Let the firings begin
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Interesting to see how he will do considering he has no HC experience. No question he still has a well known name among Georgetown fans but I am not sure recruits ever saw him play or really know much about him…winning will fix that in no time.
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@JayHawkFanToo Ewing has been a long time NBA assistant coach so he can give prospects a lot better insight into what it takes to get to the NBA and to make it in the NBA than most college coaches. He also won a national title at Georgetown in 1984 so he can show off that ring to recruits. He’s also spent the past 4 seasons as an assistant coach for the Charlotte Bobcats so he should have some built in ties to North Carolina and also could have some help from MJ since MJ was his boss for 4 years.
Ewing’s lack of HC experience is not going to be his biggest challenge, his biggest challenge is that Ewing has never worked in the college game so that transition will be a much bigger challenge than being a first time HC will.
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Sounds about right. The one thing he should not do is ask for advice from Michael Jordan who was a great player but a mediocre manager.
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@JayHawkFanToo I don’t mean help in running a program, I mean help with Nike recruits from the NC area, especially since Georgetown is one of the programs who specifically wears Jordan brand Nike uniforms.
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Only if UNC is not interested. Jordan is a big fan of the UNC basketball program…
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Brad Underwood has hired Orlando Antigua. Get reaaaady for some bag drops.
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@BShark I don’t know that that means, ‘bag drops’?
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Dropping off some
to a recruit.
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@BShark OK, got that, so who is Orlando Antigua?
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He was an assistant under Calipari from 08-14.
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Speak of the devil, Sean Miller has offered Lorenzo Romar a position on the AZ staff. WOW.
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@BShark where has Orlando been?
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USF head coach doing poorly.
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Does Arizona have a daddy job that pays more than MU? Maybe Porter will end up there…
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@BShark That is a scary recruiting tandem
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It really is. They could easily become #2 behind Duke.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - Marcellus to Horatio in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
At what time does the NCAA become involved and starts looking at the “hire dad and the kid comes along” and “hire failed coach and his recruits come along” issues?
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Let he who is without Manning and Chalmers cast the first stone.
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LOL to That. I guess we could add Lafayette Norwood to that list, for those who remember that far back. The Porter hire makes KU’s hires look like the work of amateurs. At least KU got 4 years form Manning and Valentine and 3 from Chalmers and they were not shopped to the highest bidder.
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Got titles out of both too! Which I doubt Missouri gets…
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Spot on. Washington with all his highly rated recruits was still a bottom feeder in the PAC 12 and Martin, also with good players, was an also run in the same Conference. No reason to think MU will improve enough in one year to contend in the SEC and then the window of opportunity closes and in 3 years Martin leaves.
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Yep. SEC basketball in general appears to be on the way up.
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@JayHawkFanToo said:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - Marcellus to Horatio in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
At what time does the NCAA become involved and starts looking at the “hire dad and the kid comes along” and “hire failed coach and his recruits come along” issues?
They kind of did. It’s now a requirement that if a recruits parent is hired on to the staff it has to be a full assistant job. -no video coordinator, player development nonsense. They take an active recruiters roll and the spot someone who has to coach.
Shady as it may be I don’t think you should ban kids parent from working because they raised a recruit.
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I am not asking to ban parent for working because they raised a recruit, no one can do that, period. What I am saying is ban or at least restrict parents from peddling their kids to whoever gives the parent a job.
The Porter dad was an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team at MU where his sister is the HC and his daughter plays. The sister was better qualified to go to Washington but she did not have two talented kids. He was given a $300K per year contract at Washington by Lorenzo Romar, who I understand is the godfather to one of the kids, and the kids committed to Washington shortly after. Then, Romar is fired, dad Porter is told his contract will not be renewed so he bolts for MU to be an assistant to new Coach Martin and his kids follow him there.
The entire saga has nepotism and quid pro quo written all over it.
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@JayHawkFanToo Preston?
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LOL , fixed. Not enough coffee or auto correct; at my age hard to tell.
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I hadn’t seen this but there’s another Jayhawk coaching DI basketball. CB McGrath, whom the UNC bio calls a key reserve for KU (??? really?) was hired by UNC Wilmington. Good hire for them I guess, but I really don’t know too much about him.
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@wissox McGrath has his own thread with a few comments:
https://kubuckets.com/topic/5660/ku-walk-on-takes-head-coaching-job-at-uncw
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@mayjay Obviously I missed that. Thanks.
