I am 100%. Also, who else is available? Marshall? Wade? After that there is a big drop off. I am not tied to Marshall. But like you, I remember some of Marshall's WSU teams and they had "toughness" as you pointed out.
Harper....The next UNLV head basketball coach
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Marshall has baggage but his would be intriguing.
But who knows, maybe Harper has another Odom out of left field type of hire up his sleeve, for hoops!
Nobody’s worried about Harper.
People are just believing there’s millions of dollars just sitting around at unlv and can easily afford Wade’s buyout plus 3-4 million in annual salary. Marshall, same thing.
Have we not learned anything from the Rick Pitino sagas? Not to mention there’s P5 options for these coaches. I can see more than a few openings like Arizona State and that’s a school that Kruger may end up at as a staff member. IMO.
I call this trickle down, college basketball. The more publicly that college players get paid..the less I want to watch.
Putting my economics class that I took to use here. My thoughts are inelastic and it’s not going to change.
You can’t have a name that doesn’t win. You can have a no name that wins. That’s long term stuff.
But if you want early interest, you don’t hire Horton Poser. I don’t even know how the guy is doing, tbh, I’d be surprised if he was anything other than a slow growther type. But I wouldn’t want him here. I’d rather have him than your stamps of approval like Menzies, but still wouldn’t want him here.
I get it, you and maybe a few others here don’t believe there’s money but I believe if there is a move in the works and Harper has it all laid out.
TimothyC3’s original post laid it out here.
You can re-read it if you need clarification.
Rehashing what happened in the past is just that, the past! Your opinion is there’s no money and Kevin may be coming back because of it. I think the opposite!
We will see who’s right in a month, see you then!
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It made me look up Poser. Oklahoma was an NCAAT regular before Poser. Three years of NO NCAAT, an NIT, mediocre record, poor in conference (both deviations from prior years). Maybe he makes it? If so, perhaps it’s an argument for slow growth? But the program has, with great evidence, DROPPED since he took over.
It’s relatively similar to the results we are producing right now.
2 NCAAT’s in his 20 years of head coaching. Sign me up. Career .554 winning percentage. It’s relatively similar to the results we are producing right now. Kevin at .590. And Hoser Morton had 17 years of fluffy league play to really pump that sucker up.
Yeah, yeah, the poster child for slow growth, lol. I’m all in. I can see why you were so high on Poser and Menzies and why I wasn’t. And you can toss Turner into that pile. Same with Pastersack.
KK won’t be back. The media might not be saying it. But he won’t be back.
On the $$$$ issue, if you told me 90 days ago that Odom will leave for Purdue at the end of the season and that UNLV will pay his replacement $3.5 mill it would have tough to believe based on history. But it happened! Also, I do recognize that Vegas is rapidly changing and it appears the Resort Association and Gaming see value in college athletics and more specifically UNLV. I don't think UNLV goes cheap this time and I would think Harper has a lot of good will with the $$$$` people. We shall see.
