Bear Down Wildcats

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Another head coach who will be coaching his/her first college game when the season starts next year at Arizona. At least Hale has had coaching experience in the minors and major leagues. But no recruiting experience. And no experience handling a college baseball roster, which can turn over real quic...

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Again, Buffalo shot 50% from 3-point land that game! That's hard to beat, even if your lineup is Magic, MJ, Pippen, Malone, and Shaq! And it's not like we had a bad year. 27-8 (14-4) with a PAC-12 and PAC-12 Tournament Championship. All with the specter of the FBI Investigation hanging over the team...

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Feed the big man! The Suns play so much better when Ayton touches the ball early. Game 5, Ayton rarely got early touches, and the Suns were behind in that game for almost all 40 minutes. Game 6, I think Ayton was the first Sun in double figures and it just opens up the floor for Booker, CP3, and the...

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Makes sense to at least interview Chip. In addition to being an all-time great Wildcat, he has coached baseball at the highest level and currently lives in Tucson. We could do a lot worse. Recruiting would be a question mark, but if Hale can keep the core of the current team together and win early, ...

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It makes sense for Baseball players to enter the portal. It gives them options. Like the coach, and you can withdraw your name with no penalty. Don't like the hire, and you can shop elsewhere for your services. My guess, and this comes with zero inside knowledge, the two coaches on Heeke's list are ...

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RIP. Did all the dirty, anchor work on the defense and seemed like the ultimate team guy. Didn't need the credit as long as the D got the job done. Whole team was that way.

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All the more reason Checketts should be the first call. He is well known and well respected in our recruiting base areas, and might be able to pull a kid or two from UCSB with him to Tucson. Even though we beat UCSB twice in the regionals, I got the feeling that in a MLB style, 7-game series, it wou...

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If you can live comfortably in Santa Barbara, it would take a lot to convince anyone to move. But it's not like Tucson doesn't have some very nice places to live for those who can afford it. Colonia Solana, just west of Reid Park is amazing, and a UA Baseball coach could walk to work. Plenty of nice...

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I'd love to hire Checketts, if he's ready to move from Santa Barbara. Easy pitch to bring him to Tucson. We can double his salary and move him to a place with a lower cost of living, and allow him to coach at a P5 school that just proved it can have a season where we can host all the way to Omaha. I...

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Checketts should be the first call. We could probably double his salary, in a place where cost of living is significantly less. And Arizona offers Checketts the chance to be a national seed and the ability to host all the way to Omaha. Something that's unlikely at UCSB. Of course, this is Robbins an...

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U of A losing in the First Round with Ayton is Exhibit A in the case of how shitty of a game coach Sean Miller was One game playoff is not a good indicator. We beat Buffalo in 5 in a 7 game series. It just happened they went 50% from 3 in the one game we did play. And that was with missing their la...

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This team never had the pitching to win it all. Still crazy to think what might have happened against Vandy had the ump not been fooled and called Silseth's 3-2 slider a strike in the 7th. As for JJ, he should ask Andy Lopez what it's like when a west coast guy leaves for SEC money. Lopez was a good...

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I guess you PAY TO WIN THE GAME! I'm truly enjoying the schadenfreude. What comes around goes around and all that jazz.

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I love the way Williams has progressed from a light-hitting defensive guy, to a player that hit well over .300 this year with some pop in his bat! He's hitting .80 points better than his freshman year. Kudos to JJ and the staff developing him, and kudos for Williams for putting in the work. You neve...

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Kino Sports Complex should have been built in Marana. The writing was already on the wall concerning Tucson Spring Training. Maybe, if two teams were located in far NW Tucson/Marana, Tucson would have had a chance. The drive time between Tempe (Angels) and Surprise (Royals and Rangers) is an hour in...

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Great win tonight. Ole Miss Coach probably thought they could score enough to start their #2 tonight and win. Then close out the series tomorrow with their ace. When the Rebs scored 3 in the first, strategy looked brilliant. But we shut them cold for 8 straight, and our offense does what it does. De...

