daveg023
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 20, 2021 21:09:30 GMT -5
I’d much rather be a Hoya fan than a UConn fan today. Yes, they had the better team, but no one will remember their 3rd place finish and NCAA 7 seed one and done year. Pretty big key down if you ask me.
Fluke or not, we’ll at least have a reason to remember 2021.
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Mar 20, 2021 22:22:14 GMT -5
Winning the Big East Tournament after a long drought and with an underdog team is something I really enjoyed and can savor. I wanted us to play on, but Colorado is good and was on fire.
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Post by wponds on Mar 22, 2021 16:01:24 GMT -5
Xavier losing an assistant too. Don't know too much about him, but according to twitter, he recruited Freemantle and Colby Jones and is a Minnesota alumn and former assistant there too
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Post by hoyaboya on Mar 22, 2021 16:12:07 GMT -5
Xavier losing an assistant too. Don't know too much about him, but according to twitter, he recruited Freemantle and Colby Jones and is a Minnesota alumn and former assistant there too That is a stunning hire - Steele (and his staff) looked to be run out of town if they missed the NCAA Tournament next year.
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 22, 2021 16:13:47 GMT -5
Winning the Big East Tournament after a long drought and with an underdog team is something I really enjoyed and can savor. I wanted us to play on, but Colorado is good and was on fire. Yeah. I can watch the 4 games of the BET over and over again till Kenner
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Post by drquigley on Mar 22, 2021 17:36:02 GMT -5
I’d much rather be a Hoya fan than a UConn fan today. Yes, they had the better team, but no one will remember their 3rd place finish and NCAA 7 seed one and done year. Pretty big key down if you ask me. Fluke or not, we’ll at least have a reason to remember 2021. I agree. UCONN looked absolutely horrible over the past 3 weeks. Way too much talent to play so poorly. This is when Alumni are justified in asking for a coach to be fired.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Mar 22, 2021 17:40:41 GMT -5
I’d much rather be a Hoya fan than a UConn fan today. Yes, they had the better team, but no one will remember their 3rd place finish and NCAA 7 seed one and done year. Pretty big key down if you ask me. Fluke or not, we’ll at least have a reason to remember 2021. I agree. UCONN looked absolutely horrible over the past 3 weeks. Way too much talent to play so poorly. This is when Alumni are justified in asking for a coach to be fired. This was only Hurley's third year, and first back in the Big East, and he made the tournament. Firing him would be absurd. Hurley's first three years were certainly better than Ewing's, and nobody was calling for Ewing to be fired (nor should they have been). Hurley is a good coach, and Connecticut's move to the Big East is going to help with recruiting, etc. I'm confident they'll be good in the years to come. Connecticut was good, no doubt, but I think there is a tendency on HoyaTalk to overrate them because they crushed us. Of the schools hiring new coaches, we really could stand to have either Marquette or DePaul turn things around.
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Post by drquigley on Mar 24, 2021 21:03:02 GMT -5
I agree. UCONN looked absolutely horrible over the past 3 weeks. Way too much talent to play so poorly. This is when Alumni are justified in asking for a coach to be fired. This was only Hurley's third year, and first back in the Big East, and he made the tournament. Firing him would be absurd. Hurley's first three years were certainly better than Ewing's, and nobody was calling for Ewing to be fired (nor should they have been). Hurley is a good coach, and Connecticut's move to the Big East is going to help with recruiting, etc. I'm confident they'll be good in the years to come. Connecticut was good, no doubt, but I think there is a tendency on HoyaTalk to overrate them because they crushed us. Of the schools hiring new coaches, we really could stand to have either Marquette or DePaul turn things around. I didn't mean they should fire Hurley. I was just trying to emphasize that alumni have a much better case for wanting coaches fired who do little with a lot (Willard e.g.) as opposed to some people on this Board who want a coach (Ewing) fired who has done a lot with very little. But I do think Hurley's team underperformed the last weeks of the season and UCONN fans and alumni are justified in being upset.
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 26, 2021 10:21:42 GMT -5
Shaka Smart rumblings to Marquette? Guy can recruit but I was at the Texas/Abilene Christian game. Guy had no counter for a hard hedge. Not sure he is the best fit. That must have been an unexpectedly fun game to be at. Was the place rockin?
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Mar 26, 2021 10:27:13 GMT -5
Shaka Smart rumblings to Marquette? Guy can recruit but I was at the Texas/Abilene Christian game. Guy had no counter for a hard hedge. Not sure he is the best fit. That must have been an unexpectedly fun game to be at. Was the place rockin? Attendance is so spaced out it is hard to be super exciting in arena. The Texas fans were horribly behaved with tons of drunks, at least in my section, who didn't wear masks the whole game and when asked to wear masks they would point to their beer. The one loophole in the in-arena masks was you could take it off while eating & drinking. Unfortunately for a 9:50pm tip, most of those Texas fans had been drinking the entire day and drank for the whole 2.5 hours of the game. NCAA might have wanted to put a plug in the alcohol service after a certain point. I felt like I was on a different planet. Fortunately I was in a suite looking down on the chaos.
