is pitt going to hire tom crean?
If they do, every team in the ACC will have a substantially better coach than Wake does. Wellman is an idiot.
is pitt going to hire tom crean?
Tubby has been canned at Memphis. I can see him being the older, wiser person on the bench Wake needs to assist Danny. I also see Penny Hardaway, if hired, as being the Gerry Faust of this generation.
If they do, every team in the ACC will have a substantially better coach than Wake does. Wellman is an idiot.
A rumor is floating connecting Tubby to the vacant High Point job.
The other thing about Crean is that he can be very self-righteous and unnecessarily petty. That's typically okay if you're winning year in and year out, but when the results are less than great, his personality can wear thin quickly.
You have to wonder if David Padgett's agent is pressuring U of L to make a decision on him now before all the dominoes have fallen and he's left out in the cold. I don't expect him to land at another Power VI school but there should be enough mid-majors looking that he can get a decent gig a step down on the ladder from where he found himself this year.
BTW, for those that think Tom Crean is the man and Danny Manning is a pile of poop, Manning, with the venerable Trent Van Horn playing 24 minutes (yes, TVH played 24 minutes in that game), beat a loaded Indiana team head to head on neutral court in 2015.
The fact that TVH played 24 minutes is the problem.
I agree with pilchard that Crean is not as exciting of a coaching hire as some of you make him out to be.
Padgett has no leverage. If Padgett feels like he needs to take a lesser job for job security, L'ville will let him go. L'ville will decide on its timetable. Not Padgett's.
They should have let him go already after the UVa fiasco.