It's that time of year: College coach carousel!

I'm stupid. I need help from someone as smart as you.

You take the time to research my posts, but not the five seconds to cut and paste a staement. I am so sorry to waste your time. It must be much more valuable than mine.

I'll stop responding to your posts.

Or maybe the exact text is not there.

 

Oh, it's there.

Found it: http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/3017433/

I'll help you even more:

Now, answer the question. You've dodged it for half a day in two different threads.

 

You have a problem with me saying VCU had the three best players on the floor when they played Purdue?

They did. The rest of the tourney proved that Skeen, Rodriguez and Burgess were better than the players Purdue had on the floor.

Are you hung up that Skeen, Rodriguez and Burgess were not blue chip recruits? Well Skeen was a four star recruit (http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/skeen_jamie00.html), Rodriguez was a three star recruit and Burgess was a two star recruit.

Even though Skeen was a four star recruit, that does not make him a blue chipper. Those are five star players.

Look at any year (http://rivals.yahoo.com/basketballrecruiting/basketball/recruiting/rankings/rank-rivals150/2007) and you can see the blue chips are always blue chips.

What exact question do you want me to answer?

 

Yeah, awful hire. The only good thing that could come out of it for Missouri will be if Frank Martin leaves to fill the opening at Miami.

 

Completely fucking ridiculous. Opting for Quin Snyder over Bill Self was a mistake, and we know that now. But Snyder was perhaps the hottest commodity in college basketball at the time.

Mike Anderson was a fantastic hire... especially in the wake of the hot mess Snyder left behind. And Alden still damn near got fired on the day Anderson was introduced.

Hiring Frank fucking Haith is a fireable offense. Complete fucking joke.

 

Is Haith really that bad a hire? As pointed out, getting anything out of Miami is pretty impressive these days. They're the worst basketball school in the ACC, but Haith at least kept them competitive when it would have been very easy for them to fall to Wake Forest levels. Sometimes treading water in a storm surge is more impressive than being Michael Phelps in a wading pool.

 

I think they could have done a lot worse. Painter would have been better, but Haith has had some middling success in a program with zero support and zero tradition.

On another note, what happened to all the black coaches in the ACC? Just two years ago, more than half the league's coaches were black. That's Haith, Lowe, Hewitt, Leitao, Purnell and Skinner gone in that time. Leonard Hamilton had better watch his back.

 

Maybe he'll be the Gene Chizik of basketball. In other words, Missouri will be on probation in three years...

 

But with a national title?

 

Looks like Shaka to NC State is almost a done deal. $12 million for six years? I'm glad Missouri didn't pay that, although who the hell knows what they paid for the clown it just hired.

http://www.accsports.com/blogs/david-glenn/2011040410199/nc-state-update-shaka-smart-answer-coming-soon.php

 

From reading stuff online, it sounds like there's about to be riots in Columbia over this hire (OK, a little overdramatic, but still).

Haith may have had middling success at Miami, but there's no way in the world that the case can be made that this is the best coach they could attract to Columbia. He may not be in the top 30 candidates, once you start with the qualified mid-major coaches, assistants at top BCS-conference schools, retreads who are looking for jobs and coaches at other solid D-I programs who may be looking for a change of scenery.

I think it's clear that the Missouri AD was denied by Painter and Tubby Smith (that we know of), and he was not going to take the chance of having another coach tell him no and this hire being labeled as his No. 4 choice.

I see where the Board of Governors is meeting today to approve the contract. Is there a chance they don't approve it? That may placate the fan base, but they would basically have to fire the AD after that, and I can't imagine any other coach willing to even talk to Mizzou about the job, knowing they could get denied at the last minute and have to go crawling back to their old job.