Who is the next Men's Basketball Coach at UC?

[leo from jersey]

Reading this, I’m reminded of the movie Gone With the Wind. When the war is about to start, all the southern idiots are boasting about easy victory, and how they’ll bask in the glory. That is, until Clark Gable laid out for them what they were really facing, and they didn’t like that. So if we think losing players or top recruits is just a small bump in our road to the deep runs in the NCAA, I’ll just remind we’re going to find out how hard that really is. We’re celebrating a coach and team we don’t even have, but I’ll wait to celebrate, at my age hopefully not too long.

wait and see before you play Gable. The sun is going come up tomorrow and so will UC. I would say work is already underway for transfers even if many don't think so.

[sedz]

Yeah, Chad talked about it in the podcast (I assume he has connections with Calhoun through the Huggin tree). Calhoun realized he's not good enough at coaching defense and hired Eric Haut (who recently accepted the HC job atTarleton State) to essentially be the defensive coordinator. Also said Utah St. runs a match-up zone in the Mick style, which may contribute to their defensive rebounding woes.

Ah, that makes perfect sense and explains the bad rebounding. I can handle bad rebounding if we're keeping teams away from the rim.

Last night against Nevada, Utah State went 17 for 28 at the rim, 27 for 35 at the stripe, and only took 6 midrange shots! Cincinnati fans have never seen modern basketball like that. I'll take some defensive lumps to have a taste.

[leo from jersey]

one quick question. We had Tyler Betsey and Shon Abaev. What did WM get out of them. Tillery showed promise but all you got was a cheerleader on the bench in crunch time -- and a loss. JC can't fail for the third time. A new HC will be hustling. The money, the conference and national TV is on our side. My first post spoke of the proper training as a team and individual maturation is a win the first year. Those are pretty high goals after the waste of talent we seen the last 7 years. My hope is to see UC return to being the feared and winning Bearcats which we all love. I am looking forward to watching UC basketball and its winning tradition.

Go Cats

[Bearcat1996]

Utah State playing on CBS right now, if anyone is interested.

[red_n_black_attack]

I asked in another thread about Bobby Hurley. Could he succeed here?

I doubt it

[Rufus]

wait and see before you play Gable. The sun is going come up tomorrow and so will UC. I would say work is already underway for transfers even if many don't think so.

I watched a little of the Utah / San Diego State game just out of curiosity. Utah has two or three starters that are underclassmen that I'm sure would come with Calhoun if he is indeed the guy. But at any rate whoever the next coach is he will bring some of current roster with him and it's possible he's been in contact with others who are delayed to hit the portal. One of the few benefits of the portal and the NIL is that building a competitive roster is easier to do if the money is there.

[red_n_black_attack]

A quick google search indicates some really good coaches have relatively affordable buyouts. Of the list, Pat Kelsey has a buyout around 9 million. If UC wants to make a splash, taking another Loserville coach would make a splash

[bearcatbret]

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[bearcatbret]

Here is your AI predictions of the favorites for a new coach:
Five Candidates to Replace Wes Miller at Cincinnati

[GoBearcats31]

Yikes https://x.com/chickludwig/status/203...A2NHZ_hNyS2mFg

[longtimefan]

Yikes https://x.com/chickludwig/status/203...A2NHZ_hNyS2mFg

NOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!

[leeraymond372@gmail.com]

For those who are interested, Utah State not only won the MW Conference Tournament championship, it also won the regular season championship. Second straight year of getting to the NCAAs. Utah State is going to throw all types of money at Calhoun to keep him there. Look at Josh Schertz and SLU. Saint Louis extended Schertz's contract with more money to keep him. It worked.

What if Utah State does the same thing to Calhoun. What does UC do then? Calhoun is a very good coach. His teams play hard and they play winning basketball. There was a scene after Utah State won its tournament title, the players were all over Calhoun as he was trying to do the interview. It made me think that Calhoun may not want to take the UC job. Hopefully, Calhoun looks at the UC job as a calling, and he feels obligated to help his alma mater.

It is going to be very interesting to see who takes the UC job. Whomever it is, I hope that he knows how to win games at the high-major level.

[London 'Cat]

Yikes https://x.com/chickludwig/status/203...A2NHZ_hNyS2mFg

Hard pass. I hope he won’t be considered.

[leo from jersey]

Well the sun came up this morning. Chad B. reported :

"First off I do think the odds are pretty good that Corey Evans will stay in the GM position. That's obviously contingent on the new hire and everything fitting in to place, but at this point I'd say I think it more likely than not that he'll return.

If it holds, that should allow the new coach to hit the ground running with the portal and recruiting as they work to build a staff and get started."

Give this time as the losing had to stop.

Go Cats

[leo from jersey]

Now the frontrunner is Calhoun, but I have no access to John C.'s and a couple of the deep pocket's zoom accounts. The dust is settling and a few current coaches might find this job very appealing.

Fan support, NIL in place, best conference, National TV, and with Terry F. of the Reds not staying forever, the new Coach, when he wins, will be the King of the City.

This is going to be a fun ride hopefully or should be.

Give this time as the losing has to stop.

Go Cats