Rick Byrd

#76
#76
Tux said:
All of these open jobs at major schools and not ONCE did any of them knock on Rick Byrd's door....and now some goobers want to hire him for the UT job because his daddy wrote for the local paper and because he is from Knoxville. It is fans that think like that, give us such a bad name and make us look like backwater denizens.
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It is well documented that Byrd has turned down the advances of numerous schools.
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#78
#78
Sorry but no. I think he's a good coach but we would constantly have less talent than other teams. I'd be disappointed if he got the job over these other candidates.
 
#79
#79
Shaun1985 said:
Sorry but no. I think he's a good coach but we would constantly have less talent than other teams. I'd be disappointed if he got the job over these other candidates.
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With all we have to offer, I have to say that's BS. If we plug in the right guy here, that can get the most our of his players, then we can win at a high level. Our facilities are top notch, and we have better backing that most Big East schools do.
 
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#80
g8terh8ter_eric said:
With all we have to offer, I have to say that's BS. If we plug in the right guy here, that can get the most our of his players, then we can win at a high level. Our facilities are top notch, and we have better backing that most Big East schools do.
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This seems to be what most are missing when it comes to Byrd. Clearly he will pull a higher caliber player at UT than he currently does at Belmont. They also seem to miss that their arguments could have been used against any low/mid-major coach who's ever been hired by a power conference school.
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#81
#81
With Byrd it comes down to personality. Byrd is used to recruiting less athletic kids who play within his system, shoot high percentages from the 3, and have high grade point averages. If you look at his teams nearly every player he has is all conference academic year in and year out. At UT something would have to give. He would be forced to recruit a different type of college kid than what he is used to at Belmont.

I think if Rick Byrd were successful at UT then future Byrd/UT teams would look a lot like your typical Duke teams. The question is would UT fans be good with that? I have no idea.

If Rick Byrd were unsuccessful at UT than it would either be because he would be unable to control a team of prima donnas or it would be that he is stuck recruiting the type of athlete who is not right for the SEC.

My instincts tell me that if he caught a couple of early breaks in recruiting he could put together the type of fundamental team that would be a real force in the NCAA. But it would be a different feel from the teams that UT fan bases are currently used to. I suspect a Byrd UT team would look more like the BIG TEN than the SEC.
 
#83
#83
This is JMHO and I'm sure it's going to irritate some of you, but you act like TN basketball was relevant before Bruce Pearl and it simply wasn't. He was TN basketball. People talk about building on what he did, but what he did pretty much walked out the door with him. Byrd may not be a home run, but he is a ground rule double. He has integrity, great tactician, teaches fundamentals. He may not take it to the next level, but I believe he could stop the bleeding. With Pearl's teams, I can't count the number of times that I thought TN would have won the game if they hit their free throws, or if we had a decent spot up shooter at the 2 guard, or a real point guard. Pearl's philosophy was to recruit the best athletes that he could an make them work together and the last few years, his teams didn't have that synergy. If you need a point guard, go get the best point guard available and coach him to be a better point guard, don't get a small forward that is willing to come to TN and try and make a point guard out of him. I think Byrd would be a very good hire, maybe a great one.
 
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