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Would you take Mike Hopkins as next coach?

Would you take Mike Hopkins as next coach?

  • yes

    Votes: 28 15.2%

  • no

    Votes: 156 84.8%
  • Total voters
    184
Dr. Bill said:
Why not Hop???? Duke and Carolina keep bringing back former coaches or players as coaches...and it has worked out for them...why not us? People on this thread don't want to acknowledge that is is more than a Coach! Cuse's problems and inability to become elite again...has more to do with Money than anything else. It's about quality players...
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umm no. hop played a crappy zone at washington...which he would repeat here and also wasnt a offensive guru either...its not only about players...have you not been watching? cuse has good players this year but they dont have good xs and os...

theres a lot more to it than money and players
 
Dr. Bill said:
Why not Hop???? Duke and Carolina keep bringing back former coaches or players as coaches...and it has worked out for them...why not us? People on this thread don't want to acknowledge that is is more than a Coach! Cuse's problems and inability to become elite again...has more to do with Money than anything else. It's about quality players...
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I know Hop. I like Hop. A lot. How can you not. He isn't the guy for this job for a number of reasons. let's start with money. There are coaches that have been named in this thread that will have donations poring in. Hop is not one of them. Just the opposite. Major league donors have made their unhappiness very clear to the powers that be. Plus, Hop isn't really all that good of a Head Coach. He had a lot of advantages at Washington. And he wasn't successful. Too bad. Great guy. But we can't mess this up.
 
CuseFaninVT said:
Nope. Been out of the area too long to maintain recruiting lines, and no idea how he’d do with NIL and the portal.
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he's got a cushy NBA college, why go back into the college ranks and haggle with NIL and the portal, he's pushing 60, nobody wants that headache at his age if you don’t have to
 
Irishsecra1 said:
I would take him as interim coach till the end of the year.
Need to get Red out of here.

Could certainly be part of the interview mix for the full time coach depending on how things went as interim.
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1. AA will not be fired until the season is over, there will be no interim.
2. Why would any sane man leave a good job to take a temporary one that he might not get permanently, then you are out on 2 jobs.
 
RF2044 said:
Why on earth would we hire Hop? What evaluative criteria would justify that?

Beyond "former ties to the program?"

He bombed at UW. That was his audition, and it went extremely poorly -- which should disqualify him.
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and he had good, highly rated players some who've gone to the NBA
 
sufandu said:
I would have taken him 10 years ago. Not now.

Can Fran coach both sports? He could be in charge of recruiting and we could hire an offensve guru as one assistant and a defensive one as the other. Call them all associate head coaches and pay them the same. Fran could cut us a break on the salary like when you bundle multiple types of insurances with the same insurance company.
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With Brown, we'd end up with a point guard who can't pass the ball and turns it over incessantly...wait a minute, we've already got that!
 
Archbold44 said:
Bernie Fine somehow was a bit better at developing the big men. Have we really developed a C since Bernie? The PF/C on the 2011-2012 team were Fab Melo, Rakeem Christmas. The next year, was Christmas, DeJuan Coleman, and Baye Keita. Same trio the next year. But things start to fall of a cliff in terms of developing the PF/C after Fine left.
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Hop worked with Rak all spring and summer before his senior year and helped turn him into an all conference player. You have to give him credit for that. He was great at player development. He won’t and shouldn’t be our next head coach though.
 
RMH44 said:
I'm not sure Wildhack will be hiring anyone. The last I heard, he plans to retire and leave the decision of selecting Red's replacement to the new AD.
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What are you talking about? Wildhack is the current AD and hasn’t announced any plans to retire. There won’t be a new AD in the next two months!
 
This thread feels like pure desperation from a fan base with absolutely zero input in the process. Exactly as expected.
 
Cuse_NYC said:
I’m by no means pushing for Hop to be the HC, and don’t want that, but to compare him to Red is outrageous. Hop may be overly in love with the zone, but he understands basketball and can have a logical basketball conversation/presser.
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Not outrageous at all. Hop was like 14 games under 500 his last 5 years at Washington.
 
sufandu said:
I would have taken him 10 years ago. Not now.

Can Fran coach both sports? He could be in charge of recruiting and we could hire an offensve guru as one assistant and a defensive one as the other. Call them all associate head coaches and pay them the same. Fran could cut us a break on the salary like when you bundle multiple types of insurances with the same insurance company.
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I would say the jury is still out on Fran after the absolute disaster this past season was.
 
sweetpea said:
Not outrageous at all. Hop was like 14 games under 500 his last 5 years at Washington.
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Was Autry a 2 time coach of the year? Did Autry make a single NCAAT? Every single fan wants him gone now or by the end of the year. He has no feel for the game and has more than enough talent to make the tournament. Hop aint losing to BC and Hofstra with this team. Not sure how you can compare the two.
 
dasher said:
I know Hop. I like Hop. A lot. How can you not. He isn't the guy for this job for a number of reasons. let's start with money. There are coaches that have been named in this thread that will have donations poring in. Hop is not one of them. Just the opposite. Major league donors have made their unhappiness very clear to the powers that be. Plus, Hop isn't really all that good of a Head Coach. He had a lot of advantages at Washington. And he wasn't successful. Too bad. Great guy. But we can't mess this up.
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Who would you like to see? Give me your top 4...And don't tell me GMac
 
CardiacCuse said:
umm no. hop played a crappy zone at washington...which he would repeat here and also wasnt a offensive guru either...its not only about players...have you not been watching? cuse has good players this year but they dont have good xs and os...

theres a lot more to it than money and players
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What X's and O's is Duke running that makes them good year after year?
 
RMH44 said:
I'm not sure Wildhack will be hiring anyone. The last I heard, he plans to retire and leave the decision of selecting Red's replacement to the new AD.
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Good idea since he has been the AD that stopped the JB to Hop succession plan, let JB burn down the house he built and hired someone that shouldn’t have sniffed the SU head coaching job.
 
sweetpea said:
I would say the jury is still out on Fran after the absolute disaster this past season was.
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Ya, he blew through all his goodwill he banked the previous season. He is basically starting from scratch again.
 

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