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Farsight Clone

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Would you support DeWayne Peevy as Mitch's replacement?

Apparently, he was Cal's bridge to Athletic Department.

He is now DePaul's AD, but they did hire Chris Holtman who is meh.

Does anyone know if Peevy is the sphere of influence of Mitch?
 
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Dr.LutherSan said:
Peevy has no experience when it comes to being an AD with football. Given that UK is in the SEC, that's probably not a good idea.

Regardless, I think the committee should go away from showing favoritism towards former employees/alumni.
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I feel like Peevy would be the only one that I would want if the athletic department went with that way. I 100% do not want Marc Hall or anyone under the sphere of Mitch's influence.
 
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Farsight Clone said:
Would you support DeWayne Peevy as Mitch's replacement?

Apparently, he was Cal's bridge to Athletic Department.

He is now DePaul's AD, but they did hire Chris Holtman who is meh.

Does anyone know if Peevy is the sphere of influence of Mitch?
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Probably. He was prepared to hire Scheyer yrs before Duke got involved.

Please understand we are talking about DePaul. They were the bottom feeder university forever until now and might actually finish like 5th or 6th. Hard to hire at a place like that but apparently Peevy has started to change the culture.

He's beloved by Boogie Cousins.
 
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Farsight Clone said:
Would you support DeWayne Peevy as Mitch's replacement?

Apparently, he was Cal's bridge to Athletic Department.

He is now DePaul's AD, but they did hire Chris Holtman who is meh.

Does anyone know if Peevy is the sphere of influence of Mitch?
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Aaron Torres had a video on him, maybe you saw that? He sounded good by the description of the video. Makes me think he may make to much sense and he won’t be hired.
 
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HogCoyote said:
He's definitely who the KSR team would want because Dewayne and Matt Jones are friends.
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Yeah I noticed that as well. Could be good, because maybe we would get more insight. And perhaps not be clueless about the pulse of the fanbase.
 
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The WORST option is anyone currently at UK that has been working directly with/under Mitch.

I think Peevy far exceeds that. I think he would be very committed to making basketball great. And that's my #1 priority. I don't think we would be married to Pope's church boy ethics.

As far as football concerns--I think Football is set up for success. We have Stein. We have a GM in place. I think he can work with those guys and figure that part out as he goes. And again, basketball is a far bigger concern for me (and I think most of us if we're honest).

He's not my top choice, though.

I would be very excited about Greg Byrne at Alabama if he would seriously consider it. He's been the AD over the most powerful/successful football program of all time. Alabama fans are probably pretty unhappy right now with the current state of the football program. But if he hired Deboer here, and we had Deboer results, we'd be ecstatic. He also identified and hired Oats. Alabama is recruiting at an elite level, despite having to support the most demanding football program in the nation. He was an associate AD for UK at one point. I don't care about that. Maybe it's a selling point for him if he enjoyed his time here. But I think he's someone that can lead to success in both sports. And that's if he is even interested.

Scott Stricklin is a step below that. He also was a former UK associate AD. Again, the least of my interest. But Florida identified and hired Golden. Florida is recruiting at an elite level. And sure, a lot of that is Golden. But they're not dealing with the handcuffs that Mitch has given us. Florida football hasn't been good in a minute. But they also just hired Sumrall.
 
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Yes. He would know when it is time to pull the plug and find a real basketball coach to return us to where we should be. He hasn't done the football side but it's not like he wouldn't figure it out.
 
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USARMYWILDCAT said:
I really don’t care who the next athletic director is. I just want someone that can hire an adequate to UK standards college basketball coach when the time comes.
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We should be very concerned who is the next AD is. If it is a current staff member expect more of the same incestuous, take care of themselves behavior. If they go with either of the two internal candidates it’s going to be terrible.
 
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He would be ok but the online sentiment seems to be Rachel Baker or bust. Imagine the synergy having an AD married to JMI's director of key partnerships! Them Morgan and Morgan digital signs are gonna hit like crack.
 
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BlueVelvetFog said:
Honestly I don't know. I have reservations about a Mitch clone. I DO know that ! Haha
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If a Mitch clone happens, that might be the straw that broke the fkn camels back for sure. Hope like hell that doesn't take place, but I would be more surprised if it doesn't happen, then if it does.
 
