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I would have to disagree. He's been a head coach for only 2 years, but was an assistant before that. He turned around a team at Brown and lead them to their most wins in school history. He runs a form of the Princeton offense which is much more up tempo than the strict version that Pete Carril ran. If you look at Brown's games this year they played up tempo when they could, but would also slow it down if it gave them a better chance at winning. You must remember that John Thompson III also runs a form of the Princeton offense and he has been quite successful at Georgetown. Finally, I look at the Pac-10 this year and wouldn't say that the most successful teams in the league actually played any more up tempo than Craig Robinson's Brown team or John Thompson's Georgetown team. UCLA liked to play a half court game and Washington State definitely slowed the tempo down. Most people on the west coach had never heard of him, because he coaches on the east coast. I'm sure there weren't a lot of people in Pittsburgh who had heard of Ben Howland when they hired him away from Northern Arizona. Give him several years before you pass judgment on the hiring of Coach Robinson. You never know who's going to turn out to be great at this level.
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