Lolol
"In Moser's tenure, the Redbirds were never higher than the No. 6 seed at the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and finished as the No. 10 seed twice. In league play, the Redbirds compiled a 22-50 (.306) mark in Valley games under Moser - the lowest four-year mark since Illinois State joined the conference in 1981."
IT'S THE EXACT SAME STUFF
To be fair, they won 8 games the year prior to him taking over, and were projected highly going into the season after he was fired. Jankovic took over his roster and had a 25 win season. You could say it's better X's and O's, but Jankovic got worse every year and is no longer in coaching, so hard to argue he didn't benefit from Moser's roster.
This stop hasn't worked out at all, but it'll be the first program he left in a worse state than he inherited in.
Based on the lack of results despite talent this year, I don't think there's a scenario where Moser would have knocked it out of the park, but I do wonder if he'd have done better in an era without the transfer portal and NIL. Previously, guys like Oweh and Uzan wouldn't have been able to leave as easily.
Some people like to mock the importance of culture, citing it as irrelevant, but unlike football, nobody actually stays in basketball. Most of our players and coaches stay for one year, and we're lucky to get two. Some coaches don't even last a full season. Nobody is staying 3-4 years like football or in his previous stops.
I'd actually argue that the complete lack of culture is a big part of what doomed Moser. To be fair, I don't know if any basketball guys can keep players around without the type of money we utilize in football. Moving forward, the emphasis has to be on finding a guy that can implement things with a completely flipped over roster every year. 3-4 year development plans won't work.
