I hereby proclaim today as "Bobby Hurley" Day
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if we want to keep Hurley on our short list in 2 years of Eddie if not getting the job done is it better if Buffalo loses this game?
We want him to continue to win at Buffalo but if he does too much too fast he will be picked off by another P5 team before we get a chance. Heck, while not a P5 team SHU may go after him next year.
This post was edited on 3/20 4:32 PM by RUfinal4
We want him to continue to win at Buffalo but if he does too much too fast he will be picked off by another P5 team before we get a chance. Heck, while not a P5 team SHU may go after him next year.
This post was edited on 3/20 4:32 PM by RUfinal4
Young guy with energy with Duke pedigree and a name everyone knows vs a 60 year old coach with no recruiting stain...who can sell better
He certainly did nothing today to jeopardize his status as a coach on the rise. I don't think he is at Buffalo more than one more year. I wonder if he would be a match for Fordham?
No we need to give Eddie one more season to see if he can do the job , not buy him out and commit to someone
with only 2 years of HC experience , but good ones .
Reggie Witherspoon the previous Buffalo HC had a 14-20 record the year (20012-13) before Bobby was hired, but was
21-12 in 2008-09
18-12 in 2009-10
20-13 in 2010-11
&
19-9 in 2011-12
So it's not like Bobby took over a program like Rutgers that had more problems than solutions when he started out at Buffalo.
He had 4 of the starters coming back when he took over for Witherspoon, helping him to his 19-10 rookie season
and #1 in the MAC.
Bobby looks like he has a great career ahead of him, do you really think he'd consider knowing what it needs and being a career killer because RU doesn't have enough support to help him win if he took the RU HC position.
This post was edited on 3/20 6:11 PM by MADHAT1
What's to be sick of? Bobby Hurley was a sophomore at Duke when Rutgers last made a tournament appearance. And 24 years later, he takes Buffalo to the tournament in his second year as coach.
We should be sick of Rutgers! LOL
Rutgers should be in favor of guys guys who win basketball games. I
This post was edited on 3/20 8:59 PM by Aggs
We should be sick of Rutgers! LOL
Rutgers should be in favor of guys guys who win basketball games. I
This post was edited on 3/20 8:59 PM by Aggs
I think Bobby is going to be a good major program HC, but it's to early in his career to take on a project like RU MBB .
Without backing he is doomed to fail and would need the guaranteed time to build a program that occasional would reach 20 wins. RU fans would be in an off with his head mode after 3-4 years .
Right now Jordan's cleaning the mess Rice left and making due with facilities that turn recruits from RU and into programs with better ones.
Yes, even some that RU should be head and shoulders above, but look more desirable because of how that program is supported.
Eddie might not be the answer, but Bobby isn't ready yet to take on the mess RU MBB is now.
Let Jordan have a year to prove he can have RU play more competitively , because any one RU hired ( instead of him)
would need a free pass his first two years before RU Fans could expect to see a program that could be competitive game in
game out. Including Bobby !
Without backing he is doomed to fail and would need the guaranteed time to build a program that occasional would reach 20 wins. RU fans would be in an off with his head mode after 3-4 years .
Right now Jordan's cleaning the mess Rice left and making due with facilities that turn recruits from RU and into programs with better ones.
Yes, even some that RU should be head and shoulders above, but look more desirable because of how that program is supported.
Eddie might not be the answer, but Bobby isn't ready yet to take on the mess RU MBB is now.
Let Jordan have a year to prove he can have RU play more competitively , because any one RU hired ( instead of him)
would need a free pass his first two years before RU Fans could expect to see a program that could be competitive game in
game out. Including Bobby !
I am not a could've shoulda would've type of guy, but Hurley probably would've done fine at Rutgers. You can either coach well, you can coach average, mediocre or not at all. Hurley falls into an above average+ coach.
I'd love to have him at Rutgers and he would probably of done fine here.
I'd love to have him at Rutgers and he would probably of done fine here.
I don't think anyone said that, but as of this morning both Hurley's had teams alive in the postseason. Meanwhile, some bitter Rutgers fans slam coaches who 20-plus games in 2014-15.
The last time Rutgers won 20 games? Facebook and YouTube didn't exist!
This has nothing to do with who we have as our coach, but at least recognize a job well done.
This post was edited on 3/20 10:21 PM by Aggs
Who can win 20 games at Rutgers? Rutgers hasn't won 20 games in over 10 years. C'mon, guy.
Maybe it's because the Hurley's get a lot of positive press, but they're not the second coming of the Lannisters of Casterly Rock. They don't have evil plans to rule the world. They are far worse people in the business.
We still have a section of fans who think we can hire a Shaka Smart type when it's time to do it. SMH
What don't you like about the Hurley's and what did you like about Bannon, Waters, Rice, Jordan? Every coach has a different style.
I'll hang up and listen.
This post was edited on 3/20 10:46 PM by Aggs
I don't think it's a problem.
Rutgers football didn't hire an established head coach in 2000/1.
What football did was invest and hire someone with a vision. What more importantly they invested and invested some more
They didn't ask Steve Spurrier to coach Rutgers.
Whether Rutgers has the money to invest in basketball and support the leader of the program has nothing to do with the Hurley Brother's coaching talents.
This post was edited on 3/20 11:17 PM by Aggs
Rutgers football didn't hire an established head coach in 2000/1.
What football did was invest and hire someone with a vision. What more importantly they invested and invested some more
They didn't ask Steve Spurrier to coach Rutgers.
Whether Rutgers has the money to invest in basketball and support the leader of the program has nothing to do with the Hurley Brother's coaching talents.
This post was edited on 3/20 11:17 PM by Aggs
You sort of dodged my point. Both coaches - men's and women's - are embarrassed with our facilities. Shouldn't that be enough proof that we fall well short of our peers?
My point was Schiano wasn't established. Was not a big name.
You said the only way Rutgers can win is with a big name - now it's about vision?
This post was edited on 3/20 11:36 PM by Aggs
But Schiano got what he needed and his AD spent the money that was needed to make the FB program good enough to start recruiting the type of players that would mahe RU FB a respectable program.
That AD had the backing of the RU President when he needed to put the Athletic Department in debt to build a good football program.
But MBB didn't get a piece of the pie and was run on the cheap .
No whoever is the MBB HC won't have the tools to build a good MBB program, because the AD isn't being given the OK to spend what's needed to make RU MBB a respectable program.
You can bring up Schiano not being a big name or even having HCing experience, but you can't say he wasn't given the tools needed to build a successful FB program.
Every RU MBB HC has been denied those tools because the AD hasn't been given the OK to buy them.
Making the Schiano comparison not a good one.
A good comparison would be spark plugs :back in the day.
The FB program was allowed to go to the Auto Dealer's service department and have a new set installed .
The MBB program had to go to the gas station and have them sand blast the plugs being used and reinstalled
because that's all it could afford.
? The decision to transfer means Hurley was not supportive of him coming to RU rather than RU not being able to create an environment where the kid wanted to stay?
I am so tired of hearing about Schiano. He and football got everything they wanted. RU Basketball gets treated like the step child that got nothing. Basketball here at Rutgers is treated like dirt.
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