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Don't get me started again on the Fisch hire. Only one guy was going to hire him for head football coach. President Robbins. Nobody else would've given him the time of day. Same with Bloomquist. Think any other school would hire him to be head baseball coach with zero coaching experience? Me neither...

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Heck of a college baseball player, and scrappy enough to play 14 years in MLB. Seems like a decent guy too. But his entire post playing career has been as an assistant in the D-backs front office. If we pretend this is the corporate world for a second, and compare Bloomquist with a guy like Checkett...

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So ASu hires an alumni who has never been a head coach at any level in baseball, and has never recruited a kid, ever. It's one thing to hire a lead assistant who has recruited, scouted, and likely ran practices. It's another to hire someone who has never been a coach, and never recruited. If Bloomqu...

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Checketts has been at UCSB for 9 seasons now. His resume certainly warrants a move to a higher profile school, but I wonder why Checketts hasn't made the move yet? Not a great interview? Comfortable at Santa Barbara? There are certainly worse places to be!

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Bear Down. Feel for UCSB. They played well enough to win a lot of regionals, but we played that much better. Tip of the cap to the Gauchos. Now, on to the Supers!

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Great game. And the complete game means all hands on deck to pitch minus Irvin. Let's get one more win tomorrow night.

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While the D1 Baseball would be a tough bracket, you know it has to be wrong. They have us placed up against the Ole Miss Bracket, and you know the committee will put us up against Stanford or Oregon's bracket. Can't have too many PAC teams in Omaha.

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https://247sports.com/Article/Zion-Williamson-bank-records-show-payments-Adidas-executive-mother-stepfather-Duke-Blue-Devils-New-Orleans-Pelicans-165508460/ The mother and stepfather of Zion Williamson accepted payments from former Adidas executive Chris Rivers between 2016 and 2019 bank records sh...

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Adia is building a true program. Sure it helped that Zeke enjoyed his time in Tucson, but getting a top 10 player who had offers from Stanford and UCONN to come to Tucson? That puts us in rarified air! And if Maya is half as good as a player and a person as brother Zeke, we got ourselves a great pla...

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Nice win today. But you don't take the runs with you the next game. Have to show up again tomorrow and take the series.

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Nico looked for his own shot way too often. And didn't have the lateral quickness to get around guards at the college level, let alone defend them. Maybe his shot can improve in the pros, but he'll never have the quickness. Role player off the bench in the NBA is probably the best he can do in my op...

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So far, so good. But the proof will be the product on the field. Nothing brings fans to a game more than winning. If we can at least be competitive the first year and eek out a couple of wins, I think we'll still have momentum. Win 6 and go to a bowl game in year 2, then we'll be primed for better t...

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Any sanctions that come down from the IARP won't likely happen until, at the very least, this next season is all but over. We'll be given the opportunity to either accept them for next season, or have them start in 2022-23. Given we'll likely have a full scholarship roster of 13, even if we lose 2 t...

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Need to sweep the two PAC series at home, and do no worse than split Stanford and Oregon St. Do that, and we should be hosting at the Hi C. Win the Furd and Beaver series, and we have a chance at being a top 8 seed. It's all set up for us. I like the way the team approaches at bats too. Very patient...

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Lute often said the best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores. The modern college basketball game is different, as many of these kids are bouncing balls all year round, and have played a ton of minutes already before stepping on campus. But that doesn't negate the fact that we have a bunch...

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Before Miller was let go, ESPN had us too Early Top 25 ranked at 15. We were returning the core of a team that was a bubble team that had very little experience playing together. And by the end of the year, knocked off USC at USC. The potential to be Arizona good was set to come back to Tucson. Firi...

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If whatever PG we get to replace Akinjo doesn't have similar numbers, and Akinjo has a breakout year at Baylor, that's not necessarily Lloyd's fault, but it will look bad. The players coming back plus Akinjo had us in the top 20, if not top 15 in the country next year. If we take a step back because...

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The caveat with Lloyd's success will be the IARP decision. If it's a wrist slap, then yes, Lloyd needs a PAC-12 Championship or two, plus a couple of deep runs early. If it's a hammer, expectations will need to be reset.

