Cuonzo made the Hot Seat list...

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iKrager said:
Cuonzo is the best coach on that list. Eh.. Maybe behind Travis Ford haha. Honestly, it just shows you how much our fanbase is obsessed with Bruce. Martin really isn't that bad and I'm sure most SEC schools would love to hire him - he just isn't anything like Bruce.
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If we bring him back, we will get to find that out with the kind of roster he put together for next yr.
 
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iKrager said:
Cuonzo is the best coach on that list. Eh.. Maybe behind Travis Ford haha. Honestly, it just shows you how much our fanbase is obsessed with Bruce. Martin really isn't that bad and I'm sure most SEC schools would love to hire him - he just isn't anything like Bruce.
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You may be right. What would other SEC schools hire him for, certainly not as a basketball coach.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
If Cuonzo Martin became a free agent today would he get hired as a head coach before next season? If so, would it be at a better or worse job than UT?
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He'd either go back and be an assistant for Painter or hook on with a MAC/ASun level school. Although, the guy at Mercer and Rick Byrd would both coach circles around him in ASun.
 
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bigsteve13 said:
There are much worse names on this list than Cuonzo. And honestly, I don't see a drastically better hire with the exception of Pearl (pipe dream). Give me Pearl or give me death cause Tennessee basketball is dead without Bruce Pearl. If we ain't bringing him home, might as well keep Cuonzo.
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Fail. I'd take Smart, Marshall, Howland, or Frank over Zo.
 
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BurninOrange said:
Not really. He is still within contract. Hart is a very smart individual who knows what he is doing. If he gave Martin an extension he has to worry about a larger buyout if he makes the move to fire him after next yr given the fact he makes it through this year. Thing is both Martin and his agent wanted an extension after last year and Hart told him no but gave him a 50,000 raise. He will not get one this yr either if he is retained
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Everyone knows that a coach with only a year left on his contract is on a hot seat. That just sets him up for failure. Nothing smart about trying to save a little buyout money to put your program into a deeper hole. I sincerely doubt CCM will be retained without an extension of some kind.
 
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lostsheep said:
Common sense tells you that the more shot attempts one takes, the lower their %'s are likely to be. McRae has shot nearly 3 times as many shots as Richardson and is only 3% lower...I'd say that's pretty good.

It's like me shooting 2 free throw, making them and saying I shoot 100% and am better than you because you only made 9 of 10 and are at 90%. Doesn't make sense.

Finally...as BTO said...none of this would matter if only we would run the freaking 1-3-1!!
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:ermm: is this for real? so the more shots one takes, the worse their ability to make a shot gets? common sense does not tell you that.

That wasn't a comparison of McRae and a player who took two shots and hit one. Richardson is clearly the better shooter based on a solid body of evidence. 65 attempts is enough shots to draw that conclusion.

Get Richardson more looks.
 
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nunshalpass said:
That would be pretty stupid. Without an extension he cannot recruit because it makes him appear on the hotseat, so it sets him up for failure.

The only real choices here are:
1. Let him go.
2. Give him an extension.

Anything else sets up failure and hurts the program as a whole.
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That is the problem the AD faces. I don't see any other way to approach it but I predict he stays with no extension.
 
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DC_Vol said:
:ermm: is this for real? so the more shots one takes, the worse their ability to make a shot gets? common sense does not tell you that.

That wasn't a comparison of McRae and a player who took two shots and hit one. Richardson is clearly the better shooter based on a solid body of evidence. 65 attempts is enough shots to draw that conclusion.

Get Richardson more looks.
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Not only does it get the better shooter more looks, it takes the pressure off of McRae to pull shots out of you know where which might improve his percentage. Again, X's and O's.
 
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knowthevols said:
Are you seriously comparing Ray Mears (averaged 18.5 wins, 22 wins highest year while here) to Pearl (averaged 24.8 wins, 31 & 28 wins are highest win totals in our history).
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Are you serious with your math? All time winning %'s at UT: Mears = 0.713, Pearl = 0.704. Conf. winning %'s: Mears = 0.705, Pearl = 0.677. You also do not factor in the fact that during Mears time, not as many games were played per year. Also, the no. of teams invited to the NCAA tournement during Mears time was from 22 at the at the start and up to 32 at the end.

