🏀 Next Basketball Head Coach Speculation Thread

Men's Basketball
3531

Probably a lot. Been having that same thought.

Calhoun or bust? Can’t stop myself thinking “What if Tony retired after last season?”. I think the vibes were negative enough we wouldn’t have gone with the internal hire route

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3532

I’d imagine Vandy is gonna do everything they can to keep him. And we have no idea what his buyout looks like, could be really high.

It’s why Byington is a tricky candidate, he could be a major possibility for us or he could not even be on the board.

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3533

They also just opened their new facilities yesterday.

I think back to over the summer Trilly’s comment on Vanderbilt having “more money than God” and going all in on sports

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3534

I think the only chance at Byington is that he really wants to be in Cville/VA long term. I’m sure Vandy can match any funding that we have planned and the SEC is a vastly better conference

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3535

I don’t think the SEC is an asset for Vandy vs ACC is for us. It’s too competitive right now whereas you come to ACC and you just have to contend with UNC and Duke while still being very well resourced

The money thing is gonna be the bigger issue. Should have had Byington last year

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3536

Byington was hired on March 25. We lost on March 19. There is zero chance we hire him last year

3537

Wait what, if Bennett retired after the CSU loss like some people speculated he would then that timeline would have worked out for us lol.

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3538

Yeah hires happen quick, and Byington would have gotten word Tony was hanging it up/held off on the Vandy job maybe

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3539

There is zero chance that TB decides to retire 6 days after the loss. It would’ve been into April and the choices would’ve been much kess

3540

Zero chance? You got sources on that?

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3541

I think we benefit from not having to compete the MEGA-carousel last year. And as you said, there would have been a lot of pressure to promote within.

We’ve now seen what that looks like without having to invest long-term.

This year’s a wash, but long-term I think we benefit from the timing. But of course, all depends on who we get.

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3542

This argument is dumb.

Let’s focus on what we can do to get Byington in Charlottesville. I will personally donate upwards of $20 towards his buyout. Paul Tudor Jones will you match it??

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3543

I think it starts with pulling for ND tonight…

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3544

You really think that he would have retired less than 6 days after his loss when he wasn’t 100% sure that he wanted to do it anyway? No, that wouldn’t have happened. I mean it didn’t happen. What are we eve taking about

3545

I think there’s basically 0 significance to anything that happens on the court for us right now. Ron isn’t being retained, not sure performance this season affects our candidate pool at all.

3546

PTJ matching a mill for every dollar you donate :joy:

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3547

S/o Caleb Tanner. 540 legend

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3548

Vandy up 5 on Kentucky with 24 seconds left.

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3549

That kid was nasty. Tore up the 3 rivers district but that Floyd team around him was never that good.

**might have gotten better after I graduated. I was a couple years older than him.

Watched him and Andrew Rowsey tear up the Northside gym at an AAU tournament my buddies were playing in back in the day.

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3550

Watching with my Kentucky fan gf, and as much as I love Byington I think I want Kentucky to win. Easier to hire Byington if he’s not in the tourney.

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