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Georgia fires Tom Crean / hires Mike White

Some of fans are unbearable.

Yeah OP Athens GA isn't a fun college town and noone plays basketball in Atlanta... Not a huge fan of Harvey Danger but UGA getting a good local recruit should be no more surprising than Penny keeping all the local talent he coached in HS at Memphis. Why go up the road 4 hours to hang with a bunch of dorks at Duke?
 
They are the only P6 school ranked lower than Georgetown on KenPom.
 
UG is a very !arge self-contained campus. In the old days they had great rock concerts. I've seen my share. They also have the usual strip, Varsity, etc. They obviously have no trouble attracting football players who have their choice of schools.
 
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His favorite band is Kiss
 
The Athletic had this note in their article about Crean, and I think it applies to JB’s struggles recruiting and retaining players as well. You just can’t be as much of a hard a$$ anymore. You have to adjust.

—“There’s a good reason for this, and it’s not that Georgia is perceived too much as a ‘football school’ to attract top recruits. It’s Crean. He has a reputation for wearing on players, even among other coaches. This is not a good trait to have at a time when college athletes have been granted more freedom of movement than ever before.

It was a lot easier for a coach to get away with being a hard-ass before. It still can work to some degree if the team, whether it’s basketball or football, has a high-enough stature where the player can rationalize there’s a benefit to sticking it out — like postseason success and visibility. It might work for some football players in Athens. It’s not going to work for many basketball players in Athens. There are just too many viable options for college athletes who are looking to play at the next level.”
 
About 9 or 10 tonight they release the game times? Need to know when to plan food runs.
 

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