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Who is your top choice to replace KK?

rebel5280 said:
Better than the Kruger “lapdog” Hartman would be!
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I mean, you're telling me getting kicked in the nuts is better than being punched in the nuts, and I'd just prefer my nuts to not be damaged. I don't think either one is particularly a great option. Someone who has never done it, or someone who has proved they can't really do it?
 
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I just posted on X but the more this drags out, I can see something in today's NIT games..
UCI- Turner
UAB- Kennedy
Ark St- Hodgson
We know Hodgson wants a job, but looking at resumes, Kennedy looks exactly like the type of hire that Harper would make. Long P4 stint, had moderate success, now at a mid-major with some success... kinda sense that's a real possibility with how long this process and how tight lipped its been
 
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Couev said:
I mean, you're telling me getting kicked in the nuts is better than being punched in the nuts, and I'd just prefer my nuts to not be damaged. I don't think either one is particularly a great option. Someone who has never done it, or someone who has proved they can't really do it?
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Let’s not speak of “nuts” again though! Lol
 
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Masked_rebel said:
I just posted on X but the more this drags out, I can see something in today's NIT games..
UCI- Turner
UAB- Kennedy
Ark St- Hodgson
We know Hodgson wants a job, but looking at resumes, Kennedy looks exactly like the type of hire that Harper would make. Long P4 stint, had moderate success, now at a mid-major with some success... kinda sense that's a real possibility with how long this process and how tight lipped its been
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Kennedy makes 1 million a year. He’s on an extension through the end of 29. So he has a pretty expensive buyout.
 
Masked_rebel said:
I just posted on X but the more this drags out, I can see something in today's NIT games..
UCI- Turner
UAB- Kennedy
Ark St- Hodgson
We know Hodgson wants a job, but looking at resumes, Kennedy looks exactly like the type of hire that Harper would make. Long P4 stint, had moderate success, now at a mid-major with some success... kinda sense that's a real possibility with how long this process and how tight lipped its been
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Man I hope you are right!

Any one of these guys including Terry is in line with Harper’s m.o. that he has already had success with in football!

I just hope he doesn’t break rank and hire LK’s assistant Hartman!
 
Masked_rebel said:
I just posted on X but the more this drags out, I can see something in today's NIT games..
UCI- Turner
UAB- Kennedy
Ark St- Hodgson
We know Hodgson wants a job, but looking at resumes, Kennedy looks exactly like the type of hire that Harper would make. Long P4 stint, had moderate success, now at a mid-major with some success... kinda sense that's a real possibility with how long this process and how tight lipped its been
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Kennedy is on my revised list of top 5. I would have liked to see more Big Dance invites while at Ole Miss, but he's done a nice job at UAB and plays a fun style. Turner would be last on my list of those 3, not because he's not a good coach, but because I think that Hodgson has more upside, if a much lower floor.
 
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Who is hitmen hoops?
Is this just another guy in his basement with a podcast on YouTube or some “so and so” just talking?!
 
RebelSoldat said:
I'd take Hodgson over Kennedy easily. UAB is also Kennedy's alma mater. I don't see him leaving
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Yeah, he's a Bama boy and I'd be hard pressed to see him leave as well. But his CV is simply more complete than Hodgson's. I understand your valuing potential, but I'd like a combination of potential and more than 1 year of real mid-major success. We can agree to disagree though.
 
Couev said:
Yeah, he's a Bama boy and I'd be hard pressed to see him leave as well. But his CV is simply more complete than Hodgson's. I understand your valuing potential, but I'd like a combination of potential and more than 1 year of real mid-major success. We can agree to disagree though.
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Kennedy is like Frank Martin. He's behind the curve and his X's and O's aren't as attractive as Hodgson's
 
unlv91 said:
What is all this crap with assistant coaches?
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Stansbury was the headman at Mississippi State for 14 years, and then at WKU for another 7 with another 10 years assisting in the SEC and last year with Memphis. One sub .500 season out of 21. Has a career .629 which is pretty solid. I don't love that one, but I'd take him over Hartman especially if he came with some really good recruiting assistants. Penny canned his whole staff to save his job last year.

He's 65 so he's not a long term answer, but he's also a stable guy so he'd be a lower flight risk.

This one does feel like a Harper hire modus operandi.
 
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RebelSoldat said:
Kennedy is like Frank Martin. He's behind the curve and his X's and O's aren't as attractive as Hodgson's
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I haven't seen any Arkansas State games with Hodgson at the helm. What kind of offense does he run? Does he copy the Oats 5 out and and drive, or does he put his own twist. Kennedy has a pretty open free wheeling system with lots of little actions to get open early shots. His advanced metrics this year are super comparable to Kennedy's. Similar pace, with Kennedy having better offense and Hodgson better defense against a weaker schedule.

CoachORTGDRTGADJTeFG%TS%
Hodgson111.2102.370.1.502.537
Kennedy116.2110.69.2.508.546
 
We don’t need any knee jerk reactions just because it is getting a little later in the coaching search.
 
