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Gonebarongone

End of college sports if they do this. Complete chaos. Every player in the country will essentially be a free agent every year. You will have teams with 13 different players every season. The disparity between the top 5-6 programs in the country and everyone else will be exacerbated to the point of...

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https://youtu.be/pxYm0FmpzLc Looks like hed be a good shooter with experienceoff the bench! You had me at shooter. Looking at the film, he has a balanced, consistent jump shot from from both mid-range and deep. Always shoots it going straight up and down, doesn't look rushed. Good FT % at 77% his s...

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So strange that a teenager would be looking at his phone! Guy is a top 150 player from a good basketball area playing a position in a guard heavy offense. Yes...it stinks that he left. It's OK to say out loud. It's also a pretty good outcome that only one has left during a coaching change.

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Maybe Adams saw a log jam at the guard position and used the coaching change as a chance to decommitt and find a school where he can assure himself more playing time Yeah, the same number of guards are here as there was going to be when he committed, but he decided he was scared yesterday. He wante...

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Will be interesting to see where he ends up. UConn seems the natural fit because of DH and Kimani Young actually was recruiting him at Minnesota. But, the one position they do seems like they are in good shape is guards. People that question a kid's heart after something like this, frankly, have a s...

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Time to get this show on the road. Spring signing is a week away!

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Sort of ridiculous. Are they watching Law and Order reruns this morning? First of all you tell the guy who got the job that he has it. After those 10 minutes of patting him on the back over the phone, you make 3-5 quick calls to the people who didn't get it. This whole process is very weird. I wonde...

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Who would you hire? Not to be evasive but this is sort of my point. I don't know. I guess message boards are for guys to say "This guy should be the next hire...anyone else is dumb!". That just dismisses 50+ years of history in college hoops. Pick a year and google "college basketbal...

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At some point you have to trust your own analysis and instinct if you want to have an opinion. This is fair but it at least needs to be informed by something, right? So, I totally get roster continuity, etc. What I don't have is any of the, hopefully, 100 conversations Thorr has had over the last t...

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a bit of hyperbole, but would you rather hire Chris Mack/Brad Stevens/Shaka Smart/Archie Miller or Jim Baron? A bit? You guys do know that no one has the foggiest idea of whether Cox will be good, bad, indifferent. Same with Dooley. Everyone is just fitting their facts to support an opinion. All yo...

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a bit of hyperbole, but would you rather hire Chris Mack/Brad Stevens/Shaka Smart/Archie Miller or Jim Baron? A bit? You guys do know that no one has the foggiest idea of whether Cox will be good, bad, indifferent. Same with Dooley. Everyone is just fitting their facts to support an opinion. All yo...

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UCONN has three open scholarships. Hurley has left his top Assistant spot open for Cox. If he doesn’t get the URI HC job he will be announced as UCONN’s Assistant this week. Hurley is more likely to take recruits than the transfers. I would guess 2-3 players and Harris is definitely one if them. UR...

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So Dan Hurley wasn't Coach K? And excelled at all aspects, a coaching legend, at the age of 43 and with less than a decade at his craft? Wow shocker. Of course there are areas he could improve, like almost every other human, but SGs point is the only one worth making...all the criteria that make up...

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I agree he is interesting, but my issue is the lack of recruiting experience in this part of the country. Until he got to the Celtics, he basically spent his entire life in Indiana. Also, are you less concerned about Shrewsberry's lack of head coaching experience than Cox's? Well, he has been a hea...

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Was Shrewsberry the main recruiter at Butler? What was his role exactly on those great teams? Would have recruited/coached Nored, Hayward, Mack and Purdue had a ton of good recruits from 2011-13. Thought he was a really interesting candidate from jump street. I agree he is interesting, but my issue...

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hrstrat57 wrote:Was Shrewsberry the main recruiter at Butler? What was his role exactly on those great teams?

Would have recruited/coached Nored, Hayward, Mack and Purdue had a ton of good recruits from 2011-13. Thought he was a really interesting candidate from jump street.

