agtrevino07 said:

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Nate Oats doing what you should do when it comes down to squashing rumors. From Jeff Goodman:

Alabama head coach Nate Oats has no interest in the vacant Maryland job, source told @thefieldof68.

There's been some recent chatter about Oats and the Terps job.
No truth to it.

https://nitter.space/GoodmanHoops/status/1906711353999425811#m


So this might actually be good news for Buzz since highly touted coaches like Oats are not interested in the job. It is a bad job simply by the fact that there is no AD so you are jumping into a very unknown situation.

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bobinator said:

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The good thing is you can pick them out by how they reference things like recruiting rankings. Anyone worried about national high school recruiting rankings is already in trouble.

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EKUAg said:

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Saw this morning that Oats is interested in the Maryland job. Doesn't like the funding model nor the emphasis on football at Bama.

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bobinator said:

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Impossible buddy, Have you seen Auburn's recruiting rankings? Going back from '24 they've been ranked 22, 74, 16, 79. That's an average of 48! Terrible!

But yeah, you're exactly right. Auburn is the perfect example. Now they got a little lucky and made a Final Four run as a 5 seed in his fifth season to really kick things off. But you get a coach that fires up the fan base, attendance gets better, more money starts flowing in, they get even better, the tide keeps rising.

They made the Final Four run in 2019 but then otherwise they've been eliminated in the first weekend or didn't make the field every other year he's been there until this one. Some of these posters would say that he was lucky in 2019 and then showed his real ceiling the next five seasons, but of course that's not the truth. They had a couple of really good seasons in there, including the 2022 season when they were a 2 seed.

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bobinator said:

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Impossible buddy, Have you seen Auburn's recruiting rankings? Going back from '24 they've been ranked 22, 74, 16, 79. That's an average of 48! Terrible!

But yeah, you're exactly right. Auburn is the perfect example. Now they got a little lucky and made a Final Four run as a 5 seed in his fifth season to really kick things off. But you get a coach that fires up the fan base, attendance gets better, more money starts flowing in, they get even better, the tide keeps rising.

They made the Final Four run in 2019 but then otherwise they've been eliminated in the first weekend or didn't make the field every other year he's been there until this one. Some of these posters would say that he was lucky in 2019 and then showed his real ceiling the next five seasons, but of course that's not the truth. They had a couple of really good seasons in there, including the 2022 season when they were a 2 seed.

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agtrevino07 said:

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Nate Oats doing what you should do when it comes down to squashing rumors. From Jeff Goodman:

Alabama head coach Nate Oats has no interest in the vacant Maryland job, source told @thefieldof68.

There's been some recent chatter about Oats and the Terps job.
No truth to it.

https://nitter.space/GoodmanHoops/status/1906711353999425811#m


So this might actually be good news for Buzz since highly touted coaches like Oats are not interested in the job. It is a bad job simply by the fact that there is no AD so you are jumping into a very unknown situation.

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bobinator said:

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I wonder if Buzz might become more attractive to Maryland because he can probably guarantee bringing over at least a decent start to a roster. I assume they're about to have a Kentucky-esque exodus.

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Pichael Thompson said:

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Off topic question but I don't remember the specifics


Was turgeon a similar situation when he left?


I remember hearing rumors at the time that he wanted out & we wanted him out....



But was he publicly looking for a new jobs while we sat around waiting for him to leave?

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BQ_90 said:

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Pichael Thompson said:

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Off topic question but I don't remember the specifics


Was turgeon a similar situation when he left?


I remember hearing rumors at the time that he wanted out & we wanted him out....



But was he publicly looking for a new jobs while we sat around waiting for him to leave?

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i think somebody said he was flirting with Oregon maybe? Maybe he flirted with others. But Maryland job came open very very late, so it hurt our timing on replacement. Most coaches had moved already to new gigs

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bobinator said:

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No. Not the same situation. Turgeon was much more your standard basketball coach. I honestly think he liked it here just fine, but the right situation came along and he felt like it was the best move for his career to go to Maryland.

I definitely don't think we wanted him out. Like ten people on the internet were over Turgeon but overall I think the vibe was that maybe it was starting to get a little stale, and his recruiting was definitely starting to look shaky, but nowhere near "want him out" level.

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bobinator said:

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There were some rumors the year before on Oregon, 2010 is when they got Altman.

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One name the staff has identified as a potential target on the Maryland basketball coaching hot board is George Mason head coach Tony Skinn. Skinn played at George Mason and was part of the famous 2006 Final Four squad. After playing internationally until 2012, Skinn worked his way up in coaching with assistant stops at Louisiana Tech, Seton Hall, Ohio State and Maryland before landing the head job at his alma mater.

Skinn has produced back-to-back 20-win seasons at George Mason and reached the second round of the NIT this season after guiding the Patriots to a 15-3 mark in A-10 play. With his ties to Maryland, a reputation as an ace recruiter and success as a head coach, Skinn is viewed as a legitimate candidate in the Maryland basketball coaching search.

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Pumpkinhead said:

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One name the staff has identified as a potential target on the Maryland basketball coaching hot board is George Mason head coach Tony Skinn. Skinn played at George Mason and was part of the famous 2006 Final Four squad. After playing internationally until 2012, Skinn worked his way up in coaching with assistant stops at Louisiana Tech, Seton Hall, Ohio State and Maryland before landing the head job at his alma mater.

Skinn has produced back-to-back 20-win seasons at George Mason and reached the second round of the NIT this season after guiding the Patriots to a 15-3 mark in A-10 play. With his ties to Maryland, a reputation as an ace recruiter and success as a head coach, Skinn is viewed as a legitimate candidate in the Maryland basketball coaching search.

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InsideMDSports

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bobinator said:

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I think the problem is he sees hismelf as a "truth teller" and he wasn't overly concerned about messaging, and people are too sensitive. But that's why you need someone who understands these things.

The way you complain about a fan base is you praise the people that were there, and then figure out how to get more there.

"This atmosphere today was great, the people that have been coming out to support us are incredible, imagine what it would be like if this place were packed." or whatever. You couch your negative in a positive. Buzz actually is fairly good at that part. Turgeon wasn't at all.

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bobinator said:

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You say no coach has attempted but there have been some interesting ideas with various levels of success.

BCG did the midnight madness thing at Northgate. I thought that was a cool idea. We also did a midnight madness event at Kyle Field with a court on the field a couple of times, I didn't think that was terribly well executed but it was a good idea. And then with Turge we had the event with Soulja Boy at Reed Arena which was an interesting idea too.

There has been SOME efforts to come up with some fun ideas to engage fans, we just need more of them.

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bobinator said:

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New idea with an NIL bonus, get a local print shop to get a couple of players to do a social media segment called "posterized" where fans can send in people they think should get posterized, and then you set it up so that a member of the basketball team shows up and posterizes them on a little portable basketball hoop.

You can send in your professor, your roommate, nobody is safe from getting posterized.

Can't believe I'm just giving this idea out for free.

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