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(01-02-2021 10:57 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(01-02-2021 10:31 PM)UCBearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  NKU has the best arena in the Horizon league and has the best resources overall in the conference. athleticdirectoru.com has them as the clear number 1 in basketball potential.

It scares me when you hire a coach from a “high resource” (compared to others in that conference) mid-major because they won there based on advantages relative to other conference programs. Brannen probably needed to win at the high mid-major level like the A-10 or C-USA level like a Marshall, WKU, or St. Louis before getting hired at the high major like UC.

We hired Mick out of Murray State of the OVC...

Just sayin', sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Brannen looked like a good bet when we hired him. Time has shown that he's out of his depth here and isn't doing anything to remedy that situation. But when he was hired, he was winning at NKU and a whole lot of us thought it was a decent bet that he could step up to the next level.

We hired Mick because he was the ONLY coach in the country who wanted to interview for the job. After MT Suit decided on Mick, Nancy got red-in-the-face mad and demanded that UC hire a search firm. Their findings were that Mick was the only viable candidate. UC reluctantly hired him based on some cold, hard reality. UC was a Grade A toxic super fund situation.

I know this for a fact.