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NJRhodyFan wrote:
reckless jake wrote:The ECU radio network is reporting that ECU has reached agreement with Joe Dooley
Is anybody else surprised by this? East Carolina...really??

Will be interested to see what the contract looks like. Some big time schools in the American conference.

Gonebarongone

I can't understand why all of you can't understand what GBG is telling us: he's always right. I believe I have only one opinion here that I would die on a hill for. That's that DH was a below average offensive basketball mind. Or, I should say, his ability to create and install an offense was below...

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TP, I want you to write my obituary when I die brother. You may be the most articulate internet poster I’ve ever come across. You say what I am thinking and try to say, 100000 times better than I ever could. I mean that man lol.... Of course you would want him to. He'll make up some really cool stu...

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GBG, someone the other day said I was you. I wanted you to know I considered that a compliment. You know your stuff and you carry yourself in a straightforward common sense way that reminds me of Rod. Cheers Ha! Thanks. Rod and I got into some dust ups but I would like to think he came around to th...

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I do believe you're not anti-Cox. I'm pretty sure if the consensus here was that people wanted Dooley, you'd be making the argument for Cox. Whatever, man. This what people say when they are done making things up. I would be suspicious of a Dooley hire if we heard stuff like "he could bring a ...

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Yes, I'm making some assumptions here. I'm giving my honest expectations if either guy is hired. Its not like I have access to Biff's sports almanac and I'm refusing to cite it and just choosing to make it up instead. If you feel like Dooley will construct a roster for next season that is better th...

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no worse than you acting like we are saying no thanks to Jay Wright, Brad Stevens and Bill Self in favor of hiring Cox. I don't get why people don''t understand the two things I have repeatedly said. One, I would be OK with Cox being the hire. Two, I just want the hire to be based on factors above ...

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2. Never hire or fire a coach based on an incoming recruiting class. I will stop repeating myself here at some point, but not right now. I agree with this, in general. A coach should not be hired solely because of a particular recruit or a particular recruiting class. But, there are two points to b...

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GBG, someone the other day said I was you. I wanted you to know I considered that a compliment. You know your stuff and you carry yourself in a straightforward common sense way that reminds me of Rod. Cheers Ha! Thanks. Rod and I got into some dust ups but I would like to think he came around to th...

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Why do people think it is so crazy that Thorr kicked the tires on Pitino? His job is to put as many people as possible into the top of the process and then weed them out by whatever criteria he comes up with. The guy has won everywhere, has northeast ties, and would win about a zillion games at URI....

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I would expect that Goodman or Rothstein will break the news tomorrow, probably something to the effect of an "agreement in principle has been reached with ????" Contract to be finalized shortly with a presser later this week. It will be a huge shocker if Cox doesn't get it. I was expecti...

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Winning at that level (a conference where the winner is a 15 or 16 seed) does not automatically translate to better conferences. Do you think Pitt would have taken 14 conference wins next year? I guess not, or they obviously would have called Joe Dooley.... Well, this isn't a rebuild, for one. Enfi...

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Dooley has more experience. Is it better? Yeah he was a great recruiter at Kansas. So what, look what they can offer. As a HC, no great shakes imo. .500 in a conference at a graveyard basketball school at ECU. And took what Enfield built and has been great for four years. You know, just sort of wha...

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Dooley has more experience. Is it better? Yeah he was a great recruiter at Kansas. So what, look what they can offer. As a HC, no great shakes imo. .500 in a conference at a graveyard basketball school at ECU. And took what Enfield built and has been great for four years. You know, just sort of wha...

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steviep123 wrote:To me Cox is the clear best of this bunch. There is no one on this list that is head and shoulders above Cox.

Put Dooley's resume next to Cox and tell me why you feel that way.

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I don't have a problem with the types of fans that only show up every few years. I find these kind of fans to be less informed and less in the details and having less of the pulse of what's going on than the die hards that are here every day. And that's totally fine. It's great, even - we need non-...

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Actually, this is EXACTLY what the coach in waiting clause was made for. He's been contacted about other mid-major programs. Not at the A-10/AAC level, but definitely mid-major. I would easily take that bet... Now this guy has turned down head gigs at mid-majors? Lol. Not sure why that's hard to be...

