NCAA Basketball - Offseason Thread

[spintheblackcircle]

holy ****, Maata is gone now.

 

[Reality Check]

Either he was pushed out or violations are coming.

 

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[End of Line]

Either he was pushed out or violations are coming.

He was pushed out, his recruiting classes we're getting worse and worse and couldn't keep the top talent in Ohio in state along with being out recruited by Xavier and Cincinnati.

 

[John Price]

McDermott would be home run hire.

 

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[spintheblackcircle]

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ire-coach-chris-holtmann-away-butler-bulldogs

Chris Holtmann will leave Butler to become the next men's basketball coach at Ohio State, agreeing to an eight-year deal with the Buckeyes, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday.

Holtmann, 45, will receive $3 million per season as the replacement for Thad Matta, sources told ESPN. The Columbus Dispatch first reported that Holtmann had accepted the position.

 

[rangerssharks414]

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ire-coach-chris-holtmann-away-butler-bulldogs

Chris Holtmann will leave Butler to become the next men's basketball coach at Ohio State, agreeing to an eight-year deal with the Buckeyes, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday.

Holtmann, 45, will receive $3 million per season as the replacement for Thad Matta, sources told ESPN. The Columbus Dispatch first reported that Holtmann had accepted the position.

Great hire

 

[MMC]

I hope Colorado is decent next year, a good friend signed and will be playing next season.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Pitino suspended five games

 

[sjsharks92]

Pitino suspended five games

Should've been 5 decades. God I'm sick of this guy.

 

[John Price]

Pitino a good guy. Basically got similar to the Boeheim treatment. Most stunning punishment was NCAA telling Louisville to vacate their title which is kind of dumb. We all know they won the title.

https://sports.yahoo.com/louisville...unishment-prostitution-scandal-202121796.html

Tuesday, April 9, 2013, was a day of unbridled joy in this city – maybe collectively the happiest I’ve seen people in 30 years living here.

Red-and-black car flags were everywhere. Brand-new championship T-shirts covered puffed-out chests. Smiles spread across faces all around town. The communal giddiness was palpable.

The night before in Atlanta, Louisville basketball got back into the championship game and took it all. A fan base that for generations has lived and died with the Cardinals was on top of the world. They had won their third national title, 27 years after the last one, and many years after some people said it could never happen again at an urban school.

Thursday, four years and two months later, that fan base has been flattened by an unprecedented penalty handed down by the NCAA. The worst fear that sprang from the tawdry story Yahoo Sports broke in October 2015 has come to fruition.

For the first time, the NCAA has vacated a Division I men’s basketball national championship. Not yet officially, because the NCAA is such an obtuse, protocol-shackled organization that it is waiting for Louisville to send in the names of players who received impermissible benefits – stripper shows and sex acts paid for by former staffer Andre McGee, one of the most embarrassing scandals in a sport that routinely wallows in corruption.

 

[HisIceness]

So, at some point the NCAA will do the same thing to UNC, right?

 

[Voight]

As a UK fan its some sweet irony that the Cards got slammed by the NCAA

 

[rangerssharks414]

So, at some point the NCAA will do the same thing to UNC, right?

I doubt it.

 

[PredsV82]

As a UK fan its some sweet irony that the Cards got slammed by the NCAA

If it meant Carolina finally getting their comeuppance, I'd be fine letting Louisville walk on 1000 violations.

While strippers and sex are certainly more tawdry, blatant academic fraud must be punished if the NCAA intends to stick to their "student athlete model"

if they aren't going to punish UNC then screw it, let college hoops players who aren't interested in a degree just not bother going to class

 

[DaveG]

If it meant Carolina finally getting their comeuppance, I'd be fine letting Louisville walk on 1000 violations.

While strippers and sex are certainly more tawdry, blatant academic fraud must be punished if the NCAA intends to stick to their "student athlete model"

if they aren't going to punish UNC then screw it, let college hoops players who aren't interested in a degree just not bother going to class

Yep. Hell the cult that's built around UNC basketball feels just as bad as the cult that was (and still is to a large extent) built around Ped State Football. You'd think a WVU guy like me would have someone like Pitt, Cuse, Georgetown, or the like as my most hated college basketball team. Nope, I hate the hypocrites in Chapel Hill that brag about doing things "the right way, the Carolina way" more then anyone else. ****, I have more respect for teams like UNLV or Michigan when they were blatantly cheating, because it least they weren't going around lying about it after the fact pretending they did nothing wrong and that it was all the fault of programs like Women's Tennis or some other ********.

 

[Voight]

I hope Cal never leaves.

 

[PredsV82]

I hope Cal never leaves.

This makes two straight summers with no Cal to NBA rumors.

He has said he wants to coach UK until the catch/pass UCLA.

Lets hope he gets his wish

 

[rangerssharks414]

https://sports.yahoo.com/marvin-bag...vils-national-title-contention-041418189.html

#1 H.S. prospect picks Duke

 

[John Price]

Duke boy

I tell you this man I admire Coach K for adjusting. He was initially against One and Done but adopted the ways. Cal was the originator of one and done and these days in the NCAA you have to adapt to that rule or get left behind. Duke has always been a monster recruiting wise.

 

[John Price]

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/...7/marvin-bagley-iii-reclassify-2017-play-duke

By choosing Duke, Bagley III joins a six-man freshman class that includes five ESPN top 100 prospects. The addition of Bagley, coupled with the Blue Devils' returning roster, puts them in position to win the ACC regular-season title and makes them a legitimate Final Foul and national championship contender.

watch the **** out

 

[John Price]

Rollie Massamino was a titan of basketball at Villanova and the old school Big East. Very sad to learn of his passing today.

 

[PanthersPens62]

Rollie was one of a kind. RIP Legend.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

RIP Rollie