Re: The 2020-2021 Season Thread
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:54 pm
Just made an exhaustive list of current players that have more than 1 year of playing experience for Arizona.
1. Ira Lee.
1. Ira Lee.
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That just leaves more room for one and dones!BigSkyCatinMT wrote:Just made an exhaustive list of current players that have more than 1 year of playing experience for Arizona.
1. Ira Lee.
The retort to that that is: "Okay, enjoy a team of all senior Dylan Smiths."SCCats wrote:That just leaves more room for one and dones!BigSkyCatinMT wrote:Just made an exhaustive list of current players that have more than 1 year of playing experience for Arizona.
1. Ira Lee.
It’s time to end this bad dream.
Lute adapted very well to the players he had. No way would Lute have Ayton defending the perimeter on hedge screens. He also didn't curse at them, he left that to KO.Beachcat97 wrote:It's times like these when Lute's tourney appearance streak seems that much more mythical. It's damn hard to maintain that level for so many years without a single crummy season.
yes - need97cats wrote:Haarms would be a solid additionBigSkyCatinMT wrote:Going after the 7'3" Purdue transfer.
BigSkyCatinMT wrote:At this point, maybe a one- time free transfer rule, or 2021 reclassifications is about all that's left. With a few foreign recruits. Any tall Samoans out there?
Are we recruiting prison yards yet?
They must have offered a lot more $$$$Statfreak77 wrote:Losing a kid to a school that wasn't even in his top 7.
LOL
7 schools lost out on a kid who had them listed as one of his top choices.Statfreak77 wrote:Losing a kid to a school that wasn't even in his top 7.
LOL
^^^^^^^^^^Chicat wrote:7 schools lost out on a kid who had them listed as one of his top choices.Statfreak77 wrote:Losing a kid to a school that wasn't even in his top 7.
LOL
People really need to stop acting like recruiting is only difficult for Arizona.
Yes, but Chi, you gotta admit it feels like it's gotten much harder recently. Compare this to five years ago.Chicat wrote:7 schools lost out on a kid who had them listed as one of his top choices.Statfreak77 wrote:Losing a kid to a school that wasn't even in his top 7.
LOL
People really need to stop acting like recruiting is only difficult for Arizona.
Five years ago when we wanted Stephen Zimmerman, Ivan Rabb, and Chase Jeter, and for some reason Tyler Dorsey committed and then decommitted?Beachcat97 wrote:Yes, but Chi, you gotta admit it feels like it's gotten much harder recently. Compare this to five years ago.Chicat wrote:7 schools lost out on a kid who had them listed as one of his top choices.Statfreak77 wrote:Losing a kid to a school that wasn't even in his top 7.
LOL
People really need to stop acting like recruiting is only difficult for Arizona.
I’d tell you it’s hard to drop bag money while everybody is looking at you.ChooChooCat wrote:To Chi's point.
Who is dropping bag money and being looked at? I’m assuming you’re talking about the shoe companies and the Feds, but I would think the past 2+ years would have made you realize that the FBI has very little interest in how AAU programs get funded and where some of that money ends up.ByJoveByJingle wrote:I’d tell you it’s hard to drop bag money while everybody is looking at you.ChooChooCat wrote:To Chi's point.
I was mostly being facetious. But you have to wonder if the dirty underbelly of the sport can continue in the same brazen way after at least some of their methodology has been exposed. It does make me wonder what happens in the typical Kansas 5* recruitment now. Are they (whoever they may be) still paying to get these players? If not, what’s going on? Suddenly everybody has come clean? Or is the money trail being concealed in different ways now? I get the FBI is not continuing to expend resources looking at this, but the NCAA definitely is.Chicat wrote:Who is dropping bag money and being looked at? I’m assuming you’re talking about the shoe companies and the Feds, but I would think the past 2+ years would have made you realize that the FBI has very little interest in how AAU programs get funded and where some of that money ends up.ByJoveByJingle wrote:I’d tell you it’s hard to drop bag money while everybody is looking at you.ChooChooCat wrote:To Chi's point.
No one is saying recruiting isn't hard. Even Lute said that was the one thing he doesn't miss about coaching.ChooChooCat wrote:To Chi's point.
Nothing can be official until the freeze is over, which I believe is in June.azcat49 wrote:What does that mean though in hiring another assistant for basketball Choo?
He is taking a 20% pay cut, I believe I saw that his senior staff is taking a 10% cut. But obviously we all agree that he should just be completely cut.gronk4heisman wrote:I'm sure Larry Scott is still cashing them checks.
An exemption to what?zonagrad wrote:We need an assistant coach more than we need the handful of “associate athletic directors” or “marketing specialists.” Hire Terry so we can get this ship right and stop fucking rowing in circles. An A.D. worth a shit would get an exemption and take charge. Shit. Is Ced Dempsey available on a retainer? Heeke is such a disappointment.