I suspect you are too young to appreaciate Ray Mears. Pearl was great, but so was Mears. The man deserves to be remembered for what he accomplished just as much, if not a bit more than Pearl. They are the two greatest BB coaches UT has ever had.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears_(coach)

Bruce Pearl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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DC_Vol said:
:ermm: is this for real? so the more shots one takes, the worse their ability to make a shot gets? common sense does not tell you that.

That wasn't a comparison of McRae and a player who took two shots and hit one. Richardson is clearly the better shooter based on a solid body of evidence. 65 attempts is enough shots to draw that conclusion.

Get Richardson more looks.
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I know I'm stating the obvious, but being 3 percentage points better while taking 65 shots equates to basically 2 makes or misses. It's not statistically significant.

I suspect that if McRae took his shots in the flow of the offense like Richardson typically does, his percentage would be better.
 
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Before anyone gets too fired up either way on this subject remember this was written by Gary Parrish for Pete sakes.,,,,, not considered to be an authority on much in NCAA bb although he thinks he is...., really has a bad radio show in Memphis...,
 
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PACKERVOL said:
Are you serious with your math? All time winning %'s at UT: Mears = 0.713, Pearl = 0.704. Conf. winning %'s: Mears = 0.705, Pearl = 0.677. You also do not factor in the fact that during Mears time, not as many games were played per year. Also, the no. of teams invited to the NCAA tournement during Mears time was from 22 at the at the start and up to 32 at the end.

I suspect you are too young to appreaciate Ray Mears. Pearl was great, but so was Mears. The man deserves to be remembered for what he accomplished just as much, if not a bit more than Pearl. They are the two greatest BB coaches UT has ever had.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears_(coach)

Bruce Pearl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yes I listened or watched pretty much every game during Ray's tenure and he was a good coach for us, but not in the same league with Bruce because Ray never played the strength of schedule that Pearl did.
 
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knowthevols said:
Yes I listened or watched pretty much every game during Ray's tenure and he was a good coach for us, but not in the same league with Bruce because Ray never played the strength of schedule that Pearl did.
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That's unfair, too, because travel was more limited then than it is now. The obvious place to look is at the football schedules those years. The first three years of Mears' tenure, the football team travelled to SEC games, ie Tulane and LSU, but all non conference games were at home, or as far as Memphis. That's it. Hard to travel that far midweek for basketball when the football team wouldn't travel out of state or just to Atlanta.
 
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iKrager said:
Cuonzo is the best coach on that list. Eh.. Maybe behind Travis Ford haha. Honestly, it just shows you how much our fanbase is obsessed with Bruce. Martin really isn't that bad and I'm sure most SEC schools would love to hire him - he just isn't anything like Bruce.
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Late night or did you start drinking at daylight?
 
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PACKERVOL said:
Are you serious with your math? All time winning %'s at UT: Mears = 0.713, Pearl = 0.704. Conf. winning %'s: Mears = 0.705, Pearl = 0.677. You also do not factor in the fact that during Mears time, not as many games were played per year. Also, the no. of teams invited to the NCAA tournement during Mears time was from 22 at the at the start and up to 32 at the end.

I suspect you are too young to appreaciate Ray Mears. Pearl was great, but so was Mears. The man deserves to be remembered for what he accomplished just as much, if not a bit more than Pearl. They are the two greatest BB coaches UT has ever had.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears_(coach)

Bruce Pearl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Don't bother trying to reason with him or use actual facts.
 
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I know they have struggled the last month or so, but I am surprised to see Travis Ford's name on that list. He has won 20+ games 4 of his 5 years there. And has a pretty good class coming in next year too. He hasn't made it past the second round of the tourney so that probably helps feed the critics. But I love the style of basketball his teams play and have a hard time believing they could do much better than him. JMO
 
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