Jai Lucas set to become next men’s basketball coach

[DMoney]

Hey, Pete…Ferman said your a leaker

I thought he said it was a rumor. Now it's a leak?

 

[cookies]

How many coaches has the Miami football program hired with ties to South Florida since you've been alive. And not just head coaches, the assistants too. And what exactly has that accomplished? We will not be raiding the city of Houston for players

Mario is doing pretty well I reckon. I guess we can do the hindsight is 20/20 game, but I think it was a very good idea to hire Mark Richt after what he accomplished at UGA. I wanted us to hire Mario when we hired Manny, but to his credit he did accomplish a turnover chain, two monster pass rushers in the first round, as well as some other pros. Other than that, he was mid.

That’s football though. Raiding is a strong term so Idk what that means in reality. But to answer your question, there is a difference when hiring a head coach or assistant & the amount of pull they have. And there is a difference with basketball that features half the amount of players as football does at once: meaning individuals can have bigger impacts. So comparing Lucas to Mike Rumph or James Coley does us no good in this discussion.

No head coach we’ve hired has a father who’s been a NFL HC and is a current assistant coach. No coach we’ve hired as a brother who runs of a prominent HS program or 7on7 in South Florida and is a current professional assistant.

The quickest semi-equivalent that comes to mind is Coach Joe. His brother coached Francisco in high school, which gave us an advantage, among other things, to landing both Francisco and Francis. Obviously not Miami based.

The Miami to Houston comparison is messy because obviously our team isn't located in Houston. And, manny Diaz & Randy Shannon did not have equivalent levels of DC success at non-Alma mater/big boy programs like Lucas did.

All that to say I agree with you that Houston shouldn’t be an exclusive priority, but it absolutely should have been a factor in taking into consideration the choice. As well as the fact that there is a middle school in North Carolina named after his grandfather. His family is well known all around America.

 

[BeachCanes]

Are we getting any of the Boozers? Will anyone from Duke transfer here?

 

[cookies]

What a dopey response. You continue to prove the stupidity of your posts over and over and over again.

You are a Radakovich suck-*** who just goes on and on building Bull**** Mountain.

And the worst part is that you are just a liar. Spouting falsehoods.

"Bill Foster literally has a worse record than Frank Haith". HOW? Bill Foster has a career record of 533-324, for a winning percentage of .622. Haith has a career record of 343-237, for a winning percentage of .591, and that is BEFORE you factor in the 23 wins that were vacated at Mizzou.

Bill Foster took a Miami program that had not played a game in 14 years, a program that was not even in a conference, and he won games. He went 78-71 in 5 seasons, including a 17-14 season and a 19-12 season. That is an amazing accomplishment, in and of itself. So, yeah, that's success, even if we then struggled when we joined the best basketball team in the country in the 1990s.

Any Miami fan with half of a brain knows why Leonard Hamilton struggled. It had nothing to do with his qualities as a coach. In fact, what Foster and Hamilton went through PROVES why we need coaches with head-coaching experience.

And here's where the ultimate ignorance of your posts is exposed. You act as if the SOLE MEASURE of why you hire a guy with prior head coaching experience is...wins and losses. And that's not it. As has been mentioned on this thread previously, there are so many CEO/administrative head-coach roles and responsbilities that most hot-**** recruiting assistants have never had to master. And that is the aspect you refuse to acknowledge.

All of your Googling and all of your stats-cut-and-pastes do not address the standards and needs and requirements of the job for a first-timer in a Power 4 conference at a school that is 2 years removed from a Final Four. In a time period where the old ways of "recruiting" are being displaced by money. Lord knows, you certainly can't face up to the fact that (a) if Lucas has a drop-off in recruiting at not-Texas-not-Kentucky-not-Duke with less money, then maybe Lucas isn't such a great recruiter, and (b) if Lucas is able to sign a ton of good players at Miami because Miami is willing to pay Texas-Kentucky-Duke money, then maybe it's the MONEY and not the man, and maybe Lucas isn't such a great recruiter.

I have no problems if Miami wants to pay blueblood NIL money for basketball. I would welcome it. But if we step up our NIL game, then you have to acknowledge that there is a much wider range of potential head coaches who could succeed at Miami, certainly more than just "he's the right guy, ya just gotta trust me" Jai Lucas.

I want a successful, proven head coach to come in to lead our program, not an on-the-job-trainee. If Miami starts tossing around huge NIL money, then I can name about 20 current head coaches who could succeed as well as, if not more than, Jai Lucas could.

Just stop it with all the Googling and falsehoods.

Lol u are dumb & reactive. My HS coach hooped & grew up with Coach L and his son played for L at George Mason. Have friends who played under L at UM.

