Whose the Fran Brown of college basketball?

[Capt. Tuttle]

Does Wildhack go back to finding a GREAT recruiter, and trust him to put good people around him as he learns to coach or does he go with someone with HC experience? Will he look to the women’s game?
Will he go with an inside guy with outside experience, like a Jason Hart?
Has he back channeled the next coach already?
Whoever it is, they are going to have to win the introductory press conference in a slam dunk!!
EDIT: Someone who brings serious NIL backing?

 

[JKinUtah]

So we’re going to replace a disaster with someone who will be another disaster in year 2?

Sort of kidding but not really

 

[capeorange]

We need someone who can coach along with the understanding that offense and defense is more that 'play tougher' and 'level 5'.

 

[sufan59]

His name is Bryan Hodgson and he has experience rebuilding 2 programs now as a head coach

 

[bballbeadle]

Had to look him up.

New USF men's basketball coach Bryan Hodgson will make $1.25 million in his first season with the Bulls, about three times more than his previous annual salary at Arkansas State. Hodgson, 38, signed a six-year, $8.25 million contract with USF, according to records obtained by The Oracle.

 

[orange79]

Who's

 

[ezbeezy214]

Well it was supposed to be Kenny Payne but that didn’t work out for Louisville at all so buyer beware

 

[Conrad13]

Does Wildhack go back to finding a GREAT recruiter, and trust him to put good people around him as he learns to coach or does he go with someone with HC experience? Will he look to the women’s game?
Will he go with an inside guy with outside experience, like a Jason Hart?
Has he back channeled the next coach already?
Whoever it is, they are going to have to win the introductory press conference in a slam dunk!!

I'm not even sure what make a successful DI basketball coach anymore. We've learned with Red that Xs and Os still matter and we need a good floor coach, but now coaches also need to be good at the transfer/NIL game. So you need someone who can re-recruit their current players and work with donors to pay the players that they want. That side of the game seems to be why so many good old school coaches have retired in the past few years.

The crazy thing is that finding a great high school recruiter may not be that critical anymore, in basketball at least.

 

[PeteCalvin]

I'm not even sure what make a successful DI basketball coach anymore. We've learned with Red that Xs and Os still matter and we need a good floor coach, but now coaches also need to be good at the transfer/NIL game. So you need someone who can re-recruit their current players and work with donors to pay the players that they want. That side of the game seems to be why so many good old school coaches have retired in the past few years.

The crazy thing is that finding a great high school recruiter may not be that critical anymore, in basketball at least.

How the hell has Kelvin Sampson been able to have breakthrough success at Houston when he couldn’t coach his way out of a paper bag at Oklahoma? At least in 2003, anyway. I was never a fan of his.

The guy hit the rock below rock bottom and is now one of the most successful coaches in the last decade. He learned how to adapt to the new college game and is able to motivate guys to play lockdown D.

There’s a lesson to be learned here, I’m just not sure what it is. I guess it would be “Hey, you never know. Don’t count someone out.”

Unless it’s Red.

 

[LpoolNative]

I always laugh at people who bad mouth Fran.

You guys are ridiculous

 

[Brooky03]

I always laugh at people who bad mouth Fran.

You guys are ridiculous

He just lost his starting QB. No biggie. Those guys aren’t important for football and hard to find, right?

I mean, we’re powerhouse football school, Syracuse. I’m sure all powerhouses like us have backup QBs ready to run the show.

 

[cusefan88]

He just lost his starting QB. No biggie. Those guys aren’t important for football and hard to find, right?

I mean, we’re powerhouse football school, Syracuse. I’m sure all powerhouses like us have backup QBs ready to run the show.

For all their money LSU had their struggles too. Having a good backup is the exception not the rule right.

 

[FrancoPizza]

He just lost his starting QB. No biggie. Those guys aren’t important for football and hard to find, right?

I mean, we’re powerhouse football school, Syracuse. I’m sure all powerhouses like us have backup QBs ready to run the show.

We lacked a capable, functional 2nd string QB who could throw a ball. Nobody was expecting good.

 

[Cusefan0307]

We don’t need just a great recruiter. We need basketball acumen. Red brought in players. That wasn’t the problem.

 

[Sbucketball]

We don’t need just a great recruiter. We need basketball acumen. Red brought in players. That wasn’t the problem.

Agreed. We need basketball acumen first and foremost. You can always hire assistants who are great recruiters and fundraise for high NIL and recruiting will work out.

 

[007]

Does Wildhack go back to finding a GREAT recruiter, and trust him to put good people around him as he learns to coach or does he go with someone with HC experience?

This one should be an absolute no-brainer. You hire a guy with a proven history of winning and X and Os coaching chops. Those guys are usually program builders as a by product of their winning and acumen. If you build it, they will come. By "they" I mean players, fans, and donors.

 

[GoCuse14]

Does Wildhack go back to finding a GREAT recruiter, and trust him to put good people around him as he learns to coach or does he go with someone with HC experience? Will he look to the women’s game?
Will he go with an inside guy with outside experience, like a Jason Hart?
Has he back channeled the next coach already?
Whoever it is, they are going to have to win the introductory press conference in a slam dunk!!
EDIT: Someone who brings serious NIL backing?

ummm, didnt Fran find Wildhack?

 

[Briancuse]

ummm, didnt Fran find Wildhack?

Wildhack hoping it happens again so he doesn't have to find a coach.

 

[Brooky03]

We lacked a capable, functional 2nd string QB who could throw a ball. Nobody was expecting good.

We weren’t winning anything with an even mediocre backup, almost nobody would. Best case scenario with a backup QB at a school like ours is winning some games and missing a bowl game. So some fans are mad at Fran for going from missing a bowl game to missing a bowl game.

 

[FrancoPizza]

We weren’t winning anything with an even mediocre backup, almost nobody would. Best case scenario with a backup QB at a school like ours is winning some games and missing a bowl game. So some fans are mad at Fran for going from missing a bowl game to missing a bowl game.

A halfway decent qb would’ve found 2 more wins. And there’s your bowl game.

 

[Brooky03]

A halfway decent qb would’ve found 2 more wins. And there’s your bowl game.

What a joy that would’ve been. Appointment tv.

edit: Hold on a sec. How tf would 2 more wins have gotten us in a bowl game?

 

[JarHeadJim]

Who's

 

[ezbeezy214]

We weren’t winning anything with an even mediocre backup, almost nobody would. Best case scenario with a backup QB at a school like ours is winning some games and missing a bowl game. So some fans are mad at Fran for going from missing a bowl game to missing a bowl game.

This isn’t where I parked my car

 

[SuFTW]

I always laugh at people who bad mouth Fran.

You guys are ridiculous

It was a joke, even Fran would laugh at it.

 

[jbsu44]

would Matt Langle fit the bill, just wondering