re: Chris Holtmann should be the new basketball coach at LSU

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Holtmann would be a great hire. Not sure he would come to LSU, but if so, I think it would be a HR.

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Holtman would probably be a great hire. But I doubt he is even on Alleva's radar.

With Brad Underwood leaving OSU, Steve Prohm is now one of, if not the lowest paid coach in the Big 12. He and his staff have deep Louisiana/Gulf Coast connections. I think he would be a good fit for LSU and he is MORE than prime for the taking (LSU could offer a big pay raise; Fred Hoiberg is about to become available again which means Prohm will be coaching against his ghost at ISU; He's losing nearly every significant player from this year's team, which means a big rebuild next season)

LSU could ABSOLUTELY pounce, but from everything we've heard, it appears Alleva is wanting to go cheap (Prohm has a $1 mill buyout which Alleva purportedly doesn't want to consider paying)

Illinois' AD didn't use a search firm and he was able to take a good coach away from OSU when no one knew he would even be available. Alleva will probably dump $75k into a search firm only to hire Kermit Davis, a guy you or I for $75 could have told him would be available.

Whether their hires are good or not, Mizzou, Illinois, NC State all pounced quickly and got their new coach one day after that coaches season ended. Well Joe, Iowa State is done. MTSU is done. VCU is done. Nevada is done. If the new coach is coming from one of those places, we should start to hear something soon, right?