Bear Down Wildcats

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Musselman is a better, safer choice than Lloyd. Musselman has a solid track record at Nevada and Arkansas, versus Lloyd, who has never been a college head coach anywhere. If we did things right, which I doubt, then we told Lloyd we will explore Muss' interest and then make a decision. Lloyd is no du...

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Lloyd has a ton of upside, but it's a big risk having him cut his teeth as head men's basketball coach at Arizona. Lloyd could be the next Roy Williams. Or he could be the Arizona Basketball version of Mike Stoops. Good assistant, but just not cut out to be the main guy. Hiring Stoops after Mackovic...

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How about an all Stoudamire staff? HC- Damon AHC- Salim AC Amare Wasn't there a Stoudamire that also played basketball at Oregon State in between Damon and Salim? The name Damon Stoudamire also lends itself well if you want to parody Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire." Damon Stoudamire First h...

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The Lack of Institutional Control is a catch-all the NCAA uses to try and make thing sound bad. The reality? Two of the items the basketball program was accused of in the NOA were self-reported. That being the $500 loan to Pinder, which resulted in a 2-game suspension and Pinder paying the money bac...

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If Lloyd stays, that's because he's comfortable. Can't blame a guy for wanting to remain the right hand man at a Gonzaga for a few more years. It's as stress-free a job as possible in college basketball. And it's not like Lloyd is starving either. You get paid well to enjoy the success, coach the pl...

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Muss has a $5 million buyout at Arkansas. After paying Sumlin's and Miller's buyouts, we don't have the cash to afford Muss. Sad, but true. Lloyd has been a career assistant. We know nothing about how he would handle the big chair. Jim Rosborough was one of the best assistants Arizona ever had. Lute...

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and why do you think the UofA braintrust never let Miller get a chance in the NCAA Tournament this year? At the end of regular season, our resume was almost identical to UCLA's. If we were eligible, beat CAL on the first day of the PAC-12 Tournament, we would have faced UCLA again in what would be ...

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Not Choo but I'm assuming he could possibly do it. All the euro kids probably know him. He's pretty respected over there. Akinjo probably not, he was very tight with CSM. I could see Kerr and Tubelis knowing him already Makes sense. By that logic then mathurin, terry, akinjo likely gone :(. Sooner ...

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Hiring an assistant to be head coach in his/her first job at Arizona for Football or Women's Basketball is different than hiring a first-time head coach for Men's Basketball. Adia could make mistakes that cost games her first two or three years and nobody would care, as long as the team kept improvi...

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Miller will follow the Sampson plan. Be an NBA assistant a few years, and then get offered a high, mid-major job to try and salvage his good name. Heck, Sampson is 65, and Miller could replace him in 3 or 4 years if/when Sampson retires. Would be a solid hire, and Houston has proven it can go to the...

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Miller will go the NBA as an assistant because it's a job in basketball, pays well, and who knows, maybe it will help him become a better coach? If there's no show cause for Miller, he'll be back on campus very quickly. If there's a show cause, who knows. And yes, last year wasn't Arizona good, but ...

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Cronin getting to a Final Four in year two is just dumb luck. Which is needed to get far in the Tournament. Anyone around Tucson remembers the joke in the early 90s--Why don't you ever order a drink at Lute's bar? Because you always get kicked out of the first round (rim shot) Thank goodness the idi...

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To the people who wanted Miller gone, be careful what you wish for. Miller was very successful at Arizona, and just because we have Arizona across the jersey, doesn't guarantee jack shit. See Indiana Basketball. The timing is also sucks for assistant coaches and players. No consideration at all for ...

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Nobody did less with more talent than Sumlin at TAMU...until Sumlin came to Tucson, and did nothing at all with even less talent. What a disaster. I've said it before, Arizona should hire a guy that Texas or TAMU will want to hire in 3-5 years, and not the guy Texas or TAMU just fired. I'm not a fan...

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When has a P5 school been successful hiring an assistant coach with no head coaching experience to be their coach? Asking for a friend. I remember a lot that haven't but cant think of one that has. Mike Davis Mike Hopkins Bill Gutheridge Chris Collins Steve Lavin There are certainly programs that h...

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Just letting things go this long is stupid. We all agree, that if the NCAA/IARP hammer comes, it will take a few years to rebuild. And if this happens, parting with Miller then would be appropriate. But why self-implode before we get the IARP response, especially with a team that is listed in just a...

