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aburks41 said:
Yup was just gonna say this. It has to be someone who is connected in the business side of the basketball world. Swin Cash is currently the VP of basketball operations for the Pelicans. She could be a potential candidate.

Also Caron Butler...although he is an actual coach for the Heat, not a front office guy
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Swin Cash would be ideal. I'm assuming Geno would also consider a GM. I'm not sure that one person could be the GM for both programs but here's a vote for Swin. @August_West I hesitated to basically duplicate your and @aburks41 post, but figured more voices behind this long shot hire, the better
 
Mr. French said:
Although that’s gotta be a demotion from her current gig.
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True, but I imagine that she has had lower level assistants who could do the job well and would see it as a step forward.

I'd be surprised if she couldn't recommend someone.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
Swin Cash would be ideal. I'm assuming Geno would also consider a GM. I'm not sure that one person could be the GM for both programs but here's a vote for Swin. @August_West I hesitated to basically duplicate your and @aburks41 post, but figured more voices behind this long shot hire, the better
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I’ve been assuming the person would oversee both programs. Although that could be more of a challenge at schools like UConn with two premier programs.
 
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August_West said:
10 years ago he’d be the top pick I assume he could still kill it if he wanted, but we won’t pay as much as what he makes ( and shouldn’t) . It would be fun to see someone come to the light side of the force, you can tell he wants to. But yeah, never. Swin would have take a huge cut too but she bleeds blue
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Jay Bilas is the only Dookie I actually like and respect. Although Coach K had some very nice words to say about UConn, Calhoun, and Hurley so it’s hard for me to dislike him anymore.
 
UofCT said:
Craig Austrie and his wife are crushing it on TikTok. If that counts.
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Not that TikTok matters, but Austrie has been an absolute man his whole career. He’s smart, tough, ambitious and classy. Not a bad consideration. Probably, the best suggestion yet, along with Emeka.
 
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WeAreUCONN said:
Jay Bilas is the only Dookie I actually like and respect. Although Coach K had some very nice words to say about UConn, Calhoun, and Hurley so it’s hard for me to dislike him anymore.
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Interesting you say that. I will always like Donny Marshall because he is part of the UConn family even though I don't always love his announcing. But there are a lot of UConn fans that hate Marshall's announcing. When I was reading the Duke forum I noticed a lot of their fans hate Jay Bilas. I like Bilas a ton. Deep down you know he wants Duke to win, but you would never be able to tell by the way he announces games unlike Dick Vitale.

P.S. I am glad Dick Vitale has made a great recovery from cancer, but I hated watching him announce Duke games.
 
gsmooth said:
Interesting you say that. I will always like Donny Marshall because he is part of the UConn family even though I don't always love his announcing. But there are a lot of UConn fans that hate Marshall's announcing. When I was reading the Duke forum I noticed a lot of their fans hate Jay Bilas. I like Bilas a ton. Deep down you know he wants Duke to win, but you would never be able to tell by the way he announces games unlike Dick Vitale.

P.S. I am glad Dick Vitale has made a great recovery from cancer, but I hated watching him announce Duke games.
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Years and years ago I thought Dickie V was unique and humorous but shortly thereafter he transformed to Duke’s biggest fan. That’s why he became too annoying for me to ever listen to unless he was doing a UConn game, which left me no choice. Bilas seems unbiased and I give him credit for picking UConn to win before the tournament began.
 
gsmooth said:
Interesting you say that. I will always like Donny Marshall because he is part of the UConn family even though I don't always love his announcing. But there are a lot of UConn fans that hate Marshall's announcing. When I was reading the Duke forum I noticed a lot of their fans hate Jay Bilas. I like Bilas a ton. Deep down you know he wants Duke to win, but you would never be able to tell by the way he announces games unlike Dick Vitale.

P.S. I am glad Dick Vitale has made a great recovery from cancer, but I hated watching him announce Duke games.
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I really enjoyed Donny as a player and the teams he was on were and always will be special. While I would rather he not do many UConn games, I could never dislike him.
 
aburks41 said:
Good article here from Borges.

Main takeaways:

1) Staff will be focusing on 2024 recruiting until Jackson and Newton make their final decisions in a month from now.
2) Kimani and Luke will both be here next year
3) Hurley's main priority with the staff is hiring a GM, which is what Duke did last year, and Nova just did a week ago.

"In college basketball, it's an organization," Hurley said. "With re-recruitment of players in the program, the portal, there's a lot of things going on. If you're a top-level organization in college basketball or college football, you need someone who looks at themselves as a GM, for dealing with scheduling, the conference, NIL, raising money. It's almost more important than critical staff members."

