- This season: 9-17 overall, 6-17 vs DI competition, 3-8 in conference, 310 RPI
- Last season: 15-21 overall, 12-21 vs DI competition, 6-10 in conference, 287 RPI
- Average final RPI Layer years: 280.6
- Average final RPI 6 years pre-Layer: 230.16
- Average attendance has dropped nearly 10% during the Layer years compared to the 6 years pre-Layer
Is this good enough?
What kind of Basketball Program do we want in the future?
At this point, I\’d be disappointed if this was Coach Layer\’s last season. Last year\’s improbable title run has earned him a little extra time, in my opinion.
The players play the game, not the coaches, and the on-court chemistry has been off all year. HOW do you play an entire half without an assist? Our two starting guards simply aren\’t shooting well and the turnovers are killing us. This team has no identity. Who is the \”go-to\” guy in crunch time? Who is your stopper? Who is your money guy? How about hitting some foul shots?
If the team tanks the rest of the season then maybe a change at HC would be warranted. However, the players coming in look good and I\’d like to see how Coach Layer might use them next year.
His improbable title run, did earn him a little extra time. It earned him the right to coach this season. He could have easily been fired last year had he not won the tourney.
You are right, the players do play the game, but ultimately the coaches recruit these specific players, and their ability to come together as a team ultimately falls on them.
One bad season is an anomaly…but two? three? that’s not on the players…
It’s time to move on from Layer. Not even close to good enough.
With LU’s resources this is totally unacceptable and an embarrasment to the university given the level of competition we have been facing. Time to start from scratch, get another coach in place, and recruit some decent talent. I haven’t seen LU hoops this bad since the Hankinson era. We have to do better than this.