My ego isn’t tied in with a man who I’ve never met (Rad), but only someone who can post a whole 50,000 times in 15 years would conclude such a thing . . . Such a bizarre thing to draw a conclusion that accuses me of being a Stan for an athletic Director


I am hyped about who Rad hired …. JAI LUCAS leading UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI. It’s already done and no amount of paragraphs by you will change that rooting for the ‘Canes basketball team in the future will be tied up with the head coach. Go ahead and bring those list of names out….. doesn’t matter

& I am comparing Haith’s record at Miami to Foster’s at Miami cuz we are talking about Miami. U wanna keep changing the goalposts. Your whole post was about emphasizing miami in big bold capital letters rather than other programs.

So not a lie or falsehood told which you literally acknowledge yourself when you wrote his Miami record of 78-71. Haith went 126 - 101 w/ a tougher schedule, as you alluded to. I did not denigrate any accomplishments of Hamilton or Foster. My words are clear.

It is evident that the comps were between preMiami + Miami records since that’s how you framed your argument. But now wins and losses don’t matter lmao

If you knew anything about college basketball you’d wonder, or already know the answer, as to why Cal and Scheyer brought in an outsider to their respective programs — two schools clearly doing well beforehand. Why Shaka Smart retained him from Rick Barnes’ staff.

As i already wrote, Lucas was the 1st Duke assistant who did not play at Duke in 3 decades. I also emphatically reject the notion that Lucas is only a recruiter who can’t coach — but those wins & losses you discredit may be the only good argument towards proving that so my words can not do much there.

Google’s my good buddy

Yall ****** hilarious. This was a good back n forth tho. Im off it now & forever

 

[KANE]

I just don’t understand how people saw Larranaga take us to totally new heights, see what’s going on in the SEC where they’ve just hoarded all of the proven mid-major coaches and established older coaches and are now the best conference in the country while the ACC does the exact opposite, and want us to go the unproven route because he can recruit. It’s so god**** stupid.

But hey. This is the same fanbase that wants “pro-style” QBs despite all of our best seasons over the past 25 years being with guys that can move, so I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that they’re on board with the smartest guy in the room moves.

 

[Angry Ibis]

I just don’t understand how people saw Larranaga take us to totally new heights, see what’s going on in the SEC where they’ve just hoarded all of the proven mid-major coaches and established older coaches and are now the best conference in the country while the ACC does the exact opposite, and want us to go the unproven route because he can recruit. It’s so god**** stupid.

But hey. This is the same fanbase that wants “pro-style” QBs despite all of our best seasons over the past 25 years being with guys that can move, so I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that they’re on board with the smartest guy in the room moves.

AirRaid Hoops --- let's ******* go!

 

[TwentySix]

AirRaid Hoops --- let's ******* go!

 

[Peter Ariz]

Posted this in the initial Lucas thread. Moran joining staff is in the territory of "I'd be surprised if that does not happen". The other stuff, we'll see.

Thread 'Jai Lucas'

Feb 20, 2025

I’m keeping a close eye on him in this coaching search. I have reason to believe he’s a finalist for the job.

• Peter Ariz
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https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article301240989.html

We working.

 

[Da_Lucky_One]

I fully support Dan Radacovich in his decision to hire Jai Lucas as the next head coach of Canes basketball.
I also fully support Jai Lucas adding Columbus basketball coach Andrew Moran to his staff at Miami.
I am not saying this will help Miami land the Boozer twins. I think the impact of this hire will help with in state recruiting in 2026 with Caleb Gaskins, who currently plays at Columbus with the Boozer twins.

 

[cookies]

I fully support Dan Radacovich in his decision to hire Jai Lucas as the next head coach of Canes basketball.
I also fully support Jai Lucas adding Columbus basketball coach Andrew Moran to his staff at Miami.
I am not saying this will help Miami land the Boozer twins. I think the impact of this hire will help with in state recruiting in 2026 with Caleb Gaskins, who currently plays at Columbus with the Boozer twins.

Columbus, Calvary Christian, Sagemont, Pine Crest, Chaminade, etc. South Florida hoops is entering a new era

 

[JZCane0825]

I fully support Dan Radacovich in his decision to hire Jai Lucas as the next head coach of Canes basketball.
I also fully support Jai Lucas adding Columbus basketball coach Andrew Moran to his staff at Miami.
I am not saying this will help Miami land the Boozer twins. I think the impact of this hire will help with in state recruiting in 2026 with Caleb Gaskins, who currently plays at Columbus with the Boozer twins.

Are you AI?