Anyone got any good names to throw into the mix? An ex-player? AAU guy?

www.ctinsider.com

How NCAA champion UConn men's basketball program is assembling next year's roster: 'Got to be patient'

The UConn men's basketball team won't know for sure its 2023-24 roster until at least another month, but Dan Hurley is preaching patience.
www.ctinsider.com www.ctinsider.com
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This almost sounds like a tier 2 position under the AD. The reality of the business world as now an integral part of the sports like basketball down to the recruit and player level is a reality. A "general manager" is a title that usually means someone who answers to the highest levels in a business. It appears Dan Hurley sees this as a person inside the basketball program below the coaches. GM seems to be more of a business manager as opposed to a senior executive. This would seem to be a line position
(day to day operations) including a lot of detail work (or added staff) . I get that Dan Hurley sees having direct control of this business manager in order to meet the needs of an expanding area of responsibility. He will have to sell this I think to the AD and other superiors unless it is already budgeted in. Good luck Danny. And bring your cost/benefit analysis with you.
 
Also found it interesting that the article mentioned Tom Moore also had received ms interest about head coaching jobs. I thought that was the one guy we didn’t have to worry about losing.
 
Here's an article about the Nova GM, Baker Dunleavy.
He will be the GM for the men's and women's programs.

villanova.com

Dunleavy Named General Manager of Villanova Basketball - Villanova University

New role returns the former Wildcats player and coach to Villanova
villanova.com villanova.com

But, even more interesting is that every time they refer to Neptune, they do as "William B. Finneran Endowed Men's Head Coach Kyle Neptune".
I wonder if they introduce him that way during the starting lineups before games.

PA Announcer: "And the coach of the Villanova Wildcats, William B. Finneran Endowed Men's Head Coach Kyle Neptune"
 
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ibleedhuskyblue said:
Here's an article about the Nova GM, Baker Dunleavy.
He will be the GM for the men's and women's programs.

villanova.com

Dunleavy Named General Manager of Villanova Basketball - Villanova University

New role returns the former Wildcats player and coach to Villanova
villanova.com villanova.com

But, even more interesting is that every time they refer to Neptune, they do as "William B. Finneran Endowed Men's Head Coach Kyle Neptune".
I wonder if they introduce him that way during the starting lineups before games.

PA Announcer: "And the coach of the Villanova Wildcats, William B. Finneran Endowed Men's Head Coach Kyle Neptune"
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Imagine how long it would take Gameday Connor to say that!
 
ibleedhuskyblue said:
Here's an article about the Nova GM, Baker Dunleavy.
He will be the GM for the men's and women's programs.

villanova.com

Dunleavy Named General Manager of Villanova Basketball - Villanova University

New role returns the former Wildcats player and coach to Villanova
villanova.com villanova.com

But, even more interesting is that every time they refer to Neptune, they do as "William B. Finneran Endowed Men's Head Coach Kyle Neptune".
I wonder if they introduce him that way during the starting lineups before games.

PA Announcer: "And the coach of the Villanova Wildcats, William B. Finneran Endowed Men's Head Coach Kyle Neptune"
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That's interesting; sounds like his position as head coach is directly funded by an endowment fund rather than through the general fund athletic budget. That dude Finneran stepping (stepped) up big time for the hoops program. Program is not going to be denied! Also, Dunleavy reports to the VP/ AD and not the Head Coach.
 
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Boo Willingham is an agent, draft consultant, and I believe has some kind of wealth management consulting company (or job) as well. He is probably well qualified but he’s living it up in Miami so it would likely be hard to lure him here.
 
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gsmooth said:
Interesting you say that. I will always like Donny Marshall because he is part of the UConn family even though I don't always love his announcing. But there are a lot of UConn fans that hate Marshall's announcing. When I was reading the Duke forum I noticed a lot of their fans hate Jay Bilas. I like Bilas a ton. Deep down you know he wants Duke to win, but you would never be able to tell by the way he announces games unlike Dick Vitale.

P.S. I am glad Dick Vitale has made a great recovery from cancer, but I hated watching him announce Duke games.
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I wonder if guys make a concerted effort not to be a homer, so their fans think they are anti home team.

Kind of like the coach is always harder on his own kid so as not appearing to play favorites
 
dennismenace said:
This almost sounds like a tier 2 position under the AD. The reality of the business world as now an integral part of the sports like basketball down to the recruit and player level is a reality. A "general manager" is a title that usually means someone who answers to the highest levels in a business. It appears Dan Hurley sees this as a person inside the basketball program below the coaches. GM seems to be more of a business manager as opposed to a senior executive. This would seem to be a line position
(day to day operations) including a lot of detail work (or added staff) . I get that Dan Hurley sees having direct control of this business manager in order to meet the needs of an expanding area of responsibility. He will have to sell this I think to the AD and other superiors unless it is already budgeted in. Good luck Danny. And bring your cost/benefit analysis with you.
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Yes, this gets at what the job is. The title is fancy, but the job isn’t quite that. That‘s why the last time it was proposed, it was more of a reassignment of job duties so that a current guy on staff would assume the role. They have a little more leverage now, what with the winning and the role itself becoming more of a thing across college basketball.

There was no rush for the head coach to get more money or guaranteed years (other than what kicked in automatically) right after the championship, but they do have some things in mind.
 
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