I've criticized Lonergan as much as anybody but he isn't the primary reason why we're struggling. It's Chernak, RUss Ramsey, Randy Levine, Kvancz and the rest of the people who decided to make the coaching change in MAY instead of right after the season. Assistant coaches weren't hired until the middle of June, my guess is offseason programs didn't start until July not to mention not giving the staff a chance to add another player with the extra scholarships. I commend Lonergan for landing a player like Kopriva in late June(he definitely has a bright future) but it's tough for any coach under these circumstances.

- As I said at the time, the firing was a clusterf of epic proportions. Coaching changes happen but if you're going to do it than do it March 15th, not May 10th. It would be like a football coach being fired in July. I give the coaches a lot of credit for salvaging a good recruiting class considering they had half the summer to do so. The move(timing, not the firing) was another classic example of the ineptitude of our athletic department. 

You're right on this point, DEA.

I'd leave Chernak and Kvancz out of this. My information is that Kvancz wouldn't fire KH which is why he retired and Nero was left to do it. I also think Chernak did not have as big of a role in all of this as you might think. But this is probably 100% Russ Ramsey and to a lesser extent Randy Levine. I hope to hell this works out for all of our sakes including theirs and I think it will but they handled this like a bunch of amateurs no doubt.

The whole thing was handled in a less than ideal way - but I doubt that firing Hobbs a little sooner would have made ML's job that much easier or the performance of the team this year that much better.

If ML had been hired a month earlier, let's say, I don't know that he and staff would have been able to get any more bigtime recruits - because there aren't that many of those available by then anyway.  ML still wouldn't have been able to practice with the kids because that's against NCAA rules.

The timing of it all did fuck up Trey Davis, though.  Otherwise we'd likely still have been in a VERY similar place at this time regardless.

How long after he retires are people going to stop blaming Jack Kvancz for anything connected to the mess that is this season. You  can leave Kvancz out of this. He announced his retirement well before the end of the season last year. And as a result, the powers that be cut him off from any ability to make a decision about the future of the basketball program. You can fault the man for lots of things. BUt those of you with any real understanding of the college basketball landscape know that Kvancz is highly repected around the country for his basketball knowledge, If they had lett this in his hands, we probably would be in a lot better place.

Lay this mess where it belongs. Chernak, Ramsey and Nero.

Chernak completely screwed up the AD search. A completely closed process. No transparency. No search committee. Not even an announcement through normal channels or the hiring. The result is that we got a guy who has no idea of how to take a program to the big time.

Ramsey, who knows nothing about big time basketball and whose arrogance leads him to utter ridiculopus statements about how the GW athletic program should be talked about in the same breath as the Dukes and the Stanfords of the world, has yet to help out in the way that the program needs most: by becoming a big time donor and bringing other big time donors to the table.

And let's not forget that by beginning a search in April, most of the big talent had already found a home. Still, he could have had Joe Dooley, a GW alumn who is the top assistant,  and the top recruiter for one of the best programs in the nation. But this was a one horse race from the first daYy of the search. LOnergan was the only serious candidate despite lip service to the contrary.

So you have a program in disaray with leadership that runs the athletic program like a private club. Supported by a board chair unwilling to put his money where his mouth is. So they hire a small time AD who brings in small time coach.

And let's not forget a college president who could not care less if we even have an athletic program and the picture is pretty bleak

Sorry boys and girls, but this is going to get worse before it gets better. But take heart. Chernak will retire. Nero will be looking for greener pastures in a couple of years. The A-10 probably will be out of business in the not distant future and the Colonials will have the chance to start over. Maybe at a different level where it won't be as embarassing to draw 1000 fans to the smallest arena in the league.

By the way. I think that it is unconscionable for Lonergan to throw these kids under the bus. When Hobbs did that this board went nuts.

 Rather than stand up to the powers that be and tell them that it made no sense to make a coaching change at that point in the year, he decided to embark on a "search" that essentially had one candidate: Lonergan. A guy with no big time basketball experience beyond a short assistant stint at Maryland. 

The only thing big time about Nero is inflated sense of self..

 Nice try, but Lonergan was Kvancz choice and had been since the previous season. Kvancz might not have pulled the trigger, but this wasn't dreamed-up one afternoon at the China Doll.

Really? Lonergan was Kvanxz's choice? If you believe that Kvancz made any decsions in that department in the last 24 months, you are missing the boat.

Chernak has been running the department for years. And the minute Kvancz announced his retirement, which Chernak engineered, they did not even ask for his advice.