Louisville Fires Basketball Coach
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UL is a dumpster fire. Mack is a good coach. Throwing a lot of accusations at him other than W/L record.
Are they going to go after DD?
That's because there still hasn't been a thread titled "Fire Dan D'Antoni!" lol.
Just google Chris Mack and there are several articles. Here's a piece from espn.com.
In September, the NCAA amended a previous notice of allegations against Louisville to include three alleged violations by the men's basketball program under Mack. The alleged violations stemmed from last spring's firing of former assistant coach Dino Gaudio, which resulted in Gaudio attempting to extort Mack. In a recording, Gaudio told Mack he would expose violations if not paid the remainder of his salary.
The NCAA alleged that Mack "either participated in, condoned, or negligently disregarded violations involving graduate assistants and others participation in practice as well as the creation and use of personalized recruiting videos and aids."
It also said, "Mack did not demonstrate that he promoted an atmosphere for compliance."
For real? Are you suggesting that Marshall fire DD in the middle of the season? He does not deserve that. He will be back next season and I am sure if we duplicate this season we will make a change. Hopefully that wont have to happen but sometimes it needs to take place. I am sure DD understands that so I would say he would retire at that point. Good Lord he is having a down season I have a feeling we will recover going forward.
Louisville is a dirty program. Always has been, back to Crum. Eventually they throw the coach under the bus in some attempt to get mercy from the NCAA. With the NCAA neutered now, I don’t know how this goes now. Cheating is legal now.
There is also some kind of political issue in KY about the YUM Center. Lots of KY taxpayer money spent on an arena for UL, which nobody outside Jefferson or Oldham counties gives a flying f*** about. The school had a deal where they had to leave it set up for basketball all season, which the state undid because they were missing out on concert money and the bonds were going to default. Now, with the team being crappy, they can’t draw flies. Which makes a default seem certain. Leaving Cats fans all over the Commonwealth on the hook for the boondoggle.
Application to MU. This is not that. Colleges almost never fire coaches mid-season, absent something like the above. What we have is simply an incompetent coach whose incompetence has become apparent. He should have the decency to resign after losing the play in game at the CUSA tournament, and if not, someone should have the adult leadership to simply fire him.
The real discussion we should be having, right now, is what bright young assistants would be a good fit for rebuilding this garbage program.
There is also some kind of political issue in KY about the YUM Center. Lots of KY taxpayer money spent on an arena for UL, which nobody outside Jefferson or Oldham counties gives a flying f*** about. The school had a deal where they had to leave it set up for basketball all season, which the state undid because they were missing out on concert money and the bonds were going to default. Now, with the team being crappy, they can’t draw flies. Which makes a default seem certain. Leaving Cats fans all over the Commonwealth on the hook for the boondoggle.
Application to MU. This is not that. Colleges almost never fire coaches mid-season, absent something like the above. What we have is simply an incompetent coach whose incompetence has become apparent. He should have the decency to resign after losing the play in game at the CUSA tournament, and if not, someone should have the adult leadership to simply fire him.
The real discussion we should be having, right now, is what bright young assistants would be a good fit for rebuilding this garbage program.
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Hillbilly ball.
You want it? You got it.
Reminds me of playing on the dirt court on School House Hill back in 1971. Never knew who was going to show up and play some hoops on any given day, but we would have a couple balls our parents bought us from Murphy's department store, and launch shots Meadowlark Lemon would have been proud of. We didn't care if they went in or not, only that we were allowed to shoot them. We would laugh about it after the games, just like DD does during his pressers. I think we made about 19% of the shots too. Legit 304 boys.
You want it? You got it.
Reminds me of playing on the dirt court on School House Hill back in 1971. Never knew who was going to show up and play some hoops on any given day, but we would have a couple balls our parents bought us from Murphy's department store, and launch shots Meadowlark Lemon would have been proud of. We didn't care if they went in or not, only that we were allowed to shoot them. We would laugh about it after the games, just like DD does during his pressers. I think we made about 19% of the shots too. Legit 304 boys.
Why not seek out Chris Mack? The guy can coach, won at X and has a record well above .500 at U of L.
If we are looking for a new coach next year there are a bunch of good ones on the market who could use a fresh start/rehab.
Mack, Gregg Marshall and John Brannen come to mind.
Gregg Marshall in a heartbeat.
I wouldn’t mind Marshall or Brannen at all. We give kids second chances, why not coaches.
Sam you posted “Colleges almost never fire coaches mid-season, absent something like the above.” Really? Did you not pay attention during the recently completed football season? Sine coaches fired after 2-4 games, others in mid-season. Yes it happens more and more.
Too bad Danny D. wasn't coaching at a college back in those days, MichiganHerd. With you sporting that glossy shooting percentage at some podunk schoolyard, why he surely would have given you a full ride scholarship without a doubt. He is still recruiting the same "sharpshooters" today to MU!
Hell, the fans wanted Huff fired after ECU...some did anyways.
He's the HC...HC's deserve it all...at least football ones endured such ideologies.
Dan's also literally the one directly adjusting the team, which makes his job more difficult by comparison, but he's proven he can't even manage a team with NBA caliber talent.
I'm kinda sick of this clown constantly trying to assure me he'll turn it around with his new recruits. He hasn't and won't.
I wouldn't be so against DD if MU could at least compete. They can't even do that now.
Also, and this hasn't really been brought up, this may be one of the easiest schedules ever assembled. Indiana was the only team that MU played with a shred of legitimate history.
You need to quit with your feelings. This is collegiate sports, and they give zero damns about your feelings. Dan may cry leaving, coaches have gotten passionate about things before, but college has (for better or worse) become a business...and we all know the phrase.
This is goddamn Sam we're talkin' about here.
The Onion has more journalistic credibility than he does.
Dude, I'm not a "journalist" at all. I'm just some poster wanting to discuss MU basketball (run by an idiot) and football (jury still out, looking bad early, could go either way, blind faith is idiocy).
But, picking up a handful of examples of the VERY RARE event of firing a coach, football or basketball, mid-season, is nothing. Its trying to play "gotcha". I'm sure well over 95% of college coaches ever fired, football or basketball, were fired at the end of the year.
Which is exactly what should be done here. Fire DD after he loses the play in round of the CUSA tourney. Fire the staff. Run off as many players as possible.
You lost me when you argued against MU leaving CUSA.
Frankly MU should bolt this year, fire Dan, hire a new guy, and start over.
I highly doubt MU has the finances to terminate a HC mid season like Louisville does. MU has to endure DD till the end where its cheaper.
I have no idea who MU is going to select for the AD but I'd hope he or she would want DD out for the reasons I stated above.
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