HE didn't need good assistants...he had his dad's name
Bone is gone, and he made some calculated errors, but lets not pretend that a mature Low, rochestie, Weaver, Baynes, Clark, was the same thing as handing over Casto who only played two years for Bone, Thompson ditto, Thames who got 18 minutes a game and that wasn't good enough, and Motem who hadn't played a minute to that point.
So in terms of scoring they had Capers who could average 6 a game, Thompson 16, Casto 10, Lodwick 6, Kop 8, Witherill, Hartune, Brown, Simons, aren't Pac 10 players. Where is the scoring coming from? That is 46 a game. There was only one spot for an offensive player and he recruited a dynamic offensive player in Reggie Moore. While it seems like a dig at TB, I wish he left a year earlier so whoever took over they had a solid year one with Pac 12 season to build upon. But I think it is grossly misleading unless you ran the exact same system as Tony Bennett he left enough in the cupboard to win a lot of Pac 12 games. A lot was 7 to 8 conference games.
What was especially damning for the next coach was the amount of scholies he had to clear room for. If Hartune, Witherill, Brown, Boeke, Sauls was Low, Weaver, Harmeling then the foundation would have been much the same as TB received the program as a head coach. Think of what a first year coach who didn't have Baynes or rocestie had to do..had to win with a rookie PG, a raw power forward who didn't add much offensively, Thompson good but streaky, capers was a defensive specialist then had to get rid of 5 or six players from one class. That is a tough task, and actually a recipe for disaster unless you have a prven Pac 12 coach like Kent running the show. Bone was a wrong fit for the program given what TB and what they ran.
