Hollis Price and Eduardo Najera

[soonerjunky]

These two coached a NBA D league team (Najera being the head coach), and Price now a player development coach at UH. What if Hollis or Eduardo coached OU after LK leaves in a couple of years?

 

[MsProudSooner]

These two coached a NBA D league team (Najera being the head coach), and Price now a player development coach at UH. What if Hollis or Eduardo coached OU after LK leaves in a couple of years?

Two of my favorite players but I would want them to get a few years of D1 coaching experience before they coached at OU.

 

[dahldennsull]

Two of my favorite players but I would want them to get a few years of D1 coaching experience before they coached at OU.

Hollis has been at UH since 2014, so he has been in coaching for longer and at a bigger profile school than Kevin Kruger's resume. Helps to have the right daddy sometimes.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Hollis has been at UH since 2014, so he has been in coaching for longer and at a bigger profile school than Kevin Kruger's resume. Helps to have the right daddy sometimes.

Would you hire a guy for a high level D1 position whose only coaching experience was 2+ years as the Player Development coach?

 

[Kewllane]

No, I wouldn't want them as the head coach here. I want them to have more experience.

This is what I don't get about OSU fans right now. They seem to think that job is a top 10 or 15 job in the country, but they think they need someone who is a graduate of OSU to be the head coach because they'll have loyalty.

Underwood didn't leave because of lack of loyalty, he left because they wouldn't offer him what Illinois did. That's not a loyalty issue.

They're basically saying, "We want to get someone that we won't have to pay much to because he's so loyal to the school." That's a problem.

If Bob Stoops left OU football, and Castiglione and Boren decided they were going to hire Dusty Dvoracek from WWLS and ESPNU, I would consider that a slap in the face. I want someone with experience in that position.

It's almost the exact same thing that's going on at OSU with Gottleib.

 

[tmeyer3307]

Get one of them here first as an assistant then work up.

 

[dahldennsull]

Would you hire a guy for a high level D1 position whose only coaching experience was 2+ years as the Player Development coach?

i was assuming you meant as an assistant. sorry if I misunderstood.

But Hollis is on year 3 at Houston. We hired Kevin Kruger after 2 years at Northern Arizona so........

(I was extremely underwhelmed by our assistant hires last offseason, and it showed in our season results IMO).

 

[chuckb]

i was assuming you meant as an assistant. sorry if I misunderstood.

But Hollis is on year 3 at Houston. We hired Kevin Kruger after 2 years at Northern Arizona so........

(I was extremely underwhelmed by our assistant hires last offseason, and it showed in our season results IMO).

This is called confirmation bias. We have no way of knowing what effect, if any, the coaching changes had on our play this year or to what extent any effect was caused by poor coaching rather than due to just having new coaches. For all we know, we'd have done even worse with the 2 coaches we might have had if Kevin Krueger and Hartman weren't added to the staff.

There is no evidence to support your underlying assumption that, because he was only at Northern Arizona and not at a basketball powerhouse like KU or UH, he's not a good coach.

 

[sanguinetti]

i love eduardo and hollis. i thought one of the coolest things ever was watching eduardo and allen iverson play together in denver. i never had a thing for AI or the NBA but it was cool watching them go. those guys had some chemistry. hollis is hollis.

that said, you hire the best coach you can.....i'm a profound enemy of the "back to the past/used to be a player or coach at University X"....hiring scheme.

outside Mike Anderson, it fails 10 times more than it succeeds. esp when it's a guy with no HC experience....

woo hoo Doug Gottleib.

after Lon, OU need to hire the best coach it can....not someone in the "family".

 

[oudna]

Together? I'd take them in a second. Combined they have great experience. Completely qualified.

But either as a solo, I'd probably look around. A definite maybe.

 

[dahldennsull]

This is called confirmation bias. We have no way of knowing what effect, if any, the coaching changes had on our play this year or to what extent any effect was caused by poor coaching rather than due to just having new coaches. For all we know, we'd have done even worse with the 2 coaches we might have had if Kevin Krueger and Hartman weren't added to the staff.

There is no evidence to support your underlying assumption that, because he was only at Northern Arizona and not at a basketball powerhouse like KU or UH, he's not a good coach.

if his last name wasn't Kruger would he have even gotten an interview, let alone a job based off his resume?

I know my answer, but I'm honestly curious what others think of that question. Nepotism is illegal in many workplaces for this very reason

 

[chuckb]

if his last name wasn't Kruger would he have even gotten an interview, let alone a job based off his resume?

I know my answer, but I'm honestly curious what others think of that question. Nepotism is illegal in many workplaces for this very reason

Of course he wouldn't but lots of people get interviews and jobs based on the fact that they know someone involved in the hiring process. It's not like he has no qualifications whatsoever. He played D1 college basketball. He's been a D1 assistant and was raised in a household where he, undoubtedly, learned how to coach. Several people have made the argument in another thread that Doug Gottlieb, a guy with a similar but arguably inferior resume to Kevin Kruger's, should be named head coach at a power 5 college basketball program.

But that wasn't your point. Your point was that the team was worse this year because Kevin Kruger and Hartman were assistant coaches. That may be true but it may not be,. You have certainly have no evidence that it was. Just because he was previously at Northern Arizona doesn't make him unqualified to coach at OU.

 

[atlantasooner]

Am I wrong or is Steve Henson not the next coach at OU depending upon how he does as head coach in his new job??

 

[WTSooner]

Am I wrong or is Steve Henson not the next coach at OU depending upon how he does as head coach in his new job??

IMO, that's like saying Lincoln Riley is the next OU HC for football.

I certainly hope OU has promised Henson anything.

 

[oukyle]

Hollis has been at UH since 2014, so he has been in coaching for longer and at a bigger profile school than Kevin Kruger's resume. Helps to have the right daddy sometimes.

Who in the world has said or thinks that Kevin Kruger is the next OU coach?