PEOPLE, STOP This!

[shotgunDawg]

I have no freakin idea whether our new coach will be worth a crap, however, none of you do either! One thing I can guarandamntee is that you people on here complaining about this hire will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT HURT OUR NEW COACH. <div>
</div><div>Hiring a coach in basketball is much different than hiring a coach in football. In football there are offensive and defensive coordinators that you can actually see the fruits of their system and plan. However, assistant basketball coaches are much more under the radar and don't have the same opportunities that football coaches do. </div><div>
</div><div>Last point, good assistant coaches are not only at Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, etc... Good assistant coaches are everywhere. Getting a top notch assistant job is all about time, place, and opportunity. There are so many assistant coaches out there with the potential to be great head coaches, but have never been in the right place at the right time with the right opportunity. That is why you have an AD that you trust to interview candidates and pick the one that has the qualities that we want our program to emulate. Due to this, I have no idea if Ray will be a good head coach, but please don't hurt his ability to live up to his potential as one due to your initial disappointment with Scotts hire. In time Scott WILL be judged on this hire, but that will be 3 to 5 years down the road. Until then you are HURTING MSU if you don't support this hire. To do that would be pretty shameful if you ask me.</div>

 

[was21]

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[Shmuley]

I'm going to look around at the other big 6 programs that have had openings and hired an assistant. This would be a valid point of comparison.

So, let's see ........

um ....

 

[sardis]

Scott can't expect fans to embrace this hire, he will have to prove himself.

 

[BlankStare]

He was in such shambles mentally that his first year was an epic disaster**

(Sarcasm over)

I know nothing of this coach so he may end up great...BUT... I really thought that, as a program, we were WAAAY beyond the days of hiring a coach that no one has ever heard of (especially with this Internet fad going on).

Who knows, maybe this that "student becomes the teacher" type of moment for Stricklin and he proves himself to be the NINJA MASTER... nobody saw this move coming.

 

[esplanade91]

Including the part about trusting the AD. I don't trust Stricklin, however. If you know anything about how he got the job at MSU you'll start thinking that the guy has absolutely no clue what the hell he's doing, and this hire confirms that.

He's a "used car salesman" who over the past 2 years has promoted secondary/social events corresponding with sports, like a Sugarland concert, Tents 4 Tickets, "The Dudes", checkering our basketball games with white and maroon t-shirts, and turning everything sports into high school homecoming events.

He should have had the balls to force Stansbury to change up his staff 1 and 2 seasons ago. He should have had the balls to fire him last year AND this year. He's been needing to do something about Cohen's staff and the meatheads who run that roller-coaster of emotions. The only thing he's done right is stay out of Dan Mullen's way, who coincidentally he did not hire.

As far as women's softball and basketball, he looked at a sheet of "top assistants" and called them. I don't think that deserves a pat on the back because women's sports jobs aren't competitive. You don't have the void of jobs top-candidates will take and won't take like you do in D1 prime-time conference men's sports.

Someone on here has said it several times today. I will stand by Rick Ray but at the same time call for the heads of everyone who had part in hiring him.

The WORST part about today is the fact that Rick's Rowdies still applies.