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Shaka Smart

Bronson Pinchot said:
WUT
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copied from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_Smart#Coaching_career

VCU hired Smart to be the head coach in the spring of 2009 after the previous coach, Anthony Grant, left to become the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team. Smart's hire made him the 10th-youngest head coach in Division I. In his first season, he led the Rams to a 27–10 season and a CBI Championship after VCU swept Saint Louis in the championship best-of-three series.[7]
Smart's second season began with forward Larry Sanders declaring for the 2010 NBA Draft after his junior season. Sanders' selection by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 15th pick made VCU the first school in the Commonwealth of Virginia to have a player selected in the first round of the NBA Draft in consecutive years, as the Utah Jazz had selected guard Eric Maynor with the 20th pick in the 2009 NBA Draft. The Rams under Smart went 23–11 in the 2010–2011 season. Smart led the Rams to their second consecutive Colonial Athletic Association Championship Game, where they lost to Old Dominion.
Despite not securing the automatic bid, VCU earned an at-large bid to the Southwest region of the 2011 NCAA Tournament, but were placed in the "First Four" against USC for a spot in the main 64-team tournament bracket. The Rams' selection into the tournament was widely criticized. His coaching strategy, positive outlook, and patience helped VCU defeat USC in the First Four, and then upset the 6th-seeded Georgetown Hoyas and 3rd-seeded Purdue Boilermakers to advance to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. VCU won 72–71 against Florida State University in overtime to earn the school's first spot in the Elite Eight and subsequently upset the top-seeded University of Kansas 71–61 for its first Final Four appearance. But in the Final Four, the Rams lost to Butler 70-62.
On April 4, 2011, Smart agreed to an 8-year contract extension with the VCU Rams, increasing his base pay from $350,000 to $1.2 million per year, prior to any performance bonuses.[8][9]
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In other words, Grant left Shaka a nice team.
 
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VaDeac said:
St. Louis is in the convo for Catholic 7 I believe.
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They are in with Butler, Creighton and Xavier. The last team is most likely Dayton (another A-10). Temple is going to the BE football conference.

VCU's bball future is very limited.
 
I honestly don't know, but is VCU a good academic school with fairly stringent entrance requirements for athletes? Shaka recruits a fairly specific type of player to run his HAVOC defense, and if he has to deal with "a puddle" of guys who can get in Wake (to quote Grobe) and that puddle is even smaller when reduced to those who have the athletic abilty to run his schemes, then he may figure it's easier to recruit those guys at VCU than Wake.
 
djev336 said:
they have been, but not in the news that came out today.



It might very well happen if the catholic 7 big east expands past 10.
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They will be at twelve. Doing so escalates the Fox Sports deal to $500,000,000.
 
i am confident that 1 - shaka could find recruits to work in his system 2 - shaka would use his system and tweak it to the kids he brings in 3 - shaka might have a limited number of recruits that could run his current havoc defense but he would also have access to much more talent being in the acc so things would work out fine.
 
RJKarl said:
They will be at twelve. Doing so escalates the Fox Sports deal to $500,000,000.
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yep. it will be interesting to see who those additional teams may be. assuming SLU & Dayton leave, the A10 could be left with:
VCU
La Salle
Massachusetts
Charlotte
Saint Joseph's
Richmond
St. Bonaventure
George Washington
Rhode Island
Fordham
Duquesne
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Ouch..
 
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It looks like they changed it. Earlier they said 12=$500, but you are correct now.

Creighton won't confirm it until after The Dance. Dayton helps them more than VCU. It brings in more rivalries with X and Butler.
 
VCU AIN'T CATHOLIC.

Bringing in VCU represents a major ideological shift.
 
so.. with what is happening to the A10 and it seemingly appearing that Georgetown may have reasons to prevent VCU from joining the Catholic 7, and assuming that the A10 doesn't strengthen, Shaka may be in a less desirable coaching situation. the question is, what does Shaka do if this happens? does he roll with it and stick with VCU, or does the demise of the current A10 force his hand to switching schools in 2 or 3 years?
 
RJKarl said:
It looks like they changed it. Earlier they said 12=$500, but you are correct now.

Creighton won't confirm it until after The Dance. Dayton helps them more than VCU. It brings in more rivalries with X and Butler.
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yeah. the case is strong for dayton. (catholic school too) and following the religious/private theme SLU makes sense too since its Jesuit/Private

basically it seems like the catholic 7 big east ends up being a completely private school league and VCU is stuck in the A10. the A10 could add schools like Belmont, Detroit, or Murray State though..
 
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Random q: is the a10 possibly better than the acc this year? Prob not at the top, but depth wise...?
 
djev336 said:
so.. with what is happening to the A10 and it seemingly appearing that Georgetown may have reasons to prevent VCU from joining the Catholic 7, and assuming that the A10 doesn't strengthen, Shaka may be in a less desirable coaching situation. the question is, what does Shaka do if this happens? does he roll with it and stick with VCU, or does the demise of the current A10 force his hand to switching schools in 2 or 3 years?
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Why 2-3 years? These changes are in effect less than a calendar year from now.
 
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