Cusefan0307
Red recruits the ACC!
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Not too much of a surprise. They brought in a lot of talent and they stink.
Jim Larranaga stepping down
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With the speed of everything involved in the game now. It’s a young man’s job to be a head coach.
OttoinGrotto
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I think you're going to see the HC job change a lot.
GM's are going to be more prominent.
cliftonparksufan
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What are you considering old. Just for reference, Jay Wright turned 63 yesterday .
The coaches of the top two ranked teams in the country, Barnes and Pearl, are 70 and 64.
Do you think there are any " Old Dudes" who are the greatest coaches in the history of this game that WANT to get in next with this garbage system with no rules?
EnviroSciGuy
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The swordsman.
That’s true, but both programs especially Tennessee would be smart to have a plan for after Barnes. The moment those programs start to regress even a little, it’ll be much more difficult for those guys to fix it at this stage in their career.
OttoinGrotto
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Bethea
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That was my first thought as well. Ha. However, since Carlos is apparently the only one on the team who can dribble, there would be a log jam at SG.Bethea
LAorange44
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Dang. He was the league’s current elder statesmen along with Leonard Hamilton. I don’t expect Miami to open the pocket book on a splashy hire for hoops. Looks like the coaching gap with the SEC is about to get wider. All hail our current hoops alpha coach Brad Brownell whoever that is.
syrBossHogg
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I think only two coaches are left with their teams since our first ACC season (13-14)
Brownell and Hamilton
Brownell and Hamilton
To all the fire Red crew, in my opinion you have no clue what has occurred over the past 10 years on the Hill. Multifactorial. Red will stay the ship if allowed. Did TB or JL forget how to coach? No... See article
The Hurricanes are 4-8 this season and only 5-19 in their last 24 games, a stunning freefall for a program that went to the Final Four just two seasons ago. Injuries and roster turnover have taken a clear toll, and Larrañaga is one of many coaches who has expressed some level of frustration with the lack of regulation and transparency that comes with the Name, Image and Likeness era in college sports.
Larrañaga is the second prominent coach to step down unexpectedly this season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Tony Bennett did the same at Virginia back in October, less than three weeks before the Cavaliers played their season-opener.
Bennett, when he stepped down, said NIL has simply changed the game for coaches and not in a good way.
“College athletics is not in a healthy spot. It’s not,” Bennett said in October. “And there needs to be change. It’s not going to go back. I think I was equipped to do the job here the old way — that’s who I am and that’s how it was.”
Larrañaga’s decision to step aside makes him the latest big-name veteran coach to leave the ACC in recent seasons, following the departures of some other giants within the sport — North Carolina’s Roy Williams in spring 2021, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski a year later and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim to end a 47-year tenure in 2023, and Bennett earlier this year.
The Hurricanes are 4-8 this season and only 5-19 in their last 24 games, a stunning freefall for a program that went to the Final Four just two seasons ago. Injuries and roster turnover have taken a clear toll, and Larrañaga is one of many coaches who has expressed some level of frustration with the lack of regulation and transparency that comes with the Name, Image and Likeness era in college sports.
Larrañaga is the second prominent coach to step down unexpectedly this season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Tony Bennett did the same at Virginia back in October, less than three weeks before the Cavaliers played their season-opener.
Bennett, when he stepped down, said NIL has simply changed the game for coaches and not in a good way.
“College athletics is not in a healthy spot. It’s not,” Bennett said in October. “And there needs to be change. It’s not going to go back. I think I was equipped to do the job here the old way — that’s who I am and that’s how it was.”
Larrañaga’s decision to step aside makes him the latest big-name veteran coach to leave the ACC in recent seasons, following the departures of some other giants within the sport — North Carolina’s Roy Williams in spring 2021, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski a year later and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim to end a 47-year tenure in 2023, and Bennett earlier this year.
Col. Bleep
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And don't forget Pitino and Cal (who is now old enough to be collecting Social Security).
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I was hoping you would add some insight to what has been happening the last 10 years on the hill. What is that relationship to the current squad coached by Red?
powdersmack
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Red has shown exactly nothing in coaching ability, done nothing to show he could fix this mess. Comparing Red to Tony Bennett or Jim Larranaga is one of the most laughable things I've ever heard.
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There is going to be line for the handful of flashy mid-major coaches.
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This quote from Larranaga is just so unfortunate:
"What shocked me was after we made it to the Final Four, just 18 months ago, the very first time I met with the players, eight of them decided they were going to put their name in the portal and leave," Larrangaga said. "I said, 'Don't you like it here?' They said, 'No, I like it here, it's great.' But the opportunity to make money someplace else created a situation that you have to begin to ask yourself, as a coach, what is this all about? The answer is that it's become professional."
"What shocked me was after we made it to the Final Four, just 18 months ago, the very first time I met with the players, eight of them decided they were going to put their name in the portal and leave," Larrangaga said. "I said, 'Don't you like it here?' They said, 'No, I like it here, it's great.' But the opportunity to make money someplace else created a situation that you have to begin to ask yourself, as a coach, what is this all about? The answer is that it's become professional."
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This college basketball scene is miserable. This NIL stuff is a whole nother job. The amount of fundraising that has to occur is over taking the importance of coaching your team and players. And these kids want to get paid. It’s simple. When the kids are making numbers that are close to the coaches, there’s no respect anymore. It’s just a free for all.
OttoinGrotto
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I gave this a laugh emoji not because of the post but because your handle is magnificent.
cliftonparksufan
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On the surface, the NIL is deserving. But combine with the portal and it's miserable. Let's get some rules down. Only one free transfer per four years. Anything more than that, you have to sit out a year. Or maybe after freshman year, you have to sit out a year, but if you wait until after soph or junior, then you don't have to wait.
At least in the NBA, any drafted player is signed for three years or 3+1. It's not the ok corral.
