To be fair, professors have been fired at prestigious universities for having a consensual relationship with a woman researcher in another department and been accused of “sexual harassment” by a 3rd party, such as an aggrieved grad student. In the case I am thinking off, the investigation was a sham. Again, the contract the new coach signs is worthless.
Seems like UT has to hire a squeaky clean guy to replace Beard. It doesn’t make sense to fire a great coach in the present because of the “conduct unbecoming clause” only to replace him with a coach whose glory days may be behind him and whose “conduct was unbecoming” in the past at another university.
Calipari Kentucky team just lost to South Carolina at home. They were a 20 point favorite. His team which was preseason top 5 is now 10-6 and 1-3 in conference. Doesn't sound the kind of up and coming great coach I want at Texas. Hiring him would be similar to A&M bringing in Jimbo in my opinion.
A few Rodney Terry stats. He is 163-156 in his 10 seasons as a college head coach before Texas. His best season was at Fresno St 25-10 losing in the NCAA first round (his only year to qualify). He's now 6-1 here. He did have some success at Fresno St with four 20+ win seasons but had 12+ losses in all years but two. He'll have a great opportunity to have a chance as the interim coach for the remainder of the season. With his resume he wouldn't even be a blip on the radar in a regular coaching search so inheriting a top 5 caliber team I can't believe he would be a serious candidate with even the slightest decline from where we started. Let's see what happens.
Hmmmmmmmm. I can think of a squeaky clean coach whose team already has 13 wins (same as us), and is in the Top 25–but with a lot less talent and resources at his disposal. And he’s as clean as they come. Not mentioning any names…
How about the guy from Abilene Christian? Joe Golding. He coaches defense like Beard did, and he also helped us decide to part ways with Shaka, so we owe him a favor.
Here’s the awkward choice for UT…Chris Ogden is a damn good coach. He was on my short list for our opening after Adam’s. But it’s more bad optics for UT to even consider any current staff member other than Terry. When Adams exits the TTU job (if he doesn’t get his personal family business in order, that’ll be sooner rather than later) I want Richard Pitino from UNM or Chris Ogden.
Basically, in basketball, we depart with good coach, after good coach, after good coach, after good coach, all the way back to Bob Weltlich who was not a good coach. We need more continuity around here.
Would a man such as Louie Carnesseca have lasted around here? He never won a national championship but kept St. Johns in the conversation for decades. He also got knocked out of the NCAA tournament many times in either the 1st or 2nd round. But he became an institution with his sweaters and consistency.
Same with Barnes. We were always relevant. If we had stuck with him, on occasional years we'd have made it to the Final Four. Maybe we would have won it all at some point.
Put me in the not Calipari list. There are several younger coaches with a ton of upside I would want before a retread, past his prime, just in it for the money at this point coach.
Something is happening with that program. I read an article where they said the players might be tuning him out. I thought that was odd given all the one and dones. They aren't there long enough to get burnt out. Barnes might have burnt players out who stayed longer due to his intensity. But I believe the honeymoon is over and the Kentucky fans are very restless. They got smoked by Alabama the other day. Does that mean we should go for the Alabama coach? I'd never heard of him until the Beard thing kicked in. Calipari is a damn legend. Is it just a case of him getting burned out at the rabid Kentucky pressure or did he all of a sudden forget how to coach? Has the game changed on him? I don't even know what his style is as far as strategy and culture. But he's had some incredible players. That always helps. We'd probably have tremendous recruiting classes just on his name alone. There's a huge buy-out for him. And he'd want big dollars from us. I guess we have the money because we're not paying Beard.
Put me in the get Calipari list. No brainer. UK basketball is in a wokeness transformation. Texas has already worked the BS thru their programs. [Racial slur removed] He will bring the hardware to Austin Waxing Rick in Knoxville today Kentucky at No. 1 is pretty much set in stone:Nobody's catching Kentucky. The Wildcats were a close No. 2 entering the signing period, then went out and landed top-ranked prospect Wagner. That gives John Calipari four of the top eight prospects in the 2023 class, with Wagner joining top-10 prospects Justin Edwards, Aaron Bradshaw and Robert Dillingham, along with top-30 prospect Reed Sheppard. With zero one top-25 prospect left, there's no chance for Duke or anyone else to catch Kentucky -- barring a string of decommitments or other surprises.
