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Jai Lucas set to become next men’s basketball coach

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lol ferman doubling down no one has been offered the job. Claims March 8 th is their target date for hire and that there are at least two others being evaluated- Chris Caputo being one of them.
 

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Well the good news is we’re dead last in the ACC so we can only go up from here (or stay the same), but at least it can’t get much worse lol. I’m choosing to be optimistic about this hire because this season has sucked.
 
rayray said:
this feels like a disaster hire to me. all of Calipari’s assistants have flopped and recruiting for Duke has to be one of the easiest jobs in college basketball.

and in the off chance that you have hit on a superstar coach here, he’s leaving for a bigger job in 3 years. so i’m not sure what the upside even is here really.

L showed that you don’t need to have some major recruiting reputation to get 4 and 5 stars to come here. put good teams on the floor, put some guys into the draft, and use your connections as a coach and guys will want to play in Miami — and of course now we have the NIL aspect. the entire direction of this hire feels misplaced to me

happy to proven wrong of course. we will see
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Despite his time with Cal and Duke, it seems clear to me that his most formative coaching influence is his father

One of the main reasons why coach L recruited well, although positively influenced by his longterm winning record, was because of personal connections to clubs and coaches in the northeast. This is still a communications job at the end of the day.

Besides Dewan, most of our blue chip recruits were from the northeast or DMV area — which Coach L primarily recruited from at George Mason.

With Lucas running the show, we just hired one of the most connected and well respected guys working in all of basketball. As for his ability to adapt to being at the top of pyramid, I am extremely excited we gave him the opportunity to do at Miami rather than aim for a safer gamble.
 
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anr96 said:
Well the good news is we’re dead last in the ACC so we can only go up from here (or stay the same), but at least it can’t get much worse lol. I’m choosing to be optimistic about this hire because this season has sucked.
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This hire is one the last place team in the ACC makes. The recent E8 and F4 runs be damned.
 
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Da_Lucky_One said:
We will have to look back in two or three years to see how this thread will age.
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You don't have to wait two to three years to know that Miami has decided to ignore conventional wisdom in regards to college basketball hires in hopes of hitting a lottery ticket. The hope is what? That Lucas is such a monster on the trail that his talent acquisition skills that have been bolstered by having legacy logos on his polo are enough to make up for his inexperience running a program?

He's coming to a place with not near the infrastructure that his previous stops had. He will be relied on to be gameday coach, program builder, salesman and culture setter all without ever doing the job before. Lots on his shoulders. Oh and you should win pretty quickly too or the building will be as empty as a new apartment. Another thing he's not accustomed to
 
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Da_Lucky_One said:
I am not asking him to be. I am asking him to be better than what I have watched the past two seasons.
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If the standard is better than rock bottom of L's tenure than they've could've hired Perry Clark. If the standard is a consistent winner with the possibility of a special run every 2-3 years there are better options.
 
Da_Lucky_One said:
I am not asking him to be. I am asking him to be better than what I have watched the past two seasons.
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We have been horrific, but we have seen the potential of this program too. I’m not trying to find a coach that will just get us to the you tournament anymore. Shouldn’t we expect more? We are hiring a guy whose competitive advantage is talent acquisition, but won’t be able to get the level of talent he is credited for. It’s a huge gamble that doesn’t even guarantee us to get back to average tbh. This type of hire has a track record of failure 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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fincane said:
You don't have to wait two to three years to know that Miami has decided to ignore conventional wisdom in regards to college basketball hires in hopes of hitting a lottery ticket. The hope is what? That Lucas is such a monster on the trail that his talent acquisition skills that have been bolstered by having legacy logos on his polo are enough to make up for his inexperience running a program?

He's coming to a place with not near the infrastructure that his previous stops had. He will be relied on to be gameday coach, program builder, salesman and culture setter all without ever doing the job before. Lots on his shoulders. Oh and you should win pretty quickly too or the building will be as empty as a new apartment. Another thing he's not accustomed to
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In fairness, let's stop acting like Coach L was John Wooden. Coach L has one Final Four, 1 Elite 8 and 2 Sweet 16 in his 14 years at Miami.
Miami went to the NCAA tournament 6 times under Coach L with the first trip largely because of Frank Haith recruits.
Coach L tenure looks really good because everyone else was really bad.
Coach L is the below average looking woman in a beauty pageant full of ugly women.
A lot of this "conventional wisdom" you want to use to hire a good mid major coach is promoting a rethread with a proven resume that says he is not what you want.
There are a lot of good X and I coaches but without talent, they become good assistant coaches.
If Jai Lucas is Leonard Hamilton all over again, that is not a bad thing. Hamilton made Coral Gables a destination. Sadly, the previous ADs kept giving the job to coaches who wanted one last check before they retire in South Florida.
What Jai is missing in Xs and Os, he will hire an offensive minded assistant coach along with a former HC to build on what he lacks.
The biggest difference is the guy who is good with Xs and Os cannot match what Jai does on the recruiting trail.
Xs and Os are important but without talent, it will not work!
 
Da_Lucky_One said:
In fairness, let's stop acting like Coach L was John Wooden. Coach L has one Final Four, 1 Elite 8 and 2 Sweet 16 in his 14 years at Miami.
Miami went to the NCAA tournament 6 times under Coach L with the first trip largely because of Frank Haith recruits.
Coach L tenure looks really good because everyone else was really bad.
Coach L is the below average looking woman in a beauty pageant full of ugly women.
A lot of this "conventional wisdom" you want to use to hire a good mid major coach is promoting a rethread with a proven resume that says he is not what you want.
There are a lot of good X and I coaches but without talent, they become good assistant coaches.
If Jai Lucas is Leonard Hamilton all over again, that is not a bad thing. Hamilton made Coral Gables a destination. Sadly, the previous ADs kept giving the job to coaches who wanted one last check before they retire in South Florida.
What Jai is missing in Xs and Os, he will hire an offensive minded assistant coach along with a former HC to build on what he lacks.
The biggest difference is the guy who is good with Xs and Os cannot match what Jai does on the recruiting trail.
Xs and Os are important but without talent, it will not work!
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Second time you've mentioned Haith's recruits as a jumping off point. Kadji was a transfer and never played a minute for Haith. Shane Larkin the team's best player was a Coach L transfer and Trey McKinney Jones was a Coach L transfer addition. So yes Durand and Reggie, Rion and Julian all were recuited by Haith. Only Durand was a time big recruit and all were unfinished products when Haith left. The backbone of that team and the following teams were transfers and development.

You're dug in so deep you've decided to credit Haith for something that happened 2 seasons after he left. The best thing that ever happened to Miami's program is Missouri losing their minds and hiring Haith. One last check for Coach L huh? That's what were you thinking when the team came back from down double digits to beat Texas and go to the Final Four. "Ole one last check Jim lucked out again"
 
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