Good question why does that happen? I agree he fact that this is another Kruger hire adds a lot more suspicion.
Let's assume he just applied for the jobs you listed Rice, McNeese and Buffalo. So he isn't good enough to coach at Rice, McNeese or Buffalo but he is at UNLV? I know our program has fallen but I don't think it has fallen to the level of taking Buffalo's leavings.
Kruger "hit his ceiling here" thengot to a final four with Hartman.
No not really because you are basing everything your saying on someone who has not done anything as a HC! Lol
Big difference between being excited about a recruiting assistant and being excited about someone who is going to lead our program
You asked about how he is elevated other teams. Being a lead assistant at 2 separate places that are amongst the best on the country at the time is just that.
I think hiring the assistant for the coach we just fired is a bad look
And if we are giving him credit while an assistant at FL then we have to blame him for the short time he was here. It wasn't like we went downhill after his departure.
Actually it did, second year was a disaster. First season was supposed to be a postseason appearance but CKK was unprepared/unmotivated at New Mexico.
Then he will be offered by many other jobs at our level that have been open … for the last several years, no? Lew and Steve were long time Kruger assistants. They got jobs as HC.
So we are above SDSU, Duke, and even Arizona?
The guys you mentioned are the exceptions not the norm! We don’t know if Hartman is even sniffing that level? Hartman could have coached at a lower level if he wanted to there are openings every year.
You can go online and see Lloyd continuously turned down head coaching interviews. Scheyer wasn’t an assistant for 20 years. Interestingly enough he interviewed at UNLV. According to Dutcher he interviewed but never was enticed enough to leave SDSU especially since he knew he was the likely replacement. Of course both of those guys replaced already successful programs. How come nothing online about Hartman interviewing? Where these interviews in secret? This push for him is sounding a lot like your push for Menzies.
My push Menzies? TF??
When did the portal open, and was it as prominent?
There wasn't a portal then. ( started 2 years after he was hired. ) Also there wasn't an annual transfer rule.
Spot on!! We need to hire a guy with head coaching experience that has had success, no more srewing around! UNLV shouldn't be the place we're you hire guys with no head coaching experience, let them prove themselves in a low major school first. We can't have that low major mindset! Kevin Kruger should have never gotten the job, it's that simple!!!
There's 2 names I can think of that are still coaching- Turner and Kennedy.. Kennedy fits 100% the Harper model buy has a 4 million dollar buyout, which is a huge issue I'm guessing. Both coach against each other this week in NIT.
I like either better than an assistant!
Crutchfield is not d2. Omaha, summit league with the likes of north dakota and south Dallas schools. Has kc, Denver, st thomas from st paul mn, and an Indiana hyphenated school in the league also.
You’d have to ask the other schools why they aren’t considering him, and maybe they did but it wasn’t public. Either way, it doesn’t really matter now does it? The other question I have is…why does UNLV have to do what everyone else is doing?
Still pass on the assistant, just hope he does not go that route!
I heard he interviewed Coach K yesterday and Coach K was very nervous. He was stuttering, fumbling his answers, and even accidentally referred to Jerry Tarkanian as "my dad." It was a very awkward interview and Harper politely told him he would be moving on with another candidate.
Assistant or not, it’s about the vision. Ultimately if he hired an experienced HC and yields the same results as the last ten years, it’s not really going to matter now is it?
callie from lvrj reported Coach K had urinated all over himself at the sight of the UNLV logo and had to excuse himself.
Different Crutchfield, Jim Crutchfield from Nova Southeastern is who I was talking about. IMO, would be a great hire.
I think 4M would be too high. Sometimes you can negotiate down, that could have been the case with Dixon. Pitt WANTED to dump him when he was hired at TCU, so they were able to negotiate the buyout down.
Also, just because a coach has a certain amount of his contract remaining, that doesn't mean the buyout is that amount, right? Even with Mullen, his buyout is not close to equal to his total contract amount. It just depends on how they're structured.
Should have included those two, don’t think either is a real possibility based on different reasons but I should have included them.
His buyout is structured to be the remaining amount on his contract... his salary is 1 million a year through 2029 with a 100k increase
