Tony Bennett Retiring

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Damn, Bennett is only 55 per Yahoo Sports on their coverage of this story.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Hopefully it’s not health related. As a UVA grad, I can’t understate the job that he did. Taking a program that hadn’t been to a Sweet 16 since ‘95 and budding them into a national champion is one of the great coaching jobs in modern day college basketball.
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Considering the timing, it's got to be health related or something else is wrong. It's one thing to do this in June, it's another 3 weeks before the season starts.
 
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zjcvols said:
Considering the timing, it's got to be health related or something else is wrong. It's one thing to do this in June, it's another 3 weeks before the season starts.
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Yahoo Sports stated that it is not health related.
 
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He just signed an extension thru 2030...I'm "local" and it's confirmed NOT to be "health related"...

Hearing murmurs of some "scandal"...it'll leak soon, I'm sure..
 
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05_never_again said:
The "changing landscape of college basketball" would explain a retirement right after last season ended, or right after this season. It would still catch people off guard, but if you're going to suddenly step away that'd be the time to do it.
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Yeah, a little surprised that it's two weeks before the season starts that this comes. I know the blowout losses weren't winning over fans. You would think a retirement after the season would be more rational


If it's the changing landscape, more power to him. He's not the first to not go along with today's game and adapt. Some refuse to do that. Plus,the new contract in June.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Hopefully it’s not health related. As a UVA grad, I can’t understate the job that he did. Taking a program that hadn’t been to a Sweet 16 since ‘95 and budding them into a national champion is one of the great coaching jobs in modern day college basketball.
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I think you mean one cannot overstate the job he did.
 
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05_never_again said:
The "changing landscape of college basketball" would explain a retirement right after last season ended, or right after this season. It would still catch people off guard, but if you're going to suddenly step away that'd be the time to do it.
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Jay Wright retired in late April. Bob Stoops retired after spring practice and realized he didn’t have it anymore. It’s not like NIL went away. This is actually the time coaches likes the most when you’re in the gym the most. You don’t retire three weeks before the season starts in the middle of fall practice. Something has to be up.
 
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zjcvols said:
Jay Wright retired in late April. Bob Stoops retired after spring practice and realized he didn’t have it anymore. It’s not like NIL went away. This is actually the time coaches likes the most when you’re in the gym the most. You don’t retire three weeks before the season starts in the middle of fall practice. Something has to be up.
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You do if you want to force on the U who you want to replace you
 
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Tomorrow's presser will be very interesting and Bennett made the Virginia job a very desirable one.
 
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He did a great job at UVA. Having said that, just like his dad's teams at Wisconsin, his style of play made for a lot of slow paced and boring basketball games. Virginia was never a team that I had any interest in watching .... even when they were very good.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Hopefully it’s not health related. As a UVA grad, I can’t understate the job that he did. Taking a program that hadn’t been to a Sweet 16 since ‘95 and budding them into a national champion is one of the great coaching jobs in modern day college basketball.
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Bennett, who led Virginia to 2019 title, to retire

Sounds like it’s recruiting related to me. He compared himself to Saban and Wright, saying there’s not enough regulation. There’s something to be said about a free market here..
 
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zjcvols said:
Jay Wright retired in late April. Bob Stoops retired after spring practice and realized he didn’t have it anymore. It’s not like NIL went away. This is actually the time coaches likes the most when you’re in the gym the most. You don’t retire three weeks before the season starts in the middle of fall practice. Something has to be up.
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@volfanhill pointed out that Dean Smith retired in October (which I had never realized), but he was also 66 years old. Bennett is 55. I find it pretty implausible that he all of a sudden determined he "didn't have it" or didn't want to deal with NIL/portal 3 weeks before the season starts.

If the timing made more sense, I'd totally buy him stepping away because the landscape of the sport has changed, plus he never seemed like one of these guys where the job was his entire life.
 
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05_never_again said:
@volfanhill pointed out that Dean Smith retired in October (which I had never realized), but he was also 66 years old. Bennett is 55. I find it pretty implausible that he all of a sudden determined he "didn't have it" or didn't want to deal with NIL/portal 3 weeks before the season starts.

If the timing made more sense, I'd totally buy him stepping away because the landscape of the sport has changed, plus he never seemed like one of these guys where the job was his entire life.
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Also helps when you tee it up for Bill Guthridge with Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter and Shammond Williams on the roster.

On topic, nothing but respect for Tony Bennett. He always did everything w/ class and integrity. Outstanding career.
 
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