Tony Bennett retiring, effective immediately.
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I hope everything is alright. Seems like it could be a health issue.
Is he going to record an album with Lady Gaga?
He visited a gentleman's club last night, and couldn't score.
EDIT: just for clarity he was playing a game of darts, and couldn't hit a bulls eye by manually flying his dart to the board.
EDIT: just for clarity he was playing a game of darts, and couldn't hit a bulls eye by manually flying his dart to the board.
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Crazy timing for UVA. I think that leaves only 6 active coaches with an NCAA title on their resume.
Crazy timing. Hope everything is ok with him.
Guess they are stuck with an interim coach for the season. Not going to get anyone legit to leave and come in this late unless they are retired or doing TV. Still would be tough for anyone to want to come in with a team completely recruited by someone else and have no practice time hardly at all before the season. Has to be something bad that happened to get him to abandon the job this late.
Has to be some kind of health or family issue.
The timing makes me think this is a health issue.
Just saw goodmans tweet, so Bennett essentially retired because of the changing landscape in college basketball. A.KA he didn’t like NIL and having to play a offensive style of basketball.
Pathetic he waited until October if that's the case. Just IMO.
And I agree with him, if that's what it was. The only way it will ever be fixed is for a complete reset.
I'd be itching to get out of Fayetteville even if I'd only been there for a few months.
Virginia fans might crap a brick with a fast paste system.
Given the timing, I agree it seems medical. If it is, I hope the guy is alright and it's nothing cancerous or neuropathic.
So he quits a month before the season starts?
Yeah, those are the remaining coaches with a title. And you’d think guys like Izzo, Cal, and Pitino will be nearing their own retirement. Really is a new era of college bball.
If you want out of your job bad enough, and you've got the money to go without said job and live comfortably, why not? These kids would leave in a heartbeat for another school if given what they perceived to be a better opportunity, and it IS the NIL that's a problem.
Just really weird that he would retire this close to the season starting. Hope his health is OK .
If I were the UVA admin or fan, I’d be super pissed off right now. Yeah, the current state of college bball is crazy but he knew that 6 months ago. Waiting for late October is a terrible look for him, if there is no health/family issue.
This guy had the luckiest title run in recent history as well. That Purdue game and then the auburn choke job come to mind. They also avoided a tougher opponent n UK due to the classic Cal March choke job.
Wow then knowing what you had to deal with already with the changes why would you wait this late in the game to retire…… That really hurts Virginia it really makes no sense.
Life is too short to mess around if your heart's not in something. The "right timing" of this in the eyes of the general public is irrelevant. What matters is what Bennett wants and what his family wants and needs.
We'll forget about this as a story by next week, but Tony's life is his and he needs to do what is best for him.
Getting out now if he knows his heart isn't it is a good move. Also helps ensure one of his assistants gets the job. Calhoun retired about 2 months before the season and essentially did the same thing.
We'll forget about this as a story by next week, but Tony's life is his and he needs to do what is best for him.
Getting out now if he knows his heart isn't it is a good move. Also helps ensure one of his assistants gets the job. Calhoun retired about 2 months before the season and essentially did the same thing.
Good coach but, yes, there was a lot of luck in that title run. That Purdue game in particular took a miracle to win.
How is the changing landscape of basketball a factor now? 3 months ago, sure.. But you just got past that the summer and recruiting and now you finally get to play ball.
"Likely other reasons" is going to end up doing a lot of the heavy lifting on this.
"Likely other reasons" is going to end up doing a lot of the heavy lifting on this.
Feel like there's a lot of luck in a bunch of title runs tho lol.
He’s got an asst on staff that he wants to get the job. That asst now has a year to audition.
It sounds like the asst is getting the job right now, not in a year.
I get what you’re saying from an outsiders opinion- but would you feel the same if Cal stuck around this summer, then retired weeks before the season and we had Brusier as an interim coach lol
Sounds like he wanted to make sure his buddy got a shot at it or got the job. Retire too early and a bigger name coach shows interest or donors want to go after someone with experience.
Good question! I'd be pissed if he stayed or left that way, but again, it's their decision.
Kind of an apples to oranges thing. Bennett elevated Virginia to a level not even he thought was possible. He could have retired a week after the season started, and any reasonable UVA fan is going to tip their hats to him while singing "The Searches" by the Sons of the Pioneers as he rides off into the sunset.
Cal, meanwhile, blew up the program while he was here and a Bruiser last second replacement would at least mean Cal is still gone and we'd have a full year to get a replacement to take over for Flint.
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Fair. I do agree with you that I will probably forget about this in a weeks time. But I know the players probably will not forget it. I’ve had the experience of signing up for a team based on the coach, and then that coach dipped out early into the season and it sucked. I wonder how many players will stick around vs jump in the portal? Hopefully this was already established behind the scenes with the players.
Not to mention the title game when Texas Tech was up 3 with like 20 seconds left and instead of Tech letting a player from UVA make a layup, they decide to contest the shot instead of guarding the perimeter. UVA player kicked out and the 3 was hit to tie.