Your ego is uglier than a mf.. .. I’m sure ‘Canes fans would have been head over heels for hiring a sub .500 coach who made it to the second round of the NIT twice, and never made the tournament: Leonard Hamilton.
Bill Foster literally has a worse record than Frank Haith, who is public enemy number one on this board. You guys’ arguments keep getting more and more ridiculous. Hamilton is the only one of the L’s four predecessors with tournament success, but Haith has a better regular season record than all of them.
You guys stress all this importance on experience so the new head coach is not lost on the job, but Hamilton’s head coaching experience didn’t help him hit the ground running at Miami.
You say his predecessor Foster was a success, but Hamilton didn’t make the tournament or have a winning record in the Big East until year 8. Either he took over a rebuilding project or made a decent amount of rookie mistakes early on. I’m sure you guys will grace Lucas with the same amount of patience.
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.