 

[canesstevealum08]

I fully support Dan Radacovich in his decision to hire Jai Lucas as the next head coach of Canes basketball.
I also fully support Jai Lucas adding Columbus basketball coach Andrew Moran to his staff at Miami.
I am not saying this will help Miami land the Boozer twins. I think the impact of this hire will help with in state recruiting in 2026 with Caleb Gaskins, who currently plays at Columbus with the Boozer twins.

I have a suspicion, but no knowledge that Moran will be an ops guy. I don’t think you’ll be one of the full-time assistance. That’s just my theory. I think his staff will be associated head coach will be a mentor from his Texas or Kentucky days and the next two assistance will be monster recruiters with one being a Florida expert. I think Moran is too green to put him as a full-time bench assistant just my opinion though and if Michelle Kaufman‘s report is correct, Jai Lucas will leave Duke this weekend to join Miami is the speculation.

 

[Angry Ibis]

I have a suspicion, but no knowledge that Moran will be an ops guy. I don’t think you’ll be one of the full-time assistance. That’s just my theory. I think his staff will be associated head coach will be a mentor from his Texas or Kentucky days and the next two assistance will be monster recruiters with one being a Florida expert. I think Moran is too green to put him as a full-time bench assistant just my opinion though and if Michelle Kaufman‘s report is correct, Jai Lucas will leave Duke this weekend to join Miami is the speculation.

Tell me more about Moran. He isn't bringing the Boozers with him, so other than a Columbus Connection to feed us Canes hoops propaganda to CIS, what does he bring to the program and/or how is he expected to be different than the dozen football coaches we have brought in over the years that have netted us very little on the dominant recruiting front? Very curious.

 

[fincane]

Tell me more about Moran. He isn't bringing the Boozers with him, so other than a Columbus Connection to feed us Canes hoops propaganda to CIS, what does he bring to the program and/or how is he expected to be different than the dozen football coaches we have brought in over the years that have netted us very little on the dominant recruiting front? Very curious.

Moran is a skill coach for pros I believe. He also has a kid in the next class that is big time.

But it won't be Moran. Lucas is the special one. He'll be the one to do something that flies in the face of all the historical data we've seen on the matter. Sure assistants with his profile rarely if ever succeed at what Miami will ask him to do but someone's got to be the first right? And one thing about Miami in the last decade that has been proven is that the school's hires exceed expectations.

The fact that CIS broke this and appears to be well on the way to having more access to the basketball program should give you comfort. This is about to be the most Miami thing ever. Miami loves a shiny thing with a shaky foundation and nothing is more shiny or Miami than selling the dream of getting "all the recruits" and hiring a local high school coach to help you do it. Maybe hiring Bruiser Flint will give Lucas someone who knows how to tell who should and shouldn't have information about the program.

 

[King of Allapattah]

Tell me more about Moran. He isn't bringing the Boozers with him, so other than a Columbus Connection to feed us Canes hoops propaganda to CIS, what does he bring to the program and/or how is he expected to be different than the dozen football coaches we have brought in over the years that have netted us very little on the dominant recruiting front? Very curious.

Andrew is well connected in the local basketball community. I think some on here overestimate his recruiting prowess, but does have connections within the high school and grassroots level. Where he'll earn his money is as a talent developer. Andrew is one of the best skill developers in the country. Prior to becoming the head coach at Columbus he ran basketball camps all over the world and has served as personal trainer for dozens of NBA players. He's been running training sessions out of Miami's practice facility for years now. Might as well pay him to train our guys. I don't have an issue with this hire as long as he's a few seats in on the bench and not the lead guy. The other rumored hire is the one I have my doubts about. I'm interested to see what Bruiser Fling will bring to the table, if hired.

 

[King of Allapattah]

I have a suspicion, but no knowledge that Moran will be an ops guy. I don’t think you’ll be one of the full-time assistance. That’s just my theory. I think his staff will be associated head coach will be a mentor from his Texas or Kentucky days and the next two assistance will be monster recruiters with one being a Florida expert. I think Moran is too green to put him as a full-time bench assistant just my opinion though and if Michelle Kaufman‘s report is correct, Jai Lucas will leave Duke this weekend to join Miami is the speculation.

I think there's an outside chance he gets 2nd or 3rd assistant, but more likely he gets DOBO or a player development role. However, knowing Andrew, I'm not too sure he'd leave Columbus unless it was lucrative or he felt it would be a major step up in his career. So, I wouldn't be too surprised if he indeed ended up at the front of the bench come next Fall. I know he's had opportunities in the past to move into the college sector, but right opportunity never presented itself. A seat in one of the top 3 assistants chairs for the hometown team may not be a bad look for him.