Uga's Fox Analysis

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In Mark Bradley’s “In year 7, what should we make of UGA’s Fox?,” (17 February 2016), Bradley claims that although Fox seems like he is coaching his players well enough to keep the job, overall it still seems he hasn’t won enough to create any sparks in the basketball program. Bradley suggests that Fox is a decent coach through facts such as, that his defenses are typically top 25 in the nation and that they have made the NCAA Tournament twice in his tenure, however he provides support that Georgia Basketball should be better with the recruit talents that exist here in Georgia. Bradley hopes to shift the way UGA basketball followers see the team, in order to raise their standards from believing in mediocrity to believing in superiority. The

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