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#26
How about Brian Gregory at the University of Dayton, from Izzo's coaching tree...has been a great recruiter for UD and runs a similar offense, current players would thrive in.

Dayton won the Post Season NIT Last Season and have been a to the tourney a few years during his tenure...
 
#27
#27
Pretty sure it would be accurate to say that college sports are generally a much bigger deal in Tennessee than Missouri, which has the St. Louis and Kansas City pro teams. I also think Tennessee is now a better basketball job than Missouri, but our next hire will affect that perception one way or the other.

If we must replace Bruce, I really hope we don't have to wait until August. Seems like that would be a rough time to go coach shopping.
 
#31
#31
I am liking Shaka Smart more and more as a coach. He is recruiting very well at VCU and runs a lot of full court press with half-court man to man and mixes in a zone. VCU plays at Wichita State next Friday. A match up against Gregg Marshall will be fun to watch. Both teams already have 20 wins and are tied for first in their conferences.
 
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#32
#32
I've said it before and will say it again, I doubt Anderson comes here so I think the search should start and end in Wichita if Bruce were to not be at UT.
 
#33
#33
I agree with you about Marshall. If Marshall brings Chad Dollar with him from Wichita, there is the big pipeline to Atlanta area for Tennessee. Just think Shaka Smart is doing good this year at VCU and if something happens to Pearl and Tennessee loses a couple of scholarships with light NCAA probation then some good coaches may not want to come. Shaka went 27-9 last year and is 20-6 this year. He as been an assistant coach at Dayton, Akron, Clemson and Florida and runs a style, that a lot of Tenn. fans would like. I think he could recruit real well for Tennessee.
 
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pdogg said:
I agree with you about Marshall. If Marshall brings Chad Dollar with him from Wichita, there is the big pipeline to Atlanta area for Tennessee. Just think Shaka Smart is doing good this year at VCU and if something happens to Pearl and Tennessee loses a couple of scholarships with light NCAA probation then some good coaches may not want to come. Shaka went 27-9 last year and is 20-6 this year. He as been an assistant coach at Dayton, Akron, Clemson and Florida and runs a style, that a lot of Tenn. fans would like. I think he could recruit real well for Tennessee.
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Marshall strikes me as a guy that would stay a long time at a place like Tennessee. That conference has put out some very successful coaches, and I love how Gregg evaluates talent.
 
#35
#35
Why not hire Roy Williams since he lost at Duke last night the phones must be ringing off
the walls for his removal.
 
#36
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pdogg said:
I agree with you about Marshall. If Marshall brings Chad Dollar with him from Wichita, there is the big pipeline to Atlanta area for Tennessee. Just think Shaka Smart is doing good this year at VCU and if something happens to Pearl and Tennessee loses a couple of scholarships with light NCAA probation then some good coaches may not want to come. Shaka went 27-9 last year and is 20-6 this year. He as been an assistant coach at Dayton, Akron, Clemson and Florida and runs a style, that a lot of Tenn. fans would like. I think he could recruit real well for Tennessee.
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To early for Shaka. I would love to see Kruger or Anderson at UT.
 
#39
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OrangeInKy said:
Frank would be interesting indeed. How long was he at UT? Was it just a year under O'Neill? Anderson would be my favorite, as he was I 2005. Wouldn't mind Marshall at all.
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Pearl will be at UT. Most of the names on that list wouldn't move at all or come to Tennessee.
 
#40
#40
Nashville said:
Pearl will be at UT. Most of the names on that list wouldn't move at all or come to Tennessee.
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Plenty of people would entertain offers from UT. Don't be a battered wife. We have the fanbase, conference stage/spotlight, facilities, and money to be enticing to most any coach looking for a promising gig.
 
#43
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Nashville said:
Pearl will be at UT. Most of the names on that list wouldn't move at all or come to Tennessee.
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I find it interesting how highly some of you folks think of Pearl and how insignificant you think our program is that we couldn't possibility attract a good coach.
 
#44
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BasketvolsFan said:
I find it interesting how highly some of you folks think of Pearl and how insignificant you think our program is that we couldn't possibility attract a good coach.
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Ironically, many of them have thrown the Negavol label at other posters.
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#47
#47
Two things we know right now:

1) UT has the money to spend if the board chooses to do it.
2) UT men's basketball can be successful IF the right coach is at the helm. Bruce Pearl has proven that. (One that will sell the program and, oh by the way, is an excellent bench coach by most expert accounts.) We will no longer put up with the Wade Houstons and Buzz Petersons of the world.

