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Posted on 4/2/12 at 7:14 pm to MedDawg
I liked Ray's press conference today. I am excited about us running a full court press, fast transition offense. He seemed very intelligent and knowledgeable of the game. Even with him having no SEC ties, he has many Midwestern ties and there is a lot of basketball talent in those areas.
Most of our players are from out of state anyways, so it isn't like we can't recruit outside the south.
I think we will be fine and my fellow State fans need to support him and sit back and see what happens. I have faith in our AD that he made a good hire.
Most of our players are from out of state anyways, so it isn't like we can't recruit outside the south.
I think we will be fine and my fellow State fans need to support him and sit back and see what happens. I have faith in our AD that he made a good hire.
Posted on 4/2/12 at 7:19 pm to Al Bundy Bulldog
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I just wish we would have hired somebody with HC experience
Boise State hired Chris Petersen with no HC experience as did Penn State when they promoted Joe in 1966. Give the kid a chance
Posted on 4/2/12 at 11:55 pm to KillianRussell
I'm giving Rick Ray a chance and my full support. It's not his fault he wasn't on my initial list of 25 coaches I wanted in Starkville.
Posted on 4/3/12 at 12:03 am to Al Bundy Bulldog
The hire gave you a reason to start 10 threads about hiring him... so there's that
Posted on 4/3/12 at 12:16 am to Al Bundy Bulldog
What you don't realize is that our program is snake bit from the situation your boy aka the most underrated coach in the SEC left it in...for shits sake look at the trouble we've had with our players the past 3 seasons fights on ESPN, tweets about the staff,transfers, etc etc
Posted on 4/3/12 at 8:27 am to Al Bundy Bulldog
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It's not his fault he wasn't on my initial list of 25 coaches I wanted in Starkville.
I have been trying to tell you this since the day rick got canned. You can't just come up with a few names and expect one of them to be the guy. There's too many coaches out there.
Posted on 4/3/12 at 8:34 am to Tds & Beer
It was Tim Floyd or bust.
Posted on 4/3/12 at 8:54 am to KillianRussell
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Boise State hired Chris Petersen with no HC experience as did Penn State when they promoted Joe in 1966. Give the kid a chance
College football is way different than college basketball in hiring coaches. As someone said, the last basketball assistant hired to be HC in the SEC was Rick Stansbury. It's almost unusual in college basketball for a BCS program to hire an assistant, especially one that is not already an assistant at the hiring school and/or has never been a basketball head coach.
Contrast that to a high percentage of BCS college football programs hiring college assistants or NFL coaches to be their head coaches--Georgia, Florida, Bama, Arkansas, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Florida State, West Virginia, Penn State, Boise State, Utah, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and others.
Having said, that, I'm excited to see what Rick Ray can do for State. He has received tons of accolades from coaches, reporters, etc.
Posted on 4/3/12 at 9:03 am to LR4Reb
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You'll appreciate this. LINK
What the frick? That was awesome.
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