Poll shows how basketball coaches see the UGA job

Seems to be 3 tiers there. I don't want to call us a sleeping giant b/c we've never really historically been good, but there's no reason we shouldn't be able to get to that top tier. Tons of regional talent. It's so much easier to quickly flip a basketball team than football mostly due to roster size. Feels like fans and admin want to be involved, just need a consistent push over the hump.

That is SIGNIFICANTLY higher on the list than I would have expected.

JJBulldawg said:

That is SIGNIFICANTLY higher on the list than I would have expected.

Think White has elevated the job. Don't know that he's the guy to get it over the hump, but he's certainly improved it from the outside looking in IMO.

JakeReuse said:

Think White has elevated the job. Don't know that he's the guy to get it over the hump, but he's certainly improved it from the outside looking in IMO.

Agree. But it’s never been a great job compared to most SEC schools, and most of those places continue to improve so it’s hard for UGA to catch up. I don't have enough hours today to explain why it’s never been maximized. Someone could write a book on it.

Florida being #5 is crazy. I would've put them top 3.

JakeReuse said:

Think White has elevated the job. Don't know that he's the guy to get it over the hump, but he's certainly improved it from the outside looking in IMO.

He certainly has

RyanJordan said:

It’s not surprising and it’s not good, but some folks here still think there are coaches beating down our door.

What a dumb post. I'm not even going to bother to argue with you because you're not acting in good faith here. Just bottom of the barrel stuff by you Jordan.

Fridawg said:

Florida being #5 is crazy. I would've put them top 3.

This poll means less than nothing.

Fridawg said:

Florida being #5 is crazy. I would've put them top 3.

And they were down in our category pre Billy D tubby woulda been our Billy D

Exactly what I’ve been saying. We need White to stay a while. Get us to the tournament somewhat consistently. Then after we have a foundation of “hey, they don’t SUCK” then go get a splash hire.

DbD said:

What a dumb post. I'm not even going to bother to argue with you because you're not acting in good faith here. Just bottom of the barrel stuff by you Jordan.

Lol. They aren’t my rankings. Take it up with the coaches polled for the study.

Fridawg said:

Florida being #5 is crazy. I would've put them top 3.

The fact UF is 5th and frankly ARK behind TX, and TN in top 5 invalidates the entire list. In no universe is UTk top 5, especially behind UF who has 3 rings and TN has zero Final 4s, forget a ring. 10 SEC teams have made final 4, and no TN to be found but they are #4? Yeah, naw.

DbD said:

What a dumb post. I'm not even going to bother to argue with you because you're not acting in good faith here. Just bottom of the barrel stuff by you Jordan.

What’s wrong with posting the poll?

HoopsDawg said:

What’s wrong with posting the poll?

I’m seriously confused. It’s now dumb to post a poll where an outlet sampled actual coaches?

Hoopergdawg said:

The fact UF is 5th and frankly ARK behind TX, and TN in top 5 invalidates the entire list. In no universe is UTk top 5, especially behind UF who has 3 rings and TN has zero Final 4s, forget a ring. 10 SEC teams have made final 4, and no TN to be found but they are #4? Yeah, naw.

Isn’t Tennessee and Arkansas’ gym twice the size of Florida’s? Both have also shown the willingness to spend big on coaches. I think Florida is a lacking a bit on the facility side and that job probably comes with some unrealistic expectations in a lot of sense.

RyanJordan said:

Lol. They aren’t my rankings. Take it up with the coaches polled for the study.

Do you have a quota for how many threads you need to start a day? Are you compensated in some way? Mostly you just aggregate links/sources half the board has already seen.

HoopsDawg said:

What’s wrong with posting the poll?

It's not posting the poll that's wrong...it's using it to suggest a) we should be satisfied with Mike White and b) no good coaches want the Georgia job. Neither is true and the second one is especially untrue. His implication is look at this poll guys…we can’t get anyone better so why try. Just a brain dead and ridiculous assertion and illogical as well. A weak trolling attempt by the board's human information aggregator app. This is very typical Ryan Jordan. He used to be a quality poster but something changed. Now it’s all this kind of crap and Falcons posts.

DbD said:

It's not posting the poll that's wrong...it's using it to suggest a) we should be satisfied with Mike White and b) no good coaches want the Georgia job. Neither is true and the second one is especially untrue. Just weak trolling attempt by the board's non-AI information aggregator app. This is very typical Ryan Jordan. He used to be a quality poster but something changed.

Man I hope you have a better evening. It’s a poll about the basketball jobs in the SEC and it’s very relevant to this board.

RyanJordan said:

Man I hope you have a better evening. It’s a poll about the basketball jobs in the SEC and it’s very relevant to this board.

Every basketball job in the SEC is a coveted job. The #9 job has gone to two Final Fours since we sniffed one. You can do better. And you should.

DbD said:

Every basketball job in the SEC is a coveted job. The #9 job has gone to two Final Fours since we sniffed one. You can do better. And you should.

Do better with what lol? It’s not my poll dude. Being ranked the 11th best job in the SEC is not good. Yeah it will still get you paid very well, but these coaches have us way down the pecking order when it comes to job desirability in this league. That’s a problem for the coach shoppers in the fanbase.

RyanJordan said:

Do better with what lol? It’s not my poll dude. Being ranked the 11th best job in the SEC is not good. Yeah it will still get you paid very well, but these coaches have us way down the pecking order when it comes to job desirability in this league. That’s a problem for the coach shoppers in the fanbase.

Clownish stuff buddy. Not going to argue with you because there’s no point. There are any number of really good coaches who wanted this job over the years and who would want it if it opened tomorrow. I’ve had this argument many times with know nothing football only folks but never thought I would have it with you. The poll means a lot less than you want it to mean. This is obvious or should be but I get you have an agenda which is this continual superiority complex evidenced by terms like “coach shoppers”. It’s all so stupid. The coach of the number one team in the league would have crawled over broken glass to coach here. No more replies from me as I have better things to do than to engage someone so clearly acting in bad faith.

DbD said:

Clownish stuff buddy. Not going to argue with you because there’s no point. There are any number of really good coaches who wanted this job over the years and who would want it if it opened tomorrow. I’ve had this argument many times with know nothing football only folks but never thought I would have it with you. The poll means a lot less than you want it to mean. This is obvious or should be but I get you have an agenda which is this continual superiority complex evidenced by terms like “coach shoppers”. It’s all so stupid. The coach of the number one team in the league would have crawled over broken glass to coach here. No more replies from me as I have better things to do than to engage someone so clearly acting in bad faith.

You’re on one tonight. I posted a poll of coaches. Your argument is with them. The number one team you referenced is ranked five spots ahead of Georgia in this poll.

I just wonder why we can’t get it right. We’ve had 7 coaches in the last 30 years since Durham and you could argue that none were great hires (in different ways.) Tubby: 2 seasons and used us as a stepping stone Jirsa: terrible hire Harrick: 62 years when hired, you know the rest Felton: nothing special Fox: nothing special Crean: made Jirsa look like Coach K White: without a doubt the best hire since Harrick, maybe since Tubby. But as noted here, probably isn’t the long term, sustained-success solution. We either have an administration not capable of making a the right hire, or they just don’t want to make a slam dunk hire for basketball. Either one is a sign of.program that isn’t a destination job for a top flight head coach.

JakeReuse said:

Think White has elevated the job. Don't know that he's the guy to get it over the hump, but he's certainly improved it from the outside looking in IMO.

I don’t know if you’re looking at the same list but that’s definitely on the outside looking in…