Is Shaeffer the worst coach in Division I??
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I looked at their roster this morning, and the influx of freshman and transfers means we don't know who's going to emerge as a leader. Is it the grad transfer from Alabama? Is is Jaide? Is it someone else? It's going to take a few games for this team to gel. I think they'll kill it once the season moves forward, but leadership is going to be interesting this year.
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The first two games have been horrendous. Same crap, different year. No teamwork. No offense. Its pass, pass, pass, then go one on three and throw up a bad shot. No kick out for an open 3. Shooting less than 30%. No help side defense. Whenever he ends up with 5 that actually play well together on the court, he yanks them out. Athletic talent is not basketball talent and Shaeffer has yet to figure that out. He has talent on the team but either doesn't use it or uses in incorrectly. Going to be a painful year. Glad it's the last year of his contract.
To be fair, they pretty much have a brand new team.6 freshmen and a couple of transfers. It doesn't look promising, but I'll give them a few more games.
I realize there are a lot of new players - which is whole different issue with the number of transfers the past few years causing numbers problems. If you have watched the past several years you would realize the chaos on the floor this year closely resembles the chaos he has created for years. The transfers shows the chaos extends off the floor as well.
Ugh. I thought if this team was going to make a move towards better play it would come against a bad MEAC team in UMES. I like the transfer from Alabama is stepping up, and Clarke played well, but the team as a whole needs to show some life. They barely squeaked one out where other years they'd beat this team by 20.
2 signees for class of 2019. Both out of Richmond's Trinity Episcopal High School
Elaina Chapman is the #94 ranked recruit in the country for the class of 2019. Results for Schaffer may not be showing on the court, but the guy has done a heck of a job recruiting these past 2 years.
http://www.espn.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2019
Elaina Chapman is the #94 ranked recruit in the country for the class of 2019. Results for Schaffer may not be showing on the court, but the guy has done a heck of a job recruiting these past 2 years.
http://www.espn.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/rankings/_/class/2019
22 point loss to UCF drops the Lady Spiders to 1-5 on the season.
This appears to be one of Shafer's worst teams of his tenure. "Tenure" would be the only explanation that he is still here, right?
This appears to be one of Shafer's worst teams of his tenure. "Tenure" would be the only explanation that he is still here, right?
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Shafer's seems to recruit some of the worse shooting players where we have as many shots as
the other team but shooting percentage is 10-15% or more under the other team. We can be young
but you would think some of these kids came out of HS able to shoot better than what they are showing.
the other team but shooting percentage is 10-15% or more under the other team. We can be young
but you would think some of these kids came out of HS able to shoot better than what they are showing.
I wonder how much money we have spent this calendar year on our basketball programs to win a combined three games so far against St. Francis , IUPUI and Maryland Eastern-Shore?
And Ask Jacksonville State of Alabama. And Ask Jeeves, this new search engine I discovered last week.
they get this wrong because there is a malaise throughout our basketball program, in which we cannot even carry out basic functions.
Shaeffer is horrendous and needs to go. I will not donate another penny to this sham of an athletic department as long as he is here. Years ago he had good assistants to carry him and apparantly the current assistants are either just as inept as Shaeffer or too inept to speak up. Of course this problem persists across multiple sports so the problem ultimately lies with the athletic department and the adminstration.
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I'm at the game today. About 300 here. We're waaaay young. There's only about 5 from last year's team. It's another example of a coach digging a hole too deep with bad recruiting and transfers that he had no choice but to play so many freshmen this year.
They just dribble the ball around for 28 seconds and put up a bad shot way too many times.
They just dribble the ball around for 28 seconds and put up a bad shot way too many times.
Howard is awful. A decent team would beat then by 30. Shaeffer has created these problems...no one else. He has had the huge numbers of transfers including the ENTIRE senior class this year as well as one underclass starter from last year. He has no idea how to handle people. The assistants from years past DID know how to handle players that's why they were successful. He needs to be working at a 7-11 somewhere instead of coaching a Division 1 team. He must be in bed with the athletic admin somehow is the only explanation I have.
The calendar year started on Jan. 1, 2018. We've won far more than three games at home in that span.
Has the question of this thread actually be answered? I don’t follow womens hoops well enough to know but I’d say it’s quite possible.
That’s my concern with Jabba the Hardt. If he kept Shaffer for this season he could do the same for Mooney next year.
That’s my concern with Jabba the Hardt. If he kept Shaffer for this season he could do the same for Mooney next year.
If either of these coaches is back next year, it is time to start banging the FireHardt drum. I really do not think he cares. Hiding behind Miller's contract and PQ.
I just cannot imagine this team finishing out of the bottom 4 in the A10. He has used 6-7
different starting lineups and shoots poorly and has lots of TOs.
different starting lineups and shoots poorly and has lots of TOs.
Mooney got a 10-year deal, so everyone knows why he is still here. Someone had to extend Shafer multiple times for him to last 14 years. Truly amazing.
We had an AD on auto pilot under Gill. I think the tenor has changed under Hardt but time will tell.
Yes and no. People have tragedies in their lives every day. That was a horrible one and obviously beyond his control. But it's not like he was taking teams to the tournament before it. Firing him before that happened would have been completely justified. Letting him continue to muddle along just because something awful happened, I'm sorry to say, is no way to run a program or a business.
Seriously? Come on dude. No chance you or anyone with a heartbeat makes that call in the year or two following the event. That PR is 100 times worse than having a terrible team. So that’s actually how you run that business, not making some performance oriented call about wins and losses.
Like I said, tragedies happen all the time. Maybe I sound heartless, but no, I’m not changing an evaluatuion of his coaching career just because someone died. He deserved to be fired before that happened. That it happened should have had no bearing on his future. At this point, it’s been five and a half years. What’s the excuse now?
I am not debating it should have happened beforehand, nor am I debating it’s time now. I am merely saying that in a two year (?) period following that event, no AD in his right mind would risk the fallout of terminating a coach having just suffered through it. I suspect you aren’t heartless and I highly doubt you would make that mutually exclusive evaluation given that your reputation would forever be tarnished as the guy who fired the coach who just lost two assistants to tragedy.
I also believe it doesn’t align at all with Richmond’s ethos, as much as many of us would like to see sports succeed at a better clip.
But yes, it is officially time to move on from shafer too. No disagreement there.
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