When you look at Charlies overall record, you have to realize that we played a killer nonleague schedule every year. Dayton. Xavier, usually UC, plus several power 5 teams.
Almost never anyone who was non division 1. I think there was a year where we had the #1 toughest nonleague schedule in the nation. We won some of those games and had a bunch of close losses as well, a few 20 point blowouts.
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William Hatcher, Nathan Peavy.
Danny Horace, Chet Mason, Juby Johnson before that.
Alex Shorts (nightmare human being, but a legit stud)
For the most part, we always had dudes back then.
And to Dick’s point, Coles always over scheduled. So, we’d often hit conference play at 4-8 or something like that even though we weren’t as bad as our record indicated. Never totally understood the scheduling philosophy, although I know some was for financial reasons.
Yes, Pollitz was a beast inside and only 6-5 at best. His career FG % was .568! And that was with guys much taller than him almost always guarding him…Julian did play in CC’s.last two years, but I believe he blossomed into more of a scorer after Charlie retired.
FWIW Mavunga’s last year was also Cole’s last year.
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O the joys of heckling Mike Sanzere, Bo Borowski, and Eric Pollitz.
11-12 started with a home win vs UD, nearly knocked off X on the road and the season went downhill from there.
The last 4 years are a major what if.
08-09 - hayes gets injured
09-10 - Theyre the big blue moment and that’s about it
10-11 - a good team with potential, no depth, and Orlando WIlliams gets kicked off
11-12 - Brian Sullivan, and lot of injuries
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Orlando Williams - First team all-state…They won the State title his senior year.
Played two years with us and was pretty effective.
But…Head case. Thief. Kicked off the team. Waste of talent. Didn’t do much at EKU.
Edit: One word added. But an important word.
When Kenny got hurt in the 08-09 season, he was shooting 53% from 3 through the first 8 games. He was almost unguardable.
Charlie’s weakest non-conference schedule (per Kenpom) was his first season at 165. After that, his weakest was 54th. We played the 2nd toughest non-conference schedule in 07-08, and the 4th toughest in 02-03. Looking back, that 07-08 team had a chance too. Bramos got hurt as did some others. Kent beat us in a slugfest in the MAC semis, 49-47. Jermaine was coaching us at the end of that season.
FWIW, Charlie’s best wins by Kenpom ranking were Utah (9), Xavier (12, 15), and the home game vs. Temple (13).
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For 10-11 I would add the biggest thing was Antonio Ballard getting hurt mid-way through the season. Could’ve won the league.
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Ah youre right totally forgot
Brad Bates, Charlie Coles, Drew McGee, Orlando Williams and Two Sullivans:
Hitler was pissed.
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Always amazed me how many Germans worked for Orlando Williams’ crime syndicate.
I forgot about those Hitler videos. Classics.
Wasn’t there some classic story about Coles going off on Mavunga or someone else eating a cheeseburger on the way home after a road loss? I feel like @yanksalex knows this?
I think that was Cooper, but what the heck do I know? 
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