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Not a splash hire. Good but not great IMO.
I would have put him on our list...when needed... 
In 8 years at Xavier:
- 7 of 8 seasons to NCAA Tournament; once to NIT
- 1 year to the Round of 32
- 2 years to Sweet 16
- 1 year to Elite 8
In 12 years at Arizona:
- 7 of 12 seasons to NCAA Tournament; once to NIT
- 3 years to Elite 8
- 2 years to Sweet 16
Overall winning percentage in 17 years as a head coach - 71.3% (58th all-time). He is in 87th place with 487 career wins.
- 7 of 8 seasons to NCAA Tournament; once to NIT
- 1 year to the Round of 32
- 2 years to Sweet 16
- 1 year to Elite 8
In 12 years at Arizona:
- 7 of 12 seasons to NCAA Tournament; once to NIT
- 3 years to Elite 8
- 2 years to Sweet 16
Overall winning percentage in 17 years as a head coach - 71.3% (58th all-time). He is in 87th place with 487 career wins.
He will put them in the sweet 16 often with their resources. Their failures are not for a lack of nba talent
Not splash hire - guy has more Sweet 16 appearances than we do in our entire history and 4 Elite 8s.
He's not a sexy name but the guy has done way more than any coach we have ever hired.
So now tu has better coach in all of Big3.
He's not a sexy name but the guy has done way more than any coach we have ever hired.
So now tu has better coach in all of Big3.
Wasn't he the coach that just knocked tu out of the Dance?
I guess he and the previous tu coach had a pretty significant side bet going on that one:
"Winner gets the job in Austin"
I guess he and the previous tu coach had a pretty significant side bet going on that one:
"Winner gets the job in Austin"
Might be good for them but also might suck like shaka.
Who is Xavier going to hire?
GOOD HIRE
Solid hire
I predict he'll do about what Barnes did at tu
I predict he'll do about what Barnes did at tu
This is a freaking slam dunk hire for tu. You can try and minimize it all you want, but he will have that program back in national contention by next year.
we would kill for what barnes didNyAggie said:
Sid hire
I predict he'll do about what Barnes did at tu
Yes, I would trade Sean Miller for every head coach we have on campus at the moment.
Whether we want to admit it, we have entered the beginning of a VERY dark period for A&M athletics. And it is 100% due to head coach mismanagement. All sports are in the dumpster at this moment as a result.
Do you guys realize that the people we pay A TON of money to, to make decisions in the best interests of Aggie athletics almost hired Mark Stoops as head football coach?
Mark Stoops. Kentucky's coach. With a below .500 SEC record. Bob Stoop's brother almost became the new head coach at A&M.
But in an unexpected moment of sanity, the entirety of our fan base rose up to quash it.
But think about what that means. Our athletic department fired Jimbo Fisher with the planned expectation to hire Mark Stoops. Mark Effing Stoops. And when that failed, it became an absolute, spiraling disaster forcing us to hire the ONLY person that might still say yes with any name recognition whatsoever. And now we have Mike Elko at the head of our football program because our head coaching "search" was so effing embarrassingly mismanaged. And after last season, we saw what Aggie football is going to look like for the next five years, at least. All completely avoidable.
But were there any reprisals for such an idiotic decision? For such grossly incompetent dereliction of duty? Did the brass get together and say "yeah, maybe someone who thought that would be a good idea should no longer be in charge of making head coaching decisions for one of the largest athletic budgets in the nation?"
Of course we didn't. We did nothing, then stood aside and watched those same idiots agree to let a bunch of 17 year old kids decide who we should hire as the next baseball coach...of a program that JUST competed for a national championship one season ago. And we see how that is unfolding.
After six years, we have absolutely seen Buzz's ceiling. Two meaningless NCAA wins. Top 15 coaching salary for nothing. But in typical fashion, we will do nothing to address such mediocrity and just "squeeeeeeze" and hope for the best.
Just unbelievable.