Personally, I hope that we don't have to let him go as he has done more for this program than any coach since Ray Mears and I will submit that he has exceeded Mears in performance. But, if the NCAA suspends him for another year, I don't see how he can survive that. (He might survive a half year suspension and one year ban from the tournament if that's all that happens.)

Editorial Opinion: Until the NCAA decides to clean up some of the obvious trash that's going on in men's basketball these days, I'm not going to get bent out of shape over a hot dog cookout for some junior prospects. That pales in comparison to some of the things happening in recruiting that the NCAA is taking a blind eye to. BP just made the mistake of lying about it. That error in judgement is not enough for me to fire him but it does put him on a very short leash and he has to know that.

If it happens though, I do like the idea of going after Mike Anderson and making him an offer he can't refuse.
 
#48
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Delmar said:
Two things we know right now:

1) UT has the money to spend if the board chooses to do it.
2) UT men's basketball can be successful IF the right coach is at the helm. Bruce Pearl has proven that. (One that will sell the program and, oh by the way, is an excellent bench coach by most expert accounts.) We will no longer put up with the Wade Houstons and Buzz Petersons of the world.

Personally, I hope that we don't have to let him go as he has done more for this program than any coach since Ray Mears and I will submit that he has exceeded Mears in performance. But, if the NCAA suspends him for another year, I don't see how he can survive that. (He might survive a half year suspension and one year ban from the tournament if that's all that happens.)

Editorial Opinion: Until the NCAA decides to clean up some of the obvious trash that's going on in men's basketball these days, I'm not going to get bent out of shape over a hot dog cookout for some junior prospects. That pales in comparison to some of the things happening in recruiting that the NCAA is taking a blind eye to. BP just made the mistake of lying about it. That error in judgement is not enough for me to fire him but it does put him on a very short leash and he has to know that.

If it happens though, I do like the idea of going after Mike Anderson and making him an offer he can't refuse.
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You are spot on! Excellent post, the only thing I would say is that it inst just one little lie to cover up, it is the obstructing investigation by asking others to lie, that will do him in.
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#49
#49
Delmar said:
Two things we know right now:

1) UT has the money to spend if the board chooses to do it.
2) UT men's basketball can be successful IF the right coach is at the helm. Bruce Pearl has proven that. (One that will sell the program and, oh by the way, is an excellent bench coach by most expert accounts.) We will no longer put up with the Wade Houstons and Buzz Petersons of the world.

Personally, I hope that we don't have to let him go as he has done more for this program than any coach since Ray Mears and I will submit that he has exceeded Mears in performance. But, if the NCAA suspends him for another year, I don't see how he can survive that. (He might survive a half year suspension and one year ban from the tournament if that's all that happens.)

Editorial Opinion: Until the NCAA decides to clean up some of the obvious trash that's going on in men's basketball these days, I'm not going to get bent out of shape over a hot dog cookout for some junior prospects. That pales in comparison to some of the things happening in recruiting that the NCAA is taking a blind eye to. BP just made the mistake of lying about it. That error in judgement is not enough for me to fire him but it does put him on a very short leash and he has to know that.

If it happens though, I do like the idea of going after Mike Anderson and making him an offer he can't refuse.
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Perfectly reasonable points across the board. I don't agree with all of them, but they all have some merit.
 
#50
#50
For anyone:
1. Does Hammy make the next bball hire?
2. Of the list provided in OP, which three (3) coaches:

A. Most likely to be left completely unconsidered.
B. Least likely to be interested enough to take it, if offered.
C. In the final group to be considered, and likely offered?

3. Who gets hired (not necessarily who you want / dislike)?

Personally - and I don't mean this as an intentional dig, believe it or not - I think that if Hammy makes the hire, its less than a 25% chance that these guys (though seemingly all good candidates) get considered, and less than 5% that we land one of them. I think we end up with another mid-major allegedly-up-and-comer-type, instead. Conversely, any new AD who could tell time would have no choice but to make a significant statement in her/his first hire...and anything may be possible.
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