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Leonard Hamilton - Another One Bites the Dust

nelsonmuntz said:
Five Sweet 16's in 37 years at Oklahoma State, Miami and Florida State. He couldn't recruit, couldn't coach, and therefore couldn't win despite having three pretty good jobs for a long time. Holloway's career as a major conference coach may be over after three years because he stayed loyal to a dead end job like Seton Hall, and Hamilton gets to be mediocre for decades at very attractive programs and retires at 76. Definitely a sign that life is not fair.
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Saying Leonard Hamilton couldn't recruit(or coach) has to go in your personal top 5 of most outlandish comments and that's saying something
 
aceboon said:
Saying Leonard Hamilton couldn't recruit(or coach) has to go in your personal top 5 of most outlandish comments and that's saying something
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Sorry, I missed all of his national championships. Oh wait, he didn't win any, or make any Final Fours, and only made one Final 8, IN 37 YEARS!!! He has 14 20-win seasons, TWO Regular season conference championships, and ONE conference tournament championship.

And if he had done this at Tulsa or East Carolina or someplace, you could kind of understand, but he had three pretty good jobs and couldn't win at any of them. He couldn't recruit enough talent to make at least one serious Final Four run every few years at a major conference school in Florida at any point in his 33 years on the job?

Name another coach who spent 37 years at three solid, major conference programs, and has so little to show for it. How many coaches are there that sucked this bad for even 20 years?
 
Herb Sendek and Mike Brey come to mind, but they usually made the NCAA Tournament and won 20+ games over half the time. Dana Altman has won 20+ games every year at Oregon, a bunch of conference championships, and a Final Four.

I can't think of any other coach at a major program that has been as mediocre for as long as Leonard Hamilton.
 
Hamilton looked like he was shaping up to be one of the best coaches in America at Miami. They went from 0-18 in the Big East to a 2-seed by 1999. Then Michael Jordan swooped in, the Wizards year was a disaster and the Florida State tenure was always a little underwhelming.
 
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MJ1 said:
So who does Florida State bring in to replace Hamilton?
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I know Holloway was mentioned before the season. Has the season his team has had hurt his stock or are people just exonerating him from their poor season because they know the NIL situation isn’t good there?
 
One of my favorite high-major coaches of all-time. Such a unique roster makeup of tons of length, excellent defense, deep rotations and pace.
 
Jbirdp5 said:
I know Holloway was mentioned before the season. Has the season his team has had hurt his stock or are people just exonerating him from their poor season because they know the NIL situation isn’t good there?
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Maybe.

I love Holloway as a basketball coach, but I don't know if players nowadays at the high-major level love Holloway as a basketball coach considering so many other programs would not command the level of intensity Shaheen needs from his players.

That's why I think he was so good at Saint Peter's. Plenty of his best players were under-heralded players, many of which were offered by just one D1 program, so he was able to coach up guys to compete to the level to be a factor in the MAAC.

However, since Florida State basketball under Hamilton does have a defensive history, that could work out.
 
Jbirdp5 said:
I know Holloway was mentioned before the season. Has the season his team has had hurt his stock or are people just exonerating him from their poor season because they know the NIL situation isn’t good there?
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A lot of Seton Hall guys would love to see him go. I think he's a good coach that badly evaluated NIL talent. Kind of seemed like he was going with the Kevin Ollie "well, these are the guys I can get without a whole lot of effort, let's see how it goes" methodology.
 
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August_West said:
I cant believe he was at FSU for 23 years. I still think of him as the Miami coach who recently left for NBA and then for FSU. I better start making my will.
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23 years?
 
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Jbirdp5 said:
I know Holloway was mentioned before the season. Has the season his team has had hurt his stock or are people just exonerating him from their poor season because they know the NIL situation isn’t good there?
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The NIL situation isn’t good at Seton Hall? “Isn’t good” is getting outbid by Syracuse for your top target. Seton Hall is trying to recruit players with Groupon subscriptions. That is more like catastrophic.
 
RuffRuff said:
Two likely go hand in hand. I’m honestly kind of ok with the older coaches that don’t have much left in the tank and moving on, for hungry young guys.
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Let’s just not let our staff aware of these openings for just 2-3 more years. Deal guys?
 
With Larranaga retiring and now Hamilton, I believe Pitino is the only 70+ year-old coach in men's D1. Coaches earn too much money and recruiting is too dirty for coaches to want to coach that long anymore. Like Hurley said, he doesn't plan on coaching past 60, and he's the best coach in basketball.
 
AdamaNation said:
Let’s just not let our staff aware of these openings for just 2-3 more years. Deal guys?
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Have been wondering about that - with all the opening this years and the lack of up and comers to properly fill, if we might see the two of them show up on interviewer slates.
 
CL82 said:
A lot of Seton Hall guys would love to see him go. I think he's a good coach that badly evaluated NIL talent. Kind of seemed like he was going with the Kevin Ollie "well, these are the guys I can get without a whole lot of effort, let's see how it goes" methodology.
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Interesting I hadn’t heard that he was a low energy recruiter, doesn’t matter where he is if that’s the case.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
The NIL situation isn’t good at Seton Hall? “Isn’t good” is getting outbid by Syracuse for your top target. Seton Hall is trying to recruit players with Groupon subscriptions. That is more like catastrophic.
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I’m sorry I didn’t use a strong enough adjective for your liking
 
Jbirdp5 said:
Interesting I hadn’t heard that he was a low energy recruiter, doesn’t matter where he is if that’s the case.
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Yeah, that is probably too much comment by me. I don't know that he is necessarily a low energy recruiter, but his team feels as if it was the best guys he could get without regard to chemistry and positional need. That may be more a function of available NIL than anything else. Honestly, I haven't paid a lot of attention to them this season given their record and the fact that we haven't played them yet.
 
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Yes- IU would not fire Woodson despite terrible results. He is an IU legend on the court and this will be the best outcome for the University and Woodson....he will still get a sizeable payout.
 
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