So in other words they shaved their Beard.
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So in other words they shaved their Beard.
Better hold on to your Oats bama
Been recruiting at a very high level at Bama. 3 top frosh including 6’9 Brandon Miller (one and top lottery potential top 5 pick) 6’10 Noah Clowney projected first rounder this season) 6’3 PG Jaden Bradley. Not to mention Rylan Griffin 6’5 3 point shooter and top juco big man. Another solid class this year and in with numerous top 25 in the ‘24 class. Word has it he loves it at Bama and they have a real good AD and they want a good basketball program and are willing to spend. Don’t think he’d leave for Texas but maybe eventually to a true blue blood in the future. Wanted us to get him before Bama did but dragged out the Mullin departure and if he came here and was successful would definitely be poached.
MugCostanza
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Texas taking a serious run at Oats or Muss makes the most sense. Can't see them being the ones to go for a 70 year old Pitino who has a checkered personal history of his own.
If Billy Donovan thinks his days are numbered in the NBA (hasn't made it past the first round in the past 6 years, currently outside the playoff picture), this would be the perfect landing spot for him if he would have any interest in returning to college.
Texas would look to make a major splash regardless but especially now since their move to the SEC is right around the corner.
Don’t worry Bama, Hoops was off his meds, even Texas doesn’t have this much cash.
When the field expanded to 64 teams, there were only something like 220 teams in division one. Now, there's over 350. It's long past time to expand, IMO.
L J S A
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64 was the perfect number. 90 teams is just going to mean a whole bunch of play-in games where the little guys are forced to eat themselves so teams that are 7-13 in a mega power conference get to be in the real part of the tournament.
Rutgers has not only passed us by the have blown by us. The coaching is real solid. The team has an identity, good half court offense and excellent transition and half court defense. The team and the coach has continued to improve in so many ways. Pains me to say it by the are a legit college program.
Don't remember the exact number but I believe in well over than half their games they have held opponents under 60 points.
ronm
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Why would he come to an inferior conference and to a school with inferior resources and facilities? We have to face up to the fact that the head coaching job at SJU is not one good coaches aspire to.
I don't really believe that. There is only a finite number of schools in the "power conferences", and a large majority of them are primarily football schools. Sure their basketball facilities probably still better than ours, but a power conference job, in a conference that focuses on basketball, in NYC, is still a good job i dont care what anyone says
But at the same time yes i do think the rutgers coach coming to us would be kind of a lateral move and not worth it for him. But there are a ton of good coaches out there who would probably like to be here if the opportunity presented itself
Your last sentence, I'm not fully sure that's the case, but I could be incorrect. My evidence of this is the last coaching search. It didn't seem like we had many good options at all. That could have just been the incompetence of the administration/search committee, but the list of names we were presented with was very underwhelming.
It was. Without a doubt. But I feel like there are a lot of factors to that. First yes the search itself just did not seem like it had a lot of logic behind it in the opening stages. Felt like we were just considering whatever mid major coach had just had a good ncaa tournament.
Then the Repole interview happened and it started to feel like a very tumultuous situation that i bet concerned a lot of potential coaches out there.
That whole situation just left a stink on that whole search I feel like. I would like another shot at a coaching search this offseason I bet we could attract some solid names.
I am not saying we are gonna like start pouching ACC/SEC/B10 coaches or anything like that. But I feel like we are a capable of a better search than we showed last time