Whether we want to admit it, we have entered the beginning of a VERY dark period for A&M athletics. And it is 100% due to head coach mismanagement. All sports are in the dumpster at this moment as a result.
Do you guys realize that the people we pay A TON of money to, to make decisions in the best interests of Aggie athletics almost hired Mark Stoops as head football coach?
Mark Stoops. Kentucky's coach. With a below .500 SEC record. Bob Stoop's brother almost became the new head coach at A&M.
But in an unexpected moment of sanity, the entirety of our fan base rose up to quash it.
But think about what that means. Our athletic department fired Jimbo Fisher with the planned expectation to hire Mark Stoops. Mark Effing Stoops. And when that failed, it became an absolute, spiraling disaster forcing us to hire the ONLY person that might still say yes with any name recognition whatsoever. And now we have Mike Elko at the head of our football program because our head coaching "search" was so effing embarrassingly mismanaged. And after last season, we saw what Aggie football is going to look like for the next five years, at least. All completely avoidable.
But were there any reprisals for such an idiotic decision? For such grossly incompetent dereliction of duty? Did the brass get together and say "yeah, maybe someone who thought that would be a good idea should no longer be in charge of making head coaching decisions for one of the largest athletic budgets in the nation?"
Of course we didn't. We did nothing, then stood aside and watched those same idiots agree to let a bunch of 17 year old kids decide who we should hire as the next baseball coach...of a program that JUST competed for a national championship one season ago. And we see how that is unfolding.
After six years, we have absolutely seen Buzz's ceiling. Two meaningless NCAA wins. Top 15 coaching salary for nothing. But in typical fashion, we will do nothing to address such mediocrity and just "squeeeeeeze" and hope for the best.
Just unbelievable.
There's at least three or four verifiably false things in here presented as facts, starting with the fact that we did have an athletic director change after the football coaching search.
Pretty sure the people 'in charge' aren't actually the one's making the decisions and that's a big part of the problem.
That is why I generally referred to them as "the athletic department" and "those same idiots" (plural).bobinator said:
There's at least three or four verifiably false things in here presented as facts, starting with the fact that we did have an athletic director change after the football coaching search.
ETA: But your tone seems to indicate that you disagree with what I posted which is just insane (in my opinion, respectfully). I honestly cannot comprehend how a single A&M former student can take the position that our athletic department is well run. Just insane.
GREAT HIRE SIPS!
FBI wiretaps show Sean Miller discussed $100K payment to lock recruit
FBI wiretaps intercepted telephone conversations between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins, a key figure in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corruption, in which Miller discussed paying $100,000 to ensure star freshman Deandre Ayton signed with the Wildcats, sources familiar with the government's evidence told ESPN.
According to people with knowledge of the FBI investigation, Miller and Dawkins, a runner working for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller, had multiple conversations about Ayton. When Dawkins asked Sean Miller if he should work with assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson to finalize their agreement, Miller told Dawkins he should deal directly with him when it came to money, the sources said.
The telephone calls between Sean Miller and Dawkins were among 3,000 hours of conversations intercepted from Dawkins' phone by the FBI.
Arizona released a statement saying Miller and the school agreed for him not to coach the Wildcats' game Saturday against Oregon, citing the "best interests of the University and the basketball program." The school announced that Ayton was eligible to play.
The Arizona board of regents met in an emergency executive session Saturday "to receive legal advice regarding the issue and plans to reconvene for updates and legal advice in the coming days."
"This is an emotionally charged issue but it is essential that we move forward decisively and based on facts," Regents chair Bill Ridenour said in a statement. "We must do everything we can to ensure that our programs are of the highest caliber as we must also protect the rights of all involved and respect due process for employees."
FBI wiretaps show Sean Miller discussed $100K payment to lock recruit
FBI wiretaps intercepted telephone conversations between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins, a key figure in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corruption, in which Miller discussed paying $100,000 to ensure star freshman Deandre Ayton signed with the Wildcats, sources familiar with the government's evidence told ESPN.
