Ken Bone left Montana...

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Here is the bottom line. We were a better team with both Thames and Moore, than with either of them individually. Bone couldn't keep Thames, and Tony wouldn't have gotten Moore. Both players improved on court performance over their college careers. Thames had injury problems that delayed his development, and Moore had off court issues that pre maturely ended his career. Tony struck out on guys who might have been a back up to Thames, and Bone struck out on guys to back up Moore.

Tony didn't want Moore. Too risky on character. He proved to be right.

 

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Tony was the best coach in WSU history and I rank those two seasons on par wit our r 10 win football seasons. I get tired of guys bashing 2 pretty good Bone seasons because they weren't up to Bennett standards

Didn't need Bennett standards. Just needed competent coaching and a guy with a vision for the program and a signature style. Bone had none of that. Nice guy though.

 

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Enquist was a walk-on. Witherill was set to transfer if Bennett stayed.

Bone had his own philosophy and it wasn't 'Bennett-ball'. Why would he keep Tony's system? He was hired to run and recruit to his system.

The second mistake you make reference to has about 50 years of history behind it and Bone didn't have any track record to support a Seattle pipeline. He was an assistant at the UW who could have had Paul Graham and probably still get Seattle recruits. Bone never recruited anyone of note to PSU while he was there although he did well with some UW transfers. Gonzaga still can't recruit Seattle to much of an extent. If that was his plan he was DOA.

Bone had 5 years. Isn't that enough time to recruit his own guys? Why are you so fixated on year 1 when it was 2 through 5 that got him fired?