College Basketball 2011-2012

[Magnetic Curses]

press conference for 3 pm today. looks like groce.

[Magnetic Curses]

check that, it looks like the new women's coach.

 

EDIT: nope, men's coach

Edited March 27, 2012 by Stannis

[SouthSideRyan]

Getting Groce as women's coach is quite a coup

[Magnetic Curses]

Getting Groce as women's coach is quite a coup

 

and would make a lot of sense.

[Magnetic Curses]

i'm just going to pretend that he's chris mack

[Magnetic Curses]

but, he's young, he seems to be a recruiter, he's pulled out a highly-rated (for a mid-major) chicago kid before. he may have agreed to allow jerrance to remain on and robert smith to come in as an assistant.

 

i'm not a huge believer in the "cabal-of-recruiters" approach, but if it will help us keep james and hill, add parker and schilling, and keep the guys who are there now, he could do at illinois what matta did at ohio state.

 

that will be a strtech, though.

[gocubs2118]

So apparently there is no press conference today.

[Magnetic Curses]

it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.

[Guest]

A discussion on why Harrison Barnes failed to live up to the hype at UNC: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7737280/harrison-barnes-two-years-north-carolina-tar-heels

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.

 

Does anyone really want to look me square in the eye and tell me Mike Thomas is competent? He makes Lord Guenther look like the best AD in the country.

[SouthSideRyan]

it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.

 

Does anyone really want to look me square in the eye and tell me Mike Thomas is competent? He makes Lord Guenther look like the best AD in the country.

 

I can't look square into crazy eyes.

 

I mean, was he just the luckiest [expletive] in the world at Cincinnati then? That's the theory you're going to go with?

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.

 

Does anyone really want to look me square in the eye and tell me Mike Thomas is competent? He makes Lord Guenther look like the best AD in the country.

 

I can't look square into crazy eyes.

 

Oh come on. This is pathetic. Even Seth Davis has said that Thomas is scaring coaches away. Time for you all to wake up and realize if it wasn't for him, and his horrible reputation then Shaka or Stevens would have been the choice and not John Groce.

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.

 

Does anyone really want to look me square in the eye and tell me Mike Thomas is competent? He makes Lord Guenther look like the best AD in the country.

 

I can't look square into crazy eyes.

 

I mean, was he just the luckiest [expletive] in the world at Cincinnati then? That's the theory you're going to go with?

 

There's a reason why everyone with past connections to Thomas didn't want the job. That reason is Mike Thomas.

[Magnetic Curses]

the earth is going to open up and swallow you very soon. or maybe the children of the corn will shoot you up into the sky.

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

Tell me why I'm wrong Sulley. Someone please tell me what Mike Thomas has done since taking over the job to warrant our trust.

[SouthSideRyan]

it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.

 

Does anyone really want to look me square in the eye and tell me Mike Thomas is competent? He makes Lord Guenther look like the best AD in the country.

 

I can't look square into crazy eyes.

 

I mean, was he just the luckiest [expletive] in the world at Cincinnati then? That's the theory you're going to go with?

 

There's a reason why everyone with past connections to Thomas didn't want the job. That reason is Mike Thomas.

 

Would you want to work for somebody who wore poopypants?

[pitchcs]

it's not happening at all, now. maybe he decided to stay in athens.

 

 

I don't see any way Groce could turn this job down, I mean he's making $300K/year right now.

[gocubs2118]

Tell me why I'm wrong Sulley. Someone please tell me what Mike Thomas has done since taking over the job to warrant our trust.

 

What has he done to not warrant your trust? His hires haven't even coached a game yet.

[SouthSideRyan]

Tell me why I'm wrong Sulley. Someone please tell me what Mike Thomas has done since taking over the job to warrant our trust.

 

What has he done to not warrant your trust? His hires haven't even coached a game yet.

 

Probably because of the unmitigated disaster he turned UC football into.

 

ETA: And his poopypants.

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

Tell me why I'm wrong Sulley. Someone please tell me what Mike Thomas has done since taking over the job to warrant our trust.

 

What has he done to not warrant your trust? His hires haven't even coached a game yet.

 

Made big promises as far as hires go and hasn't delivered. Very publicly shamed two coaches. Hasn't made any progress raising funds for Assembly Hall.

[kujay]

The Trib says Groce is a done deal. Is there reason to think it's not?

 

I see no reason he would turn them down.

[Guest]

Tell me why I'm wrong Sulley. Someone please tell me what Mike Thomas has done since taking over the job to warrant our trust.

 

What has he done to not warrant your trust? His hires haven't even coached a game yet.

 

Made big promises as far as hires go and hasn't delivered. Very publicly shamed two coaches. Hasn't made any progress raising funds for Assembly Hall.

 

It really is outrageous that both those hires are still winless.

[SouthSideRyan]

lol, publicly shamed.

[BleacherBadger]

rumors that the deal was done until a board member threw a stink that it's not a minority hire. True?

[SouthSideRyan]

rumors that the deal was done until a board member threw a stink that it's not a minority hire. True?

 

That or it was a fake conference to hunt out a leak within the AD's office. Either way, I imagine this is official by Thursday at the latest.