Longhorned wrote:An exemption to what?zonagrad wrote:We need an assistant coach more than we need the handful of “associate athletic directors” or “marketing specialists.” Hire Terry so we can get this ship right and stop fucking rowing in circles. An A.D. worth a shit would get an exemption and take charge. Shit. Is Ced Dempsey available on a retainer? Heeke is such a disappointment.
The argument is that as a revenue producing program, an assistant basketball coach position is more important than 99% of the other jobs in the athletic department.Longhorned wrote:Athletics can’t get an exemption to a hiring freeze for the same reason they’re subject to it. I think Heeke has done an awful job, but you can’t hire a new assistant coach when current staff are about to get furloughed and have their salaries frozen. This is one of those times when the reality hits that this is a public institution. Even if your sport is a net generator, it isn’t a net generator when it stops generating net.
The argument is that hiring someone cost money, money that the department obviously doesn't have. Hiring an assistant coach, even in basketball, isn't going to generate additional revenue.zonagrad wrote:The argument is that as a revenue producing program, an assistant basketball coach position is more important than 99% of the other jobs in the athletic department.Longhorned wrote:Athletics can’t get an exemption to a hiring freeze for the same reason they’re subject to it. I think Heeke has done an awful job, but you can’t hire a new assistant coach when current staff are about to get furloughed and have their salaries frozen. This is one of those times when the reality hits that this is a public institution. Even if your sport is a net generator, it isn’t a net generator when it stops generating net.
How about hiring him and then furloughing him at the same time? Give him the ol’ double whammy and make his head spin. It’ll be a good reintroduction to the program.Merkin wrote:Pretty sure the primary role of an academic institution is to educate students.
Just can't imagine the collective rolling of eyes of faculty if athletics gets an exemption for a hire while they are being furloughed.
Makes you wish there was a public database where anonymous scouts could post things like...UAEebs86 wrote:
Public universities are bloated with bureaucracy on countless levels. At least the basketball program can point to a balance sheet and say, “We brought in $24 million last year.” Take away the ability hire a key assistant and that $24 million could erode quickly. Football and basketball carry the financial water for the entire athletic department. I can’t imagine the head tennis coach complaining it’s not fair he can’t hire a new assistant when the men’s basketball program can. They know who keeps the lights on. Mike Candrea frequently said the best way to support the softball program was to buy football tickets.Merkin wrote:Pretty sure the primary role of an academic institution is to educate students.
Just can't imagine the collective rolling of eyes of faculty if athletics gets an exemption for a hire while they are being furloughed.
No argument there. I work for one. The only thing administrators do is protect the jobs of other administrators.zonagrad wrote:Public universities are bloated with bureaucracy on countless levels.
For example, President Robbins created a new position with a new salary: A Vice President of the Arts. In turn, this Vice President of the Arts appointed an Associate Vice President of Strategic Initiatives in the Arts. That nonsense not only needs to stop. It needs to be corrected, especially since Robbins cut off the tuition revenue to pay for this bloating administration.zonagrad wrote:
Public universities are bloated with bureaucracy on countless levels. At least the basketball program can point to a balance sheet and say, “We brought in $24 million last year.” Take away the ability hire a key assistant and that $24 million could erode quickly. Football and basketball carry the financial water for the entire athletic department.
I don't know the head tennis coach but I know other coaches, and they wouldn't complain about that. But while they're taking pay cuts during a hiring frieze in which basketball is running at a deficit while not generating revenue, you'd better believe they'd resent a new hire for an assistant coach in basketball.zonagrad wrote:
I can’t imagine the head tennis coach complaining it’s not fair he can’t hire a new assistant when the men’s basketball program can.
Can they get rid of one of the two Diversity Chiefs?Merkin wrote:No argument there. I work for one. The only thing administrators do is protect the jobs of other administrators.zonagrad wrote:Public universities are bloated with bureaucracy on countless levels.
I don't work for the UA, but saw that the Diversity Chief here at Cal Poly just retired today.Postmaster wrote:Can they get rid of one of the two Diversity Chiefs?Merkin wrote:No argument there. I work for one. The only thing administrators do is protect the jobs of other administrators.zonagrad wrote:Public universities are bloated with bureaucracy on countless levels.
That’s $140 k right there.
There are literally diversity task forces within units, whose recommendations get ignored.Postmaster wrote:Can they get rid of one of the two Diversity Chiefs?Merkin wrote:No argument there. I work for one. The only thing administrators do is protect the jobs of other administrators.zonagrad wrote:Public universities are bloated with bureaucracy on countless levels.
That’s $140 k right there.