Next UTEP coach is...
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Honestly how confident are you all that senter will make the right hire ?
He is very interested.
No matter who he hires. If the coach wins it was the right hire. If he fails it was the wrong hire.
If Coach Cal will send him his leftovers, come on down!
One of our old coaches interviewed today.
Care to elaborate? Does his name rhyme with Arby’s minus the s?
I wonder who are the suprise candidates. Cause I believe Terry was a surprise candidate. I wonder if Sean Miller is interested. I would really like him.
If you want to be looking to hire another coach in 6 months to a year, then go ahead and hire Miller.
Does his name rhyme with a girls toy?
A lot of people still spell it that way. 😀
Barbee and Goling are the only "UTEP has cut their list to two" I want to hear when all is said and done.
But we know Senter will throw in a Fred Sanford in the mix because "he has good previous experience".
I'm getting all giddy over here...he and Golding are my top two...
The thought of Barbee teams against CUSA 2.0 is very exciting.
I just can't get excited about Barbee. Lost in the cbi championship. Lost in the cusa championship. Lost in the ncaa tournament.
Complete failure at Auburn. Didn't even win a conference tournament game. By all means let's bring in a .500 coach.
Complete failure at Auburn. Didn't even win a conference tournament game. By all means let's bring in a .500 coach.
I wish the fanbase would. His greatest accomplishment as a hc was taking us to an ncaa tournament. I'm surprised more people aren't asking for Sadler back. At least he had some what success at Nebraska and looked like he had USM turned around.
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UTEP basketball has been irrelevant for thirty years. Barbee inherited a bare cupboard. He built a top 25 squad in 4 years. The 2010 team was the best UTEP team since 66. I truly believe that. He got an incredibly unlucky draw getting Butler in the tournament. If he would have stayed one more season they could have made it to the second week of the tourney in 2011.
The UTEP job is hard. It's tough to win here. Barbee has proven he can win here. That gives him a leg up on all the other candidates. This is a program that's been terrible for for almost thirty years. Outside of 66 we had a good six year run in the eighties. Thats about it. We've got past the first weekend once since 66. Since the sixties we've made it to tournament twice a decade with the exception of the 80's (6 times) and the 2010s (1 time). Everyone's expectations for the program are based off an inflated and imbelished view of UTEP basketball. So far it's not been proven we can be a consistent winner in modern basketball. This is a tough job. Barbee is the only candidate we KNOW can win here and win big. I don't care about CBi's or NIT's like recruits and fans I only care about NCAA. Barbee is the only candidate I know without a doubt that will get us there. It's hard and really dumb to pass up a sure thing.
The UTEP job is hard. It's tough to win here. Barbee has proven he can win here. That gives him a leg up on all the other candidates. This is a program that's been terrible for for almost thirty years. Outside of 66 we had a good six year run in the eighties. Thats about it. We've got past the first weekend once since 66. Since the sixties we've made it to tournament twice a decade with the exception of the 80's (6 times) and the 2010s (1 time). Everyone's expectations for the program are based off an inflated and imbelished view of UTEP basketball. So far it's not been proven we can be a consistent winner in modern basketball. This is a tough job. Barbee is the only candidate we KNOW can win here and win big. I don't care about CBi's or NIT's like recruits and fans I only care about NCAA. Barbee is the only candidate I know without a doubt that will get us there. It's hard and really dumb to pass up a sure thing.
I agree. I’m just been playing Devil’s Advocate to see if maybe there’s still something that intrigues the fans more than Billy G. I am not one for retreads, and I am trying to think of a situation where any coach came back 10+ years after their biggest success and did it again.
If Barbee is such a great coach why did he fail at Auburn? Why was the next Auburn coach able to take them to the Final Four a few years later?
Doesn’t mean he can do it again. He was never loved here, and didn’t really embrace El Paso.
Barbee was also riding the wave of being a Calipari assistant with fresh Memphis connections at the time. His Memphis recruiting served us well. Does he still have those recruiting connections? Do kids even care to play for him? What has he done since UTEP to make us think he can do big things at a struggling b-ball program?
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Built a very talented team though and if he stayed on morehead would've gotten a better opportunity I think and Utep would've advanced in the NCAA
I rather focus on what actually happened not on what if's.
No news today, I guess. I still feel very strongly that Golding is the only logical hire here. Recent success (conference championships, ncaa appearances, ncaa tournament win), tremendous defensive coach, teams play with passion and identity. I watched some of his post game interviews form the tournament a few nights ago and I can see why his players love him. He said something like “I’m going to coach them as hard as they’ve ever been coached but I’m going to love them even harder.” I wanted to suit up!! I just have this inclination that if Golding is hired, Haskins will come alive again. He was interviewed for the Tech and OU jobs so they must see something as well. I’m all for hiring former head coaches, however, not when a better candidate is available.
