OT: Louisville looking at Sha?

[fatsam98]

Mentioned in the Dusty May thread, but deserves one of its own.

Jeff Goodman says Louisville will look at Shaheen Holloway (as well as Pat Kelsey from Charleston, and Amir Abdur-Rahim from USF) after Dusty May had a change of heart and wound up at Michigan.

 

[Plum Street]

I would think Louisville could do better.
Smells like Holloway’s agent shaking some branches to get a raise

 

[fatsam98]

Seton Hall board saying Sha is meeting with them today. I actually would feel bad for them if he bolts

 

[Plum Street]

Seton Hall board saying Sha is meeting with them today. I actually would feel bad for them if he bolts

Would be surprising.
Then Brandin knight to seton hall, and he takes Harper and Ace with him ! 😂

 

[fatsam98]

Would be surprising.
Then Brandin knight to seton hall, and he takes Harper and Ace with him ! 😂

You shut your mouth

 

[RUJMM78]

Seton Hall board saying Sha is meeting with them today. I actually would feel bad for them if he bolts

Louisville can offer more money but Seton Hall offers more security.

 

[BigRnj]

Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉

 

[fatsam98]

Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉

Everyone calls him Sha. He calls himself Sha. Weird post.

 

[BigRnj]

Sure thing Sammie. You wear a Jersey with another man’s name on it too? 🤔

 

[fatsam98]

Sure thing Sammie. You wear a Jersey with another man’s name on it too? 🤔

Sammy*

 

[RULoyal]

Everyone calls him Sha. He calls himself Sha. Weird post.

This^^^. How is it any different than calling someone named James - Jim, or Robert - Bobby, or John James - Jimbo?

 

[RU82]

Seton Hall board saying Sha is meeting with them today. I actually would feel bad for them if he bolts

I’d be surprised if he leaves SHU for that job.

 

[RUChoppin]

Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉

This you?

Anything happen in the handshake line, or was it just jawing with the cult fans? A reporter asked Pike about it in the press conference and Pike brushed it off.

 

[fatsam98]

I’d be surprised if he leaves SHU for that job.

Could see it going either way. I know SHU is his home and I think he kind of relishes the underdog role, but where are they going long-term? I don't think they have any NIL.

Maybe the challenge of getting UL back to respectability interests him (plus the huge increase in salary).

It's a tough one.

 

[TDIrish27]

You would be looking at 10-12 million over 5 years .

 

[Mike from MD]

This^^^. How is it any different than calling someone named James - Jim, or Robert - Bobby, or John James - Jimbo?

Or Richard -Dick

 

[KK1827]

Could see it going either way. I know SHU is his home and I think he kind of relishes the underdog role, but where are they going long-term? I don't think they have any NIL.

Maybe the challenge of getting UL back to respectability interests him (plus the huge increase in salary).

It's a tough one.

Louisville could easily double his pay and give him an NIL war chest. Itd be a tough job to turn down

 

[Eagleton96]

Louisville could easily double his pay and give him an NIL war chest. Itd be a tough job to turn down

The negative is higher expectations. At SHU he has a long leash and time to build up. Room to make a few mistakes. At Louisville the pressure cooker will be on him from day one. And if he fails there, he could be washed up before he ever really had a chance to build a track record.

 

[ClassOf02]

Is Louisville as attractive a job as it once was? No recent success, appears to be a complete rebuild, weakened ACC.

Flip side obviously is a bigger budget to hire a head coach and a larger NIL war chest. But Ville definitely doesn’t have the ‘stain’ it used to.

 

[RuSnp]

The negative is higher expectations. At SHU he has a long leash and time to build up. Room to make a few mistakes. At Louisville the pressure cooker will be on him from day one. And if he fails there, he could be washed up before he ever really had a chance to build a track record.

Does he have a longer leash really? What if he misses the tourney next year?

 

[KK1827]

The negative is higher expectations. At SHU he has a long leash and time to build up. Room to make a few mistakes. At Louisville the pressure cooker will be on him from day one. And if he fails there, he could be washed up before he ever really had a chance to build a track record.

