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"Kelvin Sampsons sister is my neighbor. That would rock to have an inside to State basketball while he was here. Even if it meant probation in a few years."

Kevin Durant's mother apparently works in my building. Want me to see if we can get him to come back to school and finish his eligibility at State?

2/18/2011 4:50:49 PM

Kevin Costner's mother apparently works in my building. Want me to see if we can get him to stop making excuses and begin production on Waterworld 2?

2/18/2011 5:19:54 PM

^ sure, but tell him to spend a lot more money this time

2/18/2011 6:51:35 PM

Gregg Marshall's Wichita State on ESPN2 right now against VCU. Good game going. I would not be apposed to him as coach as long as none of the "baggage" is true.

2/18/2011 7:38:32 PM

yeah I'm watching this game too

both of these teams would beat the fuck out of us

[Edited on February 18, 2011 at 7:53 PM. Reason : .]

2/18/2011 7:52:03 PM

i know, we totally suck.

2/18/2011 8:03:29 PM

^ You must be my biggest fan, because I've never had any poster so obsessed with me they post stalk me. Especially on a Friday night. Do you get text messages or something every time I post? How are you doing this?

2/18/2011 8:05:14 PM

wah wah wah. you sure do worry about other people a lot.

2/19/2011 12:37:51 AM

^pot/kettle much?

Sean Miller coming up on ESPN!

2/19/2011 6:02:52 PM

have we looked at Mike Jarvis yet?

2/20/2011 2:00:05 PM

Self/Barnes/Matta/Dixon credibility watch?

i mean give me a fucking break Barnes, you lose to NEBRASKA???

2/20/2011 3:15:34 PM

^^i looked at him once on TV

2/20/2011 3:17:48 PM

Here, now we can all look at him.

2/20/2011 3:35:22 PM

2/20/2011 3:37:36 PM

sid should get one more year. These frosh are gonna be nasty next year and howell can pick up after smith

2/21/2011 2:21:03 PM

^Seems more and more likely

2/21/2011 2:35:57 PM

If Sid isn't shown the door after this season then someone needs to get cracking on the "Debbie Yow Credibility Watch" thread because that would be an absolute dereliction of her duties to leave him in place for another year.

2/21/2011 2:40:09 PM

oh brother, here we go again

2/21/2011 2:43:14 PM

lol

This place is so predictable.

2/21/2011 3:04:45 PM

Kellie Harper looks like a good up and coming coach

2/21/2011 9:50:52 PM

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2/21/2011 10:05:19 PM

Guys, I've been searching for a few weeks now and I think I've found our basketball coach. His name is Sidney Lowe and looks like he's been here since 2006.

2/21/2011 10:07:20 PM

Jay Wright credibility watch.

2/21/2011 10:08:34 PM

The solution is to hire Tubby, convince him to work for free, convince some lower UNC system school (like UNCW) to take Archie and another to take Vinny Del Negro. Make them both pay those coaches 1 million bucks, and give Del Negro the 2.5 million we would be paying Tubby.

Then, in 6-7 years when Tubby retires, whichever coach hasn't been fired between Archie and Vinny gets the NC State coaching job!

And we set a record for longest coaching search.

2/21/2011 10:09:19 PM

Packpride already found our new coach.

2/21/2011 10:54:13 PM

2/21/2011 10:54:59 PM

http://basketball.realgm.com/blog/211298/College_Coaches_On_The_Hot_Seat

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"Proven Program Builders BYU’s Dave Rose Temple’s Fran Dunphy Duquesne’s Ron Everhart Richmond’s Chris Mooney UAB’s Mike Davis Butler’s Brad Stevens Cleveland St.’s Gary Waters Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Rob Jeter Wichita St.’s Gregg Marshall Northern Iowa’s Ben Jacobson Harvard’s Tommy Amaker Long Beach St.’s Dan Monson Fairfield’s Ed Cooley Morehead St.’s Donnie Tyndal Murray St.’s Billy Kennedy"

2/23/2011 11:01:38 AM

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"And it is hard to imagine a scenario where Sidney Lowe keeps his job at this point. NC State has clearly regressed from the Herb Sendek days. Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/blog/211298/College_Coaches_On_The_Hot_Seat#ixzz1EnfjAGF1 "

2/23/2011 11:28:40 AM

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"NC State has clearly regressed from the Herb Sendek days."

Don't tell PP.

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"BYU’s Dave Rose Temple’s Fran Dunphy Duquesne’s Ron Everhart Richmond’s Chris Mooney UAB’s Mike Davis Butler’s Brad Stevens Cleveland St.’s Gary Waters Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Rob Jeter Wichita St.’s Gregg Marshall Northern Iowa’s Ben Jacobson Harvard’s Tommy Amaker Long Beach St.’s Dan Monson Fairfield’s Ed Cooley Morehead St.’s Donnie Tyndal Murray St.’s Billy Kennedy""

-Amaker, Monson,and Davis have all already burned out in the Big 10, and Gary Waters in the Big East
-Kennedy, aside from Murray State, has his experience at Miami, hardly a "built" program
-Dunphy has coached in Philly his whole life and probably wouldn't leave
-Rose, as much as I hate to say it, could have risky health
-Marshall has some sort of unknown baggage
-Everhart and Cooley haven't been to the NCAA tournament yet
-That leaves...Chris Mooney, Brad Stevens, Rob Jeter, Ben Jacobson, and Donnie Tyndal

Oh, wait, Mooney went to Princeton so he probably runs the DREADED OFFENSE, so fuck his success.

