2011 College Basketball Coaching Changes Thread

Pierce9999 · Post by **Pierce9999** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:22 pm

Winslow05 wrote:I would take Bruce Pearl here in a second. All his baggage, and this game asside, he is a great recruiter, great in game coach, and he is as enthusiatic about the game as you can be. He has a personality that could even get our fanbase excited.

And he would take 2 mil to take the job here too...oops we arent paying anyone that kind of ching. So much for that...when are you people going to understand that we arent going to get a top name here...it's just not going to happen. Calipari was not a big name when he came here....remember?

uz2b-len · Post by **uz2b-len** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:25 pm

If Bob Marcum weren't such a moron, we could have had Jim Larranaga for our coach, and he might still be here, taking us to the Big Dance like he is for George Mason.

sbloombe · Post by **sbloombe** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:19 pm

Here's a hypothetical for you. What happens if Bruce Pearl gets let go by Tennessee (likely, I think), and then expresses interest in coming to UMass. I'm not saying he'd do this, but he is a local guy.

Would you let DK go for Pearl?

Chris20 · Post by **Chris20** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:20 pm

That's not a hypothetical, it's an impossible. And pointless.

Pierce9999 · Post by **Pierce9999** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:29 pm

See above, we'd never be able to pay him half of what he wanted, plus he comes with NCAA baggage...I dont think we'd even consider him to be honest. Oh, and Kansas 28 BU 24 so far...

uz2b-len · Post by **uz2b-len** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:29 pm

Actually, I would not do it this year. I do think it's early to pull the plug on DK. I have zero confidence that he will do any better the next couple of years, that's just opinion, not fact. I could be wrong, and I certainly hope I am. It's been known to happen. But mainly, I think Perl needs to take a year or two off from head coaching, after the mess he made at TN. He needs to figure out how and why he screwed up the way he did, and make the necessary personal changes. Otherwise, he'll repeat the same mistakes wherever he goes. IMHO.

Hoop It Up · Post by **Hoop It Up** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:36 am

Winslow05 wrote:I would take Bruce Pearl here in a second. All his baggage, and this game asside, he is a great recruiter, great in game coach, and he is as enthusiatic about the game as you can be. He has a personality that could even get our fanbase excited.

I don't like him but the guy can coach. No argument there but look what happened at Indiana when they hired Sampson who had lots of baggage. Set the program back at least another 5 years from doing any damage in Big 10.

Sheck · Post by **Sheck** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:20 am

sbloombe wrote:Here's a hypothetical for you. What happens if Bruce Pearl gets let go by Tennessee (likely, I think), and then expresses interest in coming to UMass. I'm not saying he'd do this, but he is a local guy.

Would you let DK go for Pearl?

At this point I wouldn't let DK go for any coach. McCutcheon already stated DK will be the coach for 2011-12. Firing him now would be a really shitty thing to do, especially to an alum.

ElGuapo Hoy · Post by **ElGuapo Hoy** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:36 am

uz2b-len wrote:Actually, I would not do it this year. I do think it's early to pull the plug on DK. I have zero confidence that he will do any better the next couple of years, that's just opinion, not fact. I could be wrong, and I certainly hope I am. It's been known to happen. But mainly, I think Perl needs to take a year or two off from head coaching, after the mess he made at TN. He needs to figure out how and why he screwed up the way he did, and make the necessary personal changes. Otherwise, he'll repeat the same mistakes wherever he goes. IMHO.

If you think it's too early to pull the plug, how can you have no confidence? Et Tu Len?.?

Quinn · Post by **Quinn** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:53 am

senior citizen wrote:Pearl committed serious recruiting violations and then, even more significantly, lied to investigators. That's a whole lot of baggage.

And it's full circle on the life of a coach as Pearl was blacklisted from coaching in a sense for some time because of the stigma of being a rat.

Quinn · Post by **Quinn** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:55 am

Jeez, we already have 1-3 DK/UMass coach threads. Can we have 1 thread that stays on topic and not 100% hypotheticals that are not going to happen?

uz2b-len · Post by **uz2b-len** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:39 am

What I'm saying above is that even though I have zero confidence that doesn't mean there's zero probability.

Quinn · Post by **Quinn** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:19 pm

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Right, because our AD is a big fan of giving our coach a public vote of confidence last week...the coach being a beloved former student/player, and then firing him just to open the position up to hire a guy who would have been FIRED for breaking NCAA regulations. Not a year or two away to let it pass, but a matter of days after the incident at Tennessee hit it's boiling point. I think the college world has learned that lesson already from Indiana.

You want to pitch that to us UMass fans, go for it. But maybe, just maybe, one of the existing threads about DK and the UMass coaching spot would be more appropriate...so we can point fingers and call the idea ridiculous there instead

uz2b-len · Post by **uz2b-len** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:30 pm

I mean, just because I have zero confidence in DK's abiity to become an excellent coach anytime soon doesn't mean there is zero probability of him doing so.

PTrainXL · Post by **PTrainXL** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:53 pm

Bruce Pearl hasta. Wonder who they try and get, Chris Mooney appears to be one of the hot names going, probably a good time for him to leave after he loses all his seniors, and get his big payday.

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