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OT: Steve Lavin to San Diego

Lavin is fun and kinda cool as a broadcaster. And kudos to him for sticking with it.... but he's kinda garbage as a coach.
 
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8893 said:
Lav reveres Calhoun and the program-building job he did here, and he brings it up often. I never tire of hearing that.
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He's far from the worst but I just can't get over the fact that it took him until January or February of this year to realize that RJ Cole's name was not AJ
 
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You mean I won't have to watch him any more in the Fox Sports studio?

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Im a little surprised by this. I thought Lavin was comfortable broadcasting, no stress, good money, he was able to still live out in LA because of his job with FOX. I guess he wanted to give it another go around with coaching while he’s still relatively young. I hope it works out for him. I will miss him on FOX, I always thought he was a good studio analyst going back to his days with ESPN.
 
i give it two weeks into the season before some calm, self respecting good citizen native and season ticket holder of San Diego, pulls a fish out of his coat, whacks steve in the choppers, and yells 'would you please shut up!'
mebbe ten days?
 
When I watch Lavin talk and listen to his words, it becomes clear that he doesn’t know a lot about the game of basketball. Not sure why any university would want him coaching their basketball team.
 
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Ts5034 said:
Im a little surprised by this. I thought Lavin was comfortable broadcasting, no stress, good money, he was able to still live out in LA because of his job with FOX. I guess he wanted to give it another go around with coaching while he’s still relatively young. I hope it works out for him. I will miss him on FOX, I always thought he was a good studio analyst going back to his days with ESPN.
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Every time Lavin did a UConn pregame show he constantly called the UConn players by the wrong name. Apparently J Cole plays for UConn. The guy is a borderline moron.
 
NDakotaHusky said:
Lavin is fun and kinda cool as a broadcaster. And kudos to him for sticking with it.... but he's kinda garbage as a coach.
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I mean, he did take UCLA to back-to-back-to-back Sweet 16s, as well as one other S16 and an elite 8. If that was the first 6 years of Hurley's career here we'd be jumping for joy, or even if it was years 2-7. But ya, UCLA is a tough place to stay at for a long time, they want FF and championships and his 7th year was indeed a stinker.

Should be interesting to see how he does there and perhaps he makes the conference a consistent 3-4 bid league that usually just sees the Zags and St. Marys make it most years, sometimes BYU, and, this year San Fran. BYU during a strong year and Santa Clara and/or San Fran keeping it up and if Lavin pumps life into SD could even make it a 5 bid league in rare occasions (WCC did have 3 this year with an outside shot at 4).
 
The Lavin hate is kinda funny. I like the guy and enjoyed his takes on the FOX shows. He always gave UConn their due sometimes seemingly a fan of the program through the years until late this year. I mean for him to be negative in a way this year means he was smarter than most of us because they just proved they weren't that good with a quick exit.

Hope he does well with San Diego will be fun to watch.
 
I like how he was lol-ing inside after Majerus said that.
 
CTBasketball said:
Rick Majerus*

Rest In Peace my friend.
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May he rest in peace but he was far from being a good person.

Just google: deadspin, A*hole coaches, Rick Majerus. The article is both stunning and repulsive.
 
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WeAreUCONN said:
When I watch Lavin talk and listen to his words, it becomes clear that he doesn’t know a lot about the game of basketball. Not sure why any university would want him coaching their basketball team.
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Thats why you aren't an AD;)
You can hate his delivery style and his inability to remember names but Lavin knows basketball and the general consensus among basketball people will bear that out
 
mauconnfan said:
The Lavin hate is kinda funny. I like the guy and enjoyed his takes on the FOX shows. He always gave UConn their due sometimes seemingly a fan of the program through the years until late this year. I mean for him to be negative in a way this year means he was smarter than most of us because they just proved they weren't that good with a quick exit.

Hope he does well with San Diego will be fun to watch.
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A good friend of mine is friends with him and I have hung out with him a few times over the years. He is a really good guy; pretty well aware of his strengths and weaknesses, and fair when discussing others in that regard.
 
gtcam said:
Thats why you aren't an AD;)
You can hate his delivery style and his inability to remember names but Lavin knows basketball and the general consensus among basketball people will bear that out
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totally disagree. And to LEAP beyond your view of the world: my thought is Lavin has zero ability to relate to modern ballplayers to get them to play to a winning structure. I always think strategy wise - he is Captain Obvious. And when I see someone like Tony Stubblefield give instructions in a DePaul huddle, I sincerely have thought: "there's no way Lavin can get through to kid, like this"

He is gonna be a outlier in that league. Getting his butt kicked by Few and Bennett.
 
8893 said:
A good friend of mine is friends with him and I have hung out with him a few times over the years. He is a really good guy; pretty well aware of his strengths and weaknesses, and fair when discussing others in that regard.
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That's good to hear, he comes across as immensely likable.
 
mauconnfan said:
The Lavin hate is kinda funny. I like the guy and enjoyed his takes on the FOX shows. He always gave UConn their due sometimes seemingly a fan of the program through the years until late this year. I mean for him to be negative in a way this year means he was smarter than most of us because they just proved they weren't that good with a quick exit.

Hope he does well with San Diego will be fun to watch.
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u also told us that typo would bring a midrange/ foul line j to the team, back when he came. want to see the quote?
and hows that fixation on waterproof golf shoes working out this season?
stevie is a putz, who u never invite to a dinner party cuz u don't want the other guests' ears to bleed all over the lace tablecloth. shouldn't u be over at the bombers thread to tell us, once again, how they won't be in the postseason?
 
hey! unbeknownst to me, until just now, there is a whole culture around this fish slapping stuff. there's even a dance!


and here all this time, i thought that me and my pals invented this when some stevie type was on board when we were out snagging yellow fins, tho stripers work well, too.
 
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