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Stanford's bigs dominated the game on both ends. Vandever had the perfect game plan to stop us, and Stanford executed very well. Guard the three, and if we drive past, let the Trees underneath bother the shot. Hard to win when you shoot less than 30% and get outrebounded by more than a dozen, and th...

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They showed the fight of true Wildcats and left it all on the floor. Just came up a few inches short, but I couldn't be more proud of a team. One of the best in Arizona history; any sport.

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So if I'm reading this right, the rumor says Robbins wants to wait until after the women are done to FIRE Miller???? That... makes zero sense. But that's Robbins. If this is true, it's not only unfair to Miller, it's unfair to the players as well. If they want to consider their transfer options bec...

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UNC has to put out feelers to guys like Stevens and Donovan. Nothing to lose and everything to gain. It's not like Miller or Davis are going to turn down the job because they weren't the school's first choice. If I'm UNC, I'd prefer Wes Miller over Davis. Can't replace head coaching experience, and...

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UNC has to put out feelers to guys like Stevens and Donovan. Nothing to lose and everything to gain. It's not like Miller or Davis are going to turn down the job because they weren't the school's first choice. If I'm UNC, I'd prefer Wes Miller over Davis. Can't replace head coaching experience, and ...

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The theory of holding off any Miller extension talks until the women's tourny run is over is what do Heeke and Robbins want to read on the C1 headlines (C1 being the front page of the Sports section of the newspaper for those who don't understand the reference). Do they want to read about the amazin...

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Jim Livengood always liked Kelvin Sampson. Livengood hired him at Wazzu, and would have hired Sampson again if he could have at Arizona. But nobody was going to replace Lute. Sampson is a good coach, but in addition to having a previous show cause, he's 65, turning 66 in October. He would be a truly...

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Aari is a joy to watch. Heck, the entire team is a joy to watch. And while Aari is the clear leader, she hardly forces any shots, and I think the biggest play of the Indiana game was Aari's assist to Pueyo for the open three. Perfect pass after Aari drove to the middle of the floor, D collapses, and...

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I'm naming my next pet Aari, only because I'm done having kids. Bear Down!

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Arizona and UCLA had nearly identical resumes before Conference Tournaments started. Bubble teams, both. Had Arizona beaten CAL in the opening round of the PAC-12, the winner of the subsequent UCLA/AZ game would have been a tournament lock, as the winner would have had another Q1 win on the resume. ...

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First, congrats to Coach Barnes. Well deserved extension, as I assume we all are in agreement here. Happy to see her here for the long term. Second, not sure about the statement about not being able to get a Miller extension past the BOR. There may be BOR members waiting for the IARP ruling. With no...

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The last three years haven't been Arizona good, but we were a lock for the tournament before COVID hit last year, and at worst, a bubble team this year, had we been eligible. Next year, assuming no departures, we can get back to being Arizona good with our returning players with experience, Bacho, a...

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Yep. UCLA was also a likely 10-seed entering Conference Tournament week. The loss to Oregon State knocked them down to a First Four 11-seed. And caused them to lose a few spots in the NET ranking. And tournament projections are based on resume to date. They do not take future games into account, and...

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10 seed?? I doubt it. UCLA ended up an 11 seed in a play in game......and they swept us twice. At best we would have been last in (or next to last in). Missing the tourney entirely would have been a very real possibility. With this logic, Indiana should have been a 1 seed because they swept Iowa......

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5, 6, 7? Does it matter that much. Point is, we were a lock last year. We had already won our first round PAC-12 Tournament game, and our NET couldn't move down too much, but could potentially move up the more we advanced in Vegas. As for this year, I content, bubble in before the Conference tourna...

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The NCAA selection committee uses NET rankings as a guide for the tournament. End of the regular season, our NET was 46, very close to UCLA and Colorado. UCLA lost in the conference quarters and ended up the last four in. Colorado beat SC and made the conference finals, and is a 5-seed. Had we been ...

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5, 6, 7? Does it matter that much. Point is, we were a lock last year. We had already won our first round PAC-12 Tournament game, and our NET couldn't move down too much, but could potentially move up the more we advanced in Vegas. As for this year, I content, bubble in before the Conference tournam...

