re: UGA Season Long Basketball Thread (18-15, 7-11); Georgia to decline NIT bid

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I've never been a huge college baseball guy, but I think it also sucks that our team was so terrible during my time in Athens it never was an event people wanted to attend.

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I have the opposite problem, when I was in school it was one of the heydeys in program history and that entire 08 postseason was one of my most cherished memories of my time in Athens. The difference in that era and currently is like comparing apples to exhaust pipes.

Baseball is a whole different animal than the other sports, us building a palace like arkansas or LSU have isn't gonna cure all our woes. First you get a coach, then the recruits and wins come, the fans and money then follow, then you're talking. But we aint gonna do shite in baseball with stricklin.

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Fox makes $1.5ish

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Actually got bumped up to 2M/year in 2015...

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don't want to fire Fox and make a lazy arse hire

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Definitely this. If we fire him it has to be a legitimate move to try and contend IMO. The conference is improving in basketball on the whole. It's not just UK and a bunch of also rans right now... We realistically needed to do it 2 years ago, but instead we decided to extend him and give him a raise.

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If OKC or Chicago fire Donovan or Hoiberg, throw $2.5-3 million at them and make them say no. Fox makes $1.5ish. Those guys are easily worth double him.

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Hell... why wait to see if they get fired... back channel 3M+ offer and see if they bite at all... Easily would be money well spent if you could land them.

Hoiberg is interesting as I wonder if Iowa State would try to lure him back at some point... his alma mater. But they're probably reasonably happy with Prohm, who took them to the tourney his first 2 years, finished top 25 both of those years, and won the conference tournament. Not having quite as good a go of it this season, but they may be happy with where they're at.

Donovan would be a hell of a get, but he was set to make 4M/year at UF before he left... reportedly took 6M/year for the OKC gig I think? Pretty sure if we throw 3M at him, we've got a 3 year rental. Hoiberg at least was only making 2.6 at Iowa State (and 5M/year with the Bulls), and that was *after* a 600k bump from a tourney run.

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So if we're going to make a change I want to make that level of commitment. A young guy with energy like Mike White or Will Wade would be fine as well

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Who are the "young guys with energy" like White or Wade right now? I hesitate to even say it but Nevada head coach Musselman seems to be getting a lot of love on "top up and comers" lists. (Where did Mark Fox come from? ) 11th rated offensive efficiency and 58th rated defensive efficiency per KenPom rankings. (Fox was not terribly dissimilar if you averaged out 2004-2007 there, but dropped on both sides of the ball in the two seasons prior to his hire)

Mick Cronin at Cincinnati is clearly very good, but already making 2.2M there and has a top 25 caliber program. Don't see him bouncing for anything other than a blue blood job or stupid money.





Mostly unrelated to possible coaches... was looking at KenPom rankings. On the adjusted Offensive figures, we have the second lowest value of any team in the top 75 (only Texas is lower) - #131 overall. Defensive efficiency... 29th overall.

Kelvin Sampson, to no surprise at all, has Houston looking quite balanced, ranking top 50 in both offensive and defensive efficiency... Too tainted for us to remotely look at, but a good coach.

Still makes me feel like Hurley would be a really good target, but don't believe we'd land him (or keep him very long if we did).

MIke Edwards just didn’t bite on a pump fake. I repeat. Mike Edwards did not bite on a pump fake, and then followed that with good interior defense.

Jesus is coming back baby!

Or Crump *

Just continues to play Wilridge!!! He is an abysmal ball handler.

I don't get the substitution patterns. They started to run a press in the 1st half and we kept Wilridge out there instead of putting in Hightower or Crump.

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I don't get the substitution patterns. They started to run a press in the 1st half and we kept Wilridge out there instead of putting in Hightower or Crump.

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My favorite of the game was in the first half after Claxton drilled a 3 and Fox immediately pulled him to put Edwards in the game. Just senseless.

Did he just step on the damn line on the inbound?!!

Why not call a TO with 7 seconds left and try to set something up?

FIne with either decision on that final play. A lot of times it’s been better just to play it out with no timeouts because of defense not setting up, with that being said he took an awful shot, could have gotten closer