According to people with knowledge of the FBI investigation, Miller and Dawkins, a runner working for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller, had multiple conversations about Ayton. When Dawkins asked Sean Miller if he should work with assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson to finalize their agreement, Miller told Dawkins he should deal directly with him when it came to money, the sources said.
The telephone calls between Sean Miller and Dawkins were among 3,000 hours of conversations intercepted from Dawkins' phone by the FBI.
Arizona released a statement saying Miller and the school agreed for him not to coach the Wildcats' game Saturday against Oregon, citing the "best interests of the University and the basketball program." The school announced that Ayton was eligible to play.
The Arizona board of regents met in an emergency executive session Saturday "to receive legal advice regarding the issue and plans to reconvene for updates and legal advice in the coming days."
"This is an emotionally charged issue but it is essential that we move forward decisively and based on facts," Regents chair Bill Ridenour said in a statement. "We must do everything we can to ensure that our programs are of the highest caliber as we must also protect the rights of all involved and respect due process for employees."
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Yeah but you also said "we did nothing." We did have a change in athletic director. And then if you still think it's "the same idiots" then those people ARE the brass. They're the idiots (if you think they're idiots.)
We also didn't fire Jimbo to hire Stoops. You present that as if it were one coordinated moved. We fired Jimbo first because it needed to be done. And then Bjork or whoever decided we might want to hire Stoops. I also don't think the fan uprising had anything to do with it. I think your aforementioned "brass" didn't want Stoops and preferred Elko. So this idea that after Stoops we had to hunt around for the best thing we could find is also off base.
Also people are way off the deep end about the baseball situation. We had two choices, neither of which were good. We could hire a new coach from the outside, probably lose basically the entire very talented roster to the portal, including several of them to our biggest rivals and the school that took our coach and basically reset the program, or take a flyer on Earley, keep the players, and hope it works. It's not working, but it was a gamble in the first place. It's not a failure of process unless we're not willing to admit it's not working and we stick with it anyway. That would be a failure of process.
But, you're also just choosing to ignore sports you don't care about. Seems we've made some very good hires in the last few years in volleyball and softball. I know nobody cares about those sports, but the process of hiring good coaches is the same. Granted both of them were hired by our previous athletic director.
We also didn't fire Jimbo to hire Stoops. You present that as if it were one coordinated moved. We fired Jimbo first because it needed to be done. And then Bjork or whoever decided we might want to hire Stoops. I also don't think the fan uprising had anything to do with it. I think your aforementioned "brass" didn't want Stoops and preferred Elko. So this idea that after Stoops we had to hunt around for the best thing we could find is also off base.
Also people are way off the deep end about the baseball situation. We had two choices, neither of which were good. We could hire a new coach from the outside, probably lose basically the entire very talented roster to the portal, including several of them to our biggest rivals and the school that took our coach and basically reset the program, or take a flyer on Earley, keep the players, and hope it works. It's not working, but it was a gamble in the first place. It's not a failure of process unless we're not willing to admit it's not working and we stick with it anyway. That would be a failure of process.
But, you're also just choosing to ignore sports you don't care about. Seems we've made some very good hires in the last few years in volleyball and softball. I know nobody cares about those sports, but the process of hiring good coaches is the same. Granted both of them were hired by our previous athletic director.
PatAg said:we would kill for what barnes didNyAggie said:
Sid hire
I predict he'll do about what Barnes did at tu
Yep
Would love that kind of success
I think miller will have it at tu
He's a good coach
PatAg said:we would kill for what barnes didNyAggie said:
Sid hire
I predict he'll do about what Barnes did at tu
No ****
jonb02 said:
GREAT HIRE SIPS!
FBI wiretaps show Sean Miller discussed $100K payment to lock recruit
FBI wiretaps intercepted telephone conversations between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins, a key figure in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corruption, in which Miller discussed paying $100,000 to ensure star freshman Deandre Ayton signed with the Wildcats, sources familiar with the government's evidence told ESPN.