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The 3-year tournament absence needs to come with an asterisk. We were a 5/6 seed after winning our first round PAC-12 Tournament game last year. We could have made a run and won in Vegas, and might have even gotten a 4-seed. Either way, we were a lock. Had we been eligible this year, we would have b...

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Fisch had an extremely low bar to clear, and he cleared it. But if he goes 2-10 next year and most games are over by the end of the first quarter, like they were during the Mackovic years, anything Fisch has in the bank will be quickly depleted. As for Miller, it's time to piss or get off the pot. O...

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Look at Kentucky hires over the past years. Pitino was the youngest, least experienced guy they have hired over the past 4 decades. Kentucky has either hired from other BCS level programs like Smith, or from the NBA like Calipari. Pitino was more a flavor-of-the-month coach with one, deep tournamen...

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Look at Kentucky hires over the past years. Pitino was the youngest, least experienced guy they have hired over the past 4 decades. Kentucky has either hired from other BCS level programs like Smith, or from the NBA like Calipari. Pitino was more a flavor-of-the-month coach with one, deep tournament...

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No leadership. Who the eff is in charge? Certainly not Heeke. Robbins is not any better, and if big boosters are running the show, that's a bad sign. Either fire Miller now, or sign him to an extension with an out clause if NCAA penalties from the IARP is too harsh. Firing Miller would mean taking a...

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If you know a coaching change needs to happen eventually, it needs to happen now. Why wait? What's the benefit of keeping Miller employed if we're only going to let him go before next season?

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What doesn't add up to me about the Rawle story is if it had legs, why wasn't Book indicted on charges and why no high school admin charged either? It's not like the FBI wasn't looking either. In addition to the basketball scandal, there was Operation Varsity Blues, with several college admission sc...

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South Carolina wasn't an IARP ruling. My mistake. It was a cooperative agreement between the NCAA and South Carolina. It also sets a precedent the IARP will likely follow. As far as evidence goes, it's what you can prove happened. There was a ton of smoke regarding Arizona, Kansas, and other program...

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The IARP ruled on South Carolina last week. Wrist slap 2-year probation with no further penalties. We're a few months behind South Carolina, so expect a ruling for Arizona hopefully this summer. Getting rid of Miller now would be ludicrous. He's been a winner and has been within whiskers of three Fi...

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Best defensive effort all year. Rotations were solid and WSU maybe had 4 or 5 open shots all night. And a few of them were on lucky bounces or rebounds. Very impressed with the D. O took a little while to get going, but it was more of just shots not falling in the first half. Had a couple of good lo...

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The problem with the whole narrative is that Book took a bribe and the optics were bad involving Miller & Dawkins. But there is literally (as far as I know) zero proof Arizona's players or recruits received improper benefits. Oh sure, there's plenty of bad press and innuendo about payments to Ayton...

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Based on the South Carolina decision, it's likely we get off with time served (1-year post season ban) and a similar, 2-year probation with no scholarship reductions or post-season ban. I think Book took more money, and more Arizona players names were involved, but the basics of what happened at S. ...

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My guess there is a handshake agreement between Heeke/Robbins and Miller. If the IARP comes down with additional punishments that are significant, then Miller has to go. If the IARP decision is time served, i.e. no further punishments, Miller signs an extension. Especially after this year. With the ...

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I disagree that things can't or won't get better under Miller. Lute Olson once said, last century, the best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores. This was, of course, before the era of the one-and-done, and before kids played with and against other top prospects just about year round. Unde...

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AZCatFan2, I think we may just disagree. I see value inherent to a coach in being a basketball school. Alabama clearly isn't. Arkansas, the 40 Minutes of Hell Hogs were over a quarter century in the past, and the South just doesn't care about basketball like it does football. A consensus top ten jo...

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Arkansas had Nolan Richardson, 40 minutes of hell, and a Basketball National Championship. I know, because I was there as a member of the Arizona Pep Band. Alabama has an AD that knows the value of a top notch basketball program, coming from Arizona, and knows it's possible for a football school to...

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Miller deserves to stay, barring a hammer from the IARP. If we do get nailed, however, Miller will have to go, and our search will be a difficult one. We'll be under heavy punishments and a likely ban from tournament play for at least one additional year, if not more. Coaches at other BCS schools w...

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