If Hop stays, couple big men in the transfer portal they could look at.
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I thought it was usual practice for boosters to buy out coaches contracts?
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Thanks for pointing out hop was 0 for 31.BroadcastingDawg said:And lets actually talk about your 31 offers...
6 of them turned pro so that reduces your list to 25.
The Huskies didn't have a chance with/extended courtesy offers to: Cade Cunningham, Evan Mobley, Josh Christopher, Frank Kepnang, Jaden Harding, Peyton Watson, Nolan Hickman, Trey Patterson, Zaon Collins, Will McClendon...
Why? Because these are the cream of the crop players who played at major prep schools and had offers from the Dukes/Kentucky's/UNC's of the world and literally everyone BIG offers them... or did all other 30+ power teams who offered them and didn't land them fail as well?
Reduces your list to 14.
Then there's solid 4 star kids who do not fit the designation above but are literally from Alabama, Texas, West Virginia who just flat out couldn't locate Seattle on a map and clearly weren't coming here:
Jusuan Holt, Isaiah Cotrell, LJ Cryer...
Reduces your list to 11 players who realistically would come to UW, so yeah, if we're being honest its not really 31.
The Huskies offered but probably didn't care much to get: Braxton Meah, Kendall Munson, Lamont Butler, Mitchell Saxson, Noah Taitz, < - these are mostly players who signed w. mediocre programs knowing they'd never get minutes if they signed w. a Power Conference team... and these are players you'd be bitching about them signing anyway.
Reduces your list 5.
So what remains?
Paolo Banchero -> would have loved to have gotten him... but he chose to go to Duke... can't fault him there, even if they are coming off their worst season since 1996. He's a UW guy, but he chose a path to a lottery pick and the pros that's guaranteed.
Kaden Perry - > would have loved to have gotten him... but he signed with Gonzaga... he's from the Eastern side of the state and GU is the no. 1 team in the country at the moment... so no chance there.
Who we, in my opinion, failed to get that we should have had a chance with:
Shane Nowell -> why we didn't secure Jaylen's brother is beyond me and a failure in my eyes. we shouldn't be losing him to Arizona and it's a big loss.
Julian Strawther -> Dawgs were rumored to high on his list, but again... he chose Gonzaga... can't fault him there.
John Christofilis -> He should be a Husky... no excuse to let a kid go who is as solid ass shooter... and decided to go to Creighton...
^^^ These are the realistic misses
Even then, the guys who realistically had a chance with signed with Duke, Arizona, Gonzaga and Creighton... so it wasn't even like we had a serious chance here either considering how good these programs are year after year.
So basically... there were 6 guys they really wanted and had a chance to get based on geography and familiarity with the program... they got 1 in Jackson Grant.
They didn't fail on 31.
Doesn't matter how he got there or who was realistic.....0 for 31 is special. Make it 1 for 32 with Jackson Grant
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I have met Tommy Lloyd and it’s hard to believe that he’s a mastermind of anything. He’s a doofus. Mark Few is the the mastermind.
He recruits well overseas and seems to be an important cog in the Zaggot machine, but I don’t think he would do well at UW or any big job.
A lot of Duke assistants have been shitty head coaches, same for Gonzaga and really any big program. It’s always a crapshoot. I would prefer a head coach from a lower level over an assistant.
There is a lot of bullshit about hiring a Seattle lackey for the local talent. It’s hard to call B Roy a lackey, but we aren’t going to win simply by recruiting.
We gotta develop guys and get those 3-4 year players to form a solid core. Then add in a one and done type. That shit doesn’t work and has been overhyped for years. The four star guys that stays 4 years is a way more valuable player to the program than a one and done five star. -
They're both kind of douchebags if you really want to know. Lloyd just never shuts the fuck up.RoadDawg55 said:I have met Tommy Lloyd and it’s hard to believe that he’s a mastermind of anything. He’s a doofus. Mark Few is the the mastermind.
He recruits well overseas and seems to be an important cog in the Zaggot machine, but I don’t think he would do well at UW or any big job.
A lot of Duke assistants have been shitty head coaches, same for Gonzaga and really any big program. It’s always a crapshoot. I would prefer a head coach from a lower level over an assistant.
