reckrider
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Ron Hunter’s team isn’t looking very good tonight.
Edwards went to UGA for money reasons, pure and simple. You can say AAR had a hand in that, but understand that it was well known in the GA basketball community that Edwards was well compensated to attend UGA for 6 months.If GT can get the NIL together, it seems his recruiting ceiling is higher. I heard that he is the one to get Anthony Edwards to uga. If he actually did, that's quite impressive. He is more likely to get a Wheeler train rolling. Of course, who knows?
Hiring coaches like Josh, Brad Brownell, Kevin Keatts etc is why the ACC is no longer the destination. The SEC and Big XII have made significant investments into their CBB programs and that’s why they have surpassed the ACC.I'll go on record right now in saying that firing Pastner was a mistake. How big a mistake remains too be seen. The only reason he is on the pines now is that he had a few recruiting classes that didn't work out, joining a vast number of other college basketball coaches. He's a sound coach and knows how to develop players (see Wright and Jose). That's what Tech needs, not another coaching merry-go-round. We might also remember that the ACC is no longer destination numero uno for basketball coaches.
But it's water under the bridge. Let's hope that the kind of fumbling that led to hiring Key (who may turn out ok, of course) doesn't show up again.
The stats you listed say it was time to make a change. There was no indication things were actually getting better as a program. One good recruiting year and still this year’s team was a bad team.Whether firing Pastner is a mistake or not will be seen with who we hire. At the time firing Hewitt seemed like the long overdue obvious move. In hindsight we are probably worse off as a program for making it.
We may very well hire someone who takes the core that Pastner has put together, supplements with a couple key transfers, develops it, and has us back in the NCAAT 4 times in the next 5 years, and we're all looking back thanking the heavens we moved on
We may very well hire some unproven one year wonder as a head coach who is in over his head, loses key players to the portal, and has us floundering for the next 4 years while we wait to make another coaching change, looking back thinking maybe if we had kept Pastner he'd have been able to utilize the core he put together better and learned from the mistakes that led to the two year decline after the Jose and Moses teams.
Right now it's not an obvious mistake. I also don't think it's an obvious right call either.
I agree wholeheartedly. It was time. CJP will land on his feet, as will we.Even if we whiff on the hire, doesn't mean it wasn't time to move on.
Of all the people to listen to….******* Rob Dauster. What a *****Something came up on that Dauster podcast @dtm1997 posted that I wanted to highlight as we ponder how GT makes it back. Even above who the actual coach ends up being.
The guys mentioned that at this point, if a school hasn't figured out how to navigate NIL, they are so far behind the curve it's ridiculous.
The Bacot kid at UNC came back because he makes more at UNC than anywhere he'd be playing professionally (since he's not likely an NBA player).
But they also highlighted UNC as an example of why you have to be wary of hiring inexperienced guys. Basically said Davis has a top-5 (in the country) roster but are basically an NIT team and that's unacceptable. He's shown himself to not be 'the guy'.
Of all the people to listen to….******* Rob Dauster. What a *****
Evan was the best IMHO. I’d recommend SGP. Dauster is a just an ***Chalk it up to a content desert. And name one of these talking heads that's not a jackhole to somebody.
To your point though, I did get d*ck-ish impressions as I was listening.
If only we had people on the board connected to the program that could feed 'true' rumors to the team .....Chalk it up to a content desert.
I think it’s going to fail unless we get a big name who draws enough attention from the casual basketball fans with money (Pitino, “Deion Sanders”, etc). I haven’t seen any proof the NIL is there to attract and retain the type of players you need to make the Tournament consistently. And I’m not sure Batt/Cabrera are ready to throw Pitino money at a coach - no past ADs or Presidents have been.Whether firing Pastner is a mistake or not will be seen with who we hire. At the time firing Hewitt seemed like the long overdue obvious move. In hindsight we are probably worse off as a program for making it.
We may very well hire someone who takes the core that Pastner has put together, supplements with a couple key transfers, develops it, and has us back in the NCAAT 4 times in the next 5 years, and we're all looking back thanking the heavens we moved on
We may very well hire some unproven one year wonder as a head coach who is in over his head, loses key players to the portal, and has us floundering for the next 4 years while we wait to make another coaching change, looking back thinking maybe if we had kept Pastner he'd have been able to utilize the core he put together better and learned from the mistakes that led to the two year decline after the Jose and Moses teams.
Right now it's not an obvious mistake. I also don't think it's an obvious right call either.
Forget Pitino. Tech might be able to afford his pay, but not his buyout, which is reportedly $5 million:I think it’s going to fail unless we get a big name who draws enough attention from the casual basketball fans with money (Pitino, “Deion Sanders”, etc). I haven’t seen any proof the NIL is there to attract and retain the type of players you need to make the Tournament consistently. And I’m not sure Batt/Cabrera are ready to throw Pitino money at a coach - no past ADs or Presidents have been.
Forget Pitino. Tech might be able to afford his pay, but not his buyout, which is reportedly $5 million:
Iona Basketball Coach Rick Pitino Contract, Salary, and Net Worth
Iona Basketball Coach Rick Pitino Contract, Salary, Buyout, and Net Worthwww.basketballinsiders.com
"The specifics of Pitino’s deal says he has a contract buyout of $5 million..."
Personality matters in today's game with NIL.Is Pat Kelsey the PJ Fleck of CBB?
Not my favorite personality style, but if he's our guy and he wins, I'm all in rowing the boat.
Fleck's got back-to-back 9 win seasons at Minnesota, so I guess it works so far?Personality matters in today's game with NIL.