AM Basketball Coaching Search Update

by Scipio Tex on May 13, 2011 5:09 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Basketball

Marquette's Buzz Williams has already said you can't afford me and Colorado's Tad Boyle did the math on living in Boulder vs. College Station and winning in the Pac 12 (pretty easy) vs. the streamlined Big 12 (pretty hard) and said no thank you, but I appreciate you reaching out deranged-athletic-director- who-writes-incredibly-crazy-shit-with-no-self-awareness every Wednesday.

That leaves only one logical candidate. Wait for it....

Jeff Van Gundy

Bill Byrne has reached out to JFG and when Bill Byrne reaches out, people change their phone number and elementary schools hire security guards.

Jeff Van Gundy.

I couldn't more excited if that name was Jean Claude Van Damme.

Van Gundy lives in Houston and badly wishes to get back into coaching. And the college game is not alien to him. He was an assistant for Pitino at Providence. Although the world is too cruel a place to allow it to really happen, seeing a wise-cracking, human-shoe gum, fretting everyman sweating up the sideline and trying to make sense of Texas A&M would be good theater.

This may eventually be filed away under the Jimmy Johnson, next football coach at A&M!!! delusion that populated Aggie boards for several weeks pre-Sherm, but I'm holding on to this dream for a while longer until A&M announces the hire of some promising up and comer from Western Kentucky or some such.

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I agree, let it happen.

Then when it’s time to bring in a new baseball manager, please make Lou Pinniella the first candidate.

by magnusbleuveigner on May 13, 2011 5:29 PM CDT reply actions

Katz just shot down the Van Gundy rumors. We’re now targeting a PE teacher in Northern Iowa named “Ben”.

Boulder blows. Well, the people blow.

by ColoradoAg on May 13, 2011 5:32 PM CDT reply actions

Colorado Ag, you just made me laugh very hard.

Best regards to Ben.

by Scipio Tex on May 13, 2011 5:38 PM CDT reply actions

I think we should hire the coach from Findlay Prep. At least he can recruit. Mid Major here we come.

by Kilgore Trout on May 13, 2011 9:14 PM CDT reply actions

I think we should hire the coach from Findlay Prep.

you’d probably have to get our permission for that…

by The Bobs on May 13, 2011 9:51 PM CDT reply actions

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/columnists/buck_harvey/article/Even-without-buzz-Aggies-have-options-1376398.php

This is an article on Kennedy, Murray State, who may be a finalist. Former scout for the Spurs.

by torre on May 14, 2011 9:34 AM CDT reply actions

oh please please please let this happen.

by Dagga Roosta on May 15, 2011 3:44 AM CDT reply actions

It’s been formally announced that Kennedy is the guy.

by Kilgore Trout on May 15, 2011 2:10 PM CDT reply actions

Murray St?… CAg wasn’t far off. And was he even the first choice? The ESPN article makes it sound like you wanted the guy out of NORTHER IOWA first. I guess NI did do well 1 year in the tournament recently. I didn’t know shit about Murray St until I just looked them up. They also had one decent tournament year in the last 5 (they only year he made it), but they couldn’t even make the tournament while winning their conference last year.

I know that there are great coaches coming up from the smaller schools and A&M has done a good job of finding them lately, but I think they’d want to try to move away from that by now. Let someone else find these diamonds in the rough and then hire them. I just wouldn’t feel good about those odds 3 times in a row.

by Current A&M undergrads on May 15, 2011 9:52 PM CDT reply actions

really need to stop accidently posting under that handle.
1.3M for a guy out of Murray St also seems a little expensive.

by ut-06 on May 15, 2011 9:54 PM CDT reply actions

I think it’s 1.0 M/yr. Byrne always looking to get someone on the cheap…..

by KilgoreTrout on May 15, 2011 10:14 PM CDT reply actions

Don’t know a thing about this guy. A&M will have a good squad next year, in any event. He’s not coming to a bare cupboard.

by Scipio Tex on May 16, 2011 2:30 AM CDT reply actions

They changed the wording sometime between now and last night in the ESPN article. I now says “the Aggies were prepared to offer their new coach $1.3 million to $1.5 million a year.” That doesn’t mean they gave him that much. I’ll assume Kilgore is correct until I hear otherwise.

by ut-06 on May 16, 2011 10:05 AM CDT reply actions