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GBG, has Cox done something to you? I don’t understand the malice... I think if you have read all my posts, you would see I would not have any problem with Cox being hired. And, really, I trust Thorr in leading the charge. I just hate the sentiment of "we need to hire Cox for continuity reason...

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As we've discussed exhaustively here, if they hire Cox, it will not be for any one particular recruit. There is value in retaining your roster and a large and high quality recruiting class, obviously, because if you do not have any players then you don't have a team. But only a true imbecile would ...

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Not sure I agree with the "no Cox, no recruits" sentiment. Neither of them said they were leaving if he isn't hired. They definitely might, but no one knows for sure what they're going to do, maybe not even them. It's more comfortable for them if Cox gets hired. They have an established r...

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As we've discussed exhaustively here, if they hire Cox, it will not be for any one particular recruit. There is value in retaining your roster and a large and high quality recruiting class, obviously, because if you do not have any players then you don't have a team. But only a true imbecile would ...

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That Tate interview on Rhody Rampage was pretty good. He is going to be great in the A10! Here's the interview. I retweeted it from Nikc Coit of ABC 6. https://twitter.com/NickCoit/status/980263695900127234 Lets make the right decision, because if DC isn't the coach we will never see Dana on Campus...

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God, please NO DOOLEY OR BECKER! It will be back to mediocrity at best. Why do you say that about Dooley? Better recruiting history than Cox and has done nothing but win in his first head gig. If you don't like Dooley then you must hate Cox. Or...you are just worried about the 2018 class which, lik...

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Dooley is an east coast guy with a decade of big time recruiting experience and a winner as a head guy. Downplaying "he only kept what the previous guy did" is so dumb. That's exactly what we are looking for! Some of you guys are so in the bag for Cox its ridiculous. Dooley's resume>>>>>>C...

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Temple under Fran Dunphy hasn't been the same since their move to the AAC. Had made six straight NCAA Tournaments in the A10 prior to moving to the AAC. Since joining the AAC, Dunphy and Temple have made just one NCAA tournament in five years. case of grass isnt always greener Football rules the wo...

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You pay Cox what he'll accept to take the job. That's what agents and administrators do. You guys ever take an economics class? If he'll take the job for 750k (plus whatever bumps maybe for performance) than you don't pay him over a million. URI has the leverage here. Use it. They had less with DH ...

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You pay Cox what he'll accept to take the job. That's what agents and administrators do. You guys ever take an economics class? If he'll take the job for 750k (plus whatever bumps maybe for performance) than you don't pay him over a million. URI has the leverage here. Use it. They had less with DH a...

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Have you talked to Thorr? Did he confirm nobody ever came on campus for an interview? What about off-campus? Maybe he has had people on campus but that word generally gets out. If this is a two week search that ends with no reported interviews and Cox? That is an abject disaster. I will not believe...

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WIll be interesting to see the ACC team. Nominees were Grayson Allen, PInson, Berry, Bonzie Colson. Colson is certainly going to be out and the best players in that league aren't seniors. Could probably go Matt Farrell in Bonzie's spot.

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This team just had one of it's top two best runs in modern program history (ie. A.K. "After Keaney"), the other being three straight NCAA runs with an Elite Eight in the middle. And after that, with coaching salaries on the rise, we already have a good Arena, all sorts of perks on the ups...

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Man I can't wait until this position is filled and a new head coach is named, there's so much bullshit being posted here in this thread. Just wondering how you thought a message board thread dedicated to the conjecture of who the next coach will be was going to go? Puppy dogs and rainbows and then ...

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Jeff Capel starting to keep some of the players at Pitt. Thorr should keep that in mind when hiring the next guy. The 2018 class or current guys doesn't necessarily leave if it's not Cox.

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TruePoint wrote:Yup. He was promoted to the head job from assistant. It works sometimes!

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I wish there was a Boston area team that fit that bill...Would love to see a game in the Boston area. Had a stretch there with BC when Al was there alternating home and away. I wouldn't be surprised if they announced a home and home now that Christian has them back on their feet. Likely a tournamen...

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