Harper....The next UNLV head basketball coach
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24-44 in conference a 35% winning percentage...puke. And he took over a good team they made the tournament 7 out of 9 years. The previous year to his takeover they advanced to the second round. Then they disappear. No slow build needed, the team was doing great and there are few schools with more resources than OU. He is a bust. Plain and simple.
Gotta admit, great game last night between Kentucky at OU. Nip and tuck the entire way, high level entertaining basketball, both teams making huge plays down the stretch. A lot on the line, for UK, they’re playing for seeding, for OU, fighting to get into the field of 68.
In a bizarre ending, a former OU player now playing for UK hits an unlikely twisty off balance thing near the rim with a few seconds left to take a 1 pt lead, OU drives the length of the floor only to have a layup attempt swatted/swallowed up at the buzzer. UK wins by a point.
Highly entertaining for any fan of basketball, competition.
In a bizarre ending, a former OU player now playing for UK hits an unlikely twisty off balance thing near the rim with a few seconds left to take a 1 pt lead, OU drives the length of the floor only to have a layup attempt swatted/swallowed up at the buzzer. UK wins by a point.
Highly entertaining for any fan of basketball, competition.
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Looks like there may be a lot of good openings for the best coaching candidates to go to. Rebs may get stuck with one of the fired losers.College basketball hot seat rankings: Where 17 underwhelming coaches stand as high-major carousel picks up
Polling our college basketball experts on where high-major coaches stand amid shaky seasons
Well we have tunnel vision when it comes to a job opening for the UNLV basketball program. We don’t consider other programs are always looking to upgrade and we don’t have $$$ to compete with the Texas Techs and Oklahomas.
I think that’s the biggest thing about it.
We need to look at schools with openings that can afford 1.5 to 2, then we need to find a coach that fits into that bracket and hope that he’s not pulled away by somebody with interest that can afford 2.5-3. There really is a sweet spot. You have to find peer schools, fit is always important.
Plus recruiting is going to get harder and harder for any new coach going from p4 to G5. With the average NIL for P4 in basketball at $ 171,000 vs less than $ 20,000 for G5 it will take some smooth talking to get the players needed to compete nationally. Admittedly, our NIL is the best or nearly the best in the MW, but it's nowhere near what a P4 coach has.
When you say best in MWC does that mean Football or Basketball? Is the NIL fund all one big pot or is it separate for each sport? We could have the largest for football and smallest for basketball.
Early in the season, I read somewhere a Mountain West coach (I think Wyoming BB) complaining that our NIL was the biggest in the Mountain West. Beyond that I have no inside info comparing NIL from Mountain West program to program.
