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Miller to Texas

I like Miller as a coach. If Hurley had left for the Lakers I’d have been all in on Miller. I hoped he’d stay at Xavier. It seems like a nice place to coach and when he went back there, I thought it might be his end game. Disappointing.
 
Miller is a solid coach, but a bit overrated IMO.

A lot of talented teams at Arizona, but never able to get to a Final Four....thank you Kemba and Jeremy :)
 
Boost'ED said:
Miller is a solid coach, but a bit overrated IMO.

A lot of talented teams at Arizona, but never able to get to a Final Four....thank you Kemba and Jeremy :)
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His 2023 Xavier team was really good too, and got some help with a mediocre Pitt team knocking off Iowa State just to get to the Sweet 16.
 
superjohn said:
We could win it all again next season and you would be whining we didn't win 4 in a row.
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He should spend some time with my wife, who's spent the better part of 29 years watching my team win six rings and routinely lasting longer in the tourney than hers, when Pitt actually makes it, which has been rare lately.

She's insanely jealous of our success. And now it even extends to football!
 
JungleLobo said:
It’s Miller time
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Gutter King said:
Not great at all. Last year it felt like this conference had the right mix of proven good/great pre-99 Calhoun coaches that may get somewhere in life, truly great coaches, young energetic up and comers. Now it's like:

-Miller gone
-Will Shaka and McDermot ever go deep in a tourney?
-Cooley and Holloway huge step back.
-Pitino not riding with Luis to the end....

I'm much less bullish on this league than I was this time last year.
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Hint: Get to the Big 12. This has always been the answer.
 
getting used as a stepping stone twice by the same sleezy dude and people have the nerve to tell me it's not a poverty mid major

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kobe said:
getting used as a stepping stone twice by the same sleezy dude and people have the nerve to tell me it's not a poverty mid major

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I'll be mildly disappointed if it's Mack. I was really hoping your avatar would make a triumphant return to the Queen City.
 
kobe said:
getting used as a stepping stone twice by the same sleezy dude and people have the nerve to tell me it's not a poverty mid major

Cracking Up Lol GIF
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A successful Cincy coach would never leave. Oh wait.

I wouldn't waste too much time wondering if the same would hold true in the Big 12. That is right there with "how many angles can dance on the head of a pin?"
 
Miller really wanted to stay at X but his list of improvements for the program was unattainable, Texas of course could meet that. X is ahead of most P5 team spending, but still not upper echelon. Better job than WVU and Iowa however in terms of spending and focus on hoops.

Similar situation to what Willard is doing at Maryland. More NIL, more basketball spending & focus, etc. and then I will resign. Both guys are running out of time to be in a good position to win a championship.

Willard gets his contract at Maryland signed this morning, will open the door for Richard Pitino to grab Villanova (the best job available by far).

X will not hire Luke Murray this isn’t a 1st year HC job - Trilly regurgitates a lot of BS it’s not all true. Chris Mack, high performing mid major coach is the focus here. Cronin will not take X. Should know more today thru Fri.
 
The Big East is absolutely a stepping stone league. Who besides UConn is a destination job? Maybe Villanova. Georgetown I guess could be. Creighton lucked into a lifer. If any other coach in the league (75-year-old vampires aside) wins big they're on to bigger things elsewhere.
 
Inyatkin said:
The Big East is absolutely a stepping stone league. Who besides UConn is a destination job? Maybe Villanova. Georgetown I guess could be. Creighton lucked into a lifer. If any other coach in the league (75-year-old vampires aside) wins big they're on to bigger things elsewhere.
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This is probably true. But it's been true a long time. It isn't that new. I'm not sure Georgetown is really a destination job.

That said, there are coaches that don't want the drama and uncertainty of a job like Texas. The money is there, but the support will be lackluster compared to football and the leash will be short. You think Shaka wants to go back to a P4 job? I don't. McDermott could go anywhere, but he won't. Calhoun was tempted by South Carolina back in the day, even then the big football schools had more to offer.

There's truth on both "sides" of the debate. The Big East is handicapped. It will never again be what it was. UConn would jump to the ACC or Big XII immediately, but we have to be invited. So all we can do is make the best of it and keep challenging the assumptions about what is possible. Good thing UConn is a hockey school now.
 
Hearing rumors that Xavier has been reaching out to Mick Cronin as a replacement for Sean Miller. Rumblings of him missing the Cincinnati area and taking Xavier would allow him that and a way back into the Big East. Not sure he'd be willing to leave UCLA and all that comes with it, but definitely get why Xavier is doing their due dilligence on this one. Mick's brand never looked right in the blue and yellow
 
kobe said:
getting used as a stepping stone twice by the same sleezy dude and people have the nerve to tell me it's not a poverty mid major

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Good luck against Depaul in the CBC!
 
Inyatkin said:
The Big East is absolutely a stepping stone league. Who besides UConn is a destination job? Maybe Villanova. Georgetown I guess could be. Creighton lucked into a lifer. If any other coach in the league (75-year-old vampires aside) wins big they're on to bigger things elsewhere.
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How many destination jobs do you think other leagues have? And is it even possible for a league to have more than a couple of them before they start to take away from one another? Ask Villanova.

There are plenty of programs in all parts of the country that can build a powerhouse in the right circumstance with the right people and right resources in place. The Big East does not need Xavier, Marquette, Creighton, and Butler to be destination jobs in order to provide value. The league is designed for Villanova, UConn, St. John's, and Georgetown to win big. They may not all win big at once, but that's OK. N.C. State, UNC, Duke, and Wake don't all win big at once and neither do the Texas schools. It's not a coincidence that the most consistently successful programs of the last decade - Houston, Gonzaga, Kansas, Villanova, and then UConn - attained that success as the undisputed alphas of their leagues. Super leagues like the SEC, ACC, and Big 10, meanwhile, found that while they may get more teams to the tournament, only so many of them can be legitimately dominant (sorry Cuse, BC, Pitt).
 
BIIIG said:
Hearing rumors that Xavier has been reaching out to Mick Cronin as a replacement for Sean Miller. Rumblings of him missing the Cincinnati area and taking Xavier would allow him that and a way back into the Big East. Not sure he'd be willing to leave UCLA and all that comes with it, but definitely get why Xavier is doing their due dilligence on this one. Mick's brand never looked right in the blue and yellow
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As of next week, he'd owe the school $10 million if he left. It's not happening unless the school voluntarily waived it (which they'd only do if they knew they could upgrade over Mick).
 
auror said:
As of next week, he'd owe the school $10 million if he left. It's not happening unless the school voluntarily waived it (which they'd only do if they knew they could upgrade over Mick).
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nah
 
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