Have you ever met SHU fans? Theyre a totally unrealistic bunch.

 

[Eagleton96]

Have you ever met SHU fans? Theyre a totally unrealistic bunch

Seems like Louisville fans are even more so. Plus they have no reason to be loyal to him. His career as a player and a local should buy him at least a year on top of whatever Ville will give him.

 

[angmo]

Maybe Sha is his pronoun?

 

[fatsam98]

Seton Hall board saying it's a done deal that he's gone

 

[bac2therac]

Seton Hall board saying it's a done deal that he's gone

Honestly he would be foolish not to go

 

[urbanecane]

Can’t turn that job down. Seton hall seems like a brutal job. They were like a year late just to start a collective.

 

[fatsam98]

Guess we'll see, but they seem pretty pessimistic over there. These things seem to always take twists and turns

 

[MadRU]

Juwan Howard is looking for a job, maybe SHU will call.

 

[fluoxetine]

This you?

Amazing

 

[wheezer]

Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉

What would slappy think?

 

[PJVegas]

Brandon Knight step right up & come on down with your recruits.

 

[KK1827]

Brandon Knight step right up & come on down with your recruits.

Hed be an interesting candidate

 

[fatsam98]

SHU thinks he's staying now. Who knows.

 

[hinson32]

Scratching my head … grown men calling a coach by a cute little pet name Sha? Let’s call Pikiell Stevie, John John for Calipari, Matty for Gard and Painter, Izzy for Izzo, or Pearlie for Bruce Pearl. Sorry but it’s sounds a bit creepy when Mat Millen calls Saquon Barkley Say Say… it’s the same here. It’s Holloway for Pete’s sake 😉

Huh? Many people call him Pike.

 

[BigRnj]

Huh? Many people call him Pike.

??? So do I … but I don’t call him Stevie or a cute nickname (just sounds wired to me). That’s for the shu crowd that call Holloway Sha, or psu fans that call Barkley Say Say.

 

[RUChoppin]

'Sha' is short for 'Shaheen' like 'Steve' is short for 'Stephen' or 'Pike' is short for 'Pikiell'

Or 'Geo' is short for 'Geordano'.

Not sure what's wrong with shortening someone's name. Do you call Greg Schiano 'Gregory'?

 

[HallX2]

Everyone calls him Sha. He calls himself Sha. Weird post.

It’s from his first name. Bizarre indeed

 

[BigRnj]

'Sha' is short for 'Shaheen' like 'Steve' is short for 'Stephen' or 'Pike' is short for 'Pikiell'

Or 'Geo' is short for 'Geordano'.

Not sure what's wrong with shortening someone's name. Do you call Greg Schiano 'Gregory'?

Figure that out yourself? You’re a smart one.

When speaking of coaches you almost always hear them referred to by their last name Wooden, Hurley, Izzo, Pitino, Calipari, Saban, Parcels, Belichick, Schiano, Pikiell, Stringer… Watch a game, when guys with unique names like Dabo Sweeney or Shaka Smart call a timeout you hear “Sweeney iced the kicker” or “Smart wanted to give his starters a rest.” But with shu fans we hear about some dude called Sha. As a non-shu fan he’s Holloway to me.

Now if you know the guy sure he’s Sha, or Geo, or Ricky, or Skip, or Buddy. Nothing wrong with that… in fact if your name is Richard folks that know you should feel free to call you, Dick or Dickie, or if you’re as short as I imagine Little Dickie would work. See I agree with you.

 

[BigEastPhil]

Dont know how serious Louisville’s interest is with Holloway but I think he parlays the interest into a pay raise for him at Seton Hall

I look for Louisville to hire someone like Will Wade / Wes Miller / Cronin / Lamont Paris etc.

 

[RUChoppin]

People use 'Greg' all the time. And Deion. And Urban. In basketball, people frequently use Fran. Or CViv. Or Geno. Or Dickie V. Or PJ back in the day.

This is a weird thing to go board-police on.