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Post by professorhoya on Oct 18, 2024 5:16:49 GMT -5
Bennett suddenly retires. Bad day for basketball. This is a direct result of Free Transfer/NIL making it impossible to develop a system like Bennetts Pack Line which needs players who can spend 2-4 years learning the system. Bennett follows a slew of coaches who have retired rather than coach under the current system (Jay Wright, Coach K, Nick Saban, Roy Williams, Jim Boeheim, etc, etc) Incidentally, Dante Harris tried to transfer in the summer but by the time he changed his mind all UVA scholarships had been given out so he’s left with having to becomes a walk on at UVA. www.streakingthelawn.com/2024/10/17/24272983/tony-bennett-retiring-uva-basketball-virginia-basketball-college-basketball |
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Post by professorhoya on Oct 18, 2024 6:05:26 GMT -5
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Post by professorhoya on Oct 18, 2024 6:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by jwp91 on Oct 18, 2024 7:24:49 GMT -5
The timing is just so odd.
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Post by kghoya on Oct 18, 2024 9:11:46 GMT -5
This is how you make sure your assistant gets the job.
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Post by prhoya on Oct 18, 2024 9:17:54 GMT -5
This is how you make sure your assistant gets the job. Like JT2… |
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Post by hoyaguy on Oct 18, 2024 9:34:44 GMT -5
Well at least next time I watch a UVA in the tournament it won’t be an eyesore of a playing style lol. It wouldn’t surprise me if that embarrassing loss in March had a bit of an effect on him too.
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Post by njhoya78 on Oct 18, 2024 9:49:12 GMT -5
Interesting irony that Tony Bennett's sudden retirement, reportedly due to dissatisfaction with NIL and transfer portal impacts on college basketball, now has the effect of opening up the transfer portal for UVa men's basketball players for the next thirty days...which could mean we see an exodus out of Charlottesville, and a lot of playing time for Wahoo walk-ons this season. While transfers will not be eligible this season (unless they were graduate students, of which UVa has none), they will retain full eligibility at their new school. So the very system he apparently doesn't like (which is understandable) could well destroy this season's team less than three weeks before its start because of his decision to retire right now due to that system. www.si.com/college/virginia/uva-basketball-tony-bennett-retirement-opens-transfer-portal-for-30 |
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Post by Lethal_Interjection on Oct 18, 2024 10:19:19 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Oct 18, 2024 10:27:26 GMT -5
Does anyone think it would have been more honorable (in an NIL system that lacks it) for Bennett to have stuck it out for at least this season to give his current roster a better shot at landing elsewhere?
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Oct 18, 2024 10:42:06 GMT -5
Does anyone think it would have been more honorable (in an NIL system that lacks it) for Bennett to have stuck it out for at least this season to give his current roster a better shot at landing elsewhere? I do not know the full circumstances surrounding Bennett's decision, obviously, but I do think the better thing to do would have been to retire either last March or at the end of this season. A lot of people at Virginia depended on Bennett being there (including his whole roster), so his retirement now I think is bad form unless there are good reasons that are being kept private (like family stuff, medical stuff, etc.). The timing of this is awful for Virginia. As others have noted, it really only makes since if Bennett did it on purpose to allow his assistant a chance to takeover. Ron Sanchez, who is the interim coach, had a decent record at Charlotte before going to UVA. He took over a team that had been ranked on KenPom in 2018 at 308, and he peaked with them in 2023 at 103. That's a pretty good job, so Sanchez may very well have talent. But, he's unproven at the high major level, and I doubt Virginia would consider hiring him seriously if not for Bennett's oddly timed retirement--at least not before they sought out some bigger names. |
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Post by EtomicB on Oct 18, 2024 10:45:11 GMT -5
Huge cop out to use the state of the game when quitting 3 weeks before the season starts. Bennett assembled a team for the season, and he should stay and get them to be the best team they can possibly be. That’s what coaching is all about. SMH… |
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Post by kghoya on Oct 18, 2024 10:46:27 GMT -5
The last thing Bennett could control was naming his replacement and he could only do that by retiring with the season just about to start.
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Post by EtomicB on Oct 18, 2024 10:51:10 GMT -5
Does anyone think it would have been more honorable (in an NIL system that lacks it) for Bennett to have stuck it out for at least this season to give his current roster a better shot at landing elsewhere? It’s worse than that he convinced players to come to UVA who had other options plus he’s hamstrung his staff by wasting the entire offseason teaching his system and principles. This is a bad look for Bennett |
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Post by SDHoya on Oct 18, 2024 11:04:55 GMT -5
Bennett used NIL to lure a guy who would have been a key piece for SDSU this year (Elijah Saunders) to Charlottesville. Guess that time it was okay.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Oct 18, 2024 12:09:43 GMT -5
Huge cop out to use the state of the game when quitting 3 weeks before the season starts. Bennett assembled a team for the season, and he should stay and get them to be the best team they can possibly be. That’s what coaching is all about. SMH… Bennett signed a contract extension in June that would have kept him at the school until 2030 at least, maybe 2031. So he's leaving a lot of money on the table. But the state of the game when he signed the extension and now are the same. So why did he sign? I realize people's minds change over time, but still. To be clear, I am not speculating, but naturally the circumstances make you wonder if there are reasons beyond the state of the game and all that. |
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Post by nbhoya on Oct 18, 2024 19:44:38 GMT -5
TJ Power
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Post by CTHoya08 on Oct 22, 2024 9:24:06 GMT -5
If it is health issues or something, wouldn't it be a better PR move to admit that than make it sound like you're abandoning your team because you don't like the new rules? I'd hardly be surprised if a coach cited fake health/family issues because he just wants out of this environment, but doing the opposite seems rather implausible to me.
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