I get people not liking Hartman due to the Kruger connections and I get wanting a head coach with success. But Terry, really, the guy has not been successful and not shown he can coach. If you want Jim Crutchfield great, that is the head coaching experience you want not Rodney Terry.
 
Rebel77fl2 said:
I get people not liking Hartman due to the Kruger connections and I get wanting a head coach with success. But Terry, really, the guy has not been successful and not shown he can coach. If you want Jim Crutchfield great, that is the head coaching experience you want not Rodney Terry.
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I don't think anyone wants Terry.. dude failed upwards. Took Beards team to an Elite 8 and got a big payday out of it.
 
Rebel77fl2 said:
I get people not liking Hartman due to the Kruger connections and I get wanting a head coach with success. But Terry, really, the guy has not been successful and not shown he can coach. If you want Jim Crutchfield great, that is the head coaching experience you want not Rodney Terry.
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Not advocating for him but definitely Terry over Hartman!
 
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rebel5280 said:
Terry is at least proven winner in the MWC, Hartman not so much!
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Proven winner?
Got a league title and a NCAA berth once. And yes that is better than most coaches here, but that is a bit of a stretch.
Also known as gmdecebt recruiter and not a great game coach. For the love of F^&k, please not another one of those please!!
I think it's arguable whether his resume is better than Hartman's.
 
Proven winner, he finished better than fourth once in six years and the. Did worse at UTEP. That HC experience is telling…rather take a chance on an assistant compared to that known.
 
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dcut03 said:
Proven winner?
Got a league title and a NCAA berth once. And yes that is better than most coaches here, but that is a bit of a stretch.
Also known as gmdecebt recruiter and not a great game coach. For the love of F^&k, please not another one of those please!!
I think it's arguable whether his resume is better than Hartman's.
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How many times has your guy Hartman won as the HC? Has he won as a HC anywhere… I’ll wait

He has been an assistant for over 2 decades?!

I don’t know about you but a guy who has not even sniffed a HC job in that length of time, you have to wonder why not somewhere like Furman or North Florida or something?

I hope he is not hired here, go prove yourself at UNC Asheville or somewhere like that first… But you keep pushing that “Hartman” rock up that hill Sisyphus!
 
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rebel5280 said:
How many times has your guy Hartman won as the HC? Has he won as a HC anywhere… I’ll wait

He has been an assistant for over 2 decades?!

I don’t know about you but a guy who has not even sniffed a HC job in that length of time, you have to wonder why not somewhere like Furman or North Florida or something?

I hope he is not hired here, go prove yourself at UNC Asheville or somewhere like that first… But you keep pushing that “Hartman” rock up that hill Sisyphus!
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So Jon Scheyer was a terrible hire, same as Dutcher, who was an assistant for decades.

Top assistants often make the jump to big time HCs. Tommy Lloyd was an assistant for 20 years before going to Arizona as the HC.

At our level Leon Rice obvious had a similar path. He has done much much better than UNLV and Rodney Terry by a mile.

Often assistants make the jump to ELITE jobs. But we are too good for that?
 
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So Jon Scheyer was a terrible hire, same as Dutcher, who was an assistant for decades.

Top assistants often make the jump to big time HCs. Tommy Lloyd was an assistant for 20 years before going to Arizona as the HC.

At our level Leon Rice obvious had a similar path. He has done much much better than UNLV and Rodney Terry by a mile.

Often assistants make the jump to ELITE jobs. But we are too good for that?
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Why go or even consider the assistant route when you don’t have to?

Not to mention we finally broke rank of what we have done in the past in hiring football coaches and did not go the assistant route and look how that turned out.

This is recent so I know you see this!

Why put the program in the hands of someone unproven when you don’t need to?

This is not 10 years ago, the program is on its last legs financially and putting a new HC in place who needs “NO” ramp up time because he has already been a HC for a few years and knows how to run a program already is what I think makes the most sense now and that person is not Hartman.

What ultimately happens is not my decision but if you ask me, this is what I’m going to tell you!

We can agree to disagree on what Hartman is or isn’t all day but you cannot disagree with the success of UNLV football the last 2 years. Harper picked former HC’s for the job, why buck the trend in basketball when there are so many former HC’s to choose from?
 
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dcut03 said:
So Jon Scheyer was a terrible hire, same as Dutcher, who was an assistant for decades.

Top assistants often make the jump to big time HCs. Tommy Lloyd was an assistant for 20 years before going to Arizona as the HC.

At our level Leon Rice obvious had a similar path. He has done much much better than UNLV and Rodney Terry by a mile.

Often assistants make the jump to ELITE jobs. But we are too good for that?
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dcut03 said:
So Jon Scheyer was a terrible hire, same as Dutcher, who was an assistant for decades.

Top assistants often make the jump to big time HCs. Tommy Lloyd was an assistant for 20 years before going to Arizona as the HC.

At our level Leon Rice obvious had a similar path. He has done much much better than UNLV and Rodney Terry by a mile.

Often assistants make the jump to ELITE jobs. But we are too good for that?
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Again, none of those guys were journeyman
 
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