Wyolie Coyote said:
JimmyDimes said:
Wyolie Coyote said:
307bball said:
marcuswyo said:
Yep, McClain had two titles to Shyatts tourney championship. I believe he only had two losing seasons as well. If Brandon Ewing doesn't miss consecutive free throws McClain wins a tourney as well. I liked Shyatt but we was overrated, and his last season was a total waste of a top player.
LOL...McClain is NOT a good coach. His heyday at Wyoming coincided with one of the best collection of talent EVER at UW. Once the talent level dipped ....well the results speak for themselves. Look at what Shyatt was able to accomplish with far less talent. I loved the Nance, Cooke, Grabeau, team but talent-wise, the '00-'02 cowboys were wayyy more loaded.
I would take him over Schroyer and Edwards anyday, everyday....
McClain certainly did let his teams slide. Didn't have a winning conference record or a post season appearance in his last 4 years in Laramie. Great coach.
In his second to last year he had us in the MWC tourney final. Should have won the damn thing other than Steve Leven losing his mind and a couple of missed free throws. Williams, Ewing and Jones were a great group. One thing about McClain's teams, they played hard and competed. They certainly were not as soft as this group. I remember all the complaints that all we did was play street ball. Just happens to be the same 5 out or 4 motion offense that we play now. Burman screwed us in giving us Schroyer. McClain may not have been the best coach, but he was miles above Schroyer. If you are going to replace a coach that had the only MWC titles for UW, then maybe you should go get a proven commodity, not your buddy.
I don't get the love for the 05-06 team that a few of you guys have. I know they Had a great run in the conference tourney (and it was pretty exciting), but that team was terrible. 5-11 in MWC play, 12-17 or whatever before the MWCT. Beyond the record there was some really bad basketball being played by that team. If anyone thinks this team is inefficient on offense, they should find clips of that team. I just eat back and looked to make sure my memory wasn't deceiving me and holy cow it was even worse than I remembered. That team had an effective FG% of 45.9%. That is worse than any other team I can find, even worse than Heath's teams, and 296th in the country that year. That team turned it over on 24.5% of their possessions. That is ridiculous. There have been complaints about Edwards's teams and they have turned it over between 17 and 18% of the time the last two years. If this year's team turned it over at that rate it would be the 5th worst in the entire country.
It is revisionist history to remember that particular team as anything but awful. This is where McClain really lost the fanbase I think because that team had too much talent (Ewing, Williams, Jones, Leven, Daaron Brown when healthy, Ike Okoye as a Fr., etc.) to be that awful.