Bear Down Wildcats

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All I know is that Robbins is cited in the NCAA's NOA as having committed a violation. Miller? Miller committed no violation. Book committed the felony. Phelps committed a violation. Robbins committed a violation. Miller is blamed for not policing Richardson. Why isn't the BOR hounding Robbins for H...

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Firing Miller would make me stop following Arizona basketball altogether. So I guess I'll never get to know whoever this guy is. What's crazy is that I know people who feel the exact opposite: they won't continue following AZ hoops unless we fire Miller. These types of fans were very vocal on radio...

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I don't understand how Miller can be considered toxic and yet Bill Self was just awarded a lifetime contract and dozens of programs would gladly take him on despite possible NCAA punishment. Miller walking away from $2.5 million next season (or whatever he's owed) and taking on a new 5-year deal at ...

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I expect they'll announce the extension within the next two weeks, and that it will be approved at the June BOR meeting. If it's anything other than that, Sean should resign and take a different job. I'm serious. Would you walk away from $2.5M and try to find another job? It seems to me that we wil...

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Some heat needs to be put on Robbins publicly if there's no announcement of an extension. At this point, all he is doing is handicapping Miller for a much tougher season. The AD & President's job is to help their coaches in every way possible. If Robbins prefers to let Miller twist (and thus the pro...

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Why the hell would Gonzaga's Drew Timme return? His stock is not going to get any higher and all he does is risk injury. Crap, if Gonzaga players were on the Arizona roster, they'd all depart. Everyone damn one of them.

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azgreg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:00 pm Dick Face is just going to let Miller term out. I can feel it in my bones.

Sweet justice is Miller coaching next year with zero job security -- and then making a run to the Final Four. And then telling Robbins to go fuck himself on national TV.

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So, I'm not expecting any Miller extension news because the women's team is returning home.

Will Robbins now turn to softball and baseball and not wanting to steal their spotlight as for a reason not extending Miller?

Get on with it!!

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Saw that. Very entertaining.

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The more extensions that go out convinces me that Robbins and Heeke have no clue how college basketball works. One may be a heart surgeon -- but that doesn't make you a genius to run an athletic department. The saving grace, knock on wood, is that no underclassmen have entered the transfer portal. Y...

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Series opening win in Tempe, 10-5!!

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If I'm a Carolina fan, I'd be very, very unhappy and disappointed if Stackhouse got the nod. I would think they could do a lot better in Chapel Hill. Vandy has done nothing under Stackhouse.

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Miller is radioactive at this point. He's not leaving for another college gig anytime soon. If he did leave it would be for some lower level NBA position. I don't agree with this. I think UNLV missed out (and showed they clearly aren't serious about becoming elite again) by not taking a swing at Mi...

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As a technical matter there’s a Miller on the list. So if I understand how Arizona basketball works now, we’re going to call that an “Arizona win” and put it down as an “Arizona accomplishment.” Constant predictions of doom, dislike of Arizona and Sean Miller...you'd be at home as an ASU fan. The o...

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ASU's Josh Christopher declares for NBA draft -- not testing the waters. With Martin & Verge gone and House transferring, ASU is betting on a Robert Morris transfer to lead them. Bagley may be back. But still, I don't see ASU doing much at all next season unless they have some surprise recruits or t...

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Akinjo isn't getting drafted next season. Don't see it. And probably not the year after. He's a good college guard with pro potential overseas. He can raise his stock with another good college season and leverage that for some good opportunities.

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Arizona (the place & Tucson) has seen quite a bit of economic, cultural and social growth over the last five years. Indiana's program stagnated under multiple coaching changes and like most fan bases -- their fans over-value their program. Arizona fans have a high opinion of their program (as mentio...

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Would love to see Adia Barnes chime in for Miller and an extension -- now that she has her extension. I realize it's none of her business and that would be unprofessional -- but yet....

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Indiana has largely been irrelevant for the past 18 years, with one big year under Crean. They were a top 5-10 program for decades, but it is difficult to label Indiana basketball relevant in the 2020’s. A couple of bad hires are hard to recover from. That is the fear many have with moving on from ...

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azcat49 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:14 pm Pretty sure Choo said he will be resigned after the women make their run. You would think in a couple of weeks or so

Good!

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ASUHATER! wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:47 pm I don't give a shit if the women lose a billion dollars and the men make 30 trillion. The inequality shown by the NCAA towards women athletes was beyond embarrassing.

You do you then.

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The problem with many athletic directors is that they want to make a hire that will win the press conference -- and place that above hiring a coach who will more importantly win more games. And to some degree -- winning that presser does create some momentum for the program in terms of program perce...

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https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-explains-budget-disparities-between-mens-and-womens-basketball-tournaments-in-new-report/#:~:text=According%20to%20ESPN%2C%20the%202018,women%27s%20event%20lost%20%242.8%20million. According to ESPN, the 2018-19 NCAA Division I men's tournament ...

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Oregon State looking like the team Arizona beat by 34 in January.

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Enfield isn't the best coach in the Pac, but he's done a great job this year. I was surprised how easily USC beat Oregon. I'd said this above, but SC has tough personnel for Oregon. Size matters. Athletic size, we have had size and Altman puts on a coaching clinic every time he plays us. Eh, we sho...

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I don't see how announcing an extension of Sean Miller in the middle of March detracts from the women's team. That's such a pitiful excuse. Announcing an extension is essentially a 1-2 news cycle. That's it. It's the fucking flagship program in the athletic department. It's wonderful the women's tea...

