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Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
I don't know why ECU has an ACC reporter, Brett Friedlander, making his plea to keep Lebo but that's what he's doing.
I guess that's what you get when you hire a Tarhell coach. Next year would be season 8 for Lebo. How big of a sample size does this ACC honk want? and why (that's rhetorical..lol)?

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Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands

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By Brett Friedlander —1 Comment

The East Carolina basketball team averted a soul-crushing loss Wednesday when it held on to beat Tulsa 69-66 after nearly squandering a double-digit second half lead.

Whether the victory ends up being a turning point that catapults the team to a strong finish under interim coach Michael Perry or just a temporary respite from a season that is slowly and painfully setting in the west is yet to be seen.

Whichever it turns out to be, there is at least one thing that can be said with virtual certainty about the 2016-17 Pirates.

Coach Jeff Lebo isn’t going anywhere, unless its by his own choice.

That’s not to say Lebo’s job would have been in legitimate jeopardy had his hip not given out, forcing him to take an indefinite leave of absence while he recovers and rehabs from surgery earlier this month. Athletic director Jeff Compher might have been inclined to keep him on no matter what, given that he’s bound to him by contract through 2021.

The bottom line is that any critical evaluation of the program and the direction in which it is going became impossible the moment he stepped away following a loss to Cincinnati on Jan. 15. There’s simply too much uncertainty to make anything close to a fair judgement.

We’ll never know how much the pain Lebo was in contributed to the collapse that saw ECU drop eight of the last 10 games he coached after a promising 7-2 start. And we’ll never know how much his absence will affect the development of young players such as freshmen Elijah Hughes, Jeremy Sheppard and Deng Riak moving forward through the end of the season.

It’s a similar situation, though on a much smaller scale, to the one Duke is going through now while its coach Mike Krzyzewski is sidelined. Even the best of teams inevitably take a step back when their leader is taken away from them.

Lebo was consciously vague when asked about his long-term future with the Pirates a few days before undergoing his surgery.

“I haven’t thought about that,” the seventh-year coach, whose 108 victories are the most in school history at the Division I level, said after the Cincinnati game. “To be honest, I’ve just been worried about today. Now that today’s over, I’m going to worry about getting through tomorrow.”

Now his team is taking things one day at a time, an approach that is anything but ideal.

But while it could potentially set the program back even farther than originally anticipated as the Pirates teeter on the brink of their third straight losing season, there’s just as much of a chance that Perry can rally the young troops and produce an unexpectedly promising finish. Just look at what happened Wednesday, when despite some nervous moments down the stretch, ECU held off a solid Tulsa team that came into the game with a 5-1 American Athletic Conference record.

The only fair and reasonable thing to do under the circumstances is to hold off on any long-term decisions, ride out the rest of the season and — for better or for worse — begin the process over from scratch when Lebo returns to the sideline for 2017-18.

That’s not the answer fans anxious for either a tangible sign of progress or a change in leadership want to hear.

At this point, though, there are few other available options.
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Wow. Just wow.
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(02-16-2017 05:08 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Wow. Just wow.

Exactly. That piece has all the earmarks of a pre-emptive strike to quell discontent after another terrible season.

This reporter didn't think of this subject on his own.

The most interesting thing about this piece was how the writer tiptoed around all the landmines that make up Lebo's record. lol
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Look, beating Temple, last year's regular season champ is, by extension, an accomplishment worthy of a lifetime contract.


At ECU.


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Brett Friedlander: ECU Pirates’ future likely to remain in Lebo’s hands
(02-16-2017 05:03 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  I don't know why ECU has an ACC reporter, Brett Friedlander, making his plea to keep Lebo but that's what he's doing.
I guess that's what you get when you hire a Tarhell coach.

Exactly right. ACC media is in love with Chapel Hill and Lebo by extension.
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ECU hires a Tar Heel coach because UNC is one of the best basketball programs, gets great basketball players, and many turn out to be great coaches.

Don't slam ECU because ECU hired Jeff Lebo. It isn't working out. That happens.
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(02-16-2017 05:39 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  Look, beating Temple, last year's regular season champ is, by extension, an accomplishment worthy of a lifetime contract.


At ECU.


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Hey! ECU defeated Connecticut last year. The lifetime contract was given last year. 04-cheers
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(02-16-2017 05:52 PM)chess Wrote:  ECU hires a Tar Heel coach because UNC is one of the best basketball programs, gets great basketball players, and many turn out to be great coaches.

Don't slam ECU because ECU hired Jeff Lebo. It isn't working out. That happens.
Wrong

We did not beat uConn
Also a Lebo is not a UNC coach he is a UNC basketball player alum big difference.
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(02-16-2017 05:53 PM)chess Wrote:  
(02-16-2017 05:39 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  Look, beating Temple, last year's regular season champ is, by extension, an accomplishment worthy of a lifetime contract.


At ECU.


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Hey! ECU defeated Connecticut last year. The lifetime contract was given last year. 04-cheers

More ECU lies. ECU did not beat UCONN last year...or ever.
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(02-16-2017 06:05 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  
(02-16-2017 05:53 PM)chess Wrote:  
(02-16-2017 05:39 PM)fishpro1098 Wrote:  Look, beating Temple, last year's regular season champ is, by extension, an accomplishment worthy of a lifetime contract.


