Anthony Grant to Interview for Job Thursday AM

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Bad Gopher said:
Honest to god, if we hire Anthony Grant when Flip Saunders was available, then this is a program that officially cannot get out of its own way no matter who the athletics director is. I would have to conclude that it is just not going to happen at Minnesota and start working on a theory about why and how everything goes to die here.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Anthony Grant would be a devastating hire.
 

GopherJake said:
Ugh! I'm with you again, BGA.
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If you really want to be worried go visit the Alabama basketball board. They talk about Grant a lot like we talked about Tubby. Good defensive guy who can't coach offense. They are not a bit worried about losing him. It's like- whatever- we will get another guy. There is not a feeling that things have improved under Grant.

BTW - the kid Eric Maynor who was the VCU catalyst in their run with Grant, was not Grant's recruit. To Grant's credit - it does sound like they played faster at VCU than he is playing at Bama. At any rate this option is completely underwhelming to me and I hope they have other better options in the hopper.
 

Amazing. 24 hours ago we had visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads. Tonight I'll go to bed with visions of how to spend the money I'll be saving on season tickets.
 

Bad Gopher said:
Amazing. 24 hours ago we had visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads. Tonight I'll go to bed with visions of how to spend the money I'll be saving on season tickets.
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Be honest...Would have you kept your season tickets if Tubby was here? He did take us to the Tourney.
 

Bad Gopher said:
Honest to god, if we hire Anthony Grant when Flip Saunders was available, then this is a program that officially cannot get out of its own way no matter who the athletics director is. I would have to conclude that it is just not going to happen at Minnesota and start working on a theory about why and how everything goes to die here.

Why do I get the sinking feeling that, if this does go down, we end up getting some story from Norwood saying essentially this is the best we can do here...only days after he was shooting for the stars.

I know, I'm getting ahead of myself. But I do have other things I can spend my money on.
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Well, I don't have season tickets, YET, but my youngest daughter is graduating in 2 months and I'll be a free man to do whatever I want with my life and one of my plans was to start going to GOPHER sporting events. But if we hire this Grant guy, looks like maybe I'll look into something else to do with my money.


IF ANYONE has any contacts inside the U of Mn Athletics Dept, you just might want to let someone with NT's ear know how much that kind of hire would negatively affect the U of Mn.
 


If Grant gets hired, I for one would be devastated too. Might as well have kept Tubby if this is how were going to move forward with a "fresh start with fresh eyes".
 

There are plenty of people out there in cbb land who do not think very highly of Minnesota right now the way we fired Tubby. And hiring someone that it would be hard to argue is an upgrade, will just confirm all of those people's opinions of Minnesota.

We need someone who will make an instant impact on the program. Like Shaka would have, or like Flip Saunders would.
 


bga1 said:
If you really want to be worried go visit the Alabama basketball board. They talk about Grant a lot like we talked about Tubby. Good defensive guy who can't coach offense. They are not a bit worried about losing him. It's like- whatever- we will get another guy. There is not a feeling that things have improved under Grant.

BTW - the kid Eric Maynor who was the VCU catalyst in their run with Grant, was not Grant's recruit. To Grant's credit - it does sound like they played faster at VCU than he is playing at Bama. At any rate this option is completely underwhelming to me and I hope they have other better options in the hopper.
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It's common knowledge that any fanboard that supports a coach has low expectations and embraces mediocrity.
 



To Bob_Loblaw:

This is not personal but I'm beyond confused by this notion that Alabama was "...a program in the dumpster." How is this a reality in any sense? The program has a fairly consistent record over time, one that has not been changed by Anthony Grant. The team has had middling success and that's about it. Gottfried had some success but he also had some years of mediocrity. Over time his record was very good at times and very mediocre at other times. David Hobbs also had some success, but it's fair to assume that neither Grant, nor Gottfried, nor Hobbs, had great success at Alabama. The notion that the program was "in the dumpster" is unfounded as far as I can tell. I'm certainly open to information that I haven't seen or understood properly, but I'm just not seeing anything that suggests the program was struggling beyond any reasonable level. So, I guess I'm asking for data that might help one understand why Alabama was truly in the dumpster. And thank you in advance for that information.
 


Pass.


*Thus far, 77% of those on the Gopher Hole poll would not be satisfied with Grant as coach. I'm just going to assume Teague is too smart to really even consider him.
 

