A bunch of the media tried to push the cooley is a good x and o coach narrative down um fans throats because they are friends with him and he feeds them info. Whenever um fans( probably the biggest amount of analytical fans in college sports) would post stats showing the opposite, they would just respond with crap like this.
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Refs mucking up the Oklahoma/ Creighton game.
I thought he was one coach that would benefit from an interview and who Manuel thought enough of to do him a favor. I wonder what the search would have looked like if Juwan wasn’t pretty much a sure thing?
Was it the case that they were fixed on Juwan pretty early? Did not know that. Basketball needs its own John U. Bacon.
I don’t know how early they knew it would be Juwan, but I’d bet it was before Cooley’s interview. It certainly would be nice to have a look inside the process.
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Quinn and Baumgartner went in depth on the coaching change in one of their podcasts on the athletic
Thanks. I subscribed recently but haven’t explored the podcasts.
From what I remember Baumgardner was under the impression that Cooley was going to be the head coach when Warde went to Florida to interview Cooley and Howard. Interviewing Howard was just a formality.
Quinn was under the opposite impression basically.
Either way it seemed like Cooley was a top-2 candidate. Frank Martin and Lavall Jordan were two other candidates had neither Cooley or Howard worked out.
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Lavall has a crazy high buyout. I think he would have been a serious candidate if not for that. I don’t believe he was with Butler insisting on it.
I don’t ever trust people to say who their favorites were in a coaching search. Playing their cards close to their chest is so important during the search. There’s a lot you can’t say after it’s over.
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Definitely dodged a bullet with Cooley (and Frank Martin if it came to that). What an awful hire that would’ve been
Would hope to be wrong, but IMO there are a rare few coaches at the top who haven’t done their share of cheating and conniving to be there, and a rarer few who are really appealing human beings. (This is why I often wish schools would take more chances on bright up-and-comers, though I get that there is enormous pressure not to take multi-million dollar chances on them.) I have to admit that I have something of a soft spot for Frank Martin. I don’t, OTOH, assume he’d have made a hugely successful coach.
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send to josh Christopher
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Is it wrong that I enjoy watching Bobby Hurley’s teams get absolutely trucked?
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Nope! That guy is a jackass every single time a call doesn’t go his way. His sideline decorum is abominable.
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The ZAGS will put UNC on the Bubble Tonight…5 loses before XMAS…the 5 star is out for 4 weeks. They will scramble to make the 64.
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I realize the gift would only be fully realized by March, but man, that is Christmas coming early this year!
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Not to mention if you are a longtime Michigan fan, there are a million reasons to dislike him from his playing days.
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Wow, Utah held on but that was the worst late game execution I’ve ever seen. They literally did everything they could to try and lose that game. Twice not fouling up three and letting Kentucky get off open looks from deep.
Not to mention they turned it over three times in a row up 6 with 1:35 to go. Kentucky just ripped them and took it away like they were playing a high school jv team.
So I knew that St. Mary’s destroyed ASU last night but this box score is truly bizarre: 43 of ASU’s 56 points were scored by one player, a backup, and only three players successfully put the ball through the basket.
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Josh is clearly distraught by ASU’s horrid play
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