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Would be a fantastic hire if we were to go the young assistant route. He's the top recruiter in the sport (lead recruiter on Cooper Flagg, Boozer twins, Shaedon Sharpe, Cason Wallace) and would assemble a really strong staff.

Would look for someone with HC experience that he's worked with at either Texas or Kentucky - Bruiser Flint, Darrin Horn, etc. - to be part of his staff.
 
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Problem2 said:
This would be a pleasant surprise
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The difference between him and say, Kimani Young, is that with the latter, it's hard to tell if success is due to the coach or the system. Outside of Clingan and Liam McNeely, UConn isn't recruiting at the same level as Kentucky and Duke have been the past 5 years.
 
Whoa. This is an interesting one. I still would prefer someone with HC experience, but this program also desperately needs someone who is elite at talent acquisition - and that's what Lucas offers.
 
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You make a valid point with Jail Lucas but if I am going the young assistant route, I would take either Luke Murray or Kimani Young from UCONN.
Hurley has been clear of their role and impact on the success of UCONN over the past few seasons.
Sure, Duke has been successful but UCONN has been the standard for college basketball over the past two seasons.
Just my thought process.
 
gacaneaddict said:
Goodness lets flush the program.

We aren't serious are we?

Its not that hard, go hire a proven coach.

If this is the pick be doing this again in 2-3 years.

DRAD has been more atrocious than Blake James.
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I take it you don’t follow the sport do you?
 
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Da_Lucky_One said:
You make a valid point with Jail Lucas but if I am going the young assistant route, I would take either Luke Murray or Kimani Young from UCONN.
Hurley has been clear of their role and impact on the success of UCONN over the past few seasons.
Sure, Duke has been successful but UCONN has been the standard for college basketball over the past two seasons.
Just my thought process.
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By your logic, all of Bill Belichek’s assistants should have worked out as HC’s. What's even more hilarious about your logic is that you'd rather hire one of these two over Pitino yet Kimani Young was his assistant for several years at FIU and then at Minnesota.
 
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JZCane0825 said:
By your logic, all of Bill Belichek’s assistants should have worked out as HC’s. What's even more hilarious about your logic is that you'd rather hire one of these two over Pitino yet Kimani Young was his assistant for several years at FIU and then at Minnesota.
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First, that is not my logic. Belichick and Brady were the brains and braun in NE. The rest of those bums were just along for the ride.

Obviously, Young learned what not to do under Pitino as he has excelled with Hurley. Young has had more NCAA tournament wins in last season alone than Pitino has in his entire 13 year career.

Young is actually my 1B while Luke Murray is 1A but either would be better than Richard Pitino.

I understand that is your guy but I want someone with more than 1 NCAA tournament wins and 3 NCAA tournament appearances in 13 years.

My goal is to raise the bar for Canes Hoops!
 
Da_Lucky_One said:
First, that is not my logic. Belichick and Brady were the brains and braun in NE. The rest of those bums were just along for the ride.

Obviously, Young learned what not to do under Pitino as he has excelled with Hurley. Young has had more NCAA tournament wins in last season alone than Pitino has in his entire 13 year career.

Young is actually my 1B while Luke Murray is 1A but either would be better than Richard Pitino.

I understand that is your guy but I want someone with more than 1 NCAA tournament wins and 3 NCAA tournament appearances in 13 years.

My goal is to raise the bar for Canes Hoops!
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Lucas would be a better hire than the UConn assistants
 
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It'd be one thing if Jai, Kamani, or any of the other aforementioned assistant coaches were head coaches in waiting under Coach L, but it baffles me how some of you are so willingly ready to accept rookie HC's to lead what's suppose to be a high major, ACC head coaching position.

Again, Miami is not serious about basketball if it hires an inexperienced rookie HC to lead our basketball program.
 
JZCane0825 said:
I take it you don’t follow the sport do you?
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I follow it enough to know you make Jay Wright, Rick Pitino, Shaka Smart, Will Wade, Chris Beard, Chris Jans, Andy Enfield all turn you down before even entertaining a rookie Head Coach.

Ive seen some wild moves happen in coaching last few years. You better exhaust all your resources before settling on a coach with no experience for a total rebuild.

Why low hanging fruit? Why not a more sure thing? Dont make it a guess, a wish, hire someone you know will win.
 
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King of Allapattah said:
It'd be one thing if Jai, Kamani, or any of the other aforementioned assistant coaches were head coaches in waiting under Coach L, but it baffles me how some of you are so willingly ready to accept rookie HC's to lead what's suppose to be a high major, ACC head coaching position.

Again, Miami is not serious about basketball if it hires an inexperienced rookie HC to lead our basketball program.
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I agree with you. You make a valid point.
The unknown is always scary.
However, I am more willing to go with an unknown like Luke Murray or Kimani Young instead of a Richard Pitino.
Richard Pitino has been coaching for 13 years. He has been to the NCAA tournament 3 times in 13 years with 1, just ONE NCAA tournament win.
He has 13 years of experience and his resume tells me Miami is not serious about basketball if they hire him.
In fairness, if his last name was Peters or Peterson or anything else, there is no way anyone would consider him for the Miami job with his experience and resume.
The three things I want the next coach to do at Miami is win 20+ games and make the NCAA tournament every year while recruiting the State of Florida as a priority.
Those are my requirements for the next head coach.
For an experienced coach, he has to have 20+ wins and make the NCAA tournament in atleast half of the years he has been coaching.
That's what I want to see.
Again, you are right and I agree with you about an inexperienced assistant coach.
However, when I look at the resume of these perspective next head coaches, I read the writing on the wall and accept them for who they are, not what I hope them to be even when they have never shown any signs of being different from what they have proven themselves to be.
As Dennis Green once said, they are who we thought they were. If you want to crown them then crown them. But they are who we thought they were and we let them off the hook.
😂 😂 😂.
 
JZCane0825 said:
Would be a fantastic hire if we were to go the young assistant route. He's the top recruiter in the sport (lead recruiter on Cooper Flagg, Boozer twins, Shaedon Sharpe, Cason Wallace) and would assemble a really strong staff.

Would look for someone with HC experience that he's worked with at either Texas or Kentucky - Bruiser Flint, Darrin Horn, etc. - to be part of his staff.
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So he’s bringing Nike with him from Duke?

Got it.

Big get, then.
 
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