🏀 Next Basketball Head Coach Speculation Thread

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I think anyone hoping to keep the 5 pillars around long term might be disappointed. Every coach is going to have their own sayings and catchphrases and the 5 pillars was Tony’s and was very rooted in his religious beliefs. Now, the actual tenants can be fairly universal, but keeping that as the moral basis of the program keeps it as a reminder of Tony Bennett. What coach is voluntarily going to invite daily comparisons to the best coach in program history who led it to its only national championship? No new coach will keep the 5 pillars around, not even a Bennett protege. The new coach has to be his own man.

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Porter Moser has a culture wall, which is like the 300 Pillars:

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I wanna know what “6 eyes, 6 arms” mean. Sounds like the creepiest X-Man possible.

And I assume “never be 3 in a row” is his Battleship advice.

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1865

Gonna be tough for him to find 13 guys with those physical traights

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1866

I wouldn’t want him as the guest speaker anywhere talking about all his pillars… that talk would last 8-hours.

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1867

There are 300 so that “poop in a towel” fades into the background

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1868

I guess culture wall sounds better than “Tips and tactics” wall, but those ain’t cultural.

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1869

I love that there are hyper-specific ones like “don’t rotate uphill” and also incredibly broad ones like “do your job.” Coach, I can’t do my job, I’ve only read 267 of the 300 culture wall bricks.

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One of them just says “white”. I mean, is this a tribute to Keith Van Horn? Or was he struggling to come up with 300?

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1871

300 bricks in a culture wall is not culture - it’s the Book of Majerus. I think they made a movie out of it starring Denzel.

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1872

I mean the real question… does he call it a pick & roll or a zip & curl? How hip is he to the new vernacular?

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Lots of our lineups actually…

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1874

I think I’m out on Moser after seeing this dumb wall. Please respect my opinion.

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1875

Yea that feels like contrived coach mumbo jumbo. Im out

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1876

I survived a football coach who had a number draft. I can survive lots of dumb coach stuff (because I’ll come on here and make fun of it)

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1877

I’ll say this. It was weird to see your head coach at the same bars that students/players went to. That’s a dynamic I didn’t anticipate when I signed to play for Terry Holland. JJ was “out and about” a lot. That’s what did him in.

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1879

Yeah, I always heard it was his penchant for young co-eds that ultimately did him in… although I was a young undergrad then and was more plugged in with the football team gossip.

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I agree, I’m in on the culture wall. It’s good for a fanbase to have harmless low-hanging fruit for criticism, since the natural state of fandom is to complain.

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1881

Yup he was the OG Lane Kiffin when it came to that.

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My opinion on JJ and the end of his tenure here was that it wasn’t any ONE of those things. It was all of them together:

  • The class of 95 and their shenanigans
  • Some of his personal stuff
  • A fall off in performance (only one tourney and no wins; bad ACC record) the 3 years after the elite 8
  • Decline in recruiting (class of 95 mess, Willie didn’t live up to the hype, not much after that)
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