It has been 10 years now since Daugherty jammed the Irish BBall program after a single season. The players and program gave him his big chance and their hearts and minds. After preaching team and selflessness, he jumped at his personal chance for a higher ring at the first opportunity. He was at a program that could have been his lifelong position with security and notoriety, but he got greedy. It was his right to make the decision that he did, but it is our right as fans to have opinions about that decision as well as how his actions reflect on him personally.
Mike Brey has made the NCAA tournament almost every year he has been at ND over the past decade often with marginal talent at best (like this year). He has a top 15 recruiting class coming in this summer, and the Irish have never looked back.
Daugherty, on the other hand, has fallen hard. He went to North Carolina where he was nothing more than a puppet for Dean Smith who still called the shots from the basement of the basketball complex in Chapel Hill. His team never accepted his hyper-disciplined and often intrusive coaching style, and his on court performance was weak. NC dumped him the moment that a big time coach became available (Roy Smith) in the exact same manner that Daugherty had dumped Notre Dame (a Tar heel trait perhaps as Daugherty is a former Tar Heel).
He jumped around before landing at SMU for the past five years where he was recently fired in March 2012 for a poor record. He will likely end up in the mid majors in his next stint if he is lucky.
Karma can be a bitch, but I am glad she is still working hard.
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It was 12 years ago....who gives a shit?
Doherty was personally courted by Dean Smith and Michael Jordan to take one of the most coveted coaching jobs in college sports, which happened to be his alma mater. No way in hell he say's 'no' to that.
Roy Smith? You might want to check that one.
Gee, I see your point. The fact that it was 12 instead of 10 changes everything. And also, the mistake of typing Roy Smith instead of Roy Williams when the previous coach was Dean Smith and I was too tired to notice the error completely invaildates the point. I also mispelled the Judas' name (though I don't think he deserves the effort of a correction).
As for being courted by his homeschool, he was given his big break by ND. He didn't even stay beyond one year. Regardless of the situation, he owed ND, and its' team, and its' fans (maybe not you) a lot more especially after all of the rah rah bullshit he blew up our asses. You go ahead an be ok with it. It says a lot about you.
and stupidity.
Just an observation.
It's worth noting that Doherty has stated several times that the biggest mistake he ever made was leaving ND.
We have one top 100 recruit.
And how can you blame MD for going back to his alma mater? If a ND football player came back to coach people would love it.