Rumor in Nashville
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People act like the school is hiring a deacon for a church. They are hiring a basketball coach
Idk man, didn't Knight once tell a reporter: "if rape is inevitable, you should lay back and enjoy it"?
That's pretty bad.
Plus, dude was beating on his own players, wasn't he?
I've heard that too... and they all need to be fired to be honest. If we were a democracy as far as hiring coaches and voted... I know very hypothetical, most fans would definitely have voted to consider them and rank them ahead of pope honestly. But hopefully this all works out and pope turns out to be great...we get lucky and barnfart gets lucky. But way too early to know.
I'm sticking with my stance though that hard-core push for Pearl or Oats would have meant immediate success and pretty much guaranteed winning at kentucky levels. But instead we hired an alumni with not much of a record to back up anything and took a huge gamble... hiring alumni has worked great for Indiana, louisville, UNC 🤔
“Supposedly “ they didn’t like the way he handled the incident where one of his players was being looked at in connection with a murder.
He's already that. This just happens to be a banner year for the conference.
When you think about UK basketball, do you think more about the 8 national titles or do you think more about point shaving scandals, Rupp paying players under the table, winning titles before the color barrier was broken, hiring a coach with NCAA sanctions, or finding missing transcripts for Randolph Morris? As fans none of that crap matters…we have 8 natties. If IU don’t hire Beard, they will stay stuck in irrelevance.
That's so silly. If they dug, they would. All that stuff quietly went away for a reason. And Ole Miss cleared him, for a reason.
Everyone one of those schools are in conferences that could blow up at any time.
Two people were responsible for that. Two. Look at their BOR. I'm sure you can figure out who those two were.
He did. But that was a different time.
Beard beat up his girlfriend, fiancé, whatever.
The police were involved. He got fired at a school that barely knows they have a basketball team.
He won’t be hired at a top level intuition.
if indiana does hire Beard he will have a top 10 team
IU needs to kill once and for their connection to Bobby Knights coaching and legacy.
The last time they did it they hired the guy who could have restored them to glory and then fired him with their holier than thou bs over phone calls.
The last time they did it they hired the guy who could have restored them to glory and then fired him with their holier than thou bs over phone calls.
There are two sides to every story, I think there will be a school that will take a chance on Beard. One already has and they are winning.
Perfect hire for them would be Brad Calipari. I would pay a little to see that happen. It would be worth a lot of laughs.
Will Beard leave, though? His life has quieted down quite a bit since taking over at Ole Miss at a major conference.
True but I don’t think that matters nearly as much in hoops. Football yes. If those schools have the money, they will compete and all those schools are passionate about hoops. Hell Gonzaga has made themself very relevant and successful in a conference that most cannot name
I’m not leaving a SEC or Big 10 school for anywhere else at this point. For the most part, basketball (or any other collegiate sport) will follow whatever the football program dictates.
If Clemson and FSU leave the ACC, Duke and UNC could have issues with revenue.
Gonzaga is losing ground now, their NIL resources are nowhere close to major conference schools.
Clemson and FLst should join the SEC. Makes more sense then some. The ACC added all those bums and really watered down their brand. Hopefully the SEC stays picky. Right now we have 14 of 16 teams either in the T or on the bubble. That's crazy.
SC isn't far off they just hit a buzz saw this year and lost all their close matchups. 6 losses by 4 or less pts. Including FL 1, AUB 3, Texas AM and Ole Miss 4.
FSU and Clemson are staying in the ACC because the conference agreed to give them more money based on “tv ratings”.
Probably true but it would b so great for Vanderbilt to return back to being one of the best programs in the country like they were in the Roy Skinner days with Clyde Lee, Tommy Hagan, Perry Wallace, the F Troop, etc.
The suck ass ACC has 2 more teams than us. If strong i thonk we could easily handle a league of 18.
