Avery Bradley out at Alabama.
Bama hires Nate Oates to replace him

Mike Anderson out at Arkansas
Lot of smoke that Kelvin Sampson is the next guy in, but nothing official.

Hoiberg in as the Nebraska coach


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Glad he ended with a tournament win.

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been a long time coming but Fulmer gave her a legacy pass since he was a new AD.

lifelong Vol and had the most difficult job in her sport -- following Pat Summit -- but the program is just in mediocre shape right now.

they haven't finished in the top *five* of the SEC in the last four years. they barely made the tournament (as a #11 seed) this year and lost in the first round. they haven't gotten to a Sweet 16 in three years. attendance is down significantly.

NCAAW is much more competitive these days, so it'll be interesting to see who Tennessee can get. on one hand you'll always be in the shadow of Pat, but revitalizing the bluest blood program in the nation has to be enticing.

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Purdue won title in 1999, with a couple of gals I knew well I might add. Then a heartbreaking final loss in 2001, a couple of final fours after that, but we just kept losing coaches and now the last decade had been trash, absolute trash.

Now we were never at your heights, but it's wild how far we've fallen.

Stunned McCallie has kept her job this long.

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Odds of Texas firing Shaka after the NIT and making a big offer to Beard are fairly high.

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He got permission from Kentucky to talk to UCLA. He got an offer from them that'd be a *pay cut*... yet he somehow turned that into a lifetime contract extension from UK, to be a paid ambassador even after his retirement.

Odds are he probably would've gotten that anyway, but I'm surprised he actually talked to UCLA.

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Mark few doesn't even make 2 mil. Family and lifestyle be damned, that's too much money to turn down.

They’re not opening up the wallets like that for anyone but him or Donovan

They should seriously, seriously offer that to Bennett.

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We shall see

He's in a surging conference and he'll be starting with a depleted roster that'll be *worse* than the one that just won 0 games in conference. Hopefully Vandy will give Stack (or whomever they hire) a good 3-4 years for a complete rebuild.

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WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

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A very boring, safe hire. Very good offensive coach, bad defensive coach. If he can bring in recruits, I'd expect them to sit firmly in the bottom half of the Top 25 annually.

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He's had multiple seasons with a 100-or-lower ranked defense this decade. Those early Pitt defenses when he first arrived were beastly... but he hasn't had a Top 20 defense since 2009.

Meanwhile, he's spent over half of his career with a Top 20 offense, and he'd never had a sub-50th ranked offense in his *career* until this season (largely due to injury issues). His teams for the last decade have consistently been Top 20 in assist rate and they're always strong on the offensive glass. He's hung his hat on being a more offensive-minded coach for a while now.

He's not a bad defensive coach, that was a snap reaction seeing his name next to Cal and Bennett and Cronin. He's just not a consistently good defensive coach.

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> Very good offensive coach, bad
>defensive coach.

Those team certainly were not that fun to watch. Gritty is what I remember

Bad was admittedly an exaggeration-- he's not Wojo. But if you put his defenses next to other names they were allegedly considering, like Cal, Bennett, and Cronin... he's easily the weakest defensive coach of that bunch.

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Certainly will make him harder to buy out, I'm sure.

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UCLA's trying to get them to negotiate that 8 million dollar buyout closer to 1 mil, and TCU is fucking laughing at them.

What an absolute fucking disaster. Can't recall the last attempt to get a coach that was this embarrassing... it was honestly probably UCLA again.

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HIRE PITINO! DO IT!

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He hates recruiting, so he's completely reliant on transfers agreeing to come. His defense is bad-- and I don't mean "Jamie Dixon bad," I mean pretty bad bad. His offense was entirely devoted to isolating a Martin twin and letting them take midrange twos. They out-talented the shit out of people in the MWC, but that's not going to be easy in the SEC.

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They honestly may not fall off nearly as much as I thought they would. Their offense HUMMED this season.

I suppose the skeptics could argue that Young's teams have been up and down over the years, but he'll also have better access to actual talent in the ACC. Give him a recruiter and watch the jumpshooting continue to shine.

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don't come around all that often, and I don't blame him for cashing in on his success.

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Amazing how far Barnes has come in two seasons, and amazing how low UCLA has sunken.

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but it's UT athletics, so not a real surprise.

Whole things makes no sense.

Incredible.

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I’ve heard Bobby Hurley to St Johns rumors.

Hurley's got his flaws (histronics among them) but he's fairly undeniably a better coach than Mullin, who was terrible.

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Mullin was a desperate hire like "LOOK, WE USED TO BE RELEVANT!" and I figured it would end poorly.

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But after thinking about it, if this is what it takes to get the resources he needs, then good for Barnes.

Is it me or is Dan Guerrero a trash AD?

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>Is it me or is Dan Guerrero a trash AD?

