Coach Search Options after Autry

[Cusefan0307]

But not going with him could be part of the compromise like the AD was.

No one up there is operating with the best intentions for SU. It’s all for themselves. So when we suck it’s ok the powers at be because they’ve created it.

 

[35kcuse]

Not for nothing but Mike Hopkins has an excellent track record recruiting

Really is a useless skill in NIL era

 

[sdhall01]

Not for nothing but Mike Hopkins has an excellent track record recruiting

Before modern NIL. He could recruit before modern NIL.

 

[TommyA13]

Not for nothing but Mike Hopkins has an excellent track record recruiting

Sure, but it doesn’t mean anything if you can’t coach (I mean we’ve seen this firsthand countless times)

 

[phreddie]

Im sure if you offer 10 mill a year over the next 3 years you can get your guy to the front of the line. $$$ Talks now and its almost the only thing. Even with all that it wasn't an SU alumni who was the 1st choice it was Hodgson

10 mil this year would've benn great.
10 mil next year will be middle of the pack.
10 mil the following year will be bottom of the barrel.

 

[JeremyCuse]

I just have to laugh. You don’t give 15 million NIL to a guy that’s not a good X and O coach. You give 15 million NIL to a good X and O coach because he needs help recruiting. So we are legitimately giving Hopkins money to fund his biggest asset, recruiting. So who’s going to coach the actual X’s and O’s. This entire thing is just a giant joke.

And to be honest. This is kind of how I knew it would play out the entire time.

Good news were not giving 15 million to anybody

 

[Bulldog04]

That’s too much work. I think he gets to put a replica of his middle finger next to the Lally name.

and he wants to do that too. He’s still mad

 

[TommyA13]

I’d take former Hoya Mikael Hopkins over Hop.

No more Hoyas to Cuse, look at how that worked out with Georgetown double-agent Kent

 

[Cuse99&01]

I’d take former Hoya Mikael Hopkins over Hop.

How about Bernard Hopkins

 

[Cuse House]

The board insiders are either pulling off the best prank ever, or we simply screwed this program.

Not sure why we expected to hire a good candidate, but it was always going to be a sh**show.

All aboard the Hop train.

 

[orangeman410]

Just my 2 cents on this situation. I will preface this by saying my 2 cents isn’t worth anything and is only my opinion, but I am taking a look at this from a different perspective. One thing I have seen almost everyone agree on is that the current model for college athletics is not sustainable and now with schools having to pony up an additional $20 million per year to even begin to compete, many athletic departments are going to find themselves in a huge financial hole potentially.

We want a bigger payday and want to remain in a power conference when another alignment happens. Football drives the bus hands down. Our funding is limited at the moment I believe our decision makers would rather focus those dollars toward football and do not want their hands tied with a massive obligation to the basketball program with big contracts, high NIL demands, etc.

At some point, sooner rather than later in my opinion, the Wild West of college athletics will come to an end. The insanity of NIL and free agency with no rules will not continue as there is no guarantee of any sort of return on investment as it currently stands. While I don’t disagree that SU is historically “cheap” with our spending, I believe they want to set us up for long term sustainability, as opposed to spending lavishly for the next few years until the madness ends. If they are going to spend, it will be on football which could earn us a seat at the big boy table, and the lucrative tv contracts that come along with it. Then when your AD is cash positive, you can invest in all the other sports, starting with college hoops.

Let’s say BH does end up at providence because they offered him something better. They are all in on hoops bc it is their ticket to a better conference for bball only when realignment happens again

Again, just my opinion and I am not stating anything as fact. That’s my 2 cents

 

[Ttk.gman2]

10 mil this year would've benn great.
10 mil next year will be middle of the pack.
10 mil the following year will be bottom of the barrel.

Not true at all but ok

 

[Carduccib]

Before modern NIL. He could recruit before modern NIL.

Well isn’t the deal Carmelo is stuffing him with gold …

 

[CuseBlock]

The programs two most renowned legends (Jim and Melo) being responsible for its very downfall is…….poetic?

 

[AZOrange]

You have it backwards.

And two different schools

 

[Cusefan0307]

Not for nothing but Mike Hopkins has an excellent track record recruiting

Over a decade ago. He also has a great track record of having some of the worst offensive teams in division 1.

 

[Scooch]

No one up there is operating with the best intentions for SU. It’s all for themselves. So when we suck it’s ok the powers at be because they’ve created it.

Yeah, if this plays out the way people are suggesting, then the entire big donor class should be ashamed of themselves.

Of course they won’t be, because these people are selfish juveniles.

 

[sufan59]

If this is going the way I think it's going this is crazy on level 10

 

[RedtheGOB]

All I can think is that they had to separate the children in the room which happen to be extremely rich.

Fran deals with Lally for football only and they don’t go near hoops.

Melo and crew deal with whatever in family coach they hire and Lally stays far away.

 

[phil77]

So Melo is mad at Lally's for the building thing so the fans pay the price and get Hopkins instead of Hodgson... AWESOME NEWS !!!!! Glad Melo is making decisions in the best interest of the Syracuse basketball program.

 

[ezbeezy214]

7 years ago.

Not the most exciting hire, however like the BYU hiring, NBA Experience really helps.

 

[Scooch]

Good news were not giving 15 million to anybody

I’m certain we’d be hearing that we don’t have enough NIL resources by December.

 

[JeremyCuse]

So Melo and his team will give a massive NIL package to Hopkins who is barely a 500 coach at Washington only made the tournament once and hasn't been in college basketball in 2 years but wouldn't give that massive NIL package to the hottest coach in college basketball??

I don't want those people making decisions just like you guys said you didn't want Lally's making decisions because that decision is terrible.

I mean like it or hate it, its there money. You could hire Coach K reincarnated but if there's no fn NIL money it doesn't matter.

Again this isn't a shot at you but Jake has spelled it out, SU doesn't have the NIL budget for bball it has for fball be it yhe 20.5 mill share or NIL. SU needs more NIL donations and needs them now

 

[CuseBlock]

The only way to rationalize this hire is fighting fire with fire.

Lack of NIL means we hire hop, who clearly has to have some SERIOUS financial backing via Melo and co.

 

[JeremyCuse]

If he gives $30 million, does he get his name back on the top line at the Melo Center?

He can put it on the Dome and Hendricks