OT: Larry Brown Resigns
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If Brown was coaching at Rutgers and went 94-39, he not only would get a 5-year deal as requested, but we would build a monument of him outside the RAC. Brown's successor Tim Jancovich's Illinois State beat Rutgers not too many years ago (2011) in Cancun.
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SMU had Brown's replacement ( HC in waiting) for the last two years and with the NCAA problems they had under Larry it seems like the SMU AD felt the change needed to happen sooner than Brown wanted it to be.
Tim Jankovich was hired in 2012 as Brown's replacement when Larry decided to retire
and a long term extension to the 75 year old Brown might have Jankovich decide he waited long enough.
If what the SMU AD( Rick Hart) said about offering Brown an extension to 2020 is true , a long term extension might not be the case, but money and/or power demands could be the reason Brown resigned.
If Brown wanted more than 4 years at his age (76 in September) I can see the hesitation Davis was having if that was the case, especially with the NCAA problem SMU had under Larry. .
Brown still has one year to go before the 2 year show cause he was given in 2015 by the NCAA runs out.
Tim Jankovich was hired in 2012 as Brown's replacement when Larry decided to retire
and a long term extension to the 75 year old Brown might have Jankovich decide he waited long enough.
If what the SMU AD( Rick Hart) said about offering Brown an extension to 2020 is true , a long term extension might not be the case, but money and/or power demands could be the reason Brown resigned.
If Brown wanted more than 4 years at his age (76 in September) I can see the hesitation Davis was having if that was the case, especially with the NCAA problem SMU had under Larry. .
Brown still has one year to go before the 2 year show cause he was given in 2015 by the NCAA runs out.
And before the ink was dry on the contract, he would have left for another job and the NCAA would have been all over the RU basketball program like stink on a fart.
You have to love Rutgers delusional fans. A coach with stints at UCLA and Kansas and SMU wouldn't be able to cut it here. I am OK with the program not being squeaky clean. I've been a season ticket buyer for 25 years and it is still almost impossible to give away tickets and parking tags (free) for games I am unable to make. Even for Big Ten opponents. And there are those here with the chutzpah to say Larry Brown would be a bad fit here.
Quick, who was the SMU head coach before Brown? Exactly.
Hearing that the NCAA sanctions wasn't part of the contract disagreement. Mostly the term (Brown wanted five years) would have likely cost them Jankovich. I doubt he was willing to wait five more years to be HC.
Also, lots of chatter that the real contract dispute was over a graduation rate clause and an APR clause that SMU insisted be in any new contract. Brown balked at that.
Larry Brown is loved by students and boosters at SMU. He made SMU basketball relevant again. His fist season they were 15-17. Second season they were the NIT runner up with 27 wins. Third season 27 wins and an NCAA Tournament appearance.
Despite the sanctions, the SMU men's basketball program is in better shape now than when Brown arrived.
Matt Doherty.
Hearing that the NCAA sanctions wasn't part of the contract disagreement. Mostly the term (Brown wanted five years) would have likely cost them Jankovich. I doubt he was willing to wait five more years to be HC.
Also, lots of chatter that the real contract dispute was over a graduation rate clause and an APR clause that SMU insisted be in any new contract. Brown balked at that.
Larry Brown is loved by students and boosters at SMU. He made SMU basketball relevant again. His fist season they were 15-17. Second season they were the NIT runner up with 27 wins. Third season 27 wins and an NCAA Tournament appearance.
Despite the sanctions, the SMU men's basketball program is in better shape now than when Brown arrived.
Matt Doherty.
Larry Brown is the Lou Holtz of college basketball. Everywhere he goes, the school ends up on probation. Pretty amazing that the religious sponsored schools in Texas (Baylor, SMU), don't really seem to care about following rules.
Brown’s UCLA 1979–80 team ( a Final Four team) had its record vacated after two of his players were found to be ineligible .
NCAA sanctions were levied against Kansas in the 1988–89 season as a result of recruiting violations while Brown was the HC
Kansas was banned from the 1989 NCAA Tournament ,the only time a reigning champion has been banned from defending its title.
Now SMU’s paying for what happened under Brown's watch.
A great HC no doubt about that, but at the college level, questionable tactics seems to be the case.
As for Holtz, he seems to have never to have met a school he couldn’t get NCAA sanctions placed on.
Arkansas was an exception, but its been said the SWC had so much cheating going on when Holtz was the Razorback’s HC, he was graded on the curve and just fell short of getting Arkansas sanctioned because the NCAA didn’t want the whole conference on probation.