It's not that I think Grant is a bad coach, but if this is the hire Teague had planned we shoulda save the 2.5 million on the buyout. While he may be a "fresh set of eyes" he isn't a name that will rejuvenate the fan base nor does he run an offensive system that most fans will consider to be an upgrade. At this point unless there is a Stevens or Williams type actually available Teague's best move is Flip.
 



gopher the gold said:
It's not that I think Grant is a bad coach, but if this is the hire Teague had planned we shoulda save the 2.5 million on the buyout. While he may be a "fresh set of eyes" he isn't a name that will rejuvenate the fan base nor does he run an offensive system that most fans will consider to be an upgrade. At this point unless there is a Stevens or Williams type actually available Teague's best move is Flip.
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Ok, I need to at least say... Who the frack cares what kind of offense system Grant has if he can win here? He isn't my first choice.. but his resume is a heckuva lot better than Monson's was when we hired him. I like his pedigree and recruiting chops. The guy was lead assistant on back to back championship teams and then took two different teams to the NCAA after that.. now, his results at Bama have been good, not great. But he seems to have what it takes to land recruits.. and I could think of worse hires. Compared to Buzz and Shaka and Stevens? Sure, a let down.. but after those three, I would be cool with Grant. I would rather have Flip as well, but in terms of sitting college coaches, he should be up there as he is young, a recruiter and has a track record of success..

Now, the big question I have is... will his recruiting translate to the upper midwest. He has landed great classes of recruits but all of them are from Bama or GA or TX for the most part.. Can he lure some kids to the north... a ?
 

gopher the gold said:
It's not that I think Grant is a bad coach, but if this is the hire Teague had planned we shoulda save the 2.5 million on the buyout. While he may be a "fresh set of eyes" he isn't a name that will rejuvenate the fan base nor does he run an offensive system that most fans will consider to be an upgrade. At this point unless there is a Stevens or Williams type actually available Teague's best move is Flip.
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The Grant overreaction is getting a bit unhinged. This is a guy who has been successful both recruiting and achieving results at two jobs and would be the head coach at UF if Donovan hadn't reneged on his Orlando Magic job.
 

goldengophers said:
The Grant overreaction is getting a bit unhinged. This is a guy who has been successful both recruiting and achieving results at two jobs and would be the head coach at UF if Donovan hadn't reneged on his Orlando Magic job.
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DO NOT WANT GRANT!
 

Parski1 said:
Be honest...Would have you kept your season tickets if Tubby was here? He did take us to the Tourney.
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Yes, of course. I had no plans to dump basketball tix if they kept Smith.
 

goldengophers said:
The Grant overreaction is getting a bit unhinged. This is a guy who has been successful both recruiting and achieving results at two jobs and would be the head coach at UF if Donovan hadn't reneged on his Orlando Magic job.
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At this point I have to bring up something that's been brought up a few times already the past few days. The Big Ten is a meatgrinder of a conference to coach in. It makes grown men cry. If Grant's performance is in question in another league, he has no chance here.
 

I'm praying it's not Grant.....Thad be a kick in the teeth...Just hire Flip already! I think he might surprise on his recruiting. I think his name and nba experience would look awful appealing to a lot of big recruits....especially a few big ones in this state:)
 


Friend of Tubby posts on the Daily Gopher as fortyearcatfan.

Nothing to do with this or anything else but I thought I would just point it out.
 

baseball_stud said:
I'm praying it's not Grant.....Thad be a kick in the teeth...Just hire Flip already! I think he might surprise on his recruiting. I think his name and nba experience would look awful appealing to a lot of big recruits....especially a few big ones in this state:)
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The thing about Flip is that no one really knows exactly what he would bring to a college team. As evident by your "I think's."
 



Option One: 1 trip to the tournament in 4 years

Option Two: 3 trips to the tourney in 6 years.

Do you pay $2.5 million for the first option?
 

Grant isn't even on my top 5 list...getting him would be a HUGE step backwards. That being said...Grant is NO WHERE near worth the type of money we were talking about for Shaka. If NT pays him anywhere over 2M, he is grossly over paying for him and should be fired.
 

goldengophers said:
The Grant overreaction is getting a bit unhinged. This is a guy who has been successful both recruiting and achieving results at two jobs and would be the head coach at UF if Donovan hadn't reneged on his Orlando Magic job.
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You think Alabama is going to get in a bidding war to stop us like VCU did? Do you think that the Bama fans will be crushed like the VCU fans would have been to see Shaka leave? Nope and Nope. This is a big step down from the Shaka hire. Grant may not be a bad coach but he's a reach and there is no need for a reach here. We have a home run right in our back yard. Grant has gotten decent results but quite frankly not even results in the Monson category if you consider NCAA performance. His recruiting efforts are 100% in the south, so his ground work has to nearly totally start over here. Most of the kids he is in touch with have never seen snow.
 


Teague isn't gonna hire Flip before he exhausts his Villa 7 Alum....Sorry folks...Grant is up next....after Grant, maybe Buzz and After Buzz maybe someone like Dane Fife...The hire will almost certainly be a Villa 7 Alum...For Teague to do anything different would be like saying the whole program he helped found, was a waste of time.
 

You guys are forgetting that there are still some very good candidates working in The Dance. So let's not jump to any fast, impulsive conclusions. I am letting Woody do his due diligence in getting a good man. Then, after that, only time will be the determining factor as to whether the choice is a good one or not.
 

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