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What is also of note is that we beat two of the teams in the elite eight and when you look at where we finished in the PAC we would have certainly been in the tourney if the league was valued and hyped. That is well and fine and all, but barring a Pac-12 tourney run where we would've got some resum...

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BeardownZonaZona wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 11:27 am Biggest need is a 4

Jordan Brown isn't the answer.

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Fucking Robbins is going to allow Miller coach a lame duck season isn't he? Asshole. I think Miller will get an extension, but I wouldn't consider his job secure at all past next season. Which is fine. And I'm guessing that Miller is probably fine with that as well considering all that has transpir...

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And yet the media is cheering for Texas to hire Bruce Pearl -- like his shit doesn't stink. College basketball is really amazing.

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We should try not to act like NO ONE wants to live in Lubbock. A quarter million people call it home, so it’s like half the size of Tucson. And yes, I’ve been there. Not the most picturesque corner of the country. But I bet you could buy a 12,000 foot mansion for whatever you’ve got in your couch c...

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If I’m Beard I stay right where I am. He’s already like the fifth highest paid coach in college basketball, and he’s in a town where the cost of living is next to nothing. He could be like Lute for Texas Tech. Lubbock is not Tucson. It's Lubbock. And to the people of Lubbock that might be quaint --...

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UAdevil wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:50 am Shaka to Marquette

Beard to Austin? Or Bloomington?

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Will the Maryland job re-open? Rumors that Turgeon wants back in the Midwest? If so, would Miller be interested?

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If you read Iggy's book he said that Lute did that. It wasn't until agents started telling him that he was good enough to go pro that Iggy even thought about the NBA. Iggy actually didn't have a lot of good things to say about Lute It wasn't too good of optics for Iggy to be on a cell phone call wh...

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If you read Iggy's book he said that Lute did that. It wasn't until agents started telling him that he was good enough to go pro that Iggy even thought about the NBA. Iggy actually didn't have a lot of good things to say about Lute It wasn't too good of optics for Iggy to be on a cell phone call wh...

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If you read Iggy's book he said that Lute did that. It wasn't until agents started telling him that he was good enough to go pro that Iggy even thought about the NBA. Iggy actually didn't have a lot of good things to say about Lute It wasn't too good of optics for Iggy to be on a cell phone call wh...

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So the pac might be completely gone by the final 4 but it is the biggest topic of conversation by the college sports national talk show hosts. Glad we are getting our week in the sun. Next biggest is how badly the B1G performed. Then how curmudgeonly Jim Boeheim is even though his son is like the b...

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Would love to hear any inside info about conversations with Robbins and boosters like Cole & Jeannie Davis or Jeff Stevens. How much leverage do they have or does Robbins even care? Objectively, you have to realize that Arizona basketball is poised to have a strong season based on the returning rost...

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Oregon vs. USC should be very good.

Very good matchup -- slight edge to USC on the court.

On the bench: Altman > Enfield

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Media picks are never wrong. Ever. If a team doesn't meet expectations -- it's the team's fault. It's never a case of the media with their collective heads up their asses making a really bad pick. Media: picks ASU as Final Four contender and Pac 12 runner-up. UA Fans: ASU is overrated, lost Romello ...

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I don't know how reliable KenPom is this year because of COVID and limited OOC games and pauses, etc...

Arizona is currently 31 overall.

6. USC
10. Colorado
17. Oregon
24. UCLA
50. Oregon State.
67. Michigan State

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I think Bama and most of the teams left in the tourney have not faced a team that plays hard defense for the entire game. I think this is why the PAC is winning. The PAC teams had to step up their defense to compete in the conference. I worry abit about UCLA and Oregon States ability to score as mu...

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Well, my conclusion is that I'm just not as well versed on the NBA's player development regarding the G-League and overstating my opinion. Something else that caught my eye: Oregon's top three seniors: Omoruyi 24 years old, Duarte 23 and Figueroa 22. Physically more mature. Mentally strong. Their fi...

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I really don't get the mind set of some Arizona players who leave early or even consider leaving early. Look around the Pac 12 the last few years and you'll find the most successful and respected players are those that stayed at their school for the duration of their eligibility: I think it's fairl...

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Anyone think the winner of Oregon/USC can break Gonzaga’s heart? The real issue is the grouping of the top 3 West Coast teams in the tournament -- only one is going to come out of that bracket. There are no Pac 12 teams in the South regional and only Oregon State in the Midwest. Grouping Oregon & U...

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I really don't get the mind set of some Arizona players who leave early or even consider leaving early. Look around the Pac 12 the last few years and you'll find the most successful and respected players are those that stayed at their school for the duration of their eligibility: Payton Pritchard Mc...

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EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:12 pm Zags defense isn’t that impressive but boy can they score.

Oregon could give Zags trouble.

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It didn't help that ASU was a favorite of the national media and shit the bed this year -- thus causing the national media to write off the entire conference. Turns out, ASU was the turd in the punch bowl while the rest of the conference, save Cal & UW, were pretty good. Pre-season polls are such bu...

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It's comical that Oregon wasn't even ranked -- actually 31st according to the polls. I mean, do the pollsters even watch teams? Of course they don't. Know why? Because nobody west of the Rocky Mountains watches Pac 12 basketball, ever. Oh sure, maybe Seth Davis. But other pollsters don't watch at al...

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