College Bball Thread

[realTomCrean]

please hire Devries 

[AZ Hoosier]

14 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

Who's delusional now? Otzelberger, Oats, May, Donovan? Would love to see them give it to Sean May. Let's see how that works out for them.

[realTomCrean]

6 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Who's delusional now? Otzelberger, Oats, May, Donovan? Would love to see them give it to Sean May. Let's see how that works out for them.

The best part is their fanbase on X talking themselves into Brad Stevens being realistic. That’s our delusion, find your own UNC 

[Home Jersey]

Ugh don't want to even imagine Otz going to UNC for 20 years 

[realTomCrean]

KU UNC probably opening this year. UK could very well be open next year. 

[Asha’man]

Byington would be a great hire for UNC imo. He is a legit good coach and would have UNC back competing with Duke. 

[Asha’man]

7 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Ugh don't want to even imagine Otz going to UNC for 20 years 

Doubt he ever leaves ISU. It’s both his and his wife’s Alma mater. It’s home. He can win it all there too. 

[realTomCrean]

1 minute ago, Asha’man said:

Byington would be a great hire for UNC imo. He is a legit good coach and would have UNC back competing with Duke. 

Personally I think Darian Devries would be the best option for UNC. He has a decent buyout but if you look at his record at Drake, his calm demeanor, and infamous nickname it is clear to see he is the right fit for the job. 

[Asha’man]

5 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

Personally I think Darian Devries would be the best option for UNC. He has a decent buyout but if you look at his record at Drake, his calm demeanor, and infamous nickname it is clear to see he is the right fit for the job. 

I actually like DeVries and don’t want him to leave. I may change my mind if things don’t go well next year. But I’ve seen enough to be cautiously optimistic. 

[realTomCrean]

Just now, Asha’man said:

I actually like DeVries and don’t want him to leave. I may change my mind if things don’t go well next year. But I’ve seen enough to be cautiously optimistic. 

Not trying to be contentious but what is it specifically that makes you optimistic?

[jermhoosierfan]

11 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Who's delusional now? Otzelberger, Oats, May, Donovan? Would love to see them give it to Sean May. Let's see how that works out for them.

We will see if they can pull a big name coach which isn't easy to do.  Most know they can win at those current jobs, but UNC is a name.  Us and UK couldn't, so you wonder if some want to stay out of the fish bowl.  I say they go a former player or coach from there route.

[BluegrassHoosier859]

11 hours ago, realTomCrean said:

Not trying to be contentious but what is it specifically that makes you optimistic?

I'm not the original poster but I think there are enough things you can point to as reasons why this season went the way it did and they should be fairly easily fixable. Devries has acknowledged that this roster wasnt good enough and appears to know what he needs to do to fix it. With the resources we have he should be able to get more talent with a full off season and staff in place despite missing the tourney in year 1. 

Im hoping the red flags that popped up this year are direct results of a deficient roster that took too long to come together because devries was trying to assemble a killer staff. Once he whiffed on the staff he was left scrambling and put together an extremely experienced albeit not very talented roster. I think he realized most of the talent was already committed elsewhere by the time he had his staff in place and tried to compensate by having the most experience. It didnt work, but at least it was a plan. 

He has an awesome resume as an assistant and a pretty good one as a head coach. I think he'll be fine. 

I think after year 1 you could just as easily find reasons why it will work as you could why it wouldnt. It just depends on how you want to see it. Im still choosing to be optimistic.

 

[str8baller]

24 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

but UNC is a name.  Us and UK couldn't, so you wonder if some want to stay out of the fish bowl. 

We both got fellow P5 guys with not much of a track record. Only guy on that list like  that is Byington. Also Pope has obvious UK ties. 
 

But starting with Smiths promotion from an assistant, they haven’t went outside the Carolina family in almost 70 years. It’ll be interesting to see if they go for a stone cold outsider. 

[Kentuckysucks]

11 hours ago, realTomCrean said:

Not trying to be contentious but what is it specifically that makes you optimistic?

One real reason is that it looks like the B1G was definitely the best conference in the country.  If we're in any other P5 conference we're probably easily in the tournament.  DeVries also put together probably the worst possible roster to compete in the B1G and still should've been in if not for epic choke jobs to Nebraska and NW.  He also had to put it together completely on his own with no assistants or GM which has now.  So he now knows what he needs and has the help to get it. This season was basically a scenario where everything that could go wrong went wrong and it will never happen again.  We've hit bottom essentially. That's what the optimist would say.

[Kentuckysucks]

No surprise here.

 

 

[Home Jersey]

3 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

No surprise here.

Maybe we can pay him to be special advisor to the HC lol 

[LamarCheeks]

Wes Miller going from the Queen City to ... the other Queen City. 
 

 

[Uspshoosier]

Delivering 

[Pagoda]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Delivering 

I’m still waiting for NIL and the portal to “destroy” college sports as so many people claim it will…

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Jeff Goodman - Arizona State hiring Randy Bennett