NCAA Coaching changes

[Maverick008]

I know nothing about this guy but he seems pretty confident in his source...

https://twitter.com/townbrad/status/1375628282155175937

 

[Dignon003]

South Carolina prolly gonna open.

I’ll say Altman to Texas. Maybe beard....

Maybe boyton to South Carolina?

South Carolina is negotiating to keep Frank Martin. I don’t think it’s opening up.

 

[CoachTalk]

South Carolina is negotiating to keep Frank Martin. I don’t think it’s opening up.

I was almost right. When a report comes out like this. It’s a bad deal!!!

 

[WichitaSooner]

Utah hiring Craig Smith.

 

[TINY]

Utah hiring Craig Smith.

Makes sense. If he had ties to this part of the country I would have been more interested in him as the Sooners next head man.

 

[red recluse]

mike woodson to indiana. what?

 

[thegreyghost]

Former Indiana Player under Knight NBA experience, Thad Matta to be assistant coach/Asst AD they couldn’t get Beard or Musselman so might appease those Knight Diehards.

 

[mict085]

Former Indiana Player under Knight NBA experience, Thad Matta to be assistant coach/Asst AD they couldn’t get Beard or Musselman so might appease those Knight Diehards.

Yeah but he’s 63. Seems a bit of a reach.

 

[euphguy]

Is it really worse? Would coaches see it as a 'basketball school'?

+1

 

[soonerdanny]

+1

I mean, think it through for just two seconds. It's not hard. Marquette just hired a mediocrity of a coach that Texas was itching to run out of town.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

Reports are saying Royal Ivey is a favorite for the Texas job....

 

[WTSooner]

Reports are saying Royal Ivey is a favorite for the Texas job....

Talk about a school that can't get out of their own way when it comes to coaching hires.

Ivey MIGHT work out, but he is high risk, high reward. Really thought Beard would be the guy, but maybe the coffers are running dry after buying out Vodka Tom.

 

[Max Power]

Talk about a school that can't get out of their own way when it comes to coaching hires.

Ivey MIGHT work out, but he is high risk, high reward. Really thought Beard would be the guy, but maybe the coffers are running dry after buying out Vodka Tom.

they did spend a lot on herman and his assistants buyouts, then Sarks buyout to bama, then sark and his assistants salaries.

Plus their new arena is already 50 million over budget with a year until opening

 

[BCSooners]

they did spend a lot on herman and his assistants buyouts, then Sarks buyout to bama, then sark and his assistants salaries.

Plus their new arena is already 50 million over budget with a year until opening

Amazing!

 

[soonerdanny]

Talk about a school that can't get out of their own way when it comes to coaching hires.

Ivey MIGHT work out, but he is high risk, high reward. Really thought Beard would be the guy, but maybe the coffers are running dry after buying out Vodka Tom.

Texas can pay Beard more than Tech is paying him, but they're not going to give a basketball coach a higher salary than the football coach, so they wouldn't be paying him that much more than he's getting now. Beard lived in Austin during his college years, obviously, but he wasn't born there and hasn't lived there since, and his ties to Tech and the Lubbock area are much stronger now. This is why the UT folks I know believe that a moderate raise will not be enough to pry him away from where he is already established and worshipped. I imagine Beard's plan is to stay put until a blue blood comes calling with a $6+ million per year offer.

 

[Romulus]

UT is waiting until Apr 1 when Beards buyout drops by a million dollars. I think they are interviewing Ivey out of respect to former players.

 

[soonerdanny]

they did spend a lot on herman and his assistants buyouts, then Sarks buyout to bama, then sark and his assistants salaries.

Plus their new arena is already 50 million over budget with a year until opening

Where's your source for this? This article from December came up in a Google search. It says "Construction of the 15,000-capacity arena remains on time and on budget during the pandemic."

https://www.pollstar.com/article/jeff-nickler-and-casey-sparks-to-run-moody-center-146917

It doesn't really matter either way though, because UT is not paying for the construction of the arena.

 

[allday92]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1376571099648036872?s=20[/tweet]

 

[Kewllane]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1376571099648036872?s=20[/tweet]

I actually really like Boynton. I think he's a really good, genuine guy.

But good grief, that's a big commitment to a guy who just had the best player in basketball and only got him because he hired his brother to be on staff.

I'm still not convinced on how good of a coach he actually is.

 

[thebigabd]

Talk about a school that can't get out of their own way when it comes to coaching hires.

Ivey MIGHT work out, but he is high risk, high reward. Really thought Beard would be the guy, but maybe the coffers are running dry after buying out Vodka Tom.

Ivey is actually younger and significantly less experienced than Quannas White to be a college head coach.

But hey, I hope he gets an opportunity. I am sure he's a talented guy who can get it done.

We need more of these types of hires in sports. Players need a better path into coaching... Ivey played basketball for 11 years while lots of other guys (who couldn't play usually) started coaching during that time... Then when the player wants to coach, he basically has to cut off another 10 years to get the experience the other guy had. We've seen some good progress on that, and more programs need to be willing to do it.