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re: Realistic replacement for Johnny Jones.....?
Posted on 1/21/17 at 12:32 pm to basiletiger
Posted on 1/21/17 at 12:32 pm to basiletiger
It depends on if LSU is serious about men's basketball (i.e. Are they willing to spend really money on a new coach)
Buzz Williams would be my first call. Steve Prohm would be another. I think he has enough LA/Gulf South connections to draw at least some interest from him.
Richard Pitino would probably have some interest, but the results at Minn. haven't been outstanding. You hire him only if you think he's just a bad fit at Minn. and would do much better in the SEC. Will Wade is interesting. Made UT-Chattanooga a good program and is doing ok at VCU. Is the draw of a bigger conference and (presumably) more money enough to pull him away from a good basketball program.
Stansbury would be a backup. Not so much because he is a bad coach, but because I think it would be pretty easy for LSU to get him from WKU if they struck out on other guys.
It's nice to say go get Marshall, Jay Wright, etc, but we have to be realistic.
A wildcard is Scott Drew. There doesn't seem to be a logical reason to leave Baylor, but you never know if internal issues would maybe push him to LSU. He already recruits LA hard and Dale and his dad are friends. Stranger things have happened
Buzz Williams would be my first call. Steve Prohm would be another. I think he has enough LA/Gulf South connections to draw at least some interest from him.
Richard Pitino would probably have some interest, but the results at Minn. haven't been outstanding. You hire him only if you think he's just a bad fit at Minn. and would do much better in the SEC. Will Wade is interesting. Made UT-Chattanooga a good program and is doing ok at VCU. Is the draw of a bigger conference and (presumably) more money enough to pull him away from a good basketball program.
Stansbury would be a backup. Not so much because he is a bad coach, but because I think it would be pretty easy for LSU to get him from WKU if they struck out on other guys.
It's nice to say go get Marshall, Jay Wright, etc, but we have to be realistic.
A wildcard is Scott Drew. There doesn't seem to be a logical reason to leave Baylor, but you never know if internal issues would maybe push him to LSU. He already recruits LA hard and Dale and his dad are friends. Stranger things have happened
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Posted on 1/21/17 at 12:47 pm to Alt26
quote:
It depends on if LSU is serious about men's basketball (i.e. Are they willing to spend really money on a new coach)
That's a core issue.
And I'm not confident that Alleva would do a good job with the search / hire.
Posted on 1/22/17 at 1:24 pm to Alt26
We probably could have gotten Buzz last time around, because he wasn't happy at Marquette and was looking around for something else. I think it would be very hard to get him away from Va Tech right now. He is building a pretty solid program and I think he has a built a strong connection with the AD there.
After the JJ tenure, and as bad as the SEC has been, unfortunately, I think we are now forced to look at a level or two below guys like Buzz. This will be a big hire. This hire will either let what's left of the air out of the program, or it could put us back on the road to respectability.
It is definitely long past time for us to stop worrying about the "LSU connections", and I would hope that the JJ hire has finally slayed the Dale/Collis dragon. I love Dale and Collis and all that they have done for LSU Basketball, but we simply cannot let these guys run things anymore.
Like the idea of a Will Wade. The right hire will be someone like that -- a "comer" who is looking to make a name for himself.
After the JJ tenure, and as bad as the SEC has been, unfortunately, I think we are now forced to look at a level or two below guys like Buzz. This will be a big hire. This hire will either let what's left of the air out of the program, or it could put us back on the road to respectability.
It is definitely long past time for us to stop worrying about the "LSU connections", and I would hope that the JJ hire has finally slayed the Dale/Collis dragon. I love Dale and Collis and all that they have done for LSU Basketball, but we simply cannot let these guys run things anymore.
Like the idea of a Will Wade. The right hire will be someone like that -- a "comer" who is looking to make a name for himself.
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