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I Have A Question- And I’m Serious

hoopsknowitall said:
I agree with Fishy but watching Bruce Pearl running around inciting the Auburn crowd yesterday was enough to make me puke.
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Are you telling me the BP quote "Guys we are up by 35 but play like we are down by 10 the rest of the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT STAY CLASSY while you do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -BP

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Didn't make you want to puke? That was one for the ages! Totally puke worthy with Mustapha smiling ear to ear while he said it!

LOL OMFG!
 
Fishy said:
Rick Pitino is absolutely unemployable.

It’s virtually guaranteed that he’ll be hit with a show cause. Any school hiring him would also hire the sanctions that come with him.

It’s like putting yourself on voluntarily probation for no particular reason.
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A show cause only prohibits the hiring (absent 'showing cause') after it is imposed. It isn't retroactive as far as I am aware. That said Pitino isn't the answer. Neither is Calhoun for that matter, although he could be a stop gap measure. I doubt he'd want it though.
 
methodology said:
No no no.

Pitino will never coach anywhere again unless it's for some foreign basketball league.

Calhoun would never allow such a hire to take over the program he built.
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Calhoun is revered for what he has done for UConn in the past. Done. Unless he’s willing to step back in he has ZERO demand in who comes next. Let him give his opinion, fine. He lobbyed and gave us KO who can’t coach, get or keep players. Believe me, I would have liked to been wrong about all that.
 
I guess I'm just confused why we haven't put all of our focus on luring a guy like Kermit Davis or John Becker, the former being a CT native. It's still the UConn job. It's got to have some appeal.
 
CL82 said:
A show cause only prohibits the hiring (absent 'showing cause') after it is imposed. It isn't retroactive as far as I am aware. That said Pitino isn't the answer. Neither is Calhoun for that matter, although he could be a stop gap measure. I doubt he'd want it though.
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It’s absolutely does not prohibit hiring. You can hire anyone you want, but if they’re hit with a show cause, you have to go before the NCAA and explain to them why the sanctions placed upon your coach should not also be brought to bear on your institution. (The NCAA won’t care, which is guys like Sampson and Pearl get hired after the show cause expires.)

Hiring the guy now before the sanctions hit would not magically exempt you from the show cause if it’s imposed.

The show cause was put in place to specifically address this exact scenario.
 
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I guess it is not too surprising that KO is struggling. The success rate of an assistant taking over for a legend is quite low.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
Don't care how dirty Pitino was (is), hire him. Hey, Penn State has come back from a worse situation. So has fake classes UNC. And, how long before L'ville slips off the hook. Pitino would be for UConn, the cost for being continously great.
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At least we aren’t an Addidas school!!
 
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Fishy said:
It’s absolutely does not prohibit hiring. You can hire anyone you want, but if they’re hit with a show cause, you have to go before the NCAA and explain to them why the sanctions placed upon your coach should not also be brought to bear on your institution.
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Which is exactly what I said in the post you quoted.
CL82 said:
A show cause only prohibits the hiring (absent 'showing cause') after it is imposed.
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Where we do actually differ is whether it is retroactive. I'm pretty confident it is not but I haven't looked at it specifically. So there is no sanction against the institution for the hire and there would not be a retroactive sanction against the institution. I think what you maybe thinking of is that the penalty against the coach would be in place regardless of where he was coaching. That is a risk. So if a coach got a ban on say contacting recruits at institution A, it would still be in place at institution B until the penalty ran its course. IIRC, this is exactly what happened with Pearl, who was still under sanction with an show cause penalty when he was hired at Auburn.

Regardless, I don't think that Pitino is the answer for us.
 
methodology said:
No no no.

Pitino will never coach anywhere again unless it's for some foreign basketball league.

Calhoun would never allow such a hire to take over the program he built.
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Ahh. The program that Calhoun built, has left the building with Elvis.
 
mauconnfan said:
Here's my take on Pikiell and Hurley, they will both be rah rah solid coaches. They will bring in similar players to what we have, maybe a better one or 2. They will probably get more out of them but ultimately we will not win NC's with them, neither look to me like they can make that happen. Go after the game changer, not the coach who just does it better. Not sure who that is or if they can do it, but I believe he's out there and AD David Benedict needs to find him!

Heck maybe it's Geno with ACCD taking the women?
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Geno would finally get the chance to shut up all the critics who claim he could never be successful coaching men.
 
UConnNick said:
Geno would finally get the chance to shut up all the critics who claim he could never be successful coaching men.
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I'd take Geno in a heartbeat but I put the odds at 10%.
 
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QDOG5 said:
I'd take Geno in a heartbeat but I put the odds at 10%.
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Geno has said numerous times he's not interested in coaching college men. The recruiting is harder, and more cutthroat, and Geno has zero desire to deal with posses, agents, shoe companies, and other hanger-oners. He has said the dream post-UConn gig for him would be as assistant for an NBA team, and he probably has the connections to get one.
 
jibsey said:
Everyone is going to take their shots at me for this and that’s fine but as a UCONN mens hoop fan I’m near desperation to turn this disgrace that we have been seeing around. We are heading into oblivion.
Rick Pitino. That’s right. Rick Pitino.
I’m not interested in having him come here if he has actually done something illegal, let me state that unequivically, but to this point was he convicted or even charged with of anything at Louisville? Is there a chance he actually did not know or condone what his underlings did? “He should have known”?
He can get players. he can coach them up. There is no debate there. So if he was clean, and that’s an if, and if he were given a shot to turn us around why not?
My feeling is that we are going to be derided anyway for being crappy, so who cares if we’re hated for having Pitino? He’s not Adolph Hitler, he’s Rick Pitino. Not only that, but he has a chip on his shoulder now and he wants to dare the college basketball powers that be to knock it off.
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This is simply genius!!! Maybe after this campaign you can rally the troops on the football side to free Sandusky to rejuvenate our defense!!!
 
HuskyNan said:
Geno has said numerous times he's not interested in coaching college men. The recruiting is harder, and more cutthroat, and Geno has zero desire to deal with posses, agents, shoe companies, and other hanger-oners. He has said the dream post-UConn gig for him would be as assistant for an NBA team, and he probably has the connections to get one.
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Nothing here that doubling his present salary wouldn't solve.
 
QDOG5 said:
I'd take Geno in a heartbeat but I put the odds at 10%.
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I'd put the odds of thebadministration even asking Geno if he'd be interested at 1%.
 
BUConn10 said:
I'd put the odds of thebadministration even asking Geno if he'd be interested at 1%.
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If the administration is so incompetent, why do you stick around?
 
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No lol he definitely did cheat BUT, he can get us back in the tourney every year. I wouldnt mind him being considered. Im not sure he wants to coach again though.
 
intlzncster said:
Seeing as he offered to work for free this year because of the budget crisis, I doubt that moves the needle for him.

Auriemma offers to forego pay in education budget battle
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This would be a great chance for his assistant coach to step in. The women wouldn't miss a beat with her as coach because she's been with Geno forever. Geno could see the desperate situation the university is in and take one for the team. Don't laugh off the possibility. Geno said he wants to coach 5 more years. Why not 5 years of the ultimate challenge? It goes without saying that he's a far better coach than KO, stresses ball movement and gets all of his players to buy in for the good of the team. Isn't that what all of us want?
 
I can't take Pitino seriously. How about getting Jeff Van Gundy back into coaching? Probably wouldn't do college but i think he would be great.
 
UConnNick said:
Nothing here that doubling his present salary wouldn't solve.
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He currently has a five year, $10.9 million dollar contract. Double it is out of the question.
 
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