Corey Tate thread...

this is a terrible hire and KA should have hired someone that could teach him how to coach.

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Corey Tate thread...
Come now.

This position is supposed to be filled by a recruiter.

Tate has ties.

He's an ex player.

St. Louis AAU guy.

Black.

Good hire.

*Edit -- just read the second part of the OP.

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Just because we're in the SEC doesn't mean we gotta be racist and start sporting the johny red flag mister.

Agreed, generally I'd say hire the best available and he may well have been but you have to have diversity on a staff so you can relate to the players. This hire had to be an African-American. Now, if you end up replacing Loos, it doesn't matter as much, hire the best available.

I'm concerned about the coaching experience as well. But supposedly Anderson is good at Xs and Os. Let's see if Tate can deliver in STL. Especially next year.

Any combination of Sneed, Tilmon and Cook will have me giddy (provided we don't go 9-23 this year, too).

Any beyond recruiting, that position has to be filled by a 'players ally', by someone who can sit in a dorm room with Jabari Brown and relate, and talk, and be on a level.

Very hard to find a whitie to fill those shoes.

I don't like it because he has proven nothing. While racial diversity on a staff is probably for the best, I just don't see the appeal for Corey Tate. No D1 experience (which we lack already). Former player (guess what, there are millions of those).

Just to play out the STL AAU scenario...Say we get one of those players out of STL, maybe two (we only have 2 schollies to give). If thats the end of his connections, that is a terrible move. I don't know what kind of connections he has outside of STL, but it seems to me, if STL is all he has, it would have been wise to find somebody else.

Can't equate assistant coaching positions when head coaches are no where near similar.

But Coach K has Jeff Capel, who was a D1 head coach for 10+ years. Another who has been an assistant for 10 years, and Jon Scheyer, who is fresh off his D-League career. So yes, he has people with experience. One with alot, one with some, and a new guy.

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I don't think you realize you are proving my point. Lots of places and even GREAT coaches hire assistants with zero D1 experience. If that is your gripe with the Tate hire, it reeks of just being a hater.

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But they weren't hired in a 2 year time span. I have no problem with a former player, fresh out of a pro league being hired as a assistant, provided we have other experienced assistants.

Scheyer is a good hire, BECAUSE Capel has already done it for 20+ years at the D1 level, and Nate James has been there and done it for 10+ years.

The coaching staff with Tate would almost mirror the players.

One guy who has a little bit of experience, and a bunch of guys who are about to go through the gambit for the first or second time.

But you can't compare Coach K and his experiences to KA and his.

What about that guy at Wisconsin?

He's awesome and Kim is just like him.

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Bo Ryan? 4 lower division national championships. Got job at D1 Milwaukee. Spent 2 seasons as a D1 head coach before getting Wisconsin job Bo Ryan?

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Yup. That guy. He didn't learn to coach until he spent 2 years at Milwaukee. He'd be the worst P5 coach ever had he not learned everything at Milwaukee.