Quote Of The Night

ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale was asked by the Fort Myers, Fla., News-Press about USC coach Andy Enfield struggling at the bottom of the Pac-12 two straight years.

“Obviously the Pac 12 has got some heavyweights to deal with,” Vitale said. “You’ve got to be patient. I think the third year you’ve got a real true evaluation to see where they’re going.”

14 thoughts on “Quote Of The Night

  1. You don’t need three years to see that USC basketball is going nowhere. You don’t need to be a washed up basketball analyst to see that. Historically, USC basketball has been a bottom dweller in the conference and nothing has changed under Enfield and won’t in the future.

  2. Vitale is exactly right – Enfield has far more potential to make USC a decent program than anyone gives him credit for. What is telling is that since 1974 ucla has one sole NC under Harrick and that was 20 years ago. Howland got them into the final four twice but he was shown the door. The hiring of Altford by Guerrero was poorly managed any way one looks at it.

    Next year will be the platform with which to judge Enfield’s ability – as for Altford it may very well be the year he as well has his own denouement.

    • Howland gets the team to a couple of final 4’s. Wins the conference in his last year and STILL GETS FIRED! Andy has FOUR (4, IV) conference wins in TWO YEARS and everyone on you BONEHEADS is saying he deserves a THIRD YEAR????
      USC….home of guy’s jumping off balcony’s, spelling MOM’S name (mabel) incorrectly on a CHEST TATTOO, Coaches extolling 9-4 football records….and of course the home of Andyain’twinnin!
      Pathetic doesn’t begin to describe your RICH TRADITION of screw ups.
      How bout’ a great big Fight on?

    • That would be 3 Final Fours for Howland, FYI.

      The Alford hire has been extremely unpopular at UCLA and I agree that Dan Guerrero made a very poor choice and even worse was giving him an extension after 1 year.

      Not sure how you can measure Enfield’s potential. He had a very short resume’ prior to being hired by Haden and he hasn’t exactly lit the world on fire since.

    • Wrong, the ruins won in 1975 as well as 1995. Enfield has already shown he can’t coach. Let’s hire a qualified African American coach like Kevin Ollie from UConn and see what he does with this collection of recruits.

  3. Dickie V.’s got it right. Hell, look at Wooden. Didn’t do crap for 10 years before he started dominating. Give this Florida kid a chance. Not like we were winning before he got here.

    • SMH Wooden??? Stop the madness, Wooden coached a half century ago and made $6,000 a year. Did any program hire him for the last 40 years? He was still kicking and interested– everything in hoops changed.

      As a quick reminder, Wooden didn’t win games because he didn’t have a loan shark and bookie paying off his players to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.

      Wooden coached at a time when frosh could not play and players couldn’t enter the NBA until several years, and some NBA national championship games weren’t even on television.

      • Well timmay, if it was that easy, why hasn’t SUCC: the University won a NCAA Basketball NC in the last 71 years.

        And timmay, as a quick reminder, why is SUCC’s all time NCAA tournament record a magnificent 11 – 19 in the same 71 years – a .370 WP.

        UCLA, on the other hand, won 33 straight in one NCAA tournament streak. I don’t recall SG starting one game.

    • Why is the Oregon State coach winning NOW in his first year with a team picked to finish 12th in the Pac 12?

      • Well, he’s got no recruits coming in. Sure, Enfield can win now and sacrifice the future, but that will accomplish nothing. Got to play the young guys as they build. It’s why the Lakers aren’t playing their broken down vets.

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