ducky23 said:
If fox can take next years team to the sweet 16, I'd be stoked
Ben Braun gets a lot of crap on this board (a lot of it deserved) but he did take the team to 5 tournaments, one sweet 16 and one nit championship. That's way more than fox accomplished at Georgia
At his peak, Braun was a good recruiter who consistently got teams into the NCAA tournament. During that good stretch, his coaching record is better than any coach since Newell, including Monty. The problem is he dropped off and never recovered, even when we went to another school.
Firing Braun was the right move. Hiring Monty was a great move. What's happened since has been really lousy management by the administration that leads me to believe Cal doesn't really want to win in MBB anymore.
Mark Fox has never had a stretch in his career that comes anywhere close to Braun's good years. He does, however, has some stretches that look a lot like Braun's bad years.
Fox doesn't look like Ben Braun 2.0. He looks like Cuonzo Martin 2.0 but with less recruiting success. Which is another way of saying he's not a good coach.
