Pot. Meet kettle.
And nope, I'm not misrepresenting your posts-----you keep contradicting yourself to try and make yourself sound right.
Nope. That was MY point. YOUR point was that you think Michigan is magic, and had major advantages over other programs.DocBarrister wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 11:24 pm Your point is pretty meaningless. It always takes time to build a top notch program from scratch.
MY point was----and I told you this five years ago----the opposite: Michigan DOES NOT have a major recruiting advantage over other programs.
And lo and behold, five years later-----I'm right. Just like every other middling BigTen program, and every other top 30 program, Michigan is getting good players. What they ARE NOT doing so far, is landing elite players.
My point is the same today as it was five years ago: if Michigan had these recruiting advantage that other programs don't? They'd have landed a few elite players already. Guess what? They haven't.
And the larger point I keep making is: all you know it all's with your condescending comments (if Denver can win a championship, so can Michigan is a nice slight to U Denver, Doc) are heaping ridiculous expectations on these lacrosse coaches that they can't possibly meet. Look at Gymman's comments....he's already preparing to call for Conry's head with his "We will see whether or not he would get fired sans an NCAA Tournament bid by 2023. A big factor could be how much things are improved and how close they are to making it. Put it this way. The Paul's players and Covid excuses are no longer valid."
So Gymman builds up these absurd expectations out of thin air----and then if the coach doesn't accomplish the goal, which is based on nothing, he thinks he should be let go. This is where we are with sports in 2021, where fans think that, oh, about 10 teams should make the Final Four every year....and they just can't figure out why that isn't happening.
Conry, just like every other D1 coach, has to grind it out, and frankly, get lucky, just like Tambroni did. Tambroni had a meh record at Penn St.....until he landed Ament, and someone who could finish Ament's beautiful feeds. Elite players. Result? Final Fours.
Ament leaves, what happens? Well, if you ask 90% of the posters here, the game has now passed Tambroni by, and he can't coach anymore. But for me, it shows you how razor thin the difference is between missing the tournament altogether, and making the Final Four----it's down to a couple of elite players that one team has, that the other team doesn't.
I think Conry will get these elite players in time. The fact that he hasn't done that in five years tells me that Michigan isn't the advantaged School that you and others think it is. Conry will have to work at it, just like everyone else. And I'm rooting for him.