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Better than hiring an assistant with “no” head coaching experience!Candidate emerges in UNLV basketball coaching search
Arkansas State coach Bryan Hodgson has emerged as a candidate for the UNLV basketball coaching opening.
Also says we have interviewed roughly 25 candidates so far ranging from college coaches to NBA personnel
He has a great pedigree though. Better we get someone from the Nate Oats coaching tree than some random assistant somewhere
Former lead recruiter at Bama who got Brandon Miller to go there.. #2 overall pick Brandon Miller..
An interesting little blurb about G league coaches, wonder if Harper has talked to Colby Karl, Mike Miller, or Joseph Blair (might be a Harper connection with Arizona ties) etc.
Those are very interesting names. I haven't followed Colby's career much lately but I'm sure he learned a lot from his dad
Keatts comes from Pitino's coaching tree, and was the lead recruiter at Louisville during Pitino's last run there. Recruited multiple top 50 guys including DeShawn Mitchell and multiple NBA guys. Turned around UNC Wlmington and went dancing twice but had some troubles at NCState.
Keatts is okay as a candidate, not an A list guy but he would be way better than any assistant with no coaching experience!
I'm not sure I'm stanning for him, just trying to give clear context. He was the lead recruiter at Louisville from 2014 to 2017, which believe it or not means the majority of his career there was less than 10 years ago. Calhoun's last year was 2011, and his lead recruiter was Kevin Ollie who won a Nattie with UConn before flaming out with the 3 year show cause penalty. He's radioactive so I can't really think he's an option. But I guess nIce point?
Fair enough!
Thank's for the breaking news Joe!
I didn't lie, but I was definitely wrong. Too many tabs open. That's my bad. Consider my point there rescinded.
I'd rather have Siddle than him 5 sho. I was never advocating for Keatts, just don't think he's as bad as you do. Siddle plays up tempo and way more aggressively.
Wake Forest has a lot of advantages over NCState too, but they just don't have the recent success that Keatts did.
So was Nate Oats. Success at a mid-major doesn't guarantee success at a low major or high major, but most people have success at mid-majors before moving up. The truth is Huss, SIddle, Bucky, or Hodgson might end up more Keatts than Oats at their next stop.
That's fair, I wasn't trying to say you did....just I haven't seen you going after Crean who had a 4 years at UGA that make Keatts seem like Tark and i haven't seen you go after him with the same veracity--but Crean does have a better history.
Depends on what you think I mean?
I don't necessarily disagree with the premise but Keatts would be similar to the equivalent of Hauck... He had success at a lower level, tried to build a program, had a very lucky/decent season with a bowl birth and then fell off and got fired. I dont think you can make the comparison between a fluke Final 4 run with a mediocre team and act like there was something you can recreate there.
Why.. they have nothing to do with each other.
I don’t how you can say a final four run is a fluke, c’mon man, that takes a lot of winning to get there?
Why? UNLV can’t even get to the semis in the conference tournament. Routinely eke out wins vs the Air Forces and then get smoked by Utah State or choke vs Wyoming. Yet we’re thumbing our noses at final four runs and ACC championships.
No I'm thumbing my nose at the premiset that we should hire a coaches who had a pretty mediocre record and was going to be fired but gets saved by a fluke run.
What would you call unlv’s record over the last 10 years if Keatts resume is mediocre?
Awful, which is why we fired 3 coaches and had one fail upwards...doesn't mean I want to add another
