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Post by friarbroadcaster on Mar 27, 2015 9:05:18 GMT -5
Tennessee coaching list should be: Gregg Marshall, Chris Mack, Richard Pitino, Bobby Hurley
Just to name a few
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Post by wtm97 on Mar 27, 2015 11:34:44 GMT -5
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Post by yankeefriar on Mar 27, 2015 13:34:55 GMT -5
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Post by friar71 on Mar 27, 2015 13:40:51 GMT -5
Tennessee coaching list should be: Gregg Marshall, Chris Mack, Richard Pitino, Bobby Hurley Just to name a few We could possibly see Tennessee and Alabama fight over a candidate ( i.e Marshall)as this goes forward. Bama was paying $1.8 mil and Tenn. $1.6 but Alabama said they may go to $3 mil. We may see Shaka Smart's name pop up again.
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Post by pcdad on Mar 27, 2015 14:16:24 GMT -5
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Post by pcdad on Mar 27, 2015 14:18:41 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Mar 27, 2015 14:19:14 GMT -5
I wonder how having Ky in your conference plays into SEC opportunities...assuming Calipari stays.
I guess 2 or 3 mill can buy a lot of aspirins for some guys.
It's even worse now because Cal has demonstrated that they can win harmoniously with not just 5 great players, but with 10 great players if he so chooses.
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Post by oaklawnbob on Mar 27, 2015 14:22:37 GMT -5
The problem with coaching BB at Alabama is that nobody cares. They may pay well, so that should bring some coaches in, but in talking to a 'Bama alum, basketball is in the same bracket as horse shoes.
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Post by friarbroadcaster on Mar 27, 2015 14:27:35 GMT -5
This Chris Mullin talk is not something I find appealing. I understand he was terrific at St John's, but if you want an alum who knows coaching and could be great in terms of name and skill go get Mark Jackson.
Richard Pitino and the Hurley brothers are both in play. But If I am Danny, URI has the better chance next season. He has put URI in position. Tough to leave that job.
I could see Seton Hall opening up next year if Willard struggles. Then Hurley could jump with some of the younger Seton Hall players turning into upperclassmen. He could survive and recruit. THAT makes sense to me.
Would I rather Bobby or Mark Jackson? Jackson. Pitino or Bobby? I might lean Bobby.
But all 3 over Mullin (all 4 if both Hurley brothers are considered)
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Post by pcdad on Mar 27, 2015 14:31:42 GMT -5
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Post by TheInfoMan on Mar 27, 2015 16:11:34 GMT -5
Pat Lawless @givengobball 1h1 hour ago Signs pointing to Andy Toole being hired as the next Men's Basketball Head Coach at Fordham University, sources tell me.
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Post by friar71 on Mar 27, 2015 17:17:51 GMT -5
Wnder if Alabama or Tenn would go after Rick Barnes??
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Post by TheInfoMan on Mar 27, 2015 17:27:55 GMT -5
Wonder if Alabama or Tenn would go after Rick Barnes?? www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25125598/report-rick-barnes-not-expected-back-for-18th-season-at-texasReport: Rick Barnes not expected back for 18th season at Texas March 27, 2015 3:53 pm ET Texas men's basketball coach Rick Barnes is not expected to return for an 18th season in 2015-16, multiple sources have told 247Sports. One source said, "Bet the house and double down" Barnes will not be back as coach next season. Texas athletic director Steve Patterson has demanded Barnes makes changes to the assistant coaching staff, which Barnes is not expected to do. Barnes, who earns a base salary of $2.55 million per year, is under contract through the 2018-19 season.
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Post by dex on Mar 27, 2015 19:26:00 GMT -5
Mike Vaccaro NY Post
HOUSTON – The one thing Steve Lavin talked about from his first hours on the job at St. John’s is the one thing he could never really accomplish. This was Lavin in December 2010, just a few games under his belt, describing his grandest wish for the Johnnies: “Anyone can build a team,” he said. “I want to build a program.”
Lavin built a couple of enjoyable teams. He never did build a program, never did lay a blueprint for sustained success, and with the exodus of a senior core – along with the almost-certain departure of sophomore Rysheed Jordan and the unknown status of junior Chris Obekpa – you are staring at a cupboard that’s not only bare, it’s practically an echo chamber.
If Lavin never quite pulled off what he wanted, he did have the right idea. What St. John’s needs, desperately, is to become a program again, to be a consistent presence not only of success but vitality and energy. It needs an architect every bit as much as a basketball coach.
At this time in its history, what it needs is Danny Hurley.
Forget the surname for a moment, forget that his father, Bob, is one of the great basketball coaches ever born, or that his brother was a dynamic player who is quickly becoming his own formidable coaching presence. Danny would bring none of his father’s victories with him, and his brother doesn’t have any eligibility left.
This is what matters: He has a record, at two different places, of halting the negative momentum that losing brings to basketball teams and completely turning that around. Some of the solutions are tiny. Some are massive. All go into putting the bricks and mortar in place toward crafting something that will last. And if his last name were Smith, Jones or O’Malley, that record would speak on its own merits.
Wagner was 5-26 in 2009-10; within two years, the Seahawks were 25-6, and Hurley was imported to Kingston, R.I., to have whack at a Rhode Island team that had fallen into distress at 7-24. The Atlantic 10 is a different monster than the Northeast Conference, nothing is turned around right away, yet in three years the Rams have improved to eight, 14 and this year 23 wins. And are set up to be an upper-division force for years to come.
That is no accident. That speaks to a coach whose knowledge of what qualities allow for sustainable success is the equal of an extraordinarily high basketball IQ. It speaks to someone who spent a couple of years as an assistant at Rutgers early in his career learning exactly how not to run a high-level basketball program, and then spent 10 years coaching at Newark’s St. Benedict’s Prep, learning how things really work on the other side of the recruiting game, learning how to win a lot, too.
And, yes, there is the bloodline. From the cradle he has been involved in one of the great coaching internships available, spending so much time around (and playing for) a Hall of Fame coach, building his own fine playing career at Seton Hall which, if it didn’t necessarily match Bobby’s, was still a 1,000-point career.
There is much talk that the old guard at St. John’s remains fascinated by a return of the crown prince, Chris Mullin, and there is a certain storybook element to the possibility of Mullin coming home to New York to rescue his alma mater that is irresistible. And if Mullin really wants the job, you’d like to think he’s already figured a formula he believes in to make this work.
But the fact is, the last time Mullin was around the college game was 30 years ago. That was still a time when Lou Carnesecca did much of his recruiting with a pocket of subway tokens. That was a Paleozoic era.
Maybe Mullin could energize the New York high school and AAU community that Lavin snubbed and Mike Jarvis before him all but alienated; Hurley would undoubtedly do that. Even if St. John’s isn’t a program that can be sustained exclusively by New York kids anymore, it is one that should be nourished, at least in part, by local resources. Those may not be quite as abundant as when Mullin was at Xaverian and Walter Berry was at Benjamin Franklin, but the gems are still there.
You just have to convince them to be part of something. You have to sell the school, yes, and the team, sure. But also something bigger: a program, a future, a foundation for something unique. What Steve Lavin dreamed of, Danny Hurley can put into practice. It makes too much sense not to do it
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Post by HolyMoly on Mar 27, 2015 19:55:31 GMT -5
Tennessee coaching list should be: Gregg Marshall, Chris Mack, Richard Pitino, Bobby Hurley Just to name a few who would you hire?
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