Anyone else think there could/should be coaching changes in the AAC?

[Stainmaster]

UCF should go after North Florida or Florida Gulf Coast coach (I guess).

UCF is apparently looking at Stony Brook HC and former UConn player/assistant Steve Pikiell.

 

[BoatShow]

For a fanbase once renowned as one of the most loyal and rabid in the country I was SHOCKED to see they had maybe a couple hundred fans at the title game while there were several thousand Uconn fans. Pastnor is borderline going full Pasqualoni on that program right now. Back to back years where they don't even get the NIT!!

 

[Drew]

 

[Drew]

Pastner has officially been retained by Memphis. Have to think that buyout is too hefty to mess with

 

[tcf15]

 

[UCweCONN]

I think USF's coach needs to go.

 

[Drew]

 

[Inyatkin]

I think USF's coach needs to go.

He just got there

 

[UCweCONN]

He just got there

Two seasons and his team was worse this season than last. He is clueless as a coach. Just because he was an assistant under Calipari doesn't make him a good coach. How many seasons do you give a coach before you admit he doesn't have it?

 

[Inyatkin]

Two seasons and his team was worse this season than last. He is clueless as a coach. Just because he was an assistant under Calipari doesn't make him a good coach. How many seasons do you give a coach before you admit he doesn't have it?

I'm going to say, more than two.

 

[bmo22]

Two seasons and his team was worse this season than last. He is clueless as a coach. Just because he was an assistant under Calipari doesn't make him a good coach. How many seasons do you give a coach before you admit he doesn't have it?

Antigua inherited close to nothing when he took over and half of his scholarship players (maybe more) missed extended time to injury this year. Your expectations make it seem like he took over for Coach K at Duke. This is USF we're talking about. The expectations there aren't very high. Don't know if he'll be a great coach but he'll make them more competitive. That's all we're looking for from the bottom dwellers in this conference.

 

[tzznandrew]

Two seasons and his team was worse this season than last. He is clueless as a coach. Just because he was an assistant under Calipari doesn't make him a good coach. How many seasons do you give a coach before you admit he doesn't have it?

I'm going to say, more than two.

This dude would have fired Coach K:

Duke
1980-81: 17-13
1981-82: 10-17
1982-83: 11-17

Not not saying Antigua is K, but two years is not enough to evaluate a coach.

 

[BFieldHusky]

CommunitySportReport
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Hearing that Johnny Dawkins will be hired as the next coach of UCF basketball. Official announcement expected in next 24-48 hours.

 

[Matrim55]

CommunitySportReport
‏@CSROrlando
Hearing that Johnny Dawkins will be hired as the next coach of UCF basketball. Official announcement expected in next 24-48 hours.

Perfect news for the conference. Dawkins is a decent coach who won't field embarrassing teams, and is a decent coach who will never field very, very good teams.

I'd expect UCF to settle in at anywhere from 70-to-150 in Kenpom on a yearly basis. Never good enough to threaten, but not a drag on our RPI/Kenpom/BPI rankings. Nicely done, UCF.

 

[tzznandrew]

Perfect news for the conference. Dawkins is a decent coach who won't field embarrassing teams, and is a decent coach who will never field very, very good teams.

I'd expect UCF to settle in at anywhere from 70-to-150 in Kenpom on a yearly basis. Never good enough to threaten, but not a drag on our RPI/Kenpom/BPI rankings. Nicely done, UCF.

They might even make the NCAAs in an odd year or two. Agree entirely here.

As bad as the AAC is, having UConn and Cincy (and Louisville when the conference was first created) felt like a big enough step up that SMU went out and hired Brown, then Houston Sampson.

Most of the hiring decisions on the basketball side of things have been really smart, Pastner still at Memphis excluded.

 

[zls44]

 

[A10 fan]

Perfect news for the conference. Dawkins is a decent coach who won't field embarrassing teams, and is a decent coach who will never field very, very good teams.

I'd expect UCF to settle in at anywhere from 70-to-150 in Kenpom on a yearly basis. Never good enough to threaten, but not a drag on our RPI/Kenpom/BPI rankings. Nicely done, UCF.

Spot on! You don't need a league full of heavyweights, you just want to avoid having more than 1 or 2 anchors at the bottom. You want a UCF to schedule smartly ooc, win most of those games, and then win enough in league play to stay above 150. If they can rotate with the other middling teams, with at least 2 of them seeing some sort of postseason play most years, the league will be in good shape. In this league, you really need for UConn, Cincy, and Memphis to be in the top 30 most years, with at least 2 of them in the top 20. If SMU can maintain for a while, so much the better, as that would be 4 teams with the potential to make the NCAAs most years. If Temple remains in the top 50, and Houston can join them there, this could be a 4-6 bid league on a regular basis. In the event UConn gets stuck here for an appreciable amount of time (5-6 more years), that would probably be good enough to allow them to maintain the program without too much trouble.

 

[Drew]

 

[Drew]

 

[Husky15]

 

[intlzncster]

Perfect news for the conference. Dawkins is a decent coach who won't field embarrassing teams, and is a decent coach who will never field very, very good teams.

This is true, but also kinda sad at the same time.

 

[intlzncster]

If it was another conference, I'd want Gottleib over the field. Followed by Greenberg. Since it's our conference, I'd like them to not even be mentioned on a head coaching search list.

 

[TRest]

Seth Greenberg wants to try coming up short for the Big Dance at a different school.

 

[uconNYC]

Credit to the AAC - looks like all the schools have gotten the memo that they need to have a competitive basketball program.

 

[tcf15]

Mike Dunleavy Sr. to Tulane.