REPORT: Pat Knight fired at Texas Tech
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He's shown the ability to provide a safe landing spot for kids that had problems at previous universities. Not sure that is a true test of ones ability to recruit, but time will tell.
This will probably be the end of schools hiring legendary coaches sons as their head coaches. Don't know why people think that will work.
My take: He knew damn well that its near impossible to keep Drake at the level they were at year in and year out. His stock while coaching Drake was as high as it was ever going to get. Which to me means take the first BCS job thats offered. Even if it doesn't work out, I remember him getting a 7 year contract for about a million a year.....I'll take 7 million dollars to be told to go away anyday.
I agree. The right coach could turn TT into a top 25 power-house. With all the talent to recruit down in Texas. I think the rise of the south schools in basketball is a major factor in ISU's inability over the last 10 years to get their footing back. While ISU was making runs in the late 90's/00's teams like Baylor/Tech/A$M were all pretty terrible. Not so much anymore.
Hmm....perhaps. I think, though, that the following played a much bigger part in ISU's downfall:
I disagree - I would see Tech hiring Gillespie as good news for ISU. The way I see it, we don't compete with the Texas schools for basketball recruits. Plus, if we think Hoiberg is the right hire, is going to make us a top-25 school, and will have us once again competing with and beating Kansas, a perennial top-5 team, on a regular basis, why should we fear Tech becoming a top-25 team? If Hoiberg takes us where we think he can take us, we should expect to beat top-25 teams.
I don't know...maybe a 7 year contract at around $1M per? I STILL think that they are going to buy him out and Keno is going to get a soft landing back at Drake.
TT is a basketball graveyard. There is zero fan support for that program right now, which is why they will probably take a chance on someone like Billy G.
Hmm....perhaps. I think, though, that the following played a much bigger part in ISU's downfall:
This would be the correct answer.
I agree. I think that the jury is still out on FH's recruiting ability. It's pretty easy to take on transfers...especially for a guy who basically doesn't have to worry too much about what the boosters think (because they all love him). In actual RECRUITING, FH has beaten a couple of Big East schools for Sledge and took a couple of guys in Odunsi and McGee that had no big offers. He lost out on Iowa kids he wanted to Wisconsin and NC. So far, he's doing better out there than Fran (if that matters), but he's pretty far from tearing it up.
Pretty much any other coach has the potential to do more at TTU than PK. Hopefully ISU will shoot past TTU and it wont matter, but as a currently rebuilding team you want to have TTU as low as possible. If they do get a decent coach it just makes future TTU games more difficult for ISU.