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Pretty sure this is a red line amongst ADs

UCLA gets their guy...finally
https://twitter.com/YahooForde/status/1115651659433222150

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Though if the whole “UCLA people hated Howlands offense” thing was actually real, they probably won’t like Cronin either.

I like Cronin well enough, but he's *really* struggled in March. One Sweet 16 in 13 seasons. He's had three consecutive seasons of 28 wins or more, but he hasn't made it past Round 2 in that span.

Perhaps one can attribute that to Cincinnati's overall lack of talent, which would be fair... but since his entire career has been built on these lunchpail, try-hard guys, how is he going to do with the level of recruits UCLA expects, and with an organization that expects tournament success first and foremost? I mean, Alford made three Sweet 16s in six seasons, and they ran his ass out of town with pitchforks and torches. And Cronin's made one *ever.*

I honestly think Barnes, with his predilection for finding and developing talent, or Dixon, with his highly efficient style of offense, may have been better for this gig, despite my own reservations about both of them. They both fit the style UCLA fans seem to prefer, they both have been further in the tournament, they both have success at multiple schools. Cronin is a solid coach, but he brings all sorts of question marks in *this* situation imo. He'd have been better suited for, like, a Big 10 gig, imo.

Open to being wrong, of course. I do like Cronin on the whole. I just can't believe, if they're gonna spend FOUR MIL PER YEAR on Mick Cronin, why UCLA didn't just offer 8 mil per year to Bennett and Beard this morning. Give them the money they offered Calipari, make them consider it-- Bennett's getting like 4 at UVA, Beard is getting a hair above 3 IIRC, so they'd both be getting their salary effectively doubled and becoming instantly the third highest paid coach in NCAA ball. Then, you'd still have a slow defensive-minded team, but you'd have one of the best minds in basketball, someone young, someone who will absolutely win a shitload of games year in and year out.

It seems like, instead, they just wanted the discount version of those coaches.

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and can coach defense well

as long as he doesn't have a chucker of a son that'll shoot below the basketball mendoza line, i'm fine with this

>UCLA gets their guy...finally
>https://twitter.com/YahooForde/status/1115651659433222150

Hilarious that a blue blood has to “settle” for a coach that hasn’t won anything of note anywhere ...his biggest accomplishment is succeeding Huggins

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before UCLA hired him. I think Cronin can bring back howland ball which sounds a lot better than the shitshow of the last few seasons. He seems like a high character guy by all accounts... I guess it will come down to the sexy 4/5 star recruits buying into his philosophy.

I thought he was a Cinci guy all the way and might never leave, but this is college basketball. Mediocre hire to me, but probably the best they were going to get.

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He's bitched a lot about how he's essentially been relegated to a mid-major. I also think he felt unappreciated by the front office.

Granted, the Pac-12 isn't much better right now-- and the games are so infrequently on TV-- but the potential is there, obviously.

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he might have a hard time even making a lateral move. and it's got a better than not chance of flopping.

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Bobby Hurley, Porter Moser and now Tim Cluess from Iona have all turned them down.

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SJU is a cash poor school with penny pinching president who has been charged with cutting budgets and improving the school's image after a big embezzlement scandal that brought down the last president and led to a top administrator committing suicide.

-on campus facilities are old and run down
-fanbase are mostly unhinged outerboro/Long Island WFAN lunatics who have unrealistic expectations of what the program can be in 2019. They are also Mets, Jets, Knicks fans so they are just generally miserable people.
-NY Media covers the program with more scrutiny and hostility than kid gloves media coaches would experience in ACC/SEC/Big 12
-Very few big donors to the program except the crazy vitamin water guy
-They hired a 30 year Duke guy as AD to get the program on the right track and the higher ups undercut him at every turn

On top of all that, NYC HS basketball really isn't what it used to be. The Mo Bamba's and the Hamidou Diallo's and the Cole Anthony's aren't staying in the Big East, let alone considering St. John's.

Everyone who has taken this job over the last 20 years has effectively ended their coaching career. It's a death trap.

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>Everyone who has taken this job over the last 20 years has
>effectively ended their coaching career. It's a death trap.

Mike Jarvis spent a few seasons at FAU, outside of that none of these guys have had a head coaching job at any level after St John's. That's nuts.

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you're trying to pluck a guy from IONA who PLAYED AT SJU. wow.

The Mullin hire was a desperate stab at relevance. The program, the athletic department, the school and the region (in terms of keeping players at least) are all in some form of crisis. Taking that job is a good way to stall or flat out kill your career.

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https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1122897400325124099

$4.58 million per year

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They clearly *had* six mil per year they *could've* offered someone, as they reportedly did to Cal. Chris Beard is 46 and has immediately won *everywhere* he's been. Offer him 5. Shit, offer him the 6! Your program is shit!

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There's gonna be some more shuffling

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