is that behind closed doors Romar was being a dick and telling her she couldn't fire him because of the next recruiting class and she probaby said fuck you.
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Or that Cohen would have fired Romar well before now if she really had control but the timing wasn't ideal given when she took over the job officially last year (couldn't have made the move as interim AD) ... the fact that Romar imploded made it really easy for her to make the change without being overly opposed by those inside the UW community ... the Seattle hoops community is a completely different issue altogether ... but they've been largely content with doing less with more and not living up to expectations for a while now.
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Love the non-pc way she speaks (sounds like the female version of Petersen)

Two comments were telling: First was her saying over last year it was obvious both the on and off court b-ball results were broke and second later in the interview saying the program was so bad overall that the "current management" would be unable to fix it.

Tequilla is exactly right in that you don't come to that conclusion in just a years time. Had she not been the intern AD March 2016 on the job for about a month she would have pulled the plug last year.
 
Doesn't surprise me. Remember in an interview earlier this year with NWG he said they didn't even watch film when he was at UW? Lol

Romar threw in the towel a long time ago.
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There is a very real thing in coaching that happens when you have your best team and don't get to the mountain top. I've personally seen it happen to a handful of high school coaches and a Pac-12 football coach. Look at it from LoRo's angle. He had Brandon Roy and Nasty Nate and couldn't even get to a regional final.

When you pay people state lottery salary you have to be very watchful of how much they really care. I've been told by more than a few people that Slingblade was a different person after the Ohip State game. Mariota isn't walking through the door again and you're guaranteed to be worth $20+ million win or lose.
 
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