At ECU.


.

Hey! ECU defeated Connecticut last year. The lifetime contract was given last year. 04-cheers

More ECU lies. ECU did not beat UCONN last year...or ever.

It had to at least have been once if UConn has an all time series lead of 6-1 or 7-1; or some crazy number like that.
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This is from January and ECU is covered with the ACC in most NC newspapers
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Don't send clicks to this trash.
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(02-16-2017 05:52 PM)chess Wrote:  ECU hires a Tar Heel coach because UNC is one of the best basketball programs, gets great basketball players, and many turn out to be great coaches.

Don't slam ECU because ECU hired Jeff Lebo. It isn't working out. That happens.

That's not the issue. The issue is dragging it out 7 freaking seasons. It was obvious right after the fluke CIT tournament title. He peaked then and showed no reason for an extension, but got one that hamstrings us financially. He's lazy and uninspiring at his best. He would make a nice assistant for dadgum Roy.
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(02-16-2017 06:04 PM)Carolina_Low_Country Wrote:  
(02-16-2017 05:52 PM)chess Wrote:  ECU hires a Tar Heel coach because UNC is one of the best basketball programs, gets great basketball players, and many turn out to be great coaches.

Don't slam ECU because ECU hired Jeff Lebo. It isn't working out. That happens.
Wrong

We did not beat uConn
Also a Lebo is not a UNC coach he is a UNC basketball player alum big difference.

ECU is 1-7, historically, against UConn. I was mistaken.

I know Lebo played ball at UNC. I watched him play when I was a kid.

Lots of former UNC players are coaches.
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(02-16-2017 09:41 PM)ultraviolet Wrote:  
(02-16-2017 05:52 PM)chess Wrote:  ECU hires a Tar Heel coach because UNC is one of the best basketball programs, gets great basketball players, and many turn out to be great coaches.

Don't slam ECU because ECU hired Jeff Lebo. It isn't working out. That happens.

That's not the issue. The issue is dragging it out 7 freaking seasons. It was obvious right after the fluke CIT tournament title. He peaked then and showed no reason for an extension, but got one that hamstrings us financially. He's lazy and uninspiring at his best. He would make a nice assistant for dadgum Roy.

I didn't give him an extension. The athletic director did.

Do you remember the sanctions after Herrion? Do you remember cleaning house, getting rid of the roster, for Ricky Stokes? Do you remember getting rid of the roster, again, for Lebo? ECU basketball started over from scratch 2 times in a very short time. I think Lebo's extension was to give the program some breathing room. Obviously, it didn't work as planned.
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(02-16-2017 10:35 PM)chess Wrote:  
(02-16-2017 09:41 PM)ultraviolet Wrote:  
(02-16-2017 05:52 PM)chess Wrote:  ECU hires a Tar Heel coach because UNC is one of the best basketball programs, gets great basketball players, and many turn out to be great coaches.

Don't slam ECU because ECU hired Jeff Lebo. It isn't working out. That happens.

That's not the issue. The issue is dragging it out 7 freaking seasons. It was obvious right after the fluke CIT tournament title. He peaked then and showed no reason for an extension, but got one that hamstrings us financially. He's lazy and uninspiring at his best. He would make a nice assistant for dadgum Roy.

I didn't give him an extension. The athletic director did.

Do you remember the sanctions after Herrion? Do you remember cleaning house, getting rid of the roster, for Ricky Stokes? Do you remember getting rid of the roster, again, for Lebo? ECU basketball started over from scratch 2 times in a very short time. I think Lebo's extension was to give the program some breathing room. Obviously, it didn't work as planned.

ECU finally has a home slate to get excited about... and Pirate basketball is mired in this cycle...

1.) Scheduling a bunch of nobodies OOC...
2.) Trying to lure third-rate transfers with limited eligibility...
3.) Beat some D2 teams early, and then lose most of their games, including to USF...
4.) Articles start appearing in the Carolina press about Votes of Confidence and reasons to keep Lebo on.

Like clockwork...

Its a sequence of events that doesn't look to be ending any time soon.

Next year will be Lebo's EIGHTH at ECU. His conference record at ECU is 40–72 (.357). If you count the creampuff 'RPI Vampires' he schedules to begin the year, his record at ECU is 110–114 (.491).

What other program in America, in a decent conference, allows those kinds of records to build? Particularly to a coach that will be going on year 20 with no NCAA appearances to show for it.

Damn... Take advantage of having quality brands coming to Minges to sell a coach and recruits on. Pirate basketball can actually be a money maker for the school, instead of a retirement plan for a corpse.
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(02-17-2017 01:05 AM)Mack and Friends Wrote:  DEAR FRIENDS,

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(02-17-2017 01:05 AM)Mack and Friends Wrote:  DEAR FRIENDS,

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jesus christ this schtick is getting old. No ECU fan wants Lebo to remain coach. We get it. Enough.
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