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One of my friends works with Shaka Smart and he is VERY happy at Texas. He and his wife love it there and he'd be unlikely to leave due to $. His record is sort of middling, but he has dealt with a lot of injuries/illnesses this year and might still make the tournament.
Hines Ward.
Agree...Imo another factor in the fox hire was his squeaky clean image... @ that time uga was still working on image repair from the past...A plus for uga is our fertile recruiting ground...This should lessen the risk vs reward factor. Also w all the heat around recruiting ...it MAY level the playing field a bit.
That's an idea I could get behind, for sure.
Capel did nothing with Blake Griffin at Oklahoma. Very overrated in my mind. Better assistant than HC material.
I wouldn’t mind seeing ole Pistol Pete trying his hand at coaching the dawgs.
We are talking about resurrecting the dead basketball program not a coach.
Not sure what you base that on. He averaged 14.7 as a freshman and 22.7 as a sophomore. He improved in every offensive statistic. The team those 2 seasons was 53-18. That's pretty dang good. I will very much agree that he didn't do much after that, but his time with Blake Griffin there was pretty impressive. Having a post as your best player will not get you as far as having a guard as it.
http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=208793234
Here’s the dilemma: we need a good recruiter who can compete with the biggest programs for in-state talent. However, to do that, one has to cheat and dance with the AAU crew, both of which will have us put on probation again. So, we look for a solid coach who has integrity and can win by working hard - and so we have Mark Fox. Until we see how, if at all, all of the FBI stuff reshapes the paradigm of college basketball, it’s going to be hard to know what kind of coach to hire. How do you compete when teams like Louisville, KY and UNC get away with so much sketchy behavior while schools like Auburn, Alabama and Tenn out and out cheat?
Apologies... I read some far fetched/humorous posts and thought I would add to the melting pot of ideas.On board now....
Living here in Richmond I was not surprised Shaka moved on, but thought he made a mistake going to Texas not so much because it is a football school but the AD Steve Patterson had a history of blowing up bridges from job to job and sure enough he was gone Shaka’s first year. Shaka was making 1.2 Million at VCU and they built a state of the art practice facility. He could have waited for a better job. Shaka played Dlll hoops at Kenyon College and his wife has degrees from Harvard and Northwestern.
VCU had a highly rated recruiting class that fell apart when he left and the same happened this year when former Clemson Ballboy / Equipment Manager Will Wade took the LSU job.
Looks like Memphis is gonna cut ties with Tubby because going 19-13 is not good enough. They are going after Penny Hardeway. I sure wish we had such high expectations.
Penny was a player. Any coaching experience?
He's been coaching a Memphis high school team for a little while now.
"Georgia’s Yante Maten selected as AP SEC player of the year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/georgias-yante-maten-selected-as-ap-sec-player-of-the-year/2018/03/06/709f4526-2160-11e8-946c-9420060cb7bd_story.html?utm_term=.c595ff8ad535
also was a unanimous pick for the all sec 1st team.. led the sec in scoring. this is how good Maten was: This marks the first time an AP SEC player of the year has come from a team that ended the regular season below .500 in conference play since 1971, when Mississippi’s Johnny Neumann won the award while the Rebels went 6-12 in league competition. Congrats to Maten. Very proud of how he has progressed from a kid that was recruited late and most team's ignore to what he is now."
Did I really just hear this for the first time!?
Big accomplishment for Maten and Fox...perfect eval by fox for his system and Maten flourished. .... when you slow the game down and the focus is defense and ball control...you have to win most 50/50 balls and get boards...Fox for most of his tenure has accomplished this....its just when your always in a half court set and shots are at a premium....He lacks consistent scoring from his guards to create space...i can remember sections of past games where Manns ability to get fouled looked like it was our offensive set. Even when frazier was going Ai @ times...it still had to be defended so that helped...and at times when fox had bigs that could stretch the d...that improved his consistency as well....I don't know if its more bad eval or development.... but jekyll and hyde guard play is not good for any team but its exacerbated in a fox system.
Sounds like Tubby Smith might be available. To be honest... other than a brief stint under Jim Harrick where we were cheating... Tubby was the coach the last time we were relevant. Maybe just try go bring him back to end his career and reach relevance again.
Tubby is 66 now and I thought did a great job at Memphis .
I think Jim Chaney....
Ron Hunter the Georgia State coach. He's done well, knows Georgia recruiting and I believe just won the Sunbelt conference again to qualify for the NCAA Tourney, and yes he has WON a game in the NCAA Tourney