According to people with knowledge of the FBI investigation, Miller and Dawkins, a runner working for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller, had multiple conversations about Ayton. When Dawkins asked Sean Miller if he should work with assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson to finalize their agreement, Miller told Dawkins he should deal directly with him when it came to money, the sources said.
The telephone calls between Sean Miller and Dawkins were among 3,000 hours of conversations intercepted from Dawkins' phone by the FBI.
Arizona released a statement saying Miller and the school agreed for him not to coach the Wildcats' game Saturday against Oregon, citing the "best interests of the University and the basketball program." The school announced that Ayton was eligible to play.
The Arizona board of regents met in an emergency executive session Saturday "to receive legal advice regarding the issue and plans to reconvene for updates and legal advice in the coming days."
"This is an emotionally charged issue but it is essential that we move forward decisively and based on facts," Regents chair Bill Ridenour said in a statement. "We must do everything we can to ensure that our programs are of the highest caliber as we must also protect the rights of all involved and respect due process for employees."
Two things:
1) sips don't give two ****s about character this side of domestic violence
2) $100K isn't even a good starting point now that NIL is here.
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Sean Miller is a pretty big coach in college hoops. And one of the biggest without a final four.
Everyone paid or u were not trying. He got caught or didn't have enough school "protection".
Tex players were driving around in sports cars that was more expensive than their family homes.
Tex players were driving around in sports cars that was more expensive than their family homes.
This is the retread path they used for football that has worked very well so far with sark.
agent-maroon said:jonb02 said:
GREAT HIRE SIPS!
FBI wiretaps show Sean Miller discussed $100K payment to lock recruit
If that's true they never would've fired beard.
FBI wiretaps intercepted telephone conversations between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Christian Dawkins, a key figure in the FBI's investigation into college basketball corruption, in which Miller discussed paying $100,000 to ensure star freshman Deandre Ayton signed with the Wildcats, sources familiar with the government's evidence told ESPN.
According to people with knowledge of the FBI investigation, Miller and Dawkins, a runner working for ASM Sports agent Andy Miller, had multiple conversations about Ayton. When Dawkins asked Sean Miller if he should work with assistant coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson to finalize their agreement, Miller told Dawkins he should deal directly with him when it came to money, the sources said.
The telephone calls between Sean Miller and Dawkins were among 3,000 hours of conversations intercepted from Dawkins' phone by the FBI.
Arizona released a statement saying Miller and the school agreed for him not to coach the Wildcats' game Saturday against Oregon, citing the "best interests of the University and the basketball program." The school announced that Ayton was eligible to play.
The Arizona board of regents met in an emergency executive session Saturday "to receive legal advice regarding the issue and plans to reconvene for updates and legal advice in the coming days."
"This is an emotionally charged issue but it is essential that we move forward decisively and based on facts," Regents chair Bill Ridenour said in a statement. "We must do everything we can to ensure that our programs are of the highest caliber as we must also protect the rights of all involved and respect due process for employees."
Two things:
1) sips don't give two ****s about character this side of domestic violence
2) $100K isn't even a good starting point now that NIL is here.
It is pretty amazing that they were willing to fire a coach who has been to the tournament all 3 years he's been the head and interim head coach. We literally would never think of doing something like that.
Ag_EE_88 said:
It is pretty amazing that they were willing to fire a coach who has been to the tournament all 3 years he's been the head and interim head coach. We literally would never think of doing something like that.
Seems like programs are noticing the value in coaches that were previously untouchable due to under the table payments.
Eh, kind of a special case. I don't think Del Conte wanted to hire him in the first place but he basically had to and they clearly were going nowhere with Terry, especially considering that roster he had to work with this year.
He's a slime ball but he's good.
Can't judge, we hired Bobby Patrino
Can't judge, we hired Bobby Patrino
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