Could Cal Davis be the next Florida Gulf Coast?

[BU212121]

UCD is da*n good.

It will be ashame... Tho partially coach Les's fault if this team doesn't get in the ncaa... They scheduled too weak.


But if you watch this team you can't deny they are top 68 in the nation.

[LongTimeFan]

If they win their tournament, does it matter is they did schedule weak?

[tornado]

no, that's why it is the automatic bid

[BU212121]

If they win their tournament it doesn't matter... If they go 15-1 and win 2 in the conf tourney and lose by 1 in the title game... It does matter.


My point is they are good enough to beat a good team. Hope they get a chance.

[tornado]

UC-D up 52-42 with 7 min to go
Hawkins with 24 (6-8 from 3pt)

[tornado]

up 57-46 with 4 min to go

highly touted FGCU transfer who landed at Long Beach is scoreless

[tornado]

61-48 w/ 2:40

Hawk with 26

[tornado]

fun game to watch...

UC-Davis 65 - Long Beach 58
UC-D had a lot of turnovers having had several days off..but Hawkins was hot..

Corey Hawkins 26 pts on 9-13 and 6-8 from the arc
Tyler Les 8 pts, 5 rebs
UCD shoots well again

they go to 20-4 and have a 4 game lead over Long Beach plus the tiebreaker
and a 2 game lead on UCI - this was their 9th road win this year!

[Da Coach]

Long Beach made a run in the final 2 minutes and closed within 5, but UC Davis held on for the 65-58 win to go to 20-4-

http://www.longbeachstate.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mbaskbl.html?event=1358967&school=lbst&sport=mbaskbl&camefrom=&startschool=&

UC Davis continues their superb shooting, going 23-45 (51.1%) from the field on the road. They also shot 9-19 (47.4%) from three. Hawkins was 6-8 from three and had 26 points. UCD also improved their RPI to 80. It was their 9th road win this season!

[AZ BU Fan]

Could JL be the next Coach K?

[Da Coach]

Not quite a $10 million dollar coach like Coach K, but he has likely earned himself a nice raise if he stays at UC Davis. If you've watched any of their games, UCD is an exceptionally well-coached, good passing, great shooting, unselfish team, and they excel in every aspect of the game. Other than Corey Hawkins, they don't have a single other player that a school like Bradley would even bother recruiting, yet they'd beat Bradley 10 out of 10 times.
I suspect there may even be more than a couple bigger schools willing to throw some big bucks at JL to try to lure him away.
It wouldn't be the worst move Bradley could make to go after him, though I don't see any chance that will happen.
Of all the blunders the BU President has made, and with all the failures in the hiring of every other losing coach, the firing of Jim Les will be remembered as the biggest mistake she ever made, and the single event that launched Bradley from a solid competitive D1 into obscurity and perpetual failure.

[AZ BU Fan]

Not quite a $10 million dollar coach like Coach K, but he has likely earned himself a nice raise if he stays at UC Davis. If you've watched any of their games, UCD is an exceptionally well-coached, good passing, great shooting, unselfish team, and they excel in every aspect of the game. Other than Corey Hawkins, they don't have a single other player that a school like Bradley would even bother recruiting, yet they'd beat Bradley 10 out of 10 times.

I suspect there may even be more than a couple bigger schools willing to throw some big bucks at JL to try to lure him away.

It wouldn't be the worst move Bradley could make to go after him, though I don't see any chance that will happen.

Of all the blunders the BU President has made, and with all the failures in the hiring of every other losing coach, the firing of Jim Les will be remembered as the biggest mistake she ever made, and the single event that launched Bradley from a solid competitive D1 into obscurity and perpetual failure.

In other words, everything JL wasn't at BU...

Sorry DC, but facts are facts.... One magical NCAA run from a 4th place team. After his disaster in 2010-11, I believe you were only willing to give JL only one more year after 9 years of mostly middle of the pack (padded by W's over lessor regarded non con teams) with a declining last two years. I wasn't willing to wait longer as I had expended all my faith and wishful thinking Nov after Nov after Nov. after Nov. The NCAA run shine, that obscured the regular season/MVC Tournament so so of possibly the greatest talented BU team since the 80's JL&HH, had worn off .

The biggest mistake BU ever made was not letting JL go, but, how they did it and hiring the new President they did, the new AD they did and a coach who had a better track record than JL did when he was hired out of Sacramento, and was legally off limits at the time to them. Hope BU sued the lawyers who advised them on that hire....

I think we can safely agree on the second paragraph. We can agree to disagree on the first.. You roll the dice, you take your chances. Sometimes you roll a 7, some times you crap out.

But you step up and play the game and take a risk at greater success! Now former BU regime crapped out..

GO BU

[Chico]

UCD is da*n good.

It will be ashame... Tho partially coach Les's fault if this team doesn't get in the ncaa... They scheduled too weak.


But if you watch this team you can't deny they are top 68 in the nation.

Blame JL for having a solid season? I would imagine they scheduled like they usually did, I don't know, but this season they are winning. He recruited this team so he gets the credit for a great season and like he did here for putting butts in the seats.

[BU212121]

Blame JL for having a solid season? I would imagine they scheduled like they usually did, I don't know, but this season they are winning. He recruited this team so he gets the credit for a great season and like he did here for putting butts in the seats.

?

All I said was his sos is weak. His scheduling was a little lighter than previous years. I don't think it matters though because it would be nearly impossible for the big west to ever get an at large team.

Never once did I discredit the team he built this year or the season he's having. In fact, he probably locked up an NIT bid last night, a place we haven't been in 7 or so years.

[tornado]

UC-Davis was bad last year and there were some fans wanting the school to make a change...
but now even those fans realize what a colossal blunder that would have been. Coach Les is smart enough
to know a mid-major like UC-Davis isn't going to be great every year, so just be patient, and work your
roster so that you have an excellent season as often as possible - which means play thru injuries, redshirt kids,
and make smart moves, utilizing the talents of the players you have.
Some Bradley people just can't figure it out - they keep looking at what they don't have instead of what they do have- so it leads
to firing a good coach and chasing like heck to hire a far worse one.
Especially, recruit shooters & scorers -
they tend to be better than guys who couldn't get recruited in high school, couldn't score in juco,
couldn't even earn minutes at small mid-majors like CMU, Air Force, or FIU...
This philosophy will help you avoid really stupid comments like...
"gee, the shots just weren't falling...I just don't know why none of our players can put the ball in the hoop..."