Word on the street is we have already reached agreement for a former assistant under a national championship winning coach at Florida and former college point guard to serve as head coach.

3/28/2011 9:53:33 AM

Sidney Lowe????

3/28/2011 9:54:13 AM

sesame street?

3/28/2011 9:55:23 AM

Smart

[Edited on March 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM. Reason : added info]

3/28/2011 10:13:42 AM

According to wral... "Prior to VCU, Smart was an assistant for Billy Donovan at Florida. He has also been an assistant at Clemson, Akron and Dayton.

Smart played point guard at Kenyon College in Ohio where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in history."

3/28/2011 10:20:48 AM

There are so many people in this thread i want to punch in the face right now.

So many of you people are just so goddamn stupid.

3/28/2011 10:20:50 AM

NAME NAMES SON

3/28/2011 10:23:33 AM

The coach in question has ties to NC State, and already has a relationship with many of our players. I don't see him sticking around as our head coach for long though.

3/28/2011 11:16:31 AM

this is taking forever.

3/28/2011 11:21:18 AM

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"There are so many people in this thread i want to punch in the face right now. So many of you people are just so goddamn stupid."

3/28/2011 11:21:58 AM

3/28/2011 11:23:39 AM

Donnie Jones

3/28/2011 11:25:03 AM

LOL INTERIM HEAD COACH

3/28/2011 11:25:04 AM

this topic has the stuff of some April Fools' gold

3/28/2011 11:33:00 AM

haha gg markgoal

3/28/2011 11:34:57 AM

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"this topic has the stuff of some April Fools' gold"

oh gawd, I didn't even think of April Fools being on Friday...That's gonna be a shitty, played out punch line of a day

3/28/2011 11:36:44 AM

i can't wait until towe becomes the next official head coach.

3/28/2011 11:45:16 AM

Well. We'll save money on printing. All they'll need to do is change the L to a T.

3/28/2011 11:47:03 AM

^Monte would have more coaching experience than Lowe...let's give it a try. haha

3/28/2011 12:24:04 PM

Only 34 minutes til the reported PackPride insider press conference

3/28/2011 12:26:21 PM

who the fuck claimed a 1pm press conference for today?

3/28/2011 12:29:11 PM

Page 66 of this thread get with the times homie there's BIG NEWS happening

3/28/2011 12:33:38 PM

So what street is this word on?

3/28/2011 12:39:02 PM

123 fake street

3/28/2011 12:42:24 PM

3/28/2011 12:45:27 PM

oh GAWD

http://shaka-smart.com/

3/28/2011 12:46:35 PM

you just made that, didn't you

3/28/2011 12:48:51 PM

shaka smart made it

3/28/2011 12:50:04 PM

It's Donnie Jones, nigga.

Man, he's never made it higher than the CBI...

However, he was coach at Marshall and is from West Virginia so I have to like him.

Sike, we're actually getting Richard Pitino or John Pelphrey

[Edited on March 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM. Reason : x]

3/28/2011 12:57:03 PM

3/28/2011 1:02:18 PM

i can't believe there's no press conference

3/28/2011 1:03:55 PM

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"Everyone on the Internet is a goddamn liar."

3/28/2011 1:06:52 PM

Oh there was a press conference. It was so secret they forgot to tell the press.

3/28/2011 1:08:42 PM

wait, i just figured it out.

and i said our next coach was this guy back in the "credibility" thread.

3/28/2011 1:09:27 PM

Sean Miller coming up on The Jim Rome show. Rumor has it he's going to announce his resignation at the UofA, followed by his acceptance of the NC State job.

3/28/2011 1:10:50 PM

War bums stealing bread from ducks in Tucson.

[Edited on March 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM. Reason : x]

3/28/2011 1:12:45 PM

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"Everyone on the Internet is a goddamn liar."

3/28/2011 1:17:47 PM

this is the truth

Monte Towe was first predicted as a future NC State coach by the Hillsborough Street Fiddler in the Technician years ago.

3/28/2011 1:20:45 PM

I guess the press conference was a Pack Pride Insider exclusive too

3/28/2011 1:27:11 PM

from listening to interviews, Shaka Smart sounds a lot like the late Guru of GangStarr

3/28/2011 1:38:07 PM

A Tribe Called Quest will make up the assistant coaching ranks.

3/28/2011 1:45:37 PM

http://es.pn/efwOFp

good write up on why shaka might stay @ vcu.

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"VCU athletic director Norwood Teague has had a number of conversations with Smart about his career path, even before the run to the Sweet 16, Elite Eight and now Final Four. "He values greatly how much we support his program, and we do more than a lot of high majors," Teague said Monday morning. "We want to this to be in the same fraternity as Xavier and Dayton, in these only basketball schools. Shaka values the basketball-only experience. It's a big deal, and he understands that." Teague said he met with VCU president Michael Rao about being more aggressive. "I don't think Shaka would just go for a money grab. He's not going to do that; I know people around him, and we're going to do all we can to keep him," Teague said. "After we won last night, I think he's more likely to stay. This is a different program now. This place will never be the same again.""

3/28/2011 1:46:20 PM

obligatory "what else is he supposed to say?" post

3/28/2011 1:50:01 PM

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"He values greatly how much we support his program, and we do more than a lot of high majors"

while our winning % of late may not reflect it, but i'm pretty sure we value our program pretty highly

3/28/2011 1:53:48 PM

at this point, i'm better off checkin PI for news...

3/28/2011 1:56:59 PM

lol@article comments

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"Never pass on a chance to take a shot @NCSU do you Katz? Ragging on KY's choice for search committee (so they can approach prospective candidates in a more low key manner) and then the academics reference in the same posting. At some point along the way, some NCSU fan must have beat your #### or banged your wife. Get over it and get on with your life. Your man crush on Roy Williams is getting painful to watch..."

3/28/2011 1:57:20 PM

I bet it gets really old to Debbie Yow to be constantly called or referred to as Kay.

3/28/2011 2:01:50 PM

from that same article:

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"Teague said Smart makes a base salary of $325,000 with bonuses that push him to $350,000. Incentives have already garnered him $500,000 so far this March. Teague said an annuity also pushes Smart past $500,000. He said Grant left VCU making a base salary of $750,000, before Smart was hired two years ago. "We will be aggressive again," Teague said. "We couldn't pay what Alabama did [estimated at $1.8 million]. But for Shaka it's going to have to be a really good one."

3/28/2011 2:12:55 PM

Well in case Debbie Yow is reading this thread, please at least offer Blaine Taylor before you hire Gregg Marshall, thanks.

3/28/2011 3:16:41 PM

epic molestache

3/28/2011 3:19:00 PM