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JZCane0825 said:
Lucas graduated from Texas
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He was at UF for one year before he went to Texas. First team after they won two national titles. Saw the success and wanted to be part of it. Just putting the uniform on is enough for some to brand him a Gator if the Gator hate is strong enough.
 
Keep an eye on CY Young. That’s a name someone mentioned to me earlier. Has probably been the best in-state recruiter over the past 5-10 years. Would be an intriguing addition to the staff. He's from Miami. Was one of the main catalysts in attaining talent for fsu when they were making their run and has been recently doing it at mizzou. He seems to be moving on from Mizzou.
 
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King of Allapattah said:
Keep an eye on CY Young. That’s a name someone mentioned to me earlier. Has probably been the best in-state recruiter over the past 5-10 years. Would be an intriguing addition to the staff. He's from Miami. Was one of the main catalysts in attaining talent for fsu when they were making their run and has been recently doing it at mizzou. He seems to be moving on from Mizzou.
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Has head coaching experience as well
 
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So sounds like we actually are going to have a pretty high quality assistant staff to bolster the young great recruiter? Is that how adding all these rumored assistants would be perceived by the people that follow CBB more closely here?
I imagine the pool of money for coaches was always the same, so it'll be interesting to see if the kind of "cheaper" HC (I imagine given first HC job), with higher end assistants and hopefully just more money free for actual players, works. I'm pretty hopeful honestly. Its obvious this seems more like a boom or bust hire, but pairing him with actual good assistants with experience to me increases the boom chances a lot. And Next year I imagine could all hinge on whether they flip the Boozer twins as unlikely as it is. Adding an entire team through the portal is about to be expensive I imagine.
 
Calinative said:
So sounds like we actually are going to have a pretty high quality assistant staff to bolster the young great recruiter? Is that how adding all these rumored assistants would be perceived by the people that follow CBB more closely here?
I imagine the pool of money for coaches was always the same, so it'll be interesting to see if the kind of "cheaper" HC (I imagine given first HC job), with higher end assistants and hopefully just more money free for actual players, works. I'm pretty hopeful honestly. Its obvious this seems more like a boom or bust hire, but pairing him with actual good assistants with experience to me increases the boom chances a lot. And Next year I imagine could all hinge on whether they flip the Boozer twins as unlikely as it is. Adding an entire team through the portal is about to be expensive I imagine.
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It will be amusing to have 4 former head coaches on the bench supporting one first-time head coach...

It's so hurrrrrd to find coaching candidates with head-coaching experience...
 
TheOriginalCane said:
It will be amusing to have 4 former head coaches on the bench supporting one first-time head coach...

It's so hurrrrrd to find coaching candidates with head-coaching experience...
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I doubt they struggled finding candidates with HC Exp. They just went with the guy they deemed to have more upside (and more risk) and support him with a stronger assistant pool. TBD if it works. But it doesn't seem like some crazy decision. May prove to be a bad one, but not crazy imo.
 
Calinative said:
I doubt they struggled finding candidates with HC Exp. They just went with the guy they deemed to have more upside (and more risk) and support him with a stronger assistant pool. TBD if it works. But it doesn't seem like some crazy decision. May prove to be a bad one, but not crazy imo.
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Until we find out it had a lot to do with getting the Columbus coach a college job... because why not... Miami
 
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Angry Ibis said:
Until we find out it had a lot to do with getting the Columbus coach a college job... because why not... Miami
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You think this was all a setup to hire the columbus coach as an assistant? Sure that makes sense. Because surely they powers at be couldn't dictate any HC hire to have him on staff...lol
 
Calinative said:
You think this was all a setup to hire the columbus coach as an assistant? Sure that makes sense. Because surely they powers at be couldn't dictate any HC hire to have him on staff...lol
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No i don't think that, but we repeatedly make bad hires related to enriching friends and family and Lucas is tied to Columbus due to the Boozers
 
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Angry Ibis said:
A stretch to hire a local high school assistant coach tied to top recruits and at a school connected to the leadership?

I mean we have done it in football for decades...
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Who also happens to be one of the top player development coaches with a ton of NBA connections.
 
Calinative said:
I doubt they struggled finding candidates with HC Exp. They just went with the guy they deemed to have more upside (and more risk) and support him with a stronger assistant pool. TBD if it works. But it doesn't seem like some crazy decision. May prove to be a bad one, but not crazy imo.
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I didn't say there was a "struggle" at UM's level, but certain porsters have acted like it would be difficult to find a quality candidate with HEAD coaching experience. Somehow, the SEC manages to do it over and over again, and the ACC has been following a troubling recent trend of NOT going in that direction.

However, if you want to focus on UM's "struggle", they certainly did not try very hard to focus on guys with head-coaching experience. They identified MULTIPLE candidates with no head coaching experience, including NBA assistants Chris Quinn and Nick Friedman.

So let's not pretend that Miami looked at 19 head coaches and ONE assistant coach with no head-coaching experience. We were looking at a BUNCH of assistant coaches with no head-coaching experience.

And I've never made the "crazy decision" claim. I've simply criticized Miami's inability to scrutinize its own history and to examine what other comparable P4 schools have done in order to come to the LOGICAL conclusion that we should hire someone with head-coaching experience. And to AT LEAST try that approach for a few weeks before laser-focusing on a bunch of assistant coaches with no head-coaching experience.

Was there a rush? Would we have still been able to land Jai Lucas, say, TODAY...if we had struck out on guys like Will Wade first?

I just don't get the logic or rationale of doing things this way.
 
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