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Love that dude.
I do think he can be the guy that gets us into the Final 4. I think he can be a guy that coaches here for 20 years and gets a statute outside. He's just such a perfect fit for this region and this program. He's a guy that perfectly blends the old school Norm Stewart 'grittiness' with an ability to actually relate and teach kids.
I can see Kim Anderson saying everything he says in some of these interviews. I can see Anderson believing many of the same things. But Anderson simply had no earthly idea how to get through to these kids apart from publicly belittling them and scolding them for wearing their jackets indoors.
This guy is everything the blue hairs wanted in Anderson and everything people that actually cared about the program's success wanted in anyone. What a great get. He's still facing an uphill climb over the next year or two as the best scorers on the team leave and he needs to backfill that experience, but unlike his successor(s) I think he'll have those lean years that build towards something more than a steady stream of JUCO transfers and kids quitting the team.
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