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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]


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  On 4/1/2021 at 3:00 PM, slorch said:

So UNC offers Beard $5MM/ year and he giggles...

 

He’s going to be a lot more expensive than he would have been a week ago, no matter where he goes/ stays.

UT should have paid the $5MM buyout when they had the chance.

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Hard to disagree with this logic.  However, Roy Williams likely did not wake up this morning and decide to retire.  This must have been in the works for some time; agents, reps working back-channels.  Beard's reps must have known this was happening before today...

Posted
  On 4/1/2021 at 3:03 PM, Thiefery said:

UNC isn't going to hire Beard..  This wasn't a retirement surprise, I'm sure they have been knowing this

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I'm more in this camp, but at the same time, it isn't a surprise to them and there hadn't been leaks/names thrown out as potential successors 

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  On 4/1/2021 at 2:55 PM, HookEm said:

I'm not too worried about Beard to UNC. I don't think that is the style they are looking for. Plus they seem to like keeping it in the UNC family. 

Wes Miller to UNC?  Probably a stretch, but he is an alumni, only 38, and has won the Southern Conference 3 of the last 5 years, going 105-42 (71.4%).

Mark Turgeon is from the Roy Williams coaching tree and could be a candidate. Yesterday he said he's not interested in the OU job, so maybe he had forewarning about Roy retiring.  He has only done "ok" though at Maryland, going 105-79 in the Big 10 and winning the conference once in 7 years.

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MJ is available.

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  On 4/1/2021 at 3:04 PM, boilerhorn said:

Hard to disagree with this logic.  However, Roy Williams likely did not wake up this morning and decide to retire.  This must have been in the works for some time; agents, reps working back-channels.  Beard's reps must have known this was happening before today...

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April 1 gives him a 30 day window for his UNC system HR paperwork and whatnot to work. My guess is that this was known in the last 2 weeks and they planned to announce it today for both the PR and HR reasons...

 

Real spontaneous retirements don’t happen the first calendar day of a new month...

Posted
  On 4/1/2021 at 3:04 PM, boilerhorn said:

Hard to disagree with this logic.  However, Roy Williams likely did not wake up this morning and decide to retire.  This must have been in the works for some time; agents, reps working back-channels.  Beard's reps must have known this was happening before today...

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The timing is interesting for sure

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  On 4/1/2021 at 3:08 PM, Laxtonto said:

April 1 gives him a 30 day window for his UNC system HR paperwork and whatnot to work. My guess is that this was known in the last 2 weeks  YEARS and they planned to announce it today for both the PR and HR reasons...

 

Real spontaneous retirements don’t happen the first calendar day of a new month...

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Posted (edited)
  On 4/1/2021 at 3:00 PM, slorch said:

So UNC offers Beard $5MM/ year and he giggles...

 

He’s going to be a lot more expensive than he would have been a week ago, no matter where he goes/ stays.

UT should have paid the $5MM buyout when they had the chance.

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Does anyone actually think this wasn't known in the coaching and Agent circles for a while now?  Roy didn't just drop this bomb on UNC today.   I guarantee every Agent knew this was a possibility for weeks and knew it was happening definitively for days now.  Cmon people.

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Posted
  On 4/1/2021 at 3:03 PM, Thiefery said:

UNC isn't going to hire Beard..  This wasn't a retirement surprise, I'm sure they have been knowing this

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Sure it wasn’t a surprise.

Neither is it coincidental that it was announced on today, with regard to Beard’s availability.

 

Posted
  On 4/1/2021 at 3:18 PM, Js1 said:

Can we finally STFU about how CDC sucks and has no balls and can't land coaches?

Vic Schaefer
Eldrick Floreal
Mike White
Chris Beard

Suck it, haters. 

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It has always been a moronic narrative driven by impatient children.

 

  On 4/1/2021 at 3:22 PM, Rockethorn1978 said:

Hell yes. It’s gonna be a epic street battle between UNC and tech for mark few or Brad Steven’s. 

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Brad Steven's what?

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