Jeseph

Poor Claunch lol

I'm going to go take my dog for a walk without my phone. Hopefully they'll announce something in my absence.

Yea "looks very stupid" is the least of their worries with that 100k obviously

So we have 4 (business) days until the Whitesell payout looks very stupid. We're losing valuable time with Final Four weekend networking. What are they doing?

Meanwhile Hodgson, Q and co are finishing out their coaching staff and recruiting.

I think both of them would have won MAC Championships.

There is ZERO chatter about Claunch and Halcovage on Twitter. Not sure if that speaks to their profile. the lost interest in our position, both, or none of the above.

I asked ChapGPT to help me respond to you 🙂 Oh, come on! Who cares if the UB President knows anything about basketball or football? It's not like he's the coach or anything. He's just there to sign some papers and make sure the money keeps rolling in. I mean, sure, it's nice if he can tell a 46 defense from a 4-3, but that's not really his job, is it? He's got people for that. All he needs to do is let the sports people do their thing and stay out of the way. And as for all this talk about staying in your lane, well, that's just a load of garbage. This is America, people! We can have an opinion about anything we want, whether we know anything about it or not. So let's stop worrying about whether the President understands sports and focus on what's really important: winning! Go Bulls! Horns up! Let's Go Buffalo!

If I was UB I'd be asking for a refund

Looks like he is making $130k at Nicholls so unless we're as under-leveraged as it seems we could potentially not spend the house and leave some money for more serious assistant roster. Also saw that he was in the mix for BGSU at one point so there's 2 common names, if not interviews with the falcons. It does seem like he has interviewed with any school that will interview him this offseason.

It looks like he "went through the process" with both New Mexico State and Idaho earlier this month. Don't see much mention of why those deals didn't get done.

Oats felt like a stretch but he was an internal hire highly regarded by both Bobby Hurley and others in the procession. Calhoun and Claunch have already held HC positions and aren't overwhelmingly impressive in those roles (though, they've had decent success).

I'm sure the department will do a great job reviewing their own shortcomings.

That's proven to mean absolutely nothing during this search.

I've been calling for change for 2 years now. We're getting that change now and as a result I'll go all-in to support the next coach. That being said it's wild that we went from "One of the best minds in college basketball" to a young guy with decent success at Nicholls who is apparently starving for a new gig. Did this last week of embarrassment also lead to a scenario where we overpay for an option that was this far down our list?

"look: you want a new job, we need a coach, we good?

lol who knows if this nickname is good or bad... edit: This is where we are. At one point does our limited donor base start to send votes of non-confidence regarding Mark Alnutt?

Yea feels like a (quiet, at least) no on this one...

Would likely need to recruit an excellent staff but not a bad record. I literally just learned of his name but at a glance a bit less exciting than some other... A name thrown around as a HC prospect for Sam Houston State

Any coach that thinks that Whitesell was doing a good enough job isn’t deserving of the position.

Is a Halcovage deal pending or did we just beg him not to tell anyone he said no?

Wouldn’t it be cool to have a good athletic department? ok, I’ll stop crushing on VCU now

VCU knew their guy before the current head coach left. Alnutt somehow wasn’t ready for this change despite it being clear for over a full season.