Does Kennedy Keep His Job?

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Any rumors about Stansbury taking over?

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Aww hell no! Why does everyone love this guy? It's not like he's some hot property. He was sitting home unemployed last year after being fired by one of the few SEC schools that you could argue has a worse hoops history than us. If this is what we plan, I'd honestly prefer keeping Kennedy with him as an assistant.

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That is assuming players would ask out of their LOI and we grant it.

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Those guys signed early, all are local, and all have friends on the team. I can see if someone just hated a new coach but I think it's pretty likely they'd all stay. I don't think we'll hear anything any time soon on Kennedy. Even if the plan was to let him go, I think you do so after the NIT.

The program is in desperate need of some moxy at the top.

It hasn't been worth it the last two years tbh, but no way they pull him until after next season. And that's what sucks, we will then give it to stansburys for the next 4-5 years of mediocrity. I want a legit coach. But nobody really cares about basketball.

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we should keep him and give him 1 more year in order to be fair to him and his family.

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This is the problem with letting emotions get involved in a business decision. His family is his problem, not ours. He is here to win basketball games and he isn't doing it. These last few games make it apparent that House deserves that 1.5 million more than Kennedy this year.

Nothing will happen with the #2 recruiting class coming in. They basically assure Kennedy another year.

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Melvin Watkins could take House and that class to the Sweet 16. Kennedy might win the play in game with them.

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Ok come on, you have to admit you're going too far with that one

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The problem with waiting until next year is that Kennedy could take a team with potential to make a deep run in March and turn them into 1 and done bubble

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This is my biggest concern. No matter the coach next year, we're going to be good. I could coach that talent to the NCAAs and I don't know shite. And none of our 2015 class are one and done types so it's highly likely we'll see multiple tourney teams in a row.

Texas A&M is never going to fire a coach after taking us to the tourney. And we're going to drag our feet endlessly on any coach that takes us multiple years in a row. So next year's coach is going to be here for a while. We need to make sure it's a guy we want to be here for a while.

It's for this reason I'd let Kennedy go after this year. Maybe he "deserves" more time but that's entirely a red herring. I understand some may feel that way but we shouldn't be distracted by such a meaningless debate. The long-term interests of Texas A&M should be our first concern. You can combine new hire buzz with a great first year and it will excite the fanbase. More than anything, that's what we need.

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It's for this reason I'd let Kennedy go after this year. Maybe he "deserves" more time but that's entirely a red herring. I understand some may feel that way but we shouldn't be distracted by such a meaningless debate. The long-term interests of Texas A&M should be our first concern. You can combine new hire buzz with a great first year and it will excite the fanbase. More than anything, that's what we need.

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This is all assuming you find the right candidate to achieve those things. That's why I would have been fine with letting Kennedy go if we could have landed Bruce Pearl last year, but no dice.

But that's just it, I don't think you can go wrong.

Assuming this class stays in tact, we will make the tourney next year and in all likelihood as a decent seed. With a new coach that doesn't have the fanbase against him, there will be excitement, whether he's even a good coach or not.

I'm going to say something slightly controversial but I think Texas A&M made BCG as much as he made us. He walked into a great situation. We desperately wanted a winner and he inherited a team with just the right talent. That talent responded to him and we started winning. The fans came out, money started pouring into the program and recruiting became much easier after that. He quite likely would have carried that early success and built a top tier program.

But he didn't have that same kind of success elsewhere because the stars weren't aligned there. And he was a good coach. But there really are very few elite coaches. Kennedy walked into a bad situation. I agree with you on that. He seems like a nice guy and I'd like for him to succeed. But he's not elite and he'll never ever win this fanbase over. The next guy can if we strike now.