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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 4874372, member: 1609"] in their entire history prior to Billy they made 5 NCAA tournaments In a 60 year period . BB was an afterthought at that program . They did make one FF A young Norm Sloan was their first full time head coach In 1960 But he quit to take the NCS job . They didn’t even have an on campus field house until the late 1980’s Sloan came back after a dispute with the NCS AD . He was forced to resign at Fla because of a minor BB scandal they feared it would hurt football The guy who replaced him did make their only FF but he quit ASAP to take the Illinois job With that history I’m not surprised Pitino advised him to steer clear of that job .Without Billy’s teams they’re about .500 take out. Sloans and their under .500 . Not exactly a BB hotbed . Add to that at most SEC schools the BB coach status is second class or at least was until recently., [/QUOTE]