Who should we hire next?

[HolySmokes]

Worry about hiiiiiiiiring after you get to fiiiiiiiring!!

 

[NDColdcat]

Not a single mention of Tommy Lloyd?

 

[defactorial]

Pearl or Nate Oats would be my choice. Obviously would want Golden or Hurley but that's unlikely.

Yeah guys like Golden or Hurley are never leaving their teams unless its the NBA. Nate Oats or Josh Schertz are the only two options in my opinion if you want UK to be competitive again.

 

[true-blue1]

Not a single mention of Tommy Lloyd?

Lloyd turned down UNC. He’s staying put at Arizona

 

[HolySmokes]

Is Billy G still coaching? Instant Upgrade. Wouldn't cost 5 million.

 

[Skyguyb27]

Schertz.

 

[HolySmokes]

Schertz.

Take him or if hes got a cousin or nephew that'll work.

 

[treyville]

Ellen Calipari

 

[#1 cat fan]

Rick Pitino
Bruce Pearl
Kelvin Sampson

***** all you want about them being old. Today any one of them is twice as good as anybody else mentioned so far. (*Well except for Dusty May. You slipped that in there while I was typing.)

Start there.

When you can actually do better than any of them we can talk.

pitino is 15 years past being a coach here. Rven typing his name is a joke. He hasnt landed a top recruit in over a decade

 

[Ash Williams]

Guys Billy isn't a kid anymore. Dude is almost 80. It has to be younger and will probably be a NBA coach of some kind. The NIL ******** is a nightmare for coaches and most all college basketball is garbage product. Nobody is beating the door down to coach at Kentucky or any other college. Its just not as good of a job as we think. Florida freaking got lucky and seemed to found a decent young coach.

Donovan is 61 dip.****

 

[Sportspm]

Schertz reminds me of Rupp in a way. Sign him up

 

[BBNinSCar]

I do not believe for a second that Kentucky would consider most of the same old names our fanbase thinks would be a good fit here.
Please no: Donovan, Pearl, Pitino, Hurley, Drew. Golden and Oats aren't leaving for another college job at this point in their careers.
Yet, we are going to see those names posted here constantly for the next 6 months.

 

[will1976]

Is Billy G still coaching? Instant Upgrade. Wouldn't cost 5 million.

As long as he brings the pop tarts !

 

[JwUKFan11]

Jai Lucas is the most obvious one. He has shown that he will leave a program at a moments notice for a better job.

 

[UKgrad22]

Realistically Schertz, Jai Lucas, Ryan Odom should be the first 3 calls.

 

[PooPooPeePeePoo]

Jai Lucas, Bruce Pearl or Otz.

 

[BookofMormon]

Yeah guys like Golden or Hurley are never leaving their teams unless its the NBA. Nate Oats or Josh Schertz are the only two options in my opinion if you want UK to be comptitive again.

Hurley's brother is available!

 

[AustinTXCat]

Hire 'em all. We'll eventually get lucky.

 

[UKgrad22]

Jai Lucas, Bruce Pearl or Otz.

Sadly Otz just signed a 10 year extension

 

[VC99]

Worry about hiiiiiiiiring after you get to fiiiiiiiring!!

That's how we got Pope.

 

[SenseMaker_Cats]

Starts with a D and ends with an N.

Jamie Dixon? What the heck?

 

[HolySmokes]

That's how we got Pope.

No its not. We ended up with Pope because
mitch is lazy and didnt care who he hired because he was retiring and going to make a million a year no matter how bad UK sucked.

 

[Wildcatmenace]

Nate Oats
Josh Schertz (can he recruit? He can coach for sure)
Billy Donovan
Jai Lucas
Bryan Hogsdon
Ryan Odom

I’d call the guy in your picture just for fun

 

[BGCATFAN83]

Donovan is 61 dip.****

Hey dipshit.. same rule applies. He's to old to give a **** about Kentucky.

 

[HolySmokes]

Rondo

 

[darkshadesofblue]

The Iowa State coach

 

[CELTICAT]

Rondo

people will try to clown you but he’d absolutely kill it here. He’s a literal basketball genius and he doesn’t take ish off anybody.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Some of yall live in the past way too much. The Donovan ship sailed almost 20 years ago. It is no longer 2007.

The next coach will be another up and comer. Hopefully one with some fire in his belly that doesn’t average a dozen losses per season for his career.

 

[UKgrad22]

The Iowa State coach

Just signed a 10 year extension, we’d blow the budget just covering his buyout sadly

 

[HolySmokes]

people will try to clown you but he’d absolutely kill it here. He’s a literal basketball genius and he doesn’t take ish off anybody.

Of course they will clown me for that. But Rondo will be a NBA coach before he ever gets a chance to coach UK.


Basketball needs a proven head coach like Will Stein......

All jokes aside Rondo would kill it. He would recruit well. His son would probably bring an entire starting five from the top ten high-school prospects and he would be able to coach. And if his coaching wasn't great he would demand them to hustle. Rondo is no joke. Instant cool school.

Rondo is Jai Lucas on steroids.

 

[UKCowboys]

My first choice would still be Ben McCollum(buyout would be impossible)and then Otzelberger. Schertz would be next up followed by Hodgson. Pearl is my three year fallback

 

[NociHTTP]

Pearl is likely to keel over, so no. But his guys would bust their butts.

 

[HolySmokes]

My first choice would still be Ben McCollum(buyout would be impossible)and then Otzelberger. Schertz would be next up followed by Hodgson. Pearl is my three year fallback

Say we had to wait two years to get your dream coach. Would you take Pearl for two years or Pitino?

 

[CELTICAT]

The governor would be apoplectic if UK hired Pearl, which is another reason to seriously consider it.

 

[SECualHealing]

Jon Hood, Jarrod Polson, Jared Carter...whoops I was just reading Mitch’s shortlist from the last go around.

Honestly though it needs to be someone with the balls to take on the NIL era. I'm not sure Donavan even wants to be a part of this era of college ball.

 

[BBNinSCar]

Some of yall live in the past way too much. The Donovan ship sailed almost 20 years ago. It is no longer 2007.

The next coach will be another up and comer. Hopefully one with some fire in his belly that doesn’t average a dozen losses per season for his career.

You just described Josh Shertz. He’s the one and only choice, IMO

 

[Eagles_Ball_69]

Nate Oats
Josh Schertz (can he recruit? He can coach for sure)
Billy Donovan
Jai Lucas
Bryan Hogsdon
Ryan Odom

Nate Oats
Josh Schertz
Ryan Odom
Bryan Hogsdon
Billy Donovan
Jai Lucas

I think this is the order. Any of the top 3 would be an overwhelming successful hire. Any of the six would be a serious upgrade.

 

[Eagles_Ball_69]

Oats or Pearl.

I seriously don't think Billy Donovan would be up for the challenge of modern day recruiting.

Jai Lucas maybe in a few years but he has been a coach for ONE season. He can get a bunch of players but so could Josh Pastner. Let's get some sustained success.

Great Lucas comparison. He could be good, but he could also be Pastner.

 

[HolySmokes]

The governor would be apoplectic if UK hired Pearl, which is another reason to seriously consider it.

Idk. I've heard ol Andy likes for Kentucky sports to be good. I've heard from extremely close sources he is working on the Mark Pope situation the same way he called out mitch and his retirement plan.

 

[HolySmokes]