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We all are intitled to our own opinions. I would have personally liked a experienced coach. We hired Lucas and I support him. I wasn't happy about JD's hire at all. I care about football way more than any other sport. I had enough when Manny was hired. Just seriously ****ed off. I have to laugh when you consider our 3 previous AD's and Rad. The AD job was a complete joke before Rad, seriously. Rad isn't perfect, either. The basketball program just took a huge step forward with $. Now baseball hasn't gotten that big money boost at least yet, but the football and basketball ball have been taken serious for the 1st time in the modern age at Miami. The 2 sports that move the needle.
 
JZCane0825 said:
If Rad was coasting he would have hired Caputo
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As an assistant coach (at GW and Miami) Caputo has been to 4 Sweet 16’s, 2 Elite 8’s, and one Final 4.

As an assistant (at TEXAS, KENTUCKY, and DUKE) Jai has been past the round of 32 once in his career.

As a head coach Caputo took over a dead GW program and won 20+ games in his third year (without his best player who was lost for the year to injury before the season - and did it on a 400k NIL budget).

GW hadn’t won 20 games in the 5 years prior to his arrival. He built the program and support - he only had a 400k NIL budget this year but he was able to raise funds and engage the university and will have a bigger NIL budget at GW next year than Miami had this year.

But Jai recruited 5*s to Texas, Duke, and Kentucky.

You really can’t be this obtuse in real life… can you?
 
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When I 1st saw AD Kirby at Miami, I thought, where do I know this guy from. I happened to be in the area and went on a recruiting visit to Ohio with my nephew and my brother. That's where I met him at. I thought, seriously, this is Miami's AD. I have a a friend who played golf for FSU and his brother(his father lives with his brother) has now lived houses down from Kirby since he moved to Lubbock. They have neighborhood parties. I haven't escaped Kirby crap since he left Miami. I am not complaining about Rad.
 
Cane30 said:
When I 1st saw AD Kirby at Miami, I thought, where do I know this guy from. I happened to be in the area and went on a recruiting visit to Ohio with my nephew and my brother. That's where I met him at. I thought, seriously, this is Miami's AD. I have a a friend who played golf for FSU and his brother(his father lives with his brother) has now lived houses down from Kirby since he moved to Lubbock. They have neighborhood parties. I haven't escaped Kirby crap since he left Miami. I am not complaining about Rad.
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Kirby has made multiple solid hires in basketball. He’s managed to make TTU a destination for basketball, despite Lubbock being a wasteland. Miami is over here half assing it. Miami LUCKED into L and then followed the best tenure in program history by hiring an inexperienced blue blood assistant.
 
Canedude08 said:
Kirby has made multiple solid hires in basketball. He’s managed to make TTU a destination for basketball, despite Lubbock being a wasteland. Miami is over here half assing it. Miami LUCKED into L and then followed the best tenure in program history by hiring an inexperienced blue blood assistant.
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So much so that Chris Beard left for Austin
 
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Cane30 said:
We all are intitled to our own opinions. I would have personally liked a experienced coach. We hired Lucas and I support him. I wasn't happy about JD's hire at all. I care about football way more than any other sport. I had enough when Manny was hired. Just seriously ****ed off. I have to laugh when you consider our 3 previous AD's and Rad. The AD job was a complete joke before Rad, seriously. Rad isn't perfect, either. The basketball program just took a huge step forward with $. Now baseball hasn't gotten that big money boost at least yet, but the football and basketball ball have been taken serious for the 1st time in the modern age at Miami. The 2 sports that move the needle.
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If Rad took basketball seriously, he would have hired an experienced, quality coach AND found a way to fund the program appropriately. He didn't. He gave an inexperienced coach a significant budget, because he halfassed the entire process. He is incapable of completing what should be a simple equation. We see it in baseball, we're now seeing it in basketball.
 
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JZCane0825 said:
Would expect to hear Bruiser Flint’s name now that Arkansas has been eliminated
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Take it for what it’s worth, but living in KY, I asked a bunch of coworkers who are diehard Cats fans about Flint and his perception of him as an assistant under Cal, and it wasn’t positive. Basically said he didn’t do much, and that Antigua was probably the most well respected of Cal’s assistants.
 
CTCANE said:
CaneDude will definitely be rooting for Lucas to fail so he can say I told you so
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Not rooting for him to fail, but like Frank Haith, Manny Diaz, Randy Shannon, Larry Coker, JD Arteaga and Gino Dimare, I know that the odds are not in his favor. It's tough enough for successful, experienced coaches to win in a new place, imagine coming in and lacking experience or a proven track record. Miami bet the farm on magic beans. Could it end up working out? Could, but if the last 20+ years are any indication, it wouldn't be prudent to bet your house on it.
 
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