I had to quit reading there. I liked the 2010 team A LOT. But you are on crack if you believe what you wrote.
Great points. And I’m not against Barbee. But one other thing I’d point out is that had Barbee coached that team Floyd took over and stayed around, he was gonna be hurting the next year when all his senior graduated. His cupboard would have been bare like it was for Floyd. Maybe he could have built it up again in a few years but he wouldn’t have had the continuous success by any means.
Re: Golding
Was just cruising through some Google news articles on Golding this past year and found this from their game against Arkansas. Speaks to why I feel he’s the guy for this job.
Arkansas Coach Eric Musselman said Abilene Christian, which beat Hardin-Simmons 95-73 on Wednesday in its last game, will be the best team the Razorbacks have played so far this season.
“They’re really well coached,” Musselman said. “They create disruptions. They deny passing lanes. They’re a high steal team. They’re a very well-balanced scoring team.”
The Wildcats are forcing an average of 23.9 turnovers to rank No. 2 nationally; average 11.0 steals to rank No. 5 nationally; and are tied for No. 9 nationally with Houston in scoring defense at 55.8 points per game.
“They took us out of a lot of the things that we like to do,” said Texas Tech Coach Chris Beard, a former UALR coach. “We obviously played against one of the best defenses in college basketball.”
Abilene Christian plays primarily man-to-man defense and will use a zone press at times.
“It’s something we pride ourselves on,” Golding said of forcing turnovers. “Whatever you hold your guys accountable to and is something you think is important and you work on it all the time, guys start to embrace it. We believe in forcing turnovers and getting easy baskets on the other end, stealing possessions from other teams.
Was just cruising through some Google news articles on Golding this past year and found this from their game against Arkansas. Speaks to why I feel he’s the guy for this job.
Arkansas Coach Eric Musselman said Abilene Christian, which beat Hardin-Simmons 95-73 on Wednesday in its last game, will be the best team the Razorbacks have played so far this season.
“They’re really well coached,” Musselman said. “They create disruptions. They deny passing lanes. They’re a high steal team. They’re a very well-balanced scoring team.”
The Wildcats are forcing an average of 23.9 turnovers to rank No. 2 nationally; average 11.0 steals to rank No. 5 nationally; and are tied for No. 9 nationally with Houston in scoring defense at 55.8 points per game.
“They took us out of a lot of the things that we like to do,” said Texas Tech Coach Chris Beard, a former UALR coach. “We obviously played against one of the best defenses in college basketball.”
Abilene Christian plays primarily man-to-man defense and will use a zone press at times.
“It’s something we pride ourselves on,” Golding said of forcing turnovers. “Whatever you hold your guys accountable to and is something you think is important and you work on it all the time, guys start to embrace it. We believe in forcing turnovers and getting easy baskets on the other end, stealing possessions from other teams.
I actually agree that 2010 team was one of the best we have had.... that was an elite 8 final four type of team if they had not run into butler
Please. Butler wiped the floor with us. They struggled against Murray St. Even if we had beat those two. No way we beat Syracuse in the Sweet 16. But here we are again playing the what if game.
At some point, the NCAA is going to start handing down sanctions, and Miller's coaching career is likely over.
There were rumors that team was pissed as news of Barbee to Auburn but still not a good excuse.
The UAB game doesn't get much pub but that was a great, great matchup for the title. The crowd was great, "Feed it to the big man!! (Caracter)" blaring on my TV screen all night by Pete Gillen
That 2010 team was very good, but I would have taken the 2006 team any day of the week. That team didn’t fold in the 2nd half of their tourney game and you could argue they got some bad calls down the stretch plus that game vs Rutgers was the absolute baddest beat down I’ve seen. I’m sure some of the older guys on this board would say one of those 80s teams as well. Plus it’s hard to dismiss the 92 team because they’re the only ones who actually made a Sweet 16.
I do agree that barbee is the only coach who has done decent here in forever, but I don’t think his name carries much weight anymore.
i think our best option (that we can afford) is a young up and coming coach to bring excitement from recruits, or a well known assistant. I just don’t think recruits will care what barbee did for us in 2010. Could be wrong, though. Don’t even know if there’s an answer to our struggles anymore. Our name longer carries weight at the mid major level, and hasn’t for some time....
i think our best option (that we can afford) is a young up and coming coach to bring excitement from recruits, or a well known assistant. I just don’t think recruits will care what barbee did for us in 2010. Could be wrong, though. Don’t even know if there’s an answer to our struggles anymore. Our name longer carries weight at the mid major level, and hasn’t for some time....
