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Meh....
ZERO head coaching experience. I think there needs to be a premium put on that with this next hire.
I'm sure there are several people we can bring in that are great recruiters, but are they great Head Coaches!?
We need someone that is proven in both areas.
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Last edited by Dawg06; 03-24-2011 at 05:50 AM.
He has that Stevie D wry smile...Originally Posted by Dawg06
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''Don't be a bad dagh..."
You have to start somewhere. He would probably have former Naismith Coach of the Year Rod Barnes on his bench. Barnes took Ole Miss to the Sweet Sixteen in 01.
What head coaching experience did Brad Stevens have before Butler? How about Shaka Smart or Anthony Grant before VCU? Again I feel like a broken record. Solid assistant with a good pedigree is a very good chance for success and has a much higher ceiling than a current D1 coach that we can afford.
None. Youre right! But those guys also had prior experience at the school's where they were hired! The AD knew exactly what he was getting, while those guys were also familiar with what they were getting into.
I'd love to do some research on these "hot young assistants" taking jobs at schools where they had no prior experience, but fortunately I don't have the time! Off the top of my head, I would say that the odds are way higher if you're hired from within or have been there before, than if you are coming in from the outside. I could be wrong though.
How? Grant was a 10 year assistant to Billy Donovan. And Shaka Smart spent assistant coaching stints at a fw different places (non VCU). Brad Stevens worked his way up at Butler but that was the only one I named.
Is White from the Natural State?
I remember that Ole Miss had a huge pipeline to Arkansas around that time (especially Parkview maybe).
Nope. Looks like he is from New Orleans.
He certainly graduated high school in New Orleans, but it isn't clear to me where he is from.
He is kinda like an army brat. He moved around due to his Dad's career. Dad was AD at Tulane while he was in high school.
You would remember a lot of these names:
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebask...-winning-track
Anthony Boone (Helena-West Helena Central) and continued with Keith Carter (Perryville),
got Jason Harrison (Little Rock Parkview), who played in a school-record 132 games, Darren Brown (West Memphis), who transferred to Louisiana Tech, and Jermey Parnell (Gosnell),
The same article says Evans recruited White from New Orleans. He went to Jesuit. His dad obviosuly moved alot. I think I read somewhere he was born in Florida.
That's what I was thinking of. I remember loving it when they'd beat the razorbacks with a mostly Arkansas team.
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