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I don't feel like putting in the effort.
Coaching Carousel 8 - Teamwork means never taking all the blame yourself
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This was awesome. There’s nothing in college sports like a campus site conference championship. This seat was $22 btw.
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Lot of smoke that Boeheim is retiring.
Red Autry most likely successor.
Red Autry most likely successor.
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Abdur Rahim to Tech makes too much sense. His bro (president of G League) essentially invented NIL for athletes by taking the EA Sports case to Supreme Court, he's from ATL and been recruiting here - Please don't mess this up Battman
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Meh.. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't see how he is a huge upgrade over Pastner.
Aside from knowing Atlanta well and one good season as head coach, I'm not sure I see the appeal.
If we move from Pastner, it must be a better option.
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Wasn't it Ed O'Bannon who led the court case?
Fair. The sell job would be the build, not the one good year probably.
But it's certainly fair to question if it'd be an upgrade or would it just be a new guy.
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Too much sense?
He has 4 years of experience and this is his first year with a winning record either in conference or overall. His first three years he was 19-65 overall and 9-38 in conference before breaking through this year.
He may turn out to be a great coach. Or he may turn out to be a flash in the pan one year wonder type. We have know way of knowing, and it makes no sense for GT to change coaches just to land someone at that stage in their career. If we change coaches we should get someone with some sort of proven track record of consistent success sustained over time.
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So Bob Richey from Furman?
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Would be a better choice. Still wouldn't be super excited. While he's done a great job at Furman, he was an assistant there under Medved and has mostly just continued the good times. So no experience as HC in going through a full scale transition, and no experience at the P5 level at all, and his experience as HC is pretty much exclusive in a program already in a good state.
Kelsey is the obvious name to me. Took over for Winthrop which wasn't in a terrible place, but he clearly elevated it from where it was, finished 1st or tied for 4 times in six years his last 6 years there, and finished 2nd and 3rd the two years he wasn't first. Went to College of Charleston who was in a good place under Grant and in year two has them at 30-3. So he had sustained success at Winthrop and has repeated it at Charleston. Prior to that he was an assistant at Xavier under Mack when that program was humming and spent half a decade as an assistant at Wake so he has some experience with the ACC already. Biggest thing I would hold against him is he hasn't taken over a program in a bad position and built it up but that's about it.
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No thanks. The UMass thing remains a red flag and he's won at two programs built to perform.
Richey has won a lot of games on 5 years and you think that creates doubts? That's not so easily done either.
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I say Bob Richey or Dusty May.
Eh, I'm with dt on Kelsey. Something don't sit right with him and I feel he'd be on the first thing smokin' outta town if he had any success here. But hmmmm, looks like he could use a get-bak! coach ...
And I'm not even gonna mention the weird Tu Holloway stuff....
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May might be available, if Ole Miss does an Old Miss and hires Beard.
Note that I think Pastner is staying.