Decent interview, Paulsen seems like a likable guy the more we get access to him. Interesting hear him talk recruiting and transfers. I agree with him that he’s got a solid recruiting pitch now, reigning POY comes from the A10, we have solid facilities, and we have 3/4 last most improved player of the years. That does have to paint an interesting picture to incoming guys who are hearing from P5s but look at the roster and see their ceiling a bit lower. The only part of a great recruiting pitch we are missing is a solid season, kids want to know they are going to be playing ball in March. Put that in there and I think we truly turn the corner in recruiting.
All that being said, hearing him talk about how he thought we were top 3 in the league and an NIT team and blaming the absolutely abysmal conference play on Kier infuriated me. I stand by what I said last season, I have serious questions about his ability to adapt game plans based on his personnel. He knew we had all those injuries going into conference play, but we got what we got. We should have adjusted the system rather than trying to jam the circle peg into the square hole.
This year is the show me year (for the third damn time) if we aren’t dancing and any of you still defend him I’m gonna jam a square peg in your circle holes. Here’s to hoping we’ve got college basketball this fall.
