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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 17, 2023 10:02:03 GMT -5
Is that on a lower-tier assistant?
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 17, 2023 10:00:03 GMT -5
Is there anything to suggest Crouch is not a good coach?
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 16, 2023 18:10:48 GMT -5
AMEN TO THAT
GO HOYAS!!!
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 15, 2023 11:27:17 GMT -5
GO USF GO- lock up Brey ASAP please!!!
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 14, 2023 11:28:38 GMT -5
YIKES
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 14, 2023 11:26:47 GMT -5
Best wishes to all members of this team as they try to find their way.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 14, 2023 8:49:05 GMT -5
From Aiden Curran at HH this morning.... "Any assertion that Cooley to Georgetown is done is false. It’s just not the case. If Georgetown thinks they have Cooley locked up, that confidence would be misplaced, based on what I have heard in recent days. If Cooley spurns Georgetown, the school is expected to pivot to Penn State head coach Micah Shrewsberry. Former Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey and NC State head coach Kevin Keatts are also names that have been discussed by Georgetown leadership. Brey and Keatts’ names could gain more traction if Georgetown must move on from its pursuit of Cooley." Apparently Cooley has not spoken to Georgetown himself, yet GU is confident he will accept. This sounds akin to the Coach Ewing assurances (arrogance ) that Mac McClung would be back for his junior year. And the result is.......Brey How can anyone who is paying any attention think that Mike Brey is a good hire? His is the most infuriating name of all that have been floated. I’d rather roll the dice with someone who has never been a college basketball head coach like Jonathan Wallace or Mike Jones(which I very much do not want to do) than hire someone who is both bad and old. Wallace or Jones would be way better than Brey. Fingers crossed for a sighting of one of them on campus.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 13, 2023 13:32:02 GMT -5
Wasn't Ronny credited with "teaching Roy Hibbert how to run" or some such back in like 2005? I think he's been "around" for quite a while now. Who knows how long he's been on the payroll. It's possible that the deal wasn't "fire JTIII but hire Ronny," but rather "fire JTIII but keep Ronny." He ran with Sweetney to help Big Mike lose weight.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 13, 2023 11:03:51 GMT -5
We heard "this is it or else" in 2004 and 2017. You are always one hire away. I expect a rebuild and am okay with the notion that it might take a while.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 12, 2023 10:16:42 GMT -5
FGCU was 2013...
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 11, 2023 17:23:01 GMT -5
I am sure those emails will make all the difference.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 11, 2023 17:00:16 GMT -5
Etomic, I enjoy your contributions to the board. We will have to agree to disagree here. I would add that in saying recruiting is 80% or more of the job, a huge part of that is recruiting players who are determined to develop. The coaches cannot want it for you.
We used to have those players, as recently as 2021. Look at the progress that Pickett, Blair, Q, Bile, Harris, and others made to enable that great BET run. The staff built a team that had that winning demeanor. Over the long term- it was not only just the Mike Sweetneys and Jeff Greens, but also the Charles Smiths, Boubacar Aws, Jon Wallaces, and Jason Clarks who put their nose to the grindstone and got better, year after year. Finding those guys in the first place is so important, and a critical part of recruiting. IMHO, the players we had the last couple of years were missing that attitude. That was a huge component in our failure. Of course, talent was another issue. Does anyone watching Tre King now at Iowa State still argue that losing him in 2021-2022 cost us a bunch of wins (likely 5-8)? We still would have been bad, but not nearly 0-20 and 6 total wins. Those are the breaks...but that one hurt. Again to me, this thought process is a cop-out. So in your opinion, Q stopped wanting to develop after the BET run? Tre King is averaging 6 & 4 in 16 minutes @ Iowa State, I doubt very much he would have made a 5 game difference. I think Q was focused on turning himself into a pro and trying to change his game. Obviously that worked out for exactly no one. He should have stuck to being a college center and beating guys on the interior, which he was doing well toward the end of his sophomore year.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 11, 2023 11:42:26 GMT -5
Right- recruiting is 80% or more of the job. No way, it’s probably opposite. Recruiting is important but it pales in comparison to teaching, player development and coaching because at the start of every season the staff has to be able to get the best out of the players they have on the team.. Recruiting ends up being a crutch or cop out for poorly run programs in my opinion… Etomic, I enjoy your contributions to the board. We will have to agree to disagree here. I would add that in saying recruiting is 80% or more of the job, a huge part of that is recruiting players who are determined to develop. The coaches cannot want it for you. We used to have those players, as recently as 2021. Look at the progress that Pickett, Blair, Q, Bile, Harris, and others made to enable that great BET run. The staff built a team that had that winning demeanor. Over the long term- it was not only just the Mike Sweetneys and Jeff Greens, but also the Charles Smiths, Boubacar Aws, Jon Wallaces, and Jason Clarks who put their nose to the grindstone and got better, year after year. Finding those guys in the first place is so important, and a critical part of recruiting. IMHO, the players we had the last couple of years were missing that attitude. That was a huge component in our failure. Of course, talent was another issue. Does anyone watching Tre King now at Iowa State still argue that losing him in 2021-2022 cost us a bunch of wins (likely 5-8)? We still would have been bad, but not nearly 0-20 and 6 total wins. Those are the breaks...but that one hurt.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 11, 2023 11:15:06 GMT -5
I hope Bass stays. He has potential.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 11, 2023 11:13:31 GMT -5
Right- recruiting is 80% or more of the job.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 10, 2023 8:38:14 GMT -5
(LIGHTS CANDLE)
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 10, 2023 8:16:31 GMT -5
I am not comparing GU to UNC or Dook, but I am saying that the premium on head coaching experience is overrated at best and absurd at worst. There are tons of great candidates who have not been head coaches.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 10, 2023 8:09:04 GMT -5
While I know this won’t be popular….Jonathan Wallace is a name that has popped up. I would love to see Wallace get the job. He is a sharp guy and could be in the position for decades. Watching Carolina and Dook hire coaches with no head coaching experience shows that such experience is vastly overrated. Look, I will support the next GU coach, even if it is someone like Amaker. But I would prefer to hire someone young and energetic who understands the school. I think Wallace would recruit well and grow into an outstanding leader of the program.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 6, 2023 8:30:26 GMT -5
We can agree to disagree that Iona's decision to hire Pitino means that none of his skeletons are too big to fit in GU's closet. I suspect the institutional control issue means a lot more to GU than personal relational issues.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 6, 2023 7:44:50 GMT -5
I recall a friend from high school who attended GU to play a different sport in the late 1990s. His recruiting visit involved strippers and M&Ms. Not ideal. However, amazingly, GU basketball has stayed far away from any scandal like that. The goal should be to keep it that way. So, Pitino's history at Louisville is relevant. GU has to make its own decision, hopefully guided by a great deal of due diligence to which we are not privy, to determine whether it is disqualifying. DeGioia looked past Ewing’s checkered past. It would be hypocritical to not do it again with another coach. We could get into a debate about how those misdeeds were different, but that would not be productive. I was not even going there with the restaurant incident. Again, the school should do its own research and make its own decisions about any candidate.
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