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What an outstanding coach who had a great career.
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What an outstanding coach who had a great career.
Another elder statesman abandons the game when it needs them most. Now that they no longer control the 'who and how' of paying players.
The ones that are successful are the ones who adapt. As Key said on the football side, (stte) this is college sports now, accept it for what it is.
The ones that are successful are the ones who adapt. As Key said on the football side, (stte) this is college sports now, accept it for what it is.
Root4GT
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Larranaga was a very good basketball coach. I lived about a Mile from the George Mason Campus and attended several of their games while he was the HC. They always overperformed vs their talent level. His teams were fun to watch!
The ACC does need to start spending Big Bucks on younger proven basketball coaches. The League has fallen to about the 6th best basketball conference, if that high! Very sad.
The ACC does need to start spending Big Bucks on younger proven basketball coaches. The League has fallen to about the 6th best basketball conference, if that high! Very sad.
The precipitous fall, particularly compared to the SEC, has been stark and shameful.
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What worked before doesn’t work today, which is why the Old Guard who has it mastered unde the old system have all left.
It isn’t perfectly clear to me what works best today in college basketball other than tons of $$$$$. In that competition, the ACC is clearly handicapped.
I’d rather see the ACC spend their limited funds on football, personally.
But then, I don’t think I have watched a single college basketball game outside of a few minutes of GT games all year…and likely won’t. This sport has lost me.
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If you have limited funds, it seems it would be better to focus on basketball, since you need far fewer players and thus it should be far cheaper to be competitive, but I know football is simply the more popular sport.
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Heck of a coaching career.
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Major ACC News: Legendary Head Coach Steps Down
On Thursday, Miami head coach Jim Larranaga stepped down from his role as head coach of Miami basketball after 14 years. Larranaga was in the midst of his 14th season on the job, and has his Hurricanes at just 4-8 on the year after being predicted to finish sixth in the ACC preseason poll. The […]
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Tommy_Taylor_1972
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Jim was a heck of a college basketball player as well. He was a 6' 4" guard averaging 16 points per game alongside Ernie Degregorio for the Providence Friers. They were one of 16 teams, along with Georgia Tech, in the 1971 NIT, losing to ACC regular season champ UNC in the second round. We lost to UNC in the finals. Jim was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in the 6th round in the 1971 NBA draft, but left training camp to take on his first college coaching job as assistant to Terry Holland at Davidson. I sense that he stepped down to let the younger generation coaches wrestle with the much different college basketball of today with NIL and the portal. I cannot blame him at age 75.Heck of a coaching career.
Major ACC News: Legendary Head Coach Steps Down
On Thursday, Miami head coach Jim Larranaga stepped down from his role as head coach of Miami basketball after 14 years. Larranaga was in the midst of his 14th season on the job, and has his Hurricanes at just 4-8 on the year after being predicted to finish sixth in the ACC preseason poll. The […]
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Of course he was. Another Bronx kid, born 2 years after Cremins. Archbishop Malloy HS.
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Jim Larranaga, one of the pioneers to fully leverage NIL to get Miami to the Final Four, resigns because NIL is no longer working for him.
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I believe John Ruiz is the one who leveraged the NIL program at the U. Larranaga was the beneficiary of the Ruiz program. That stream has dried up.
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My next door neighbor has a daughter who pitches for a D1 softball team in Texas. She is good. She pitched a perfect game in 2023 and is the best player on her current team. In a convo last week she said she doesn't blame the football and basketball players for grabbing as much as they can while they can. "Everyone else is." She gets enough NIL to take the pressure off her social life. If her friends want to go out for pizza she doesn't worry about what it costs. Her non-athlete friends are always weighing tonight's cost versus how much time is left in the semester that has to be covered by their debit card. When I asked who got the most money on her team, she said one girl got $2000. I did not ask her if that was her.
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Jim Larranaga is a hell of a coach. NIL and the transfer portal continue to ruin college athletics.
Tommy_Taylor_1972
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With debt cards issued by the NIL company or the direct employer, that means that they will report the payments to the athletes as an expense. Hopefully the athletes hold back enough to pay income taxes. I will hold my tongue about what I think about athletes and NIL and the portal, because of the old saying, if you cannot say something good about it, say nothing.
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What does being a good basketball coach have to do with all this new sports administrative requirements that are emerging rapidly?
The arena of recruiting has passed into the field of sports administration. Expecting coaches to fill all these responsibilities is silly.
Coaches will continue to have an important role in recruiting but they will be only a cog. Recruiting and roster management responsibilities will fall to a General Manager. Like in pro-sports, the General manage will be viewed with the same critical eye by fans that they view the coach.
Maybe some caches will try to do it all. Maybe some Athletic Directors will try to be the G.M.
A good working relationship between the coach and G.M. will be critical.
The arena of recruiting has passed into the field of sports administration. Expecting coaches to fill all these responsibilities is silly.
Coaches will continue to have an important role in recruiting but they will be only a cog. Recruiting and roster management responsibilities will fall to a General Manager. Like in pro-sports, the General manage will be viewed with the same critical eye by fans that they view the coach.
Maybe some caches will try to do it all. Maybe some Athletic Directors will try to be the G.M.
A good working relationship between the coach and G.M. will be critical.
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Larranaga is/was a great coach, but this is the beginning, middle, and end of the conversation on his retirement.
Any wistfulness about NIL bringing down another member of the old guard is hypocritical on this one.