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Post by hoyazeke on Mar 26, 2021 10:30:23 GMT -5
I mean, is this really a positive for Butler? With all the firepower on the transfer market, keeping 4 mediocre players in the rotation from a team that was pretty awful doesn't seem like a winning strategy. I totally disagree with you. I think all four of those players are very good players and they know their coach's playbook so they should be in the middle of the pack in the Big East. Yeah dragon I disagree also. Only David isn't getting regular minutes for Butler out of that group and it's just a good look if it doesn't affect future recruiting.
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Post by BeantownHoya on Mar 26, 2021 10:30:52 GMT -5
Shaka Smart rumblings to Marquette? Guy can recruit but I was at the Texas/Abilene Christian game. Guy had no counter for a hard hedge. Not sure he is the best fit. Sounds like this is a done deal...
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Post by kbones17 on Mar 26, 2021 10:31:30 GMT -5
Shaka Smart rumblings to Marquette? Guy can recruit but I was at the Texas/Abilene Christian game. Guy had no counter for a hard hedge. Not sure he is the best fit. Sounds like this is a done deal... Dang. I like Shaka, dude is a good recruiter. They are going to get some good talent.
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 26, 2021 10:36:10 GMT -5
Shaka Smart rumblings to Marquette? Guy can recruit but I was at the Texas/Abilene Christian game. Guy had no counter for a hard hedge. Not sure he is the best fit. Sounds like this is a done deal... #DONE DEAL Part 2. 6 years or go whatever, Shaka Smart #DONE DEAL to Marquette was the mantra. The MU insders were tracking his plane to Milwaukee and had a press conference set up on campus but it all fell through when Shaka used them and pulled out at the last second.
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Post by bostonfan on Mar 26, 2021 10:44:55 GMT -5
Shaka Smart rumblings to Marquette? Guy can recruit but I was at the Texas/Abilene Christian game. Guy had no counter for a hard hedge. Not sure he is the best fit. Sounds like this is a done deal... Isn't Smart still technically the head coach of Texas. I know there were rumors that people were not happy with the early loss in the tourney but I had not heard recently he was getting fired. I guess maybe Smart just figures he should leave on his own before getting pushed out of Texas and Marquette is not a bad landing spot. Could Marquette pay him what he was making at Texas? I had read he was paid very well at Texas.
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 26, 2021 10:55:28 GMT -5
Sounds like this is a done deal... Isn't Smart still technically the head coach of Texas. I know there were rumors that people were not happy with the early loss in the tourney but I had not heard recently he was getting fired. I guess maybe Smart just figures he should leave on his own before getting pushed out of Texas and Marquette is not a bad landing spot. Could Marquette pay him what he was making at Texas? I had read he was paid very well at Texas. Smart is smart. UT boosters are gonna buy out his $10 million plus buyout clause so they can fire him. This way it looks like Smart chose to move on instead of the reality that he has been a failure at Texas who has never made it out of the first weekend in 7 years even though the expectation when hiring him was Final Four. Not sure but Marquette has money and if Shaka gets fired then his next contract would be significantly less at a much smaller program given his body of work.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 26, 2021 11:13:47 GMT -5
Say what you want about Smart’s time in Texas, but he’s an upgrade over Wojo, and he’s recruited at a higher level than most coaches in the BE over that time.
It’s good for the conference, but as an opposing team I think it’s now that much tougher, as I’d expect them to be top half of the league annually now.
Let’s see how quickly he can right the ship there, as he has two solid returning freshmen if he can keep them.
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Post by SDHoya on Mar 26, 2021 11:15:09 GMT -5
Good chance there is some negotiation about Shaka/Texas waiving the buyout--pretty much works for both sides as I bet at this point Shaka wants out as much as the UT fan base wants him gone. Problem for Texas is going to be that they will likely have to pay the buyout of whoever they hire (assuming he's a currently employed college basketball coach). Oats apparently has a buyout in the range of $12m. UT fan base also apparently thinks they can get Beard to move over (unlikely). Maybe they'll hire Barnes back?
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Post by This Just In on Mar 26, 2021 11:21:59 GMT -5
How does DePaul fail to grab Shaka Smart over Marquette?
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Post by professorhoya on Mar 26, 2021 11:25:09 GMT -5
Say what you want about Smart’s time in Texas, but he’s an upgrade over Wojo, and he’s recruited at a higher level than most coaches in the BE over that time. It’s good for the conference, but as an opposing team I think it’s now that much tougher, as I’d expect them to be top half of the league annually now. Let’s see how quickly he can right the ship there, as he has two solid returning freshmen if he can keep them. Not hard to recruit at UT. Durant went there before Shaka.
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