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2020 College Basketball Coaching Carousel

Christian's buyout was only $1.6M.

Yikes.

That is the ultimate jagsfan.gif.
 
We have our pick of any coach we want. All we have to do is pay Manning a buyout. This is nuts.
 
We have our pick of any coach we want. All we have to do is pay Manning a buyout. This is nuts.

If Manning isn’t gone, it’s because of financial reasons, or Hatch won’t let Currie fire him. Currie wants to fire Danny. I feel certain about that. He wants to get his guy in and rebuild this thing.

If I was Currie (now that BC has announced Christian is coming back), I would hold off on the announcement of if Manning is staying or going. I would wait until either athletes are back on campus, or recruiting opens up again. When either of those two things happen, that’s when you announce Manning is being fired. We have no competition now! We may not have a basketball season, who knows. That why you don’t want to be paying a coach for nothing, but if we do have a basketball season, we sure as hell don’t want Danny Manning leading it. At this point, I see no reason not to keep waiting this thing out, at least a little longer. The only reason this is bad, because we fans have no clue what’s going on.
 
No harm in waiting?

There are transfers to be wooed and recruits to cultivate relationships with.

Sooner is always better.
 
if you can't afford the buyout, how are you going to pay the next coach.

This reminds me alot of the situation Georgia Tech was in when they fired Hewitt. He had an automatic rollover contract, so it always had 5 years on it. So when they did finally decide to bite the bullet, it was $7M ($1.4M * 5 yrs). The AD then renegotiated the buyout to payout over a longer period (8 yrs).
But even with the reduced yearly payments it still put GT in the position at the time of Hewitt's firing that they could only pay Gregory $1M.

If you are having trouble putting the money together to buy a coach out, chances are you are not looking at the high end of the coaching range for a new coach.
 
Pitino has added 3 players in 3 days and we're still debating the merits of whether or not it makes sense to do a coaching change in a COVID-19 world.

We suck.
 
Berrick JeanLouis - Transfer from Florida Southwestern State (after playing his Frosh year at New Mexico State) - https://www.fswbucs.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/jeanlouis_berrick_eqct

Ryan Myers - 2020 Combo Guard - https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2020/ryan-myers-234293

Tahlik Chavez - Transfer from Garden City CC - https://www.gobroncbusters.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/chavez_tahlik_f4xb

Chavez looks like he could be a player. Myers is unranked and Jean Louis barely got off the bench at NM State.

He got a potentially nice player and a couple of bench players.
 
Pitino has added 3 players in 3 days and we're still debating the merits of whether or not it makes sense to do a coaching change in a COVID-19 world.

We suck.

Berrick JeanLouis - Transfer from Florida Southwestern State (after playing his Frosh year at New Mexico State) - https://www.fswbucs.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/jeanlouis_berrick_eqct

Ryan Myers - 2020 Combo Guard - https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2020/ryan-myers-234293

Tahlik Chavez - Transfer from Garden City CC - https://www.gobroncbusters.com/sports/mbkb/2019-20/bios/chavez_tahlik_f4xb

If that list was headed by "Danny Manning" and not "Rick Pitino" the complaints would be monumental.
 
...he's at Iona, ya donkeys.
 
I mean, Iona has without question been the better program than WF over the last 10 years...
 
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