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Vorel to Jen Cohen: "Is UW men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins’ job in jeopardy?"

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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,496 Standard Supporter
    edited March 2021
    1to392831weretaken said:

    FINE, I'll do it. If you guys are going to bitch this much, I guess I have no choice but to step up. I'm going to need some assistants. Who's in?

    The throbber knows more about coaching basketball that 99% of the people out there. So, sure.

    But He don't do assistant gigs. Fuck that. Head guy and the rest of you can ride my coattails. @swaye is in charge of recruiting and Starbucks cups.





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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,496 Standard Supporter
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Hire WSU's coach or roll the dice on BRoy.

    Those are the two obvious options.

    Smith is kind of a weird one - he's got a kid with severe autism and somehow Pullman is a good fit for the family. Maybe there's some treatment options in Seattle that are an upgrade. Would take $$$ to drag him out.

    BRoy would need to bring in legit assistants. Could end up like Juwan Howard or like Patrick Ewing. Outside Seattle, would he have the name to pull big time players. Or does the UW even need to go outside the Seattle area all that much to be a power?

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  • HireBRoy
    HireBRoy Member Posts: 77
    Hire BRoy and ask questions later
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  • FremontTroll
    FremontTroll Member Posts: 4,744
    HireBRoy said:

    Hire BRoy and ask questions later

    Hire BRoy and don’t ask any questions.
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  • HFNY
    HFNY Member Posts: 5,502
    Isn't Hopkins' buyout $11 or $13 million until after the 2021 season? Seems like hitting the JC / transfer portal hard and changing a couple of assistants would be more likely than big hitter wallets stepping forward to help with the buy-out.
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,096 Standard Supporter
    BroadcastingDawg said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    “Absolutely not. I believe in Mike. I’m supportive of Mike. I’m excited to be his partner and figure out how we’re going to reevaluate things after this year. We’re looking to still move forward with the basketball (facility) project. Sometimes these things are cyclical. Sometimes they’re really frustrating. There’s nobody that’s more upset with losing and where this program is right now than Mike Hopkins and me. So I’m confident that we’re going to come up with a plan at the end of the year and we’re going to get headed back in the right direction.”

    Unpopular opinion. And I'm ready for the fuck offs or whatever they are. But I really like Hop.

    Lets be clear. They stunk. Clear lack of belief, production and cohesiveness on the court. It's Hop's job to raise mentality of these guys and it's clear they lacked a lot in this department.

    That said, it was pretty much all these players first time playing together on a court. Must be tough to jump straight into your first games of the season against Colorado who seems like they've had the same roster since 2010 and Baylor, who was undefeated until last week, when none of your rotations have played a real basketball game together. The early stretch of games was not what they needed and set the tone for what was a season full of growing pains.

    Remember, the teams that featured Crisp, Dickerson, Thybulle, Greene were freaking horrific until their junior and senior years.

    I think Tsohonis, Bey, Stevenson, Battle, Bajema, Brooks is a solid little group who could take a big leap forward confidence wise as a unit next season.

    They're gonna need to get a transfer big man to come in because Roberts and Sorn can't be it. Jackson Grant should come in a provide immediate offense in the post which is something they desperately missed.

    They played much better basketball in the 2nd half of the season... won a few games and lost a couple games close against teams they had no business being competitive with.

    They may not challenge for a NCAA tournament, but I expect them to be somewhere middle of the PAC and I think Hop can get this thing back on track.
    No, he's had four years and they're 5-21 or something. He's gone backward. Move the hell on.
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  • FremontTroll
    FremontTroll Member Posts: 4,744
    No thread to congratulate Hop and the boys on fighting to cover the spread against 8th place Utah?

    I think that’s a moral victory they will really be able to build on this off-season.
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  • ntxduck
    ntxduck Member Posts: 6,231
    FremontTroll said:

    No thread to congratulate Hop and the boys on fighting to cover the spread against 8th place Utah?

    I think that’s a moral victory they will really be able to build on this off-season.

    No joke, an unreal last 4 mins to cover
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  • MRT
    MRT Member Posts: 11
    Given that this UW team played worse than the pre Hop UW team, I have a question. If the Husky basketball team finishes 6th in the Pac 12 next year, does Hop win his 3rd Pac12 coach of the year award?
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  • OreDawg
    OreDawg Member Posts: 688
    Leave it to Jen to give a second year coach, with one tourney win, a contract that we couldn’t afford to buy out of. Wonderful strategy.
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