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More reports out about it being a done deal. Glad to have it done before the tournament goes mich further or recruiting closes out. Should be a very good hire. I’m on-board and excited.
Stop trashing MY coach!!!! Jk, but sources are saying he is our coach so can we delete this thread before we become the Tennessee of the SEC.
Exactly!!! Complaining about Crean’s hire at this point does not help the situation but makes it worse. Get over it and get on the bus or get off!
My point about the thread wasn't to bash Crean but about coming out publicly before sealing the deal. I don't know anything about the man but I plan to.
Im a Duke fan basketball (UGA Football) so Im outside looking in... UGA isnt a great bball job at all. First they are the second best program in GA for local talent but even then local talent has 4 better SEC schools in close distance in TENN, FLA, KENTUCKY, AUBURN... Not to mention Duke, UNC, MIA, FSU, etc are all close. I think Crean is the perfect hire because he is a top recruiter and can bring a track record. Which is what these kids will look at he has at minimum 10 players in the league.
There is no inherent road block to signing Atlanta players.
They go to the same schools as the football players we sign. Only the national traveling and AAU influences have kept them from sharing the instate pride and loyalties football players have.
This seems like a key moment in breaking that culture with the FBI probe and negative publicity the AAU is getting.
It wasn't that long ago when most of our football talent came from small Georgia towns, now The Metro area is dominant.
I think we'll see a few of those Metro 5 star kids staying home in the near future.
Also I know you just mentioned UNC as an example, but I can't think of a single elite UNC player who came from Atlanta.
Georgia has had Jarvis and Jonas Hayes, Marcus Thornton. James Banks, Shandon Anderson and Jacky Dorsey among others who came from The Metro area. The dominant school for Metro talent has been Georgia Tech though, by far.
I'm a Kentucky basketball fan because my parents were stationed at Ft. Knox in the mid to late 70's. Back then that was all the rage in that state UK and UL basketball. You were going to become a fan of one or the other. Having said that I want to be a UGA basketball fan but I need to see a commitment to winning. I want to know more players names than Dominique Wilkins, Yante Maten, and my high school classmate that played from 86-89.
Some of you all sound like 50% of UTj fans. UTj Football / UK basketball fan. Meh pick one
Winners like winning and have little tolerance for consistent losing. How long would you eat a bad meals before you start recommending cooking lessons to the cook(wife's excluded). I have a friend that's a NC fan with all there teams and he's riding and dying with their football program. Every year he's talking them up who they recruited and highlighting the one 5 star or former star in the NFL but secretly he's a Dawg fan. He knows the only thing they lacked was that coach to get them to the next level. We've been in agreement that CMR coached at least 3 championship teams and with CKS it's not if but when it going to happen.
Sounds to me your friend is a true fan. One fan One Team (especially in the same conference).
If it’s just riding with winners, then isn’t that the definition of a band wagon fan ?
Dang, just think we could have hired Tony Bennett after Carla Williams fires him for not only being the first #1 seed to lose to a # 16, but to do so by 20.
My brackets are officially buried after the UVA loss.
It’s a bad loss but they won’t fire Bennett. A 31-3 record is just too good despite the epic upset.