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College hoops coaching firing/hiring thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by micropolitan guy, Mar 8, 2007.

  1. Freelance Hack

    Freelance Hack Active Member

    Guess getting hot down the stretch wasn't good enough for Heath. Perhaps UK fans/administration isn't the worst in the SEC after all.

    He'll land at some mid-major and help them overachieve
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    It's spelled Gillispie
     
  3. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    What, no mention of Ritchie McKay landing at Liberty? God planned it, I'm sure.
     
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Yeah, there will be a lot of musical-chairs going on in the next few weeks, and quite a few mid-major/ lower-level BCS jobs are going to open up. Heath will nab one of them. If not, he's a natural for TV.
     
  5. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Arkansas seems like they are wanting an NCAA investigation.
    The graduation rate goes from zero under Richardson to 60 plus percent under Heath, better than the campus average. Plus Heath has wo 20 plus games the last two seasons, made it to the NCAA tournament in both years and beat at least two Sweet 16 teams this year and that's enough to get him fired after building the program back from the hell on Earth that was created when Richardson was fired.
    So in a 2-month span, the men's coach was fired, the women's coach was fired, the AD has announced his resignation and the football coach was on the hot seat all season and was nearly fired. And may get fired next season, or forced to resign.
    Wow, I don't ever remember a major program with that much turnover.
     
  6. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Makes the timing of Heath's firing all the more suspicious, doesn't it?

    Arkansas will pay what it takes to get Gillispie. Their boosters have Wal-Mart and Tyson money and can hold their own against some rich Aggies.

    As I forecast previously, this is Frank Broyles' final act and he will want to ensure that his legacy is in place for a long, long time.

    Even without the SEC tie-in ... this is no lateral move. Arkansas owns a national title, a national runner-up and six (or seven, I forget) Final Fours. And it has a 20,000-seat Bud Bowl. It was a national power in the late 1970s and early '80s in Eddie Sutton's heyday and again in the '90s under Nolan.

    Frank Broyles wants to bring back the glory days and Billy Clyde is as close to a sure bet as there is.
     
  7. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    Have fun with that, Cosmo. The ABQ media just loved hearing about God's plan regarding Lobo hoops.
     
  8. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Unfortunately, with my readership, he's got an audience for that drivel. ::)

    Former CSU coach Dale Layer will probably end up on McKay's staff, too.
     
  9. D-3 Fan

    D-3 Fan Well-Known Member

    That's what we thought in Iowa City too. That is, until some his boys from FCA starting pressing the woman to drop the charges against Pierce. Apparently, the 700 Club wasn't interested in that drivel either.

    Cosmo, I can only tell you this, it isn't going to be pretty after his fourth year running the Lobos. Jon Miller of Hawkeye Nation pulled this out from the attic and it's a good read. Whoever wrote this for the Basketball Times in 1999 was a soothsayer to a T about Iowa, it's fans, and the expectations. We're the small-town version of Kentucky, without the fucking loons.

    http://iowa.scout.com/2/629869.html
     
  10. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Arkansas won't get Gillispie. I really, really don't think so. A&M is going to ask for one or two days, approve its salary package, and try to get Gillispie to sign right there. The regents were doing this to head off a UK enticement, not Ark. But, man, I'd just be floored if he did it. That's not even a lateral move. If you look at the facilities, the recruits, the leagues, the athletic departments...it's just not a lateral move.

    Arkansas is also persuing someone else as we speak. That person, I think they'll get. Arkansas' brass should be commended. They're making a run at Gillispie, and the Plan B is, in my opinion, the better coach anyhow.
     
  11. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    D-3 ... I cover Liberty, not New Mexico, so I won't have to worry about Alford.
     
  12. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Following up my previous post, South Florida gets turned down by Winthrop's Gregg Marshall. This coaching search may not end well unless the interest by Heath is legit.
     
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