1) The "we can't get anybody better" ranks right up there with "who are you going to replace him with" for most worthless responses to assessing the quality of a coach that is on the hot seat (to whatever degree that is). As others mentioned, it's the job of the AD to have a list of such names with the ability to quickly act upon in a moment's notice. Second, as we just with Chris Petersen getting hired, there's some allure to a job at the University of Washington.
2) There's no doubt that Romar's getting killed right now because he struck out trying to go for the elite prospects with not enough quality of fallback guys to have a solid program. The reason he started going after the elite prospects was because he realized that the Level B recruits that he had that built the foundation of the program he could never get past the Sweet Sixteen with and he wasn't a good enough in-game coach to win close games against good/great squads without a talent advantage. Now that he's got a borderline inferior squad (by his prior standards) you continue to see the areas where in-game strategy and fundamentals are not hallmarks of his program.
3) I've heard a ton of people questioning whether Wichita State is THAT good. Like PL_SS said, hearing on Doogman radio the opinion shared on Gregg Marshall was comical. Going back to his days at Winthrop he got to 7 NCAA Tournaments in 9 years. He's transformed Wichita State into a team that has finished in the top 2 of the Missouri Valley Conference for the last 5 years after taking his first 2 years there to turn the program around from the depth that it was at. Flat out, the guy can coach. He's the kind of coach that you'd pay top dollar to to try to pry away if you could.
Nope Tequilla, he's not good enough to replace Romar. What these fucks like fetters and Kim don't understand is that coaching is built on relativity. If you win 9 NAIA national titltes, chances are you'll win multiple national titles given relatively the same athletes in a similar conference.
You telling me Gregg Marshall couldn't win a title at Kentucky? Guarantee he could make a better record out of Romar ' s '13-'14 squad. Romar has zero ability to coach a traditional basketball team. How about coach that teaches fundamentals? Any coach can recruit 10-12 6-3 to 6-8 athletes that can play defense and transition to easy dunks.
How about recruit a few bigs, swings, SF's, PG's, Shooters and teach them to play fucking BASKETBALL. Fuck you Romar you're a fraud. We've seen his teams unable to play fundamental basketball in every sweet 16, , 2nd round, 1st round, NIT and pac12 tourneys.
Willingham showed more smarts than Romar. How many 10-0, 16-0, 20 -0 runs did we see this year without Romar calling a timeout? It's because he didn't know what to do after a timeout.. He just prayed and waited for his defense to create 2 off a steal.