2/23/2011 5:32:32 PM

Big rumor floating that billy donovan will take the job if the money is right.

Seems credible, the SECsucks, he's left before, and florida doesn't have much going on

He makes 2.7 mil I think though

2/25/2011 8:58:29 AM

Where did you lift that from? (not sarcasm I really want to know so I can go read it)

2/25/2011 9:09:58 AM

not sure i'd want billy donovan but it would make a splash on tobacky rd.

que the Rick Barnes rumors?

2/25/2011 9:14:19 AM

I'm not going to believe anything until it is official...but I would probably give a finger (pinky maybe?) for Billy Donovan.

2/25/2011 9:14:42 AM

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"Big rumor floating that billy Donovan will take the job if the money is right."

The only mention of this I've heard was on Brett Jensen's 10-12 call in show on 610 yesterday. He said he had some sources in the South that are chirping that Donavan can "be had if the money is right."

2/25/2011 9:15:41 AM

we better pay that man if any of that is true

2/25/2011 9:19:28 AM

The Real Question:
Is Donovan willing to rock a red blazer?

2/25/2011 9:21:23 AM

Link says: College_Coaches_On_The_Hot_Seat
Quote from link: Proven Program Builders

Must not have been that good a program builder. Didn't read the link btw, maybe they explained

Edit: Of course we would need to build from 10th to... 6th in the conference. Maybe those guys are on the hot seat for not building to the top of their respective conferences... like Herb (ducks).


[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 9:28 AM. Reason : -]

2/25/2011 9:26:11 AM

JESUS- i just looked up Rick Barnes' coaching resume...

he hasn't missed a NCAA tournament in 15 years. i'd rather give my pinkie for him than Billy Donovan. i just dont want to be publicly smacked in the face again like the last coaching search

2/25/2011 9:26:23 AM

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"Donovan re-signed with the Gators on June 7, 2007, to a deal that made him the highest-paid head coach in college basketball, at $3.5 million per year."

2/25/2011 9:29:26 AM

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"I'll believe it when I see it"

2/25/2011 9:33:22 AM

I would cut off my whole fucking hand if we could land Donovan. No chance in hell because we can't pony up $4 million a year or whatever it'd take, but his hiring would rock Tobacco road.

2/25/2011 9:38:40 AM

I would absolutely love to have Billy D. He'd be a homerun hire.

2/25/2011 9:38:43 AM

Rick Barnes currently makes about $2million a year, with an annual $50,000 increase. His last contract extension was in 2005, which was a 10 year 1.7mil contract. If i did my math correctly, his buyout would be approximately $8.5M for the next 4 years, plus the >$2M/yr it would take to land him.

in summary- i'll do it for less.

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 9:44 AM. Reason : .]

2/25/2011 9:43:48 AM

Billy Donovan, huh

2/25/2011 9:53:06 AM

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"No chance in hell because we can't pony up $4 million a year"

How do you know this? Or are you just passing off an assumption as fact?

2/25/2011 9:54:12 AM

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"he hasn't missed a NCAA tournament in 15 years. i'd rather give my pinkie for him than Billy Donovan. i just dont want to be publicly smacked in the face again like the last coaching search"

Not that I wouldn't love to have Barnes, but he's choked like crazy in the tourney for years. Donovan has two national championships. Barnes has lost with great teams and great players players like Durant, Gibson, TJ Ford, Aldridge, Augustin, etc.

IMO...Donovan > Barnes.



^^Damn...look at all that hair on Herb. If he had that hair while at State, he'd still be here.

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 9:56 AM. Reason : .]

2/25/2011 9:55:29 AM

^^he has no idea .. we'll see how serious we are about having good basketball though by how much we open up the wallet this go around

We're only paying 1.5 mill per year now, and that is pathetic.

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 9:56 AM. Reason : .]

2/25/2011 9:55:55 AM

mentioning rick barnes should be a suspendable offense.

it was made abundantly clear, by him, that he does not want to coach at nc state. i wouldn't leave texas either if i were him.

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 9:59 AM. Reason : also, i have absolutely no recollection of florida being the runners up in 2000. none whatsoever.]

2/25/2011 9:57:03 AM

Not sure why anyone would think contract size correlates with success

I'd rather make a smart hire than an expensive hire

2/25/2011 9:58:46 AM

^^ nobody would

[Edited on February 25, 2011 at 9:59 AM. Reason : ESPN Texas]

2/25/2011 9:59:12 AM