Hopefully this eliminates Pitt from the Hurley sweepstakes.

(03-14-2018 12:45 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Who is UConn looking at?

I got to think the coach at Rhode Island is a no brainer for UCONN.

(03-16-2018 05:45 PM)uhmump95 Wrote:  

(03-14-2018 12:45 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Who is UConn looking at?

I got to think the coach at Rhode Island is a no brainer for UCONN.

That's my vote, too.

(03-16-2018 05:45 PM)uhmump95 Wrote:  

(03-14-2018 12:45 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  Who is UConn looking at?

I got to think the coach at Rhode Island is a no brainer for UCONN.

I think they also should interview Buffalo's coach.

Pitt should probably pause their coaching search.

My guess is Louisville will be attempting a home run hire. If so, it will create a ripple effect through out college basketball as schools scramble to replace their successful coach.

(03-17-2018 06:03 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  My guess is Louisville will be attempting a home run hire. If so, it will create a ripple effect through out college basketball as schools scramble to replace their successful coach.

Who in their right mind would want to take over a program with a history of ethics issues and will quite possibly be facing severe NCAA sanctions in the near future. That job is career suicide right now.

(03-17-2018 10:56 AM)Rocky Mountain Shock Wrote:  

(03-17-2018 06:03 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  My guess is Louisville will be attempting a home run hire. If so, it will create a ripple effect through out college basketball as schools scramble to replace their successful coach.

Who in their right mind would want to take over a program with a history of ethics issues and will quite possibly be facing severe NCAA sanctions in the near future. That job is career suicide right now.

Not true...still a very attractive ACC job.

UL wants Chris Mack and have since they let go of Pitino.

(03-17-2018 06:03 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  My guess is Louisville will be attempting a home run hire. If so, it will create a ripple effect through out college basketball as schools scramble to replace their successful coach.

Could be. If successful, the next coach would be honored as the one who weathered the storm and brought Louisville back. I'm sure with Louisville the school's taken a hit financially from donors, etc., so a great hire might be the ticket to "put it behind them" and move on.

On the downside--everything mentioned in this thread. Not sure a successful coach at a successful program would take the risk. Maybe a retired coach could be brought back, or a really outstanding mid-major guy.

(03-17-2018 02:26 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(03-17-2018 06:03 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  My guess is Louisville will be attempting a home run hire. If so, it will create a ripple effect through out college basketball as schools scramble to replace their successful coach.

Could be. If successful, the next coach would be honored as the one who weathered the storm and brought Louisville back. I'm sure with Louisville the school's taken a hit financially from donors, etc., so a great hire might be the ticket to "put it behind them" and move on.

On the downside--everything mentioned in this thread. Not sure a successful coach at a successful program would take the risk. Maybe a retired coach could be brought back, or a really outstanding mid-major guy.

Kentucky following the cash fiasco of Eddie Sutton, went and got them an up and comer from Providence, maybe they can find someone of that caliber

Who heads to Louisville: Cronin, Mack, or Marshall?

(03-21-2018 01:51 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Who heads to Louisville: Cronin, Mack, or Marshall?

many seem to think mack is already a done deal

(03-21-2018 01:51 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Who heads to Louisville: Cronin, Mack, or Marshall?

Mack

If Marshall is offered and he turns it down, then WSU has a coach with the temperament of Mark Few.

Padgett is actually the kind of guy that would work at a place like Tulane (but we're not looking ATM). He'd have the time to build something, and if he really wants to he can always re-enter the ACC later.

(03-21-2018 02:22 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  Padgett is actually the kind of guy that would work at a place like Tulane (but we're not looking ATM). He'd have the time to build something, and if he really wants to he can always re-enter the ACC later.

Padgett to ECU?

(03-21-2018 02:24 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(03-21-2018 02:22 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  Padgett is actually the kind of guy that would work at a place like Tulane (but we're not looking ATM). He'd have the time to build something, and if he really wants to he can always re-enter the ACC later.

Padgett to ECU?

Hmm. I've actually heard of a lot worse on this forum. I'll give that a C+.

(03-21-2018 02:24 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(03-21-2018 02:22 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  Padgett is actually the kind of guy that would work at a place like Tulane (but we're not looking ATM). He'd have the time to build something, and if he really wants to he can always re-enter the ACC later.

Padgett to ECU?

I think he would be in the same boat as a Ryan Odom but an even smaller sample size. How would he be recruiting, especially at a place like ECU that doesn't have the resources of a Louisville (he has a few years exp as an assistant at IUPUI but that's it). For that reason alone I would probably put Odom over him since Odom has experience coaching at places with limited resources (UNCC, Lenoir Rhyne, UMBC). Now that being said we can certainly do worse than Padgett but he would probably be 4th or 5th on my list.