sportsfan12 wrote:
I saw an uncomfortable number of mental errors on the part of the players. Most of those errors are things you can't really coach and/or should be second nature to players at this level...missed layups, missed foul shots, dribbling into traffic for some reason, ball-handling issues, not boxing out around the boards. Those things really hurt when most of the established teams you play have better overall athletes. I think the UCA players have the ability to do those things...I saw it a few times. At times, they executed well. For some reason, they just didn't do those things consistently. Is that purely the fault of the coach? I don't know.
Uhh ... who scouted, graded, recruited and signed those players?
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The coach deserved a chance to recruit and play now that the probation is over.
No he didn't. He hadn't shown any signs of doing much of anything the right way and there was no hope by much of anybody in the future of the program.
It was clearly the right move. I don't know how, looking at the entire body of work, anybody could disagree.
Anyway now on to McCollum ...
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Corliss Williamson, head coach Arkansas Baptist: A "wow factor" name. Popular in state. No Division I experience.
No Division I experience? Whoopdeedo. He's got to get it somewhere, right? Where better than the lower end of D-I? The UCA position, right now, is where you take a flier and hire a guy with big upside potential and let him get his experience and hope that experience is good enough for him to go get a bigger, better job. Then you become a good stepping-stone job. You're a long way off from being a destination job in D-I. Might as well jump all over the guy who has a whole lot going for him and will generate interest in your program.
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Scottie Pippen: UCA legend expressed an interest in coaching when he visited. No coaching experience. Very unlikely UCA could come close to affording him. Only in a fantasy world right now.
Why is it unlikely UCA could come close to affording him? Is his coaching resume so great that he can demand a salary well beyond UCA's range? Oh, wait ... he has none. So while Corliss gets dismissed for having no DI experience, Pippen – who also has no DI experience – is out of UCA's price range? How does that make sense?
What is Pippen doing right now that is so lucrative that he wouldn't take a decent salary at six figures to coach at his alma mater? If he has an interest in coaching, it would be a nice opportunity for him to start out as a head coach, at his alma mater, on the Division I level. That's a pretty good deal for somebody with no real coaching experience.
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Joe Foley, UALR women's coach: A longshot, but don't chuckle. Before he began a legendary career as Arkansas Tech's women's coach, he assisted the late John Widner with the men. He's well-established as one of the best women's coaches in state history. Would he be interested in trying his skill with men?
Want to talk about people out of UCA's price range ... well here you go. He's making more as UALR's women's coach than Chappell was as UCA's men's coach – I believe. I don't know that for sure, but that's what I've been told. That's probably some factual information worth looking up, though.
Now on to others...
GoldilockswasYummy wrote:
I would like to see Pippen but that will never happen. Williamson would be awesome. Just don't know if these guys would be interested.
1. Why will that never happen?
2. Why wouldn't Williamson be interested? He's at Arkansas Baptist, for crying out loud. I don't know that he is interested, but anybody at ABC wouldn't see themselves as too big-time for UCA - and it's not like he's on the UA radar for head coach.
UCAMonkey wrote:
I would rather see UALR Assistant Joe Klein.
Why? If you're going to bring it up, sell it. Convince somebody.