NCAA Coaching changes

How would the board rank the available coaching jobs? Have seen a lot of tweets that the Texas job is now the #1 opening over Indiana, and maybe it's the sooner fan in me, but not sure I agree.

Here is how I would rank them:

1. Indiana
2a. Oklahoma
2b. Marquette (now filled by Shaka Smart)
3. Texas
4. Utah
5. Any other available openings.

Bias aside, is Texas really a better opening than Oklahoma?
 
allday92 said:
How would the board rank the available coaching jobs? Have seen a lot of tweets that the Texas job is now the #1 opening over Indiana, and maybe it's the sooner fan in me, but not sure I agree.

Here is how I would rank them:

1. Indiana
2a. Oklahoma
2b. Marquette (now filled by Shaka Smart)
3. Texas
4. Utah
5. Any other available openings.

Bias aside, is Texas really a better opening than Oklahoma?
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on your question aobut texas being better than oklahoma, it's close.

We have a much better basketball tradition. Fan support for both is probably about equal. Texas is a better state for high school than oklahoma, but we have no problem getting texas kids. The big one is texas is about to open an new arena and we still have the LNC
 
allday92 said:
How would the board rank the available coaching jobs? Have seen a lot of tweets that the Texas job is now the #1 opening over Indiana, and maybe it's the sooner fan in me, but not sure I agree.

Here is how I would rank them:

1. Indiana
2a. Oklahoma
2b. Marquette (now filled by Shaka Smart)
3. Texas
4. Utah
5. Any other available openings.

Bias aside, is Texas really a better opening than Oklahoma?
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Depends on what you're after. More potential money. Better recruiting bases. Better fan support (marginally). WAY more scrutiny. WAY more jerks wanting you fired at every turn.

OU is a better job in that you can get paid the same, perform well, and be left alone. You perform well at Texas, and they want to fire you.
 
allday92 said:
How would the board rank the available coaching jobs? Have seen a lot of tweets that the Texas job is now the #1 opening over Indiana, and maybe it's the sooner fan in me, but not sure I agree.

Here is how I would rank them:

1. Indiana
2a. Oklahoma
2b. Marquette (now filled by Shaka Smart)
3. Texas
4. Utah
5. Any other available openings.

Bias aside, is Texas really a better opening than Oklahoma?
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Texas has close to 30 million people, better facilities, larger resources (money), more players in the NBA. You make the call.
 
allday92 said:
How would the board rank the available coaching jobs? Have seen a lot of tweets that the Texas job is now the #1 opening over Indiana, and maybe it's the sooner fan in me, but not sure I agree.

Here is how I would rank them:

1. Indiana
2a. Oklahoma
2b. Marquette (now filled by Shaka Smart)
3. Texas
4. Utah
5. Any other available openings.

Bias aside, is Texas really a better opening than Oklahoma?
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I'd put OU and UT side by side, in front of Marquette. Just b/c nobody has succeeded there doesn't mean UT isn't a good job. I think the biggest advantages they have on OU is proximity to recruiting grounds and money. OU had a better administration and history.
 
allday92 said:
How would the board rank the available coaching jobs? Have seen a lot of tweets that the Texas job is now the #1 opening over Indiana, and maybe it's the sooner fan in me, but not sure I agree.

Here is how I would rank them:

1. Indiana
2a. Oklahoma
2b. Marquette (now filled by Shaka Smart)
3. Texas
4. Utah
5. Any other available openings.

Bias aside, is Texas really a better opening than Oklahoma?
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Good post. I’d have OU and Texas tied at 2nd and Marquette at 3rd.
 
WTSooner said:
I'd put OU and UT side by side, in front of Marquette. Just b/c nobody has succeeded there doesn't mean UT isn't a good job. I think the biggest advantages they have on OU is proximity to recruiting grounds and money. OU had a better administration and history.
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Agreed
 
Marquette is a very good soft landing for Shaka. It's a basketball school in the Big East. Finish middle of the pack there, you're in the tournament. Also, he grew up near Madison. It's not a better job than Texas, but for Shaka, it probably is.

And, re: Mike Boynton. He is from Brooklyn, but played at South Carolina. OSU has been good to him, but if USC-East makes it worth his while, he may bolt.
 
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MrAnderson said:
I dont get it. Why take a worse job? Was he expecting to be fired?
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Stikboy said:
So to be clear UT never fired him, he just pursued the Marquette gig?
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Is it really that hard to figure out?

It's in both UT's and Smart's interests for him to move on. He has been almost a total failure, one almost meaningless Big 12 tourney title aside. Their team next year is going to be terrible, at least if he's coaching it, and he would be a virtual lock to be fired. Now he has four years of job security and doesn't have to have getting canned on his resume.

From UT's perspective, $7+ million is a big price tag for firing a basketball coach, especially just after eating Herman's buyout. They would need to extend him at this point for recruiting purposes, but how can you give him a meaningful extension after what he has produced so far? So the AD strongly suggests that he look around and no doubt provides a good word for him, Shaka is not fired, UT pays no buyout, and both UT and Smart are both better off than if he had stayed.

Some "in the know" Texas basketball folks said that their AD wanted to find Shaka a soft landing last year too but it didn't work out.
 
WTSooner said:
I'd put OU and UT side by side, in front of Marquette. Just b/c nobody has succeeded there doesn't mean UT isn't a good job. I think the biggest advantages they have on OU is proximity to recruiting grounds and money. OU had a better administration and history.
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The list of programs that wouldn't happily take what Rick Barnes did there in his first dozen or so years -- 3 Big 12 championships, 5 Sweet 16s, 3 Elite 8s, a Final 4, a couple of 30 win seasons, and several top 10 finishes in the polls -- is a pretty short one.

He definitely succeeded there for quite a while by almost any program's measure, and then things just got stale at the end.
 
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Texas isn’t a better job than Indiana or Oklahoma. Texas has more money and great recruiting area. And they have very little to show for it. Their fans don’t support their program any more than ours do. They just have more money.
 
Chris Beard to Texas gaining momentum tonight...makes me wanna puke
 
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