Leonard Hamilton in his last year

[NickZepp]

Hamilton Submits Resignation Effective At End Of Season - Florida State University

TALLAHASSEE – Florida State University men's basketball head coach Leonard Hamilton announced Monday that he is resigning as head coach effective at the end ...

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He's been there since 2002. He was the coach at Miami and Oklahoma State before that.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Hamilton Submits Resignation Effective At End Of Season - Florida State University

TALLAHASSEE – Florida State University men's basketball head coach Leonard Hamilton announced Monday that he is resigning as head coach effective at the end ...

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He's been there since 2002. He was the coach at Miami and Oklahoma State before that.

Great career. Should be a hall of famer. Resurrected a bad OSU program after the Paul Hansen era. Maybe his biggest contribution was giving Bill Self his first coaching job.

 

[waddys ghost]

GOF ? Based on what ? Billy Tubbs is not in and has better win % 609-317 .658 compared to Hamilton656-500 .567 , better NCAA tourney record (18-12 vs 14-11 ) . In addition Billy won 8 regular season CCs and tourney CCs compared to Hamilton 2 and 1 . In addition Tubbs had a Final Four and an Elite Eight team ,Hamilton ...nada .Billy averaged exactly 21 wins per season ,Hamilton 17 .3 . No way LH deserves to be a Hall of Famer if Billy is not .

 

[TINY]

Great career. Should be a hall of famer. Resurrected a bad OSU program after the Paul Hansen era. Maybe his biggest contribution was giving Bill Self his first coaching job.

His resume is not very close to HoF imo.

 

[NickZepp]

Other than coaching for 40 years there's not that much there. But he'll probably get in before a Billy Tubbs for political reasons. He's never been to a Final 4. Won't go this year unless FSU wins the ACC and goes on a NC State run like last year.

 

[WaymanFan]

Billy Tubbs lost TWO home games in SEVEN years. Coach K can't even make that claim. I'm not sure anyone other than John Wooden accomplished that. It was so impressive that Coach K wanted to bring his team to Norman in hopes of preparing his team to finally get over the hump and win a Natty (mission accomplished). Forget the Final Four. There is nothing Leonard Hamilton accomplished which lands in the same galaxy as two home loses in seven years. I'd be very disappointed if he was enshrined before Billy Tubbs.

 

[NickZepp]

Tubbs hasn't coached in 20 years he should have been in a long time ago.

 

[mict085]

Hamilton is a dang good coach and a good guy. I guess I’m getting old because it doesn’t seem like he’s been at FSU 20 years.

 

[NickZepp]

Hamilton is a dang good coach and a good guy. I guess I’m getting old because it doesn’t seem like he’s been at FSU 20 years.

It took him till his 7th year at both Miami and Florida State to get to the NCAA Tournament

 

[mict085]

It took him till his 7th year at both Miami and Florida State to get to the NCAA Tournament

Both programs that had no history and were dead when he got there. He succeeded at osu when they were nothing. He succeeded at Miami and fsu when they were nothing. That’s not easy to do and it was before NIL when you had to do it the old fashioned way.

 

[skyvue]

Both programs that had no history and were dead when he got there. He succeeded at osu when they were nothing. He succeeded at Miami and fsu when they were nothing. That’s not easy to do and it was before NIL when you had to do it the old fashioned way.

He was 56–63--21-35 in conference--at oswho, with two NIT appearances that both resulted in second-round losses. His best season there was 17-13 and a tie for fourth place in the Big 8. Does that count as success for a HOF candidate?

 

[Seymore Cox]

He was 56–63--21-35 in conference--at oswho, with two NIT appearances that both resulted in second-round losses. His best season there was 17-13 and a tie for fourth place in the Big 8. Does that count as success for a HOF candidate?

If you knew anything out the Paul Hansen era you would think differently.

 

[AnotherSoonerInTX]

If you knew anything out the Paul Hansen era you would think differently.

Yep. Leonard came in as they had just remodeled their arena and it went from Gallagher Hall to Gallagher-Iba Arena. This was pre-expansion, so it still only held 6 or 7,000. Still, OSU was starting to invest in hoops due to Billy's success down the road.

OSU's football program later cratered, they hired Eddie to coach men's hoops, expanded their arena, and generated enough revenue through basketball to stay afloat and in a major conference before the Pickens donations came along.

 

[SuperHoops]

Bill Self's first coaching job was for Larry Brown at KU.

Great career. Should be a hall of famer. Resurrected a bad OSU program after the Paul Hansen era. Maybe his biggest contribution was giving Bill Self his first coaching job.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Bill Self's first coaching job was for Larry Brown at KU.

He was a GA

 

[sanguinetti]

I never thought Leonard was "all that". He does have longevity. I thought he bailed he pretty quick at Ok State. There could be legit reasons for that on his end.

Lately, FSU has seemed like a team (like us lately) that fancied up a good record, good up some ESPN headlines.... and then were'nt that tough in conference and/or NCAA play.

My respect to Leonard Hamilton for coaching this long but no way I can support he's in before Billy Tubbs.

edit: i'mma back off a little since he had a good run 3/4 years in the sweet 16 and 8 and his best record team was the Covid cancel year. tough luck.

He did a lot good work at the end of his career. Respect. I'd take even teams Billy v. Leonard.

 

[Skeeter1]

He was a GA

Was taught by the best at cheating. Boomer

 

[mict085]

Billy Tubbs should be in the HOF. No question.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Bill Self's first coaching job was for Larry Brown at KU.