There is a lot of bullshit about hiring a Seattle lackey for the local talent. It’s hard to call B Roy a lackey, but we aren’t going to win simply by recruiting.
We gotta develop guys and get those 3-4 year players to form a solid core. Then add in a one and done type. That shit doesn’t work and has been overhyped for years. The four star guys that stays 4 years is a way more valuable player to the program than a one and done five star.
Hiring a Gonzaga assistant 1) isn't going to happen with their current group of coaches and 2) they do implode out on their own. There's not a built in support system of 25 years of 'Zags' being big brothers/assholes/setting the example on how to be part of the culture. Elsewhere, football is king. The Zag thing can probably never be replicated.
If you really want to make heads explode with former Duke assistants, toss Quinn Snyder's name out there as UW head coach. Dude cheats like a motherfucker and will eventually get fired in the NBA. I'm down.
He knows where the good blow on Mercer Island is too.
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The nba coach with the best record seems like a good suggestion to coach at the university of Washington. I’m on board.PurpleThrobber said:
They're both kind of douchebags if you really want to know. Lloyd just never shuts the fuck up.RoadDawg55 said:I have met Tommy Lloyd and it’s hard to believe that he’s a mastermind of anything. He’s a doofus. Mark Few is the the mastermind.
He recruits well overseas and seems to be an important cog in the Zaggot machine, but I don’t think he would do well at UW or any big job.
A lot of Duke assistants have been shitty head coaches, same for Gonzaga and really any big program. It’s always a crapshoot. I would prefer a head coach from a lower level over an assistant.
There is a lot of bullshit about hiring a Seattle lackey for the local talent. It’s hard to call B Roy a lackey, but we aren’t going to win simply by recruiting.
We gotta develop guys and get those 3-4 year players to form a solid core. Then add in a one and done type. That shit doesn’t work and has been overhyped for years. The four star guys that stays 4 years is a way more valuable player to the program than a one and done five star.
Hiring a Gonzaga assistant 1) isn't going to happen with their current group of coaches and 2) they do implode out on their own. There's not a built in support system of 25 years of 'Zags' being big brothers/assholes/setting the example on how to be part of the culture. Elsewhere, football is king. The Zag thing can probably never be replicated.
If you really want to make heads explode with former Duke assistants, toss Quinn Snyder's name out there as UW head coach. Dude cheats like a motherfucker and will eventually get fired in the NBA. I'm down.
He knows where the good blow on Mercer Island is too. -
More hopeful on the MI coke draw than probability of wooing QS on the merits of the job. Because that's shit.AtomicDawg said:
The nba coach with the best record seems like a good suggestion to coach at the university of Washington. I’m on board.PurpleThrobber said:
They're both kind of douchebags if you really want to know. Lloyd just never shuts the fuck up.RoadDawg55 said:I have met Tommy Lloyd and it’s hard to believe that he’s a mastermind of anything. He’s a doofus. Mark Few is the the mastermind.
He recruits well overseas and seems to be an important cog in the Zaggot machine, but I don’t think he would do well at UW or any big job.
A lot of Duke assistants have been shitty head coaches, same for Gonzaga and really any big program. It’s always a crapshoot. I would prefer a head coach from a lower level over an assistant.
There is a lot of bullshit about hiring a Seattle lackey for the local talent. It’s hard to call B Roy a lackey, but we aren’t going to win simply by recruiting.
We gotta develop guys and get those 3-4 year players to form a solid core. Then add in a one and done type. That shit doesn’t work and has been overhyped for years. The four star guys that stays 4 years is a way more valuable player to the program than a one and done five star.
Hiring a Gonzaga assistant 1) isn't going to happen with their current group of coaches and 2) they do implode out on their own. There's not a built in support system of 25 years of 'Zags' being big brothers/assholes/setting the example on how to be part of the culture. Elsewhere, football is king. The Zag thing can probably never be replicated.
If you really want to make heads explode with former Duke assistants, toss Quinn Snyder's name out there as UW head coach. Dude cheats like a motherfucker and will eventually get fired in the NBA. I'm down.
He knows where the good blow on Mercer Island is too.
