LaxPundit07 wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 8:40 am
JohnDanowskiisWashed wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 10:28 pm
I think it's about time for Matt "Nepotism Hire" Danowski and his man breasts to actually go fend for himself for the first time in his life. Daddy hired him right at the end of their 2011-2014 run and we have had to watch him completely waste the undisputed most talented offensive pool of players for the last decade at Duke. The consistent stream of elite blue-chip talent Duke draws every year because they are Duke hides a lot of his ineptitude throughout the year, but six losses and a QF exit in O'Neill's senior season with the most talented roster in college lacrosse around him is a great example of why Nepotism is never a good thing!
There are so many good coaches in all three divisions that will never get the opportunity Dino Jr and his 30 pack on ice are getting. He was brought on to an ACC staff with no coaching experience, and handed the keys to an offense after Gabrieli (sp?) left for Providence. If he ends up taking over Duke when Dino Sr retires, it will be one of the world’s great injustices.
The whole situation is incredibly embarrassing. Daddy Dino didn't even make him go earn his chops or gain experience anywhere else. Just slotted right into an ACC team and quickly soon after OC. People looked the other way because of the run Duke was on for those four years, but the bigger picture is incredibly damning. The 4 goal performance vs. Syracuse in the dome earlier this year was the biggest warning sign of all. I'm pretty confident anyone on this forum could've coached Duke's offense in that game and gotten more than four goals out of the roster. When you watch well coached offenses, everyone on the field knows their role and works together to create scoring opportunities. When the talent level matches that offensive coaching, you get greatness (MD '22 & ND '24). In the first round of the NCAA tournament, you can still see well coached offenses on the mid-major conference winning lower seeds that lacks the overall talent to often break through and score a ton of goals but there is ball movement, wrinkles, and schematics to generate looks. Watching Duke play this year (and frankly for the last decade under Nepotism Boy), there was no cohesion, no player confidence, and clear confusion on almost every possession about what to do. The only way they could score goals was Macadorey using his speed for an alley shot, an O'Neill 1v1 takeover, or a jam to Dyson on the crease.
Yesterday's game feels eerily similar to the 2021 semifinal vs. MD. A far more talented Duke team (Sowers, O'Neill etc.) gets embarrassed by a disciplined and organized MD team run by a far superior staff in every aspect. You can get away with it vs. the Jacksonville's of the world (and even then they sometimes lose those games) due to the talent discrepancy but once the talent is within the same ballpark, the ineptitude of this Duke staff shows itself OVER and OVER again. Will anything be done about it? Probably not. Dino Jr. and his ever growing beer induced body habitus will continue to put out floundering offenses. Daddy Dino will continue to talk about having fun and relationship building to excuse losses. And Duke will continue to underachieve. Usually, great coaching assistants get snapped up by other programs for head coaching positions after a few years. The Nemesis of Natty Lite has been at Duke for over a decade now in the same role. That speaks volumes.