Vanderbilt basketball has a low ceiling due to the baseline benches and raised court.
It’s been 12 years since we’ve tried employing a coach with a winning track record. Kind of a simple step we’ve ignored.
Actually, Danny Manning had a winning record as head coach at time of being hired by Wake.
Vanderbilt basketball has a low ceiling due to the baseline benches and raised court.
Actually, Danny Manning had a winning record as head coach at time of being hired by Wake.
That's why I said winning track record, not just a winning record straight up. A winning track record is an obvious history of regularly winning. [Redacted] didn't have that. Manning hadn't be around enough. He had a track record as a winner based on his college career as a player.
You mean like the track record of one season at Ark Little Rock like Chris Beard had before Texas Tech hired him three years ago?
He had a track record of winning before Little Rock hired him.
From his Wikipedia page:
From there, he was hired as head coach at Fort Scott Community College where he coached the team to a 19–12 record and its first winning season in 8 years.[SUP][2][/SUP] In 2000, he was hired as the head coach at Seminole State College. In his one-year there he went 25–6 and finished ranked 14th in the country.
Beard also spent one year as head coach for the South Carolina Warriors of the American Basketball Association, where he led the team to a 29–2 record.[SUP][4][/SUP] In 2012, he was hired as head coach at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas where he spent one season. In March 2013, he was hired as the sixth head coach at Angelo State. In two years with the Rams, he went 47–15.
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To add, in that one year at McMurry University, he went 19-10 and made what I think is the NCCAA Elite Eight in their first season in Division II. The guy is clearly a winner.
Pretty ridiculous to compare his track record even before TT with a guy who went 38-29 at Tulsa.
You mean like the track record of one season at Ark Little Rock like Chris Beard had before Texas Tech hired him three years ago?
Beard was also Bobby Knight's assistant at Texas Tech for seven years. He was a natural pick for them.
Not really. Tulsa plays in a far more competitive conference than Arkansas- Little Rock in the Sun Belt.
This may have been discussed and I missed it, but does JC have a track record of any sort of firing a coach midseason?
Belmont's Rick Byrd is retiring. One of the best. Lipscomb HC Casey Alexander is the reported front-runner to replace him; Alexander went to Belmont and played for Byrd.