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I totally understand the football concerns with DP. That said, we just hired a young football coach that most of the fanbase is anticipating will be here for a long time. So maybe it won’t come to him making a football hire before he can really get his feet wet.

All that said, I very much hope we look outside of the school and connections and hire the best possible candidate. Someone that embraces the new college athletics and isn’t afraid to go for it.
 
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AllBall said:
Probably. He was prepared to hire Scheyer yrs before Duke got involved.

Please understand we are talking about DePaul. They were the bottom feeder university forever until now and might actually finish like 5th or 6th. Hard to hire at a place like that but apparently Peevy has started to change the culture.

He's beloved by Boogie Cousins.
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Well, since Ray Meyer retired, yes. Which is approximately forever. As my kids will remind me regularly.
 
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KyKevin said:
If a Mitch clone happens, that might be the straw that broke the fkn camels back for sure. Hope like hell that doesn't take place, but I would be more surprised if it doesn't happen, then if it does.
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No joke ... that would just scream, "We are not serious about the basketball program" ... which would pretty much tear it for me.
 
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HogCoyote said:
He's definitely who the KSR team would want because Dewayne and Matt Jones are friends.
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OliverSimmonsTwinBrother said:
He would be ok but the online sentiment seems to be Rachel Baker or bust. Imagine the synergy having an AD married to JMI's director of key partnerships! Them Morgan and Morgan digital signs are gonna hit like crack.
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If they do that, expect a lot of revolt cause we need to get away from JMI and anyone associated with them.

I mentioned peevey a couple wks ago and someone acted like I suggested satan himself, but seems like he had a good chance from what I’m reading.
 
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Farsight Clone said:
Would you support DeWayne Peevy as Mitch's replacement?

Apparently, he was Cal's bridge to Athletic Department.

He is now DePaul's AD, but they did hire Chris Holtman who is meh.

Does anyone know if Peevy is the sphere of influence of Mitch?
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The ONLY reason he is even mentioned is because he was here as a conduit between Cal and Barnhart.

Just what we need , an unqualified athletics director to go with our unqualified basketball coach .
 
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yoshukai said:
The ONLY reason he is even mentioned is because he was here as a conduit between Cal and Barnhart.

Just what we need , an unqualified athletics director to go with our unqualified basketball coach .
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This is where Barney excelled. He has an army of understudies as they are called. Idk how many would leave their current gig for UK. But I know Florida fans do not like Strickland and it’s because they suck at fb. He is the guy to poach from Barney’s batch of understudies. The school he’s at the fanbase aren’t happy with him. Florida wins in bb. He’s had time to get it as a total AD. And hopefully he could go in there and sell golden on the job. Stricklins recent hire in fb proves he gets it when it comes to fb.

These guys who worked for Barney who have gone on to be ADs are not Barney. Barney has his understudies. The guy has always been about himself. He totally jacked up our main teams especially basketball. He has taken or tried to take away from our state from our people and now Barney gave himself a million dollar job no one knows about. It’s a joke.
 
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Goingfor9 said:
This is where Barney excelled. He has an army of understudies as they are called. Idk how many would leave their current gig for UK. But I know Florida fans do not like Strickland and it’s because they suck at fb. He is the guy to poach from Barney’s batch of understudies. The school he’s at the fanbase aren’t happy with him. Florida wins in bb. He’s had time to get it as a total AD. And hopefully he could go in there and sell golden on the job. Stricklins recent hire in fb proves he gets it when it comes to fb.

These guys who worked for Barney who have gone on to be ADs are not Barney. Barney has his understudies. The guy has always been about himself. He totally jacked up our main teams especially basketball. He has taken or tried to take away from our state from our people and now Barney gave himself a million dollar job no one knows about. It’s a joke.
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I would be thrilled with Strickland. Especially if it means there’s a chance Golden could end up here . And he gets a bum rap for the Napier hire imo.
EVERYBODY thought Napier would kill it there when the hire was made .

Ive seen no accomplishments that would make me think Peevey should get the job .
 
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AllBall said:
Probably. He was prepared to hire Scheyer yrs before Duke got involved.

Please understand we are talking about DePaul. They were the bottom feeder university forever until now and might actually finish like 5th or 6th. Hard to hire at a place like that but apparently Peevy has started to change the culture.

He's beloved by Boogie Cousins.
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Yeah, Holtmann wouldn’t cut it here. But he’s a pretty good get for DePaul.
 
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