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Interesting dynamic at work. We're celebrating assistants and kids staying with the team after a head coaching change. This usually happens after a coach leaves for a bigger/better job, not getting fired. Makes you wonder just how raw a deal Miller got. Lloyd is doing the best job he can, and he's n...

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Good day for Arizona Basketball. Miller still got av raw deal, but JET staying on staff and Kerr coming back is big. Looks like we are keeping a lot of the core parts of the team many think has legit 2nd Tournament weekend potential. And Lute swore, if you consider hell a swear. Now Jerry Kindall? W...

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Ayton is the team's leading rebounder at 11 a game, and is 10th in the League in rpg. He's also averaging 15 ppg on a team that has Booker, who is an elite scorer by any metric. Suns are a legit team, and if they can avoid the Lakers until the Conference Championship series, I think the Suns have a ...

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Thing is with transcripts, concerning Shareef O'Neal, it was self-reported by the school, O'Neal never enrolled at Arizona, and therefore Arizona never benefitted, and O'Neal was eligible day 1 at UCLA, a school with generally stricter entrance requirements. Does Miller deserve blame for having Phel...

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Lloyd seems to get what Arizona Basketball is about. I hope he's successful. Robbins and Heeke are idiots.

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Hope Tommy isn't a one-hit wonder with the phone number 8675309. Lloyd is saying the right things, as expected. But we'll don't know how good a head coach he'll be for several months now. And the view looks a lot different one seat over. Only the fans know the assistant coaches' names, but everyone ...

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Lloyd as head coach is an unknown. We have no idea how successful he'll be. We can only hope that Lloyd brings in top players to Tucson the way he brought top players to Spokane. And that on the court, we have success like Gonzaga, or at the level we are accustomed to.

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I'll be a fan regardless. Lloyd is high risk, but high reward. We should have retained Miller, but at least we didn't hire someone like Brase. And for the record, Tomey's time in Tucson was stale, and it was time for a refresh. The mistake wasn't letting Tomey go, it was hiring Mackovic. Tomey's las...

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Risky hire. Remember when UCLA hired an assistant with no head coaching experience? See Lavin, Steve. How did that turn out again? Still, if Lloyd can recruit top Euros to Spokane, WA, he can get those kids to come to Tucson, AZ. No offense, but Spokane, especially in the winter, is not a place I'd ...

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Lloyd could be the next Roy Williams. Could be the next Matt Doherty. He's a top assistant, but that doesn't always translate to the big chair. And going from assistant to head coach at Arizona is akin to giving a 16-year old keys to a Ferrari on his birthday. Technically, he may know how to dive it...

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Damon took a poor Pacific team and made them respectable. Not great, but certainly an improvement in the past few years. Damon has earned the right to move on to a better job, but all the way from Stockton to Tucson? If Damon were not an alum, would we even consider him with his record? No. But who ...

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So we fire Miller, pay him $1.5 million, and our brainless trust of Robbins and Heeke is now more the laughingstock of college sports than before. The incompetence is incredible. Could have kept Miller, had a top 25 team coming back, and if the team imploded, or if the IARP dropped the hammer, we co...

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Santa Clara, 1993, first round. I think we held them scoreless the last 4 minutes of the first half, and v the first 5 minutes of the second half. Then the UA President got involved. Miller has been tried, convicted, and executed by the court of public opinion already. But back in the real world, it...

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The Challenger Space Shuttle was go for a perfect launch, then the UA President got involved. At this point, it Lloyd isn't the guy, it needs to be Damon. Damon has been on a bench coaching for over a decade, the last 5 as the head of a program. No other coach on our list, sadly, has anywhere near t...

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All the best head coaches started as an assistant somewhere. But just because one was a great assistant, doesn't mean he/she will be a great head coach. Giving someone their first head coaching job is a risk. When that job is Arizona Men's Basketball, it's even more difficult, because of the added p...

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A good University President is hardly known outside the campus except to top boosters. Likens and Pacheco did a good job, weren't micromanagers, and did their jobs. Neither were game changers, but solid B+ Presidents. John Schaefer was a game changer. Lead the charge to get Arizona out of the WAC an...

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