Comments on: Canzano: “Carlesimo would put Oregon on the map again”

By: Ideaman

Ideaman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:21:23 +0000

My Wish List

1. Knight – Bring him in for 4 years, hire a coach in waiting then after Knight Bows out you have a solid young coach in the wings.

2. Chris Collins – Assistant at Duke. He is young and intense. Coach K -esque

3. Brad Stevens – Butler head coach. This guy is a manchild coach. Look at what he has done with Butler – 4 straight NCAA touny invites wins the horizen every year. Bring him in.

4. Lavin

By: bbryan

bbryan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:01:28 +0000

Ski – It’s all about the presentation. What good is a vision if you can’t sell it to people?

El Rey (/makes wanking motion) – Thanks for the correction. For some reason I always consider him a lottery pick. Probably because he’s been the only player from Oregon that has been any good since Brandon.

By: Stake

Stake — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:19:03 +0000

Bry- your right with what the other Pac10 coaches will, or should say to recruits. Problem is most kids(recruits) are f’n morons and care more about perks and stupid shit associated with the program rather than what a coach’s history is; unless its a coach K, Roy, Calepari. The Pac10 hasn’t seen a coach like that since Wooden though.

By: El Rey

El Rey — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:45:56 +0000

I have been on the Lavs bandwagon since the Pit Crew handed him a signed placard wishing him well after he was fired from UCLA and he took it stride (I just didn’t think it would take this long for Ern to get canned). The guy is the shit, as Ski has previously preached.

PS, Kent has had 3 lottery picks, not 4. Aaron Brooks was picked like 27th.

By: Meerkat

Meerkat — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:15:52 +0000

Here’s a sampling of better play’s around the Pac-10 than PJ’s run to the championship game 20 years ago:

PJ:
“I joined the PAC-10 so I can better the level of coaching after the 2009-2010 season … aka the worst season ever.”

By: thetruth

thetruth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:15:21 +0000

You’re a douche Canzano!!

By: brewSKI

brewSKI — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:58:10 +0000

A month ago I bring up Lavin as my top choice for the Ducks and people shit on me. Now other people are saying they like Lavs and everyone jumps on board. Man it’s tough being a visionary you get no respect.

By: bbryan

bbryan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:42:12 +0000

If a young urban kid with NBA desires has PJ come to his living room, will any other PAC-10 coach have a better play than this …

Here’s a sampling of better play’s around the Pac-10 than PJ’s run to the championship game 20 years ago:

Howland – 3 straight final fours, numerous lottery players, oh and I coach at UCLA.
Montgomery – Numerous lottery picks, was just as crappy as PJ in the NBA.
Dawkins – Any player that is good enough to play Pac-10 ball and smart enough to go to Stanford will never choose Oregon over Stanford, this is academic.
Robama – Obama is nailing my sister
Kent – 2 elite 8 runs and 4 lottery picks since PJ was chocked out

By: bbryan

bbryan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:16:23 +0000

I’m starting to come around on Lavin a little bit. His laid back persona would fit Eugene pretty well, and he’s well known and liked.

The down side is he’s basically a white Ernie Kent. His results weren’t that great considering he was at UCLA.

I also think we could get him on the cheap compared to some of the other names that are being thrown out there. I know selling tickets is a big deal at the new arena, but at what point does all the extra money spent towards getting a new coach outweigh the additional tickets a new coach can bring in? This could cost the Athletic Department 2-3 million more per year than just keeping Kent. Basically Oregon better get this one right.

By: WCP541

WCP541 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:57:35 +0000

I’m now on the Steve Lavin bandwagon after reading this post from a Bob Clark blog:

Robbie G,
I’m glad my persistence is finally paying off and my call for hire Steve Lavin is starting to get some pub. I think he would be great for a few reasons:
1) Has won at the Pac-10 level already.
2) Deep runs in the tourney (and not the NIT), 5 Sweet Sixteens (one Elite Eight) in 7 seasons, my mind says that’s about 71% of the time…the calculator says 71.4%. Only missed the tourney once as a coach. He also won a national championship as an assistant to Jim Harrick.
3) Popularity. He is currently a college basketball celebrity because of his work with ESPN/ABC. He also goes in depth with the X’s and O’s better than most I have seen on any of the networks (opinion, I know, but others would likely agree). This is huge when you are trying to sell 12,500 seats each game. Plus, he’s popular with the Pit Crew already.
4) Only one sub-.500 season, all other seasons came with at least 21 wins.
5) 4 wins over the #1 team.
6) Twice had the #1 recruiting class.
7) Pac-10 record is 81-48.
Overall record is 145-78
9) All this while head coach at the university of all universities when it comes to college basketball.
Almost forgot, one last thing about Lavin, he’s already coached in a situation where the fans put unrealistic expectations on him.

Here’s the link to the blog if anyone wants it: http://www2.registerguard.com/cms/index.php/duck-mens-basketball/comments/why-not-who/