Did UDub hire Hopkins without any input from JB?
Did JB push Hopkins on UDub?
Did JB tell Hopkins "I ain't leaving next year" so Hopkins bolted.
SoCal
"No Future In The Past"
I lie here tonight in the darkness
I've never felt so alone
Tomorrow I'll wake up still lonesome
'Cause things haven't changed since you've gone
You walked out with angry words spoken
You're leavin' cut right to the bone
I'll pick up the pieces you have broken
Find the strength to go on
I still remember
How my love once held her
How long do old memories last
Why can't I forget it
Why can't I admit it
There ain't no future in the past
I still remember
How my love once held her
How long do old memories last
Why can't I forget it
Why can't I admit it
There ain't no future in the past
-Vince Gill
"We are living in the future
I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago
We're all driving rocket ships
And talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines"
-- John Prine
Dennis Gates of Florida State is apparently in the mix for the Cal job. We know he's a great recruiter, was a stand-up guy in the Grayson mess, was a great student while a player and is a Cal alum. His brother is on CC's staff at Northwestern. It sounds like a good fit and I'd rather we didn't have him him recruiting for the Seminoles.
Gates is the sentimental favorite in Berkeley, but UC Irvine coach Russell Turner (ex Stanford and Wake asst) is considered the favorite.
Allegedly Gates may end up as Cal associate HC if Arizona asst Josh Pasternak gets the job. Pasternak is a former Cal asst and has some donors who will build a dedicated hoops practice facility if he gets the job.
Counzo's Mizzou deal is bad for college hoops-$21M for 7 years with a $7M buyout that automatically extends once he wins 20 games or gets to the Dance. Shades of Hewitt's contract that handcuffed GT.
Cuonzo's a good recruiter, but a mediocre coach. Can only imagine what kind of deal Brad Stevens would get if he suddenly decided to return to college now.
Joe Pasternack's bio can be found here at the UofA coaching page.
VCU didn't take long to replace Will Wade , Mike
Rhodes. Former VCU assistant and most recently head coach at Rice.
IIRC, VCU has a "leadership" program they run for assistant coaches in the off-season. Their goal is to identify the best assistants and target them for hiring when they lose their current coach. They've tried to set themselves up as a stepping stone job so they best coaches will WANT to work there for a few years and it will all build itself into a stable program, although not in the P5 sense. It's pretty creative solution to the problems of a mid-major.
You either have to find some guy like Marshall who likes being the biggest fish in a small pond, or find the guys who are growing the quickest and show them you are a good stop on the way up. That's what VCU has done.
From Wiki, which I suspect has the correct spelling. Michael David Rhoades (born September 21, 1972) is the head coach of the Virginia Commonwealth University men's basketball team.
Rhoades was associate head coach to Shaka Smart, having done well as head coach at Randolph Macon in Division III. He accepted the Rice job before Smart left for Texas. Rice has done well under Rhoades' leadership, finishing 23-12 this season.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013