Manifest Destiny
Broderick Hicks
State needs to jump all over Bruce Pearl if Tennessee lets him go.
State needs to jump all over Bruce Pearl if Tennessee lets him go.
It really is depressing. If State get Sean Miller, Rick Barnes, Mooney, or Smart and GT gets one of those coaches we will without a doubt have the worst head coach in the ACC.
I just reread an article by Dana O'Neil on ESPN the other day that she wrote the day after Bz was hired. Bz himself was completely surprised that Wellman called him about the job and asked Wellman "what are you thinking?"
If you don't think you are good enough for the job and are questioning the AD's reasoning for hiring you then you might not be a good candidate for the position. I"m just saying...
I just reread an article by Dana O'Neil on ESPN the other day that she wrote the day after Bz was hired. Bz himself was completely surprised that Wellman called him about the job and asked Wellman "what are you thinking?"
If you don't think you are good enough for the job and are questioning the AD's reasoning for hiring you then you might not be a good candidate for the position. I"m just saying...
That's an odd quote. I wonder if that was taken out of context. I don't think Buzz doubts himself like that.
Well, he might after this past season, but not when he was hired.
Smart to WFU, [Redacted] to Toronto Raptors' scouting office
http://www.ifuckingwish.com/buzzoutandwellmanouttoo
I agree. A stronger group of coaches will hurt us in the short term as long as we are stuck with Bzzz, the worst coach in the ACC. But when Wellman is either fired or forced to replace Bzzz, we will be in a better position if the league is made stronger. I would think the best up and coming coaches would want to come coach in the best league. I just don't buy that coaches are too scared to come compete against Duke and UNC. If they're scared, we shouldn't want them anyway.
Agreed as well. I don't get this notion that coaches are ever scared to come coach in a conference. Each job has its challenges. Coaches aren't shying away from the Big East and that is arguably the toughest conference in the country. Coaching at a Big East school requires you to compete constantly against a tough schedule. Coaching at a mid-major like Butler, VCU, or Richmond requires you to recruit your ass off and convince higher rates recruits to come to lesser known schools and conferences or find diamonds in the rough.
The notion that Wake isn't a good job or coaches wouldn't want to come compete in the ACC against Duke/UNC is total BS.
That's also why I don't worry too much about the suggestion that if you fire a coach too quickly no one will want to take the job because they think the school has unrealistic expectations and/or a quick trigger finger and are afraid that they too will be quickly fired. No coach that I would want to consider hiring is going to be turned off by that, because the kind of coach you want isn't going into the job worrying that they are going to crap the bed and have the kind of results that would get them fired.
I do think some coaching candidates blackball jobs because they think their friend and/or someone they greatly respect was mistreated, but I don't buy that good coaches are scared off from jobs because they're afraid they'll do poorly and get fired quickly...
How much pressure would there really be to following a guy who had the worst year in school history and has turned 90% of the fanbase apathetic? Nearly anybody would look better in comparison.Thank you.
That nonsense about "what coach would come here if we fired Buzz after one year?" is absolutely infuriating. Complete hogwash.
Things might get interesting with Missouri open. It's a comparable job and probably comparable money to GT. Mooney has been mentioned for both; it will be interesting to see what happens if they both go after him.