If You Were Maturi, Rank The Order Of The Hot Seats

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Today's game ends the tourney run and puts an exclamation mark on the failures at the University of Minnesota this year. Hebert is the lone standout. But the rest is a mess. Here's where I'd start dealing the sorry state of the program.

#1 The Donald. Financial resources, salary, media exposure, arena, and choice of recruits. His seat should be the hottest. Maybe a year to fix it or made the example this year.

#2 Brewster. New stadium with renewed enthusiasm. No signature wins and the threat of a new stadium not having any atmosphere is a doomsday scenario. Will know his fate by November 1, 2010. Could be year to year.

#3 Borton. Signs of a team that has quit, possibly unable to maintain a healthy culture in the program, inherited a fan base and a rising program. All indications point to her driving the whole thing into the ditch. Contract probably gives her 3 more years.

#4 Robinson. Probably the winner of the program, even better than Tubby Smith. Can't avoid controversy. Will have a job as long as he doesn't implode.

#5 Tubby Smith. Best two seasons his 1st two lead by Monson players. Year 4 could be his worst and having a mediocre recruiting season. Landing a good player this spring and a solid class next fall could set the course of his tenure here. Bottom line, tough to fire a Hall of Fame coach in Minnesota. Maybe he gets frustrated and retires in a year or two.
 


1. Lucia will resign or be canned after this year.

2. Brewster has to go 6-6 or better or he will be canned.

3. Borton will stay as long as she wants.

4. Tubby will probably retire in a couple of years and ask the new AD, if Saul can be our HC.
 

akgopher said:
Today's game ends the tourney run and puts an exclamation mark on the failures at the University of Minnesota this year. Hebert is the lone standout. But the rest is a mess. Here's where I'd start dealing the sorry state of the program.

#1 The Donald. Financial resources, salary, media exposure, arena, and choice of recruits. His seat should be the hottest. Maybe a year to fix it or made the example this year.

#2 Brewster. New stadium with renewed enthusiasm. No signature wins and the threat of a new stadium not having any atmosphere is a doomsday scenario. Will know his fate by November 1, 2010. Could be year to year.

#3 Borton. Signs of a team that has quit, possibly unable to maintain a healthy culture in the program, inherited a fan base and a rising program. All indications point to her driving the whole thing into the ditch. Contract probably gives her 3 more years.

#4 Robinson. Probably the winner of the program, even better than Tubby Smith. Can't avoid controversy. Will have a job as long as he doesn't implode.

#5 Tubby Smith. Best two seasons his 1st two lead by Monson players. Year 4 could be his worst and having a mediocre recruiting season. Landing a good player this spring and a solid class next fall could set the course of his tenure here. Bottom line, tough to fire a Hall of Fame coach in Minnesota. Maybe he gets frustrated and retires in a year or two.
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Is there any way Maturi can rank himself ahead of everybody? He sets the tone for everybody, and the athletic department is a mess. Otherwise your order is probably correct. I think Tubby's seat isn't close to hot at this point. I never thought he'd have the Gophers back in the tourney in year two, but year three has been brutal so far. Year 4 will be interesting because it could be great (Nolen and Mbakwe come back, Cory Joseph signs, everybody is a year better) or it could be brutal (all those guys are gone, 2 guys transfer, the recruits don't pan out). We'll just have to see.
 

Lucia. The hockey program hasn't been this bad for as long as I cam remember yet they have so many NHL draft picks. At least no one really expects anything great from the football or basketball programs.
 


I like Maturi as a person and an ambassador, but don't know if I want him making the hires and deciding to extend contracts. The Pam extension looks like the worst at this point. 2013-2014.
 

In my book the Don occupies hot seat numbers 1A, 1B, and 1C. None of the other coaches are even close to being shown the door as Lucia is.
 

Probably Maturi. He just displayed how weak he is after saying It's not Fair! like a 3 year old that gets his nookie taken away.
 

1. Maturi.
2.The Don.

Both have fallen off faster the d bostick has this year
 



Maturi has to be the one feeling it the most. I ask what is left for him, he just turned 66 this week and all of our most visible sports we are a laughingstock right now and who can argue that is going to get much better. I sent him an email and stated that the athletic department should create a new position for him as the athletic director for the non-revune sports, he has arguably been one of the most successful athletic directors in that area. To me he simply lacks what it takes to be a big time AD. He has ruined the atomsphere at the Barn with all the give aways and other various non sense that goes on. LET THE BAND PLAY. The womens BB program had all of that momentum with the final 4 run and believe it or not they are in worse shape then the men. And knowing how MR. Nice guy has handled coaching changes in the past he will wait to long and have a mid-season coaching change or it be demanded by big time booster after a late season embarssment.
 


Maturi
Lucia
Brew
Borton

Tubby on the 'hot seat'? are you mad? theyre having a bad year but honestly its decent considering the conditions
 

gopherphan said:
Tubby on the 'hot seat'? are you mad? theyre having a bad year but honestly its decent considering the conditions
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Tubby on the "hot seat" is a joke. The man will coach as long as he wants to at Minnesota.
 



PapaHawk21 said:
+1 Tubby on the "hot seat" is a joke. The man will coach as long as he wants to at Minnesota.
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I don't get that some think that because he won at UK that he's immune to scrutiny. I agree that he won't ever worry about getting terminated, but the big city media won't let the state's highest paid public servant skate. It's too early to throw him under the bus, but a step backwards, team turmoil, a mediocre recruiting class, and uncertainty of what kind of roster he'll assemble with key players moving on makes criticism fair.

Jacques Lemaire won a Cup before getting here and his time ran its course.
 

while I think tubby is having a poor year, in no way is he on the hot seat, IMO...now if a year from now we are 12-9 or 11-10 and around 3-7 in B10 play, then I think he will move to the hot seat, and deserve to be there.
 

I think we all need to settle down a bit about Tubby. I realize that it's a rough year, but given the circumstances (three starters being sidelined for off-the-court issues) he's doing OK. Lucia is unacceptable. Completely unacceptable. He's had SOME circumstances out of his control, but frankly when you have as much talent as he does at his disposal, being the second worst hockey team in the state of Minnesota is ridiculous.

I think definitely Maturi has to take some responsibility. He deserves quite a bit of blame for a lot of the mediocrity. The attitude starts at the top.
 


Have Izzo and Matta had the off-the-court issues Tubby's had to deal with?
 


awag777 said:
Have Izzo and Matta had the off-the-court issues Tubby's had to deal with?
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Izzo has not. I guess Matta has not either, but my guess is if White had been a Buckeye, his problems would have quietly been swept under the rug while White gave them a one-and-done. I have zero respect for Thad Matta or the idea that he's a better coach then Tubby.

As for who should be the hotseat. Maturi's the main one. Perhaps Lucia. I don't follow the hockey closely enough to say for sure. Based on results in may be time for Lucia to go, but there are sometimes mitigating circumstances. Brew perhaps should have gone, but that's water under the bridge. He now deserves another year. As for Tubby, he deserves to face some heat? But the hot seat? We're a long way from that. You don't go from everyone being thrilled to the hot seat over one disappointing season.
 

^Which would be because of the AD, nothing to do with Tubby. I'm sure as much as we hail Tubby as being a "do the right thing" kind of guy, if his AD had swept the Royce White issue under the rug, he would not object.
 

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