2023-2024 College Basketball Coaches Hired/Fired Thread

[mkAz]

I wonder who Kentucky targets now.

 

[GophersInIowa]

I wonder who Kentucky targets now.

Could be a pretty good domino effect.

 

[howeda7]

I wonder who Kentucky targets now.

Oats or Hurley.

 

[WoodburyTim]

Oats or Ferry.

Got to be a lot more to this story. Yeah Arkansas got him about the same money but Kentucky is the center of the basketball world. Or close to it. I’m surprised.

 

[WindyCityGopher]

Cal leaving Kentucky for a lesser job outside the fish bowl to finish off his career feels so much like Tubby leaving them to come here.

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

Got to be a lot more to this story. Yeah Arkansas got him about the same money but Kentucky is the center of the basketball world. Or close to it. I’m surprised.

Yeah, I think it's a Tubby thing. It was about 50/50 he was coming back this year and Cal just locked up big money and job security.

 

[goldengophers]

Jay Wright or Billy Donovan.

 

[atsgopher]

not be able to grab “one and done’s,” at will, is going to help Cal.

 

[Wet_Blanket_Guy]

Oats or Hurley.

CBJ?

 

[TNGophfan]

Oats or Hurley.

Don't think Hurley would go but Oats might.

 

[GophersInIowa]

 

[Gilthorp57]

Jay Wright or Billy Donovan.

Wright is done, doesn't want to deal with NIL and the portal. Looks very comfortable in the studio.

 

[bga1]

Let the Ben Johnson flight watch to Kentucky begin!

 

[Holy Man]

Jay Wright or Billy Donovan.

Pretty sure Wright is happy being competent in his Digger Phelps role at CBS.

 

[howeda7]

CBJ?

That would take a lot of dominos...

 

[gregbrady]

I wonder who Kentucky targets now.

Rumors are starting to swirl around Billy Donovan, not having a great year with the Bulls.

 

[Gilthorp57]

Don't think Hurley would go but Oats might.

Hurley's skin is too thin, mentally, I don't he could handle it personally.

 

[WindyCityGopher]

Rumors are starting to swirl around Billy Donovan, not having a great year with the Bulls.

Wouldn't surprise me. The Bulls organization is a mess.

 

[Gilthorp57]

Wouldn't surprise me. The Bulls organization is a mess.

Anything Jerry touches is a mess. My White Sox....

 

[Ope3]

Cal leaving Kentucky for a lesser job outside the fish bowl to finish off his career feels so much like Tubby leaving them to come here.

Sounds like Cal made a big play for the Ohio State job earlier this spring.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Don't think Hurley would go but Oats might.

Hurley’s an East Coast guy through and through and he has everything he needs at UCONN, he ain’t going anywhere.

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

Since 2016, Cal had 16 first round picks and not one FF

 

[GopherBlood777]

Since 2016, Cal had 16 first round picks and not one FF

I've been told here college basketball is about talent and not coaching... funny how having all the talent in the world didn't work out for Cal in the end.

 

[Sparlimb]

Ben Johnson to Kentucky. You heard it here first!

 

[Gopher_In_NYC]

I've been told here college basketball is about talent and not coaching... funny how having all the talent in the world didn't work out for Cal in the end.

Includes in those 16 are bums: SGA, Bam and Jamal Murray.

Cal is a HOF recruiter and a decent coach; he took three different teams to the FF (UMASS, Memphis and the Cats), but only one Natty. Although, Memphis was vacated for cheating and the rumors around UMASS hijinks were legendary.

 

[bga1]

I've been told here college basketball is about talent and not coaching... funny how having all the talent in the world didn't work out for Cal in the end.

I am not sure how good of a coach Cal is but getting even the most talented players to work together as one and done guys has to be a major challenge. Put those guys up against slightly less talented guys that have played together for a few years and it is going to be a battle - as Kentucky has found. Doing the Michigan Fab 5 thing is a tough thing.

 

[Gilthorp57]

Ben Johnson to Kentucky. You heard it here first!

It all comes full circle lol

 

[GopherBlood777]

I am not sure how good of a coach Cal is but getting even the most talented players to work together as one and done guys has to be a major challenge. Put those guys up against slightly less talented guys that have played together for a few years and it is going to be a battle - as Kentucky has found. Doing the Michigan Fab 5 thing is a tough thing.

Exactly, no matter who your guys are, you still need a coach who can bring them together and execute at a more consistent level than the opponent.

 

[SelectionSunday]

Others will turn it down before him, but I'll take a flyer on Bruce Pearl ending up in Lexington.

 

[TNGophfan]

Others will turn it down before him, but I'll take a flyer on Bruce Pearl ending up in Lexington.

I agree, that's a possibility. KY didn't blush with Cal's antics. Sure they can wipe Pearl's slime off as well.