OT: Sat Next to Mike Tirico at dinner tnite

[llandz]

Here in Phoenix, sat next to Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth and their family tnite (xmas eve) at Steak 44.

I know celebrities usually hate when people bother them at dinner but our backs were next to each other basically and we were leaving and I said go cuse and he turned around and we chatted a bit about the bball program, Jimmy and the University.

He said he thinks one more year for Jim and thinks JW will do a national search

Mike is super nice. Love Steak 44, especially their cocaine infused creamed corn, lol.
Do you live in town? Are you visiting? I ran the alumni club here for years, then served as a Director of the SU National Alumni Board, and now am back to just being a plain old fan as of July 1 this year...
BUT, I am putting together a Pinstripe Bowl Game watch in Phoenix this Thursday. We will be at Half Moon Windy City in the Biltmore area. 2121 E. Highland. dm me if you want to come, or just come by...
For football we are a smaller group, expecting 15-20, but all big football fans. We get many more for basketball.

 

[RobVTX]

At no point in time and in no universe is a Mexico Tiger superior to a Phoenix Firebird.

Played y'all in sports. Proud 1975 graduate.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Just do the sensible thing and get Pitino. Have him bring in a staff of high upside assistants with the plan to develop one as the next guy.

I know, I know, people are going to say Pitino's past disqualified him.

Well, we're the institution that didn't terminate a coach for two separate NCAA violations.

If we think we're above Pitino, a, we're not, and b, we're hypocritical for being selectively moral.

 

[Bayside44]

Just do the sensible thing and get Pitino. Have him bring in a staff of high upside assistants with the plan to develop one as the next guy.

I know, I know, people are going to say Pitino's past disqualified him.

Well, we're the institution that didn't terminate a coach for two separate NCAA violations.

If we think we're above Pitino, a, we're not, and b, we're hypocritical for being selectively moral.

He’s 70 with exceptional hair. When the job opens he will be 75z

 

[OttoinGrotto]

He’s 70 with exceptional hair. When the job opens he will be 75z

To be clear, I think Pitino is like a 2-3 year bridge.

He brings us back to relevance, we give him a shot to end his career at a major program in a major conference.

Win-win.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Played y'all in sports. Proud 1975 graduate.

‘79. More than one police escort for teams out of the other’s parking lots.

 

[Lax2020]

If we can't get Hops back I would go with the Coach K Tree:

Tommy Amaker
Jeff Capel
Johnny Dawkins
Quinn Snyder

What's with all the hate ? You do realize that HC JAB and HC MK are best friends. Do you hate your best friend's friend's ?

 

[SUMJF]

there’s no guarantee another year of this is coming when not a single person can find the upside to this.

And newsflash - thousands of fans are complaining with their wallet and not showing up. And it’s having an effect. Thank goodness they don’t just roll over.

Wildhack isn’t forcing Coach Boeheim out.
Coach Boeheim doesn’t see the situation like fans do.
It’s pointless to complain he isn’t leaving. I wish he would call it a career but he won’t retire IMO.

 

[HOFCeluck]

What's with all the hate ? You do realize that HC JAB and HC MK are best friends. Do you hate your best friend's friend's ?

None of those guys have really done anything notable at the college level in like a decade. Snyder hasn’t even coached in college since like 2006.

 

[OburgOrange]

To be clear, I think Pitino is like a 2-3 year bridge.

He brings us back to relevance, we give him a shot to end his career at a major program in a major conference.

Win-win.

No

 

[Lax2020]

None of those guys have really done anything notable at the college level in like a decade. Snyder hasn’t even coached in college since like 2006.

When JAB took the reins he had not accomplished anything as a coach as well. Coach K and JAB are BFF. Let's let one of Coach K's guys try and bring us back to national prominence. At least there is a connection there between Coach K and JAB.

I still do not understand the hate here for anything Duke.

 

[OrangeDW]

When JAB took the reins he had not accomplished anything as a coach as well. Coach K and JAB are BFF. Let's let one of Coach K's guys try and bring us back to national prominence. At least there is a connection there between Coach K and JAB.

I still do not understand the hate here for anything Duke.

They are pompous, arrogant, and popularized undercutting airborn offense players and flopping.

 

[RoysRunts]

They tried Mexico first but couldn’t get in

Pulaski is where Jim's buddy is!

 

[MSOrange]

When JAB took the reins he had not accomplished anything as a coach as well. Coach K and JAB are BFF. Let's let one of Coach K's guys try and bring us back to national prominence. At least there is a connection there between Coach K and JAB.

I still do not understand the hate here for anything Duke.

It's got nothing to do with Duke for me. I'm just not impressed with Dawkins or Capel's track record to show they are capable of getting us back where I want to be. Not sure Snyder would even want to go back to college after doing pretty well in Utah. Amaker had a good run at Harvard for 4 or 5 years, but not as great lately.

 

[SUMJF]

The Coach K tree is not one I want a candidate from.
Steve Wojciechowski bombed at Marquette
Chris Collins hasn’t done anything major at Northwestern.
Jason Capel has done nothing without Blake Griffin.
Johnny Dawkins bombed at Stanford and is average at UCF.
Quinn Snyder got NCAA violations at Missouri and Popovich really reset his career.

No thanks to the Coach K tree.

 

[HOFCeluck]

When JAB took the reins he had not accomplished anything as a coach as well. Coach K and JAB are BFF. Let's let one of Coach K's guys try and bring us back to national prominence. At least there is a connection there between Coach K and JAB.

I still do not understand the hate here for anything Duke.

I guess I just think that we shouldn’t be putting a lot of weight in who JB is friends with when we hire a new coach. While we’re at it, when we hired JB we played on a dirt floor, were a member of the ECAC and our peer programs were Canisius and Bonaventure. We don’t have to hold ourselves to 1977 standards.

 

[sufandu]

At no point in time and in no universe is a Mexico Tiger superior to a Phoenix Firebird.

It certainly was when I was in high school, in many a way.

 

[miamicuse]

Pitino is on the JB coaching tree and a good friend of JB. Not a long term solution but as a 2 year stop gap works for me and closes out his career where he started.

 

[sufandu]

‘79. More than one police escort for teams out of the other’s parking lots.

I came out of Mexico a bit later than you guys, '94. Had a bunch of family that lived in the Phoenix school district side of Palermo.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Just do the sensible thing and get Pitino. Have him bring in a staff of high upside assistants with the plan to develop one as the next guy.

I know, I know, people are going to say Pitino's past disqualified him.

Well, we're the institution that didn't terminate a coach for two separate NCAA violations.

If we think we're above Pitino, a, we're not, and b, we're hypocritical for being selectively moral.

Not ever going to happen. The talk about Pitino is becoming quite laughable. The only job he can get is Iona. No one will ever hire him again.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Pitino is on the JB coaching tree and a good friend of JB. Not a long term solution but as a 2 year stop gap works for me and closes out his career where he started.

And how do you recruit with a two year coach?

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Quinn Snyder got NCAA violations at Missouri and

Glass houses

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

And how do you recruit with a two year coach?

Strippers and spaghetti.

 

[SUMJF]

Glass houses

Um no. Compare what Missouri got accused of with and what Syracuse got accused of.
We got over-punished because Coach Boeheim couldn’t help himself in attacking the NCAA leadership and we are a private school. Our leadership did a terrible job handling the infractions the NCAA threw at us.

Snyder left college basketball because of what he did. Boeheim didn’t have to do that.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

And how do you recruit with a two year coach?

You have an actual plan to name one of the assistants as HC.