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Dowd and Valdez can probably start - but the Campbells would be decent rotational pieces to provide shooting off the bench.
Coaching Search Over: Cross Hired
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Okay! That was real good! I just shot coffee out of my nose.
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Everyone...You should listen to this one.
Root4GT
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Depends on the coach. Hoiberg had already proved he could win at the P4 level at Iowa State. His record there in 5 years was 115–56 (.673). With that record at a P4 school he got a longer leash at Nebraska which is a historically poor basketball school. Before Hoiberg Nebraska has had 2 winning conference records this Century.
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I’m sure the buyout cost and the dumpster fire at the football program at the same time shielded him.
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Seems like the forum is a few weeks ahead of the reputable media
www.espn.com
Sources: Georgia Tech is targeting Troy’s Scott Cross as the school’s new basketball coach. A deal is expected to come together in the near future. Cross led Troy to consecutive NCAA bids. He’s won 350 career Division I games, spanning 19 seasons at UT Arlington and Troy. He’s won 20 games in five consecutive seasons and has eight 20-win seasons in the last 10 years.
Sources: Georgia Tech is targeting Troy’s Scott Cross as the... - ESPN
Read the breaking news story from the ESPN contributor Pete Thamel
Sources: Georgia Tech is targeting Troy’s Scott Cross as the school’s new basketball coach. A deal is expected to come together in the near future. Cross led Troy to consecutive NCAA bids. He’s won 350 career Division I games, spanning 19 seasons at UT Arlington and Troy. He’s won 20 games in five consecutive seasons and has eight 20-win seasons in the last 10 years.
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I'm not sure if it will be a great, good or bad hire, but the perceived process seems lazy.
DTechster
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“Perceived” being the key word here. Alpert kept things quiet throughout so we really have no idea what the process actually entailed and who was involved. I would say calling the perceived process “lazy” is a lazy take. He handled it the right way.
Now, we may not like the result but hope we do in time.
You’re entitled to perceive what you perceive but my own perception is that Alpert went to high demand targets, they told him to **** off, and then he interviewed several less proven, less in-demand candidates who were willing to take a chance on our job. Seems fine to me.
If Stansbury came with $10m of upfront NIL I still would have gone with him. Not sure if that was truly ever a thing or not. With Cross, we are probably getting a team pretty similar to this year’s team with new names and faces similar to Chas Kelley, Lamar Washington, and a few Troy guys.
MySouthernJacket
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Did we force Bruce pearl to tell us no?
He likely said no very willingly.
After seeing what we want to spend on bball, I sincerely doubt he stopped laughing long enough to say 'no'.
I’m gonna throw this out there: if you can’t get donors to spend on the team, it’s time to do some really outside the box stuff with scheduling to hopefully get students and donors behind Cross.
Schedule St. John’s on opening night next season in McCamish and give them 3 free buy games in Carnesecca/MSG in 2027, 2028, and 2029. The dumbest thing we could do at this point is schedule 10 Patriot League and MEAC schools in non-conference and lose to 1 or 2 of them. If you need to give the high majors insane incentives to agree to a game in McCamish, just do it.
Schedule St. John’s on opening night next season in McCamish and give them 3 free buy games in Carnesecca/MSG in 2027, 2028, and 2029. The dumbest thing we could do at this point is schedule 10 Patriot League and MEAC schools in non-conference and lose to 1 or 2 of them. If you need to give the high majors insane incentives to agree to a game in McCamish, just do it.
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I think the process was so fast bc of our assistant AD being pretty close with the guy.
Root4GT
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It is not a good metric. On the other hand it does not give the fan base much to be encouraged by as most of us had not heard of Cross and that is the only game we have seen a Cross coached team play.
Emotions matter to fans. Logic says he is a decent coach with a solid lower level record. Emotions say, oh my, his team looked awful yesterday.
He will get a shot at GT if hired. He lost some fan support yesterday.
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Every one he lost yesterday is a loser.
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Actually I agree in today's environment. half-assing today costs millions and as we just saw, with absolutely nothing to show for it. Last place should be purchased without a massive squandering of scarce resources. Even committing half (give or take) of what your competitors do is a fool's errand. The people in charge should be smarter than this.