You can’t disrepect Padgett for what he’s done this season. However, even though the record shows 16-5, there have been plenty of mediocre games and lack of development. Here lately it has gotten better and I will give him loads of credit if he beats UNC, UVA, Duke, makes tourney run, any or multiple of those, etc.
However, you simply cannot judge his coaching ability with the players on this team. Pre-season we were top 5 and projected a deep tourney run. There have been times where us UofL fans thought we might not get in the tourney mid season, and we still may not.
I’d argue for days that any good proven coach (Mack) would have a better record than 16-5 with this type of talent on this team and we’d be ranked. I understand why we arent ranked now. We dont have a current top 25 win. We havent proven we should be ranked.
We dont even know how Padgett will do with his OWN players. In my opinion and many others, Louisville is not the place for a test run. Padgett will most likely get a job a mid major, unless he wants to move back to Assistant coach, which I would love for him to stay if he wanted to do that. Great assistant.
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@Kevin Bryan said, Mack would do wonders here at UofL. If he’s getting 4*’s at Xavier, he should have no problem getting that talent and better at UofL. Xavier doesn’t even have a football team. That shows you that UofL is a big step up even with the things going on. He’s a great coach. The money will be a huge raise. No matter how you look at it, if you take your blinders off, UofL is still a big jump from Xavier and still a top 10 program.
Quite frankly, not sure a lot of people actually expect much repercussion from the FBI situation. It wasnt just us and the new administration got all of the scum out of the program. Andre McGee situation is over with and doesn’t effect the future besides a few scholly reductions here and there. The set back isnt going to be as big as some blue blinders think. Especially with, as expected by many, Chris Mack arriving in late April.
