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Mentioned in the Dusty May thread, but deserves one of its own.

Jeff Goodman says Louisville will look at Shaheen Holloway (as well as Pat Kelsey from Charleston, and Amir Abdur-Rahim from USF) after Dusty May had a change of heart and wound up at Michigan.

 
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I would think Louisville could do better.
Smells like Holloway’s agent shaking some branches to get a raise
 
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Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉
 
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BigRnj said:
Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉
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Everyone calls him Sha. He calls himself Sha. Weird post.
 
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Sure thing Sammie. You wear a Jersey with another man’s name on it too? 🤔
 
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BigRnj said:
Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉
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This you?
BigRnj said:
Anything happen in the handshake line, or was it just jawing with the cult fans? A reporter asked Pike about it in the press conference and Pike brushed it off.
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RU82 said:
I’d be surprised if he leaves SHU for that job.
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Could see it going either way. I know SHU is his home and I think he kind of relishes the underdog role, but where are they going long-term? I don't think they have any NIL.

Maybe the challenge of getting UL back to respectability interests him (plus the huge increase in salary).

It's a tough one.
 
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fatsam98 said:
Could see it going either way. I know SHU is his home and I think he kind of relishes the underdog role, but where are they going long-term? I don't think they have any NIL.

Maybe the challenge of getting UL back to respectability interests him (plus the huge increase in salary).

It's a tough one.
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Louisville could easily double his pay and give him an NIL war chest. Itd be a tough job to turn down
 
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KK1827 said:
Louisville could easily double his pay and give him an NIL war chest. Itd be a tough job to turn down
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The negative is higher expectations. At SHU he has a long leash and time to build up. Room to make a few mistakes. At Louisville the pressure cooker will be on him from day one. And if he fails there, he could be washed up before he ever really had a chance to build a track record.
 
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Is Louisville as attractive a job as it once was? No recent success, appears to be a complete rebuild, weakened ACC.

Flip side obviously is a bigger budget to hire a head coach and a larger NIL war chest. But Ville definitely doesn’t have the ‘stain’ it used to.
 
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Eagleton96 said:
The negative is higher expectations. At SHU he has a long leash and time to build up. Room to make a few mistakes. At Louisville the pressure cooker will be on him from day one. And if he fails there, he could be washed up before he ever really had a chance to build a track record.
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Does he have a longer leash really? What if he misses the tourney next year?
 
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Eagleton96 said:
The negative is higher expectations. At SHU he has a long leash and time to build up. Room to make a few mistakes. At Louisville the pressure cooker will be on him from day one. And if he fails there, he could be washed up before he ever really had a chance to build a track record.
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Have you ever met SHU fans? Theyre a totally unrealistic bunch.
 
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KK1827 said:
Have you ever met SHU fans? Theyre a totally unrealistic bunch
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Seems like Louisville fans are even more so. Plus they have no reason to be loyal to him. His career as a player and a local should buy him at least a year on top of whatever Ville will give him.
 
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Can’t turn that job down. Seton hall seems like a brutal job. They were like a year late just to start a collective.
 
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Guess we'll see, but they seem pretty pessimistic over there. These things seem to always take twists and turns
 
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BigRnj said:
Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉
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What would slappy think?
 
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BigRnj said:
Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉
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Huh? Many people call him Pike.
 
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hinson32 said:
Huh? Many people call him Pike.
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??? So do I … but I don’t call him Stevie or a cute nickname (just sounds wired to me). That’s for the shu crowd that call Holloway Sha, or psu fans that call Barkley Say Say.
 
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RUChoppin said:
'Sha' is short for 'Shaheen' like 'Steve' is short for 'Stephen' or 'Pike' is short for 'Pikiell'

Or 'Geo' is short for 'Geordano'.

Not sure what's wrong with shortening someone's name. Do you call Greg Schiano 'Gregory'?
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Figure that out yourself? You’re a smart one.

When speaking of coaches you almost always hear them referred to by their last name Wooden, Hurley, Izzo, Pitino, Calipari, Saban, Parcels, Belichick, Schiano, Pikiell, Stringer… Watch a game, when guys with unique names like Dabo Sweeney or Shaka Smart call a timeout you hear “Sweeney iced the kicker” or “Smart wanted to give his starters a rest.” But with shu fans we hear about some dude called Sha. As a non-shu fan he’s Holloway to me.

Now if you know the guy sure he’s Sha, or Geo, or Ricky, or Skip, or Buddy. Nothing wrong with that… in fact if your name is Richard folks that know you should feel free to call you, Dick or Dickie, or if you’re as short as I imagine Little Dickie would work. See I agree with you.
 
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Dont know how serious Louisville’s interest is with Holloway but I think he parlays the interest into a pay raise for him at Seton Hall

I look for Louisville to hire someone like Will Wade / Wes Miller / Cronin / Lamont Paris etc.
 
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People use 'Greg' all the time. And Deion. And Urban. In basketball, people frequently use Fran. Or CViv. Or Geno. Or Dickie V. Or PJ back in the day.

This is a weird thing to go board-police on.
 
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