This. And he’s now engaged to an Alabama staffer (which is a bit..questionable). He was never coming here so people can stop stamping their feet.
Nate Oats has made the only Final Four in Alabama history. He is a special talent as a coach, IMO. I think he would win big at a place that cared about basketball.
Which is just weird as crap. That’s shady behavior.
Hell no to Wade and Miller. Wade wasn’t that impressive at NC State. AND he proved as soon as he sees something better he will run. So no. Screw that dude. And Sean Miller was under literal FBI investigation and let’s be honest should’ve been in jail. His assistant fell on the sword.
Yeah but notice the other side of that. They aren’t clamoring to go there either. When 5-10 years ago they would’ve. Why would I want to trade my happy job for a much harder one with maybe a 3M bump? Would take the right ego.
Depends on who the AD is. If it’s an in house Mitch cronie, then I expect another lackluster hire. If we get some fresh blood with some new ideas who’s not opposed to NIL, then we might get a good coach. I’m not holding my breath until Eli is gone too. He’s a big part of the problem.
You have to find your own Golden or Cignetti. UNC might look to someone like Josh Shertz.
Yep, it's now the era of "Find your own tree". The era of convincing bigger trees to move to other forests is mostly done.
Yeah, that boat is really crowded!!He just got a new deal that puts him in the top 5 paid coaches.
I can’t put into words how much I hate Barnhart.
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Otz, Vandy coach and Hoiberg…. hooray. This job would chew those 3 up and spit them out worse than Pope. None of them would work here. I’d rather give it to Pitino for 5 years than to hire anything below the top 4-5 guys.
Maybe.
So we are just supposed to keep Pope another 2-3 years, suck *** that whole time, all just because of perception? The next coach might not work but i KNOW Pope won’t work out.
Because he’s similar to Cal 20 years ago. Hes a youngish, hot shot coach, who has been knocking on the door but has kept coming up short. He’s ambitious and wants to be talked about in the same manner as his buddy Danny. It was easy for him to say he wasn’t interested last time when he wasn’t offered. He can say what he wants publicly but I’d bet money if UK made a serious play for him that he’d come. Hell hire Bama’s AD if that’s what it takes to get him here.
I'll give it to you, you're really committed to playing this bit.
Bit of a catch 22 - not sure how you pull in the coach of your dreams when they'll all be scared off by a fanbase that has absolutely no patience. Look at Dusty - seems happy being somewhere with all the facilities, NIL he needs without all the pressure. Golden may see it similarly, yet both are at football schools. Oates just resigned.So we are just supposed to keep Pope another 2-3 years, suck *** that whole time, all just because of perception? The next coach might not work but i KNOW Pope won’t work out.
Because he’s similar to Cal 20 years ago. Hes a youngish, hot shot coach, who has been knocking on the door but has kept coming up short. He’s ambitious and wants to be talked about in the same manner as his buddy Danny. It was easy for him to say he wasn’t interested last time when he wasn’t offered. He can say what he wants publicly but I’d bet money if UK made a serious play for him that he’d come. Hell hire Bama’s AD if that’s what it takes to get him here.
Unless I’m just totally wrong and misread him and he’s actually too scared of the UK job… but given his personality I don’t think he is. He can hope all he wants but he’s not winning a title at Bama. Non traditional basketball schools just don’t win titles in college basketball. The closest to that happening is Florida but they’ve been good for 25+ years. Plus, teams wearing red don’t win natties. It’s a proven fact.
They don’t listen. When I was at UM calipari had players arrested constantly. Invovled in serious crimes. Plus soliciting prostitution, inciting riots, constant club brawls. They were the city bullies. All sorts of big crime investigations going on, drugs you name it. WAY worse than Oats. But the guy you’re responding to defended Calipari to the 10th degree. Most of the Oats haters do. It’s comical how big of hypocrites people can be.
Dude, you have no clue of what the average SEC football recruiting trip is like or major basketball.
100%
The overall athletic program revenue smokes us. The top three are Ohio State, Texas and Alabama. Football is king.
They’d be apologists for it. It’s what homers do. I remember the message boards before Cal got the job. I remember the apologists for Gillispie when the stories around town made it to the boards.
