Kentucky might target Avery Johnson

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His name was floated on the boards and it gained 99% favorable reviews by their fans.

I do not want this guy in college basketball, he will make our coach look like a sinner while sitting on the couch at recruits' homes.

To go from Billy Clyde to Avery would scare me as a Vol fan.
 
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I just heard his name mentioned on a call in show out of Lexington. Supposedly UK officials have contacted Mark Cuban to get info on Johnson.

I think he's working for ESPN at the moment. So far, the names mentioned by the fans............

Ford
Calipari
Miller
Izzo

Ford seems to really be the coach wanted from what I'm hearing on the radio from fans.
 
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If Avery Johnson was mentioned, I highly doubt it was from a credible source. I could be wrong though. However I'm not seeing any trace of this on KSR or Kentucky boards.

If your interested, the link below will break down the coaching search, from a better than average inside source.

Kentucky Sports Radio
 
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How many times does Donovan have to say no to convince people that he's not interested?
 
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RockyTopVol said:
I just heard his name mentioned on a call in show out of Lexington. Supposedly UK officials have contacted Mark Cuban to get info on Johnson.

I think he's working for ESPN at the moment. So far, the names mentioned by the fans............

Ford
Calipari
Miller
Izzo

Ford seems to really be the coach wanted from what I'm hearing on the radio from fans.
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Their fan boards seem to think differently. Most of them hate Ford.
 
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Ford might keep them decent, but I'm not worried about him taking them back to a national championship level. I just want them to stay where they have for the past four years...4th in the SEC East.
 
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Ford will be the safe pick for Barnhart. He is a Kentucky guy, and he took his team to Tournament. He came from the RP tree, and will probably get his approval. If he fails, I think Barnhart could weather that storm. Bring someone from outside of the Kentucky family and they fail, Barnhart would be out.

There are much better choices though.
 
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Dawson said:
Ford will be the safe pick for Barnhart. He is a Kentucky guy, and he took his team to Tournament. He came from the RP tree, and will probably get his approval. If he fails, I think Barnhart could weather that storm. Bring someone from outside of the Kentucky family and they fail, Barnhart would be out.
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From my observation, if Mitch's hire doesn't have them competing for Final Fours in 2 years, it will be his carcass swinging from the yardarm, regardless of where the hire went to school.
 
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cotton said:
From my observation, if Mitch's hire doesn't have them competing for Final Fours in 2 years, it will be his carcass swinging from the yardarm, regardless of where the hire went to school.
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You are probably right. I would think however that he could be safe or have a better chance keeping his job with hiring a "Kentucky Boy" and Pitino guy that took his team to the tournament the first year.
 
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RNVol said:
His name was floated on the boards and it gained 99% favorable reviews by their fans.

I do not want this guy in college basketball, he will make our coach look like a sinner while sitting on the couch at recruits' homes.

To go from Billy Clyde to Avery would scare me as a Vol fan.
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it is cal's job if he wants it right now.
 
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cotton said:
From my observation, if Mitch's hire doesn't have them competing for Final Fours in 2 years, it will be his carcass swinging from the yardarm, regardless of where the hire went to school.
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Or possibly when the figures of the contract are announced.

If Kentucky pays him $5 Million per year it would be beyond pathetic really.

Considering Kentucky has been one of the schools that has been cutting back on funding for different programs at the school.
 
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RNVol said:
Considering Kentucky has been one of the schools that has been cutting back on funding for different programs at the school.
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how is it "pathetic" when he will bring in more revenue than it costs the school?
 
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utvolpj said:
how is it "pathetic" when he will bring in more revenue than it costs the school?
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Because Kentucky is still one of the highest revenue producing schools, they reached their peak in the 07-08 season with Billy Clyde.

And even with the revenue produced they still had to make cutbacks.
 
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utvolpj said:
how is it "pathetic" when he will bring in more revenue than it costs the school?
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That's quite a bit for a CBB coach. A bit harder to make money in CBB than it is in CFB obviously based solely on ticket sales.

I'm not going to pretend to know the numbers - because I don't - just seems excessive but you gotta do what you have to I guess.
 
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Can Johnson coach? He flamed out as an NBA head coach--after a pretty short stint, yes? Has he ever coached in college? Had he coached at all for very long. I'd be much happier to have him at uk than Calipari. I think Johnson has Sylvester Croom potential--a great molder of men but clueless as a coach.
 
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armchairvol said:
Can Johnson coach? He flamed out as an NBA head coach--after a pretty short stint, yes? Has he ever coached in college? Had he coached at all for very long. I'd be much happier to have him at uk than Calipari. I think Johnson has Sylvester Croom potential--a great molder of men but clueless as a coach.
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Johnson is a great coach.

He is great with the X's and O's but he didn't work out in Dallas due to the veteran players not appreciating the way he responded to them by not soothing their high priced egos, he holds back his PG's from expanding past the "traditionial" PG role, and because the Jason Kidd trade didn't make them better.

It was a bad setting in Dallas and in the NBA in general for Avery.

The Sylvester Croom approach he will take into the living rooms of recruits works better in college basketball than in college football.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
That's quite a bit for a CBB coach. A bit harder to make money in CBB than it is in CFB obviously based solely on ticket sales.

I'm not going to pretend to know the numbers - because I don't - just seems excessive but you gotta do what you have to I guess.
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They probably make decent money on football. 70,000+ seats. I'm sure their football revenue pales in comparison to UT's, but whatever it is, I doubt their spending a high % of it to pay the football staff. So, there's some extra revenue to pay Calipari.
 
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