Coaches on the Hot Seat

GTHomer

Ramblin' Wreck
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Love the comments under stallings about JD and Pitt fans. Little shot to the ribs.

Interesting article, along with the one about top uncommitted stars (GT was mentioned as having interest with 2 of them). The coaches article reaffirms what has been discussed here several times, Pastner will recruit like crazy and sign several quality players. The key will be getting them to buy into playing as a team. That can come with also hiring a strong X and O coach to work with him.
 

LawTalkin Jacket

Jolly Good Fellow
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What is Georgia Tech thinking now? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Memphis?src=hash">#Memphis</a> may land Big 12 Coach of the Year Tubby Smith. GT is looking like the Cleveland Browns of CBB.</p>&mdash; C. Austin Cox (@C_Austin_Cox) <a href="">April 13, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

shakim3

Jolly Good Fellow
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What is Georgia Tech thinking now? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Memphis?src=hash">#Memphis</a> may land Big 12 Coach of the Year Tubby Smith. GT is looking like the Cleveland Browns of CBB.</p>&mdash; C. Austin Cox (@C_Austin_Cox) <a href="">April 13, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


Lol he's aware the AP disagreed right? http://www.big12sports.com/ViewArti...134&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=10410&ATCLID=21085037
 

shakim3

Jolly Good Fellow
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Regardless of the AP that is still an odd comment. That is like the SEC fans being shocked that Michael Sam wasn't an early draft pick in the NFL just because he was SEC defensive player of the year. So?

Yeah you're right. Was just providing data in case someone wanted to send him a nice response haha
 

JDjacket

Ramblin' Wreck
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1. He's obviously a quality sports writer with his 300 followers...
2. Tubby will probably retire before the end of any contract he signs with Memphis... guys getting pretty old.
 

shakim3

Jolly Good Fellow
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Tubby was the Coach of the Year in the Big 12.

Yeah but a lot of times if a coach wins COY or some other prestigious award the conference award goes to someone else (Phil Martelli won the Big 5 coach of the year award this year even with Jay Wright in the league)
 

Techster

Helluva Engineer
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Tubby is a really good coach. He can't recruit that well, but he's one of the better coaching minds in the country. Think Memphis overcompensated on the X's and O's after Pastner's recruit first coach later philosophy, but Tubby will win at Memphis. Look at his coaching history. In his 25 years of coaching, he's won 20+ games 19 times, and has made the postseason 20 times (18 times to the Dance). He took over a dumpster fire at Texas Tech and got them to the NCAA in his 3rd year.

If GT had signed Tubby and put him with an ace recruiting assistant, I would have been pretty happy. Of course, being an ex-UGA coach, that was NEVER going to happen.
 
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