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It will be interesting. If he's good enough (Final Four at Ole Miss as an example), and it's far enough removed, he will get a look. St. John's, a catholic university, hired a guy who paid for an abortion for a woman he cheated with and oversaw a program that had strippers perform for recruits. Anything is possible.
People act like the school is hiring a deacon for a church. They are hiring a basketball coach
 
I’ve heard that the Board of trustees would not allow Barnhart to consider 3 coaches. Beard, Oats, and Pearl.
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 🤔
 
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Not in this day. Even a football school fired him.
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.
 
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?
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.
 
It will be interesting. If he's good enough (Final Four at Ole Miss as an example), and it's far enough removed, he will get a look. St. John's, a catholic university, hired a guy who paid for an abortion for a woman he cheated with and oversaw a program that had strippers perform for recruits. Anything is possibl
$$$ Pay your pennance and all is forgiven.
 
Everyone one of those schools are in conferences that could blow up at any time.
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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”.
 
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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.
True. I was thinking about how the SEC doesn’t have enough teams 😂
 
The Big Ten is every bit as strong as the SEC and Indiana would be a lot easier place to win at than Vanderbilt.
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.
 
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