Welcome new UF Basketball Coach Michael White

[PatDooleySucks]

Looks like Corky to me.

Law has stepped up his Gator hate game to all new heights. Troll level 100 achieved. Making fun of people with Down's ...

 

[PatDooleySucks]

Texas hire Charlie Strong. UF hires Muschamp.
Texas hires Shaka Smart. UF hires Bobo McFly.


Texas wins again.

You know Texas wanted Muschamp as their next head coach and Shaka was never available to us. Dumb post is dumb.

 

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“You're gonna love him,” Foley told (Pat Dooley) Thursday night. “I know this happened fast, but he blew us away.”

 

[MidwestChomp]

I'm surprised at peoples' lack of understanding of how teams get make the NCAA tournament. And who's to say Foley didn't contact Miller or Chris Mack. These guys were the early favorites. Perhaps they said no thanks I'm staying. We'll never know because Foley isnt dumb enough to leak that info like Tennessee did with football coach search numerous times, and Bama with trying to get Marshall for bball. And before you continue to crucify the poor guy, he runs a similar style to Billy D and has SEC experience. You don't have to be happy with the hire, but don't rag on him just because he isn't who we expected to get.

 

[78]

Don't kid yourself. Foley placed one call and made his decision. Period.

 

[t-gator]

[QUOTE='78;n220378]“You're gonna love him,” Foley told (Pat Dooley) Thursday night. “I know this happened fast, but he blew us away.”[/QUOTE]
You blow me away78

 

[WobbleGator]

[QUOTE='78;n220380]Don't kid yourself. Foley placed one call and made his decision. Period. [/QUOTE]

You need to troll harder.

 

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"It was Monday morning and Jeremy Foley was choked up. He was saying goodbye to Billy Donovan, his close friend and best hire as Florida's athletic director.

On Monday afternoon, Foley made a phone call that would shape the immediate future of Florida basketball. He dialed up Tommy McClelland, the young athletic director at Louisiana Tech, to let him know he wanted to talk to McClelland's basketball coach."

 

[WobbleGator]

[QUOTE='78;n220383] "It was Monday morning and Jeremy Foley was choked up. He was saying goodbye to Billy Donovan, his close friend and best hire as Florida's athletic director.

On Monday afternoon, Foley made a phone call that would shape the immediate future of Florida basketball. He dialed up Tommy McClelland, the young athletic director at Louisiana Tech, to let him know he wanted to talk to McClelland's basketball coach."



[/QUOTE]

That statement doesn't prove that only one phone call was made.

 

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That statement doesn't prove that only one phone call was made.

Okay, he dialed Allied Van Lines in between.

 

[WobbleGator]

[QUOTE='78;n220385]


Okay, he dialed Allied Van Lines in between. [/QUOTE]

This trolling is weak 78. Step it up.

 

[78]

This trolling is weak 78. Step it up.

Who said I'm trolling? I believe he made one call, just like Muschamp in 2010. Do you have anything that proves to the contrary? Foley is so easily wowed IMO.

 

[WobbleGator]

[QUOTE='78;n220387]
Who said I'm trolling? I believe he made one call, just like Muschamp in 2010. Do you have anything that proves to the contrary? Foley is so easily wowed IMO. [/QUOTE]

"We heard some undercurrents that this [was] a possibility, so we began looking at coaches probably several weeks ago," Foley said." May 4th, 2015.

 

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"We heard some undercurrents that this [was] a possibility, so we began looking at coaches probably several weeks ago," Foley said." May 4th, 2015.

You just discredited yourself. Foley said during Monday's presser that he hadn't yet talked to one coach. Looking up names on the internet doesn't count. Keep trying.

 

[WobbleGator]

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You just discredited yourself. Foley said during Monday's presser that he hadn't yet talked to one coach. Looking up names on the internet doesn't count. Keep trying. [/QUOTE]

You have no proof that he didn't talk to any other coach before White.

 

[PatDooleySucks]

[QUOTE='78;n220390]
You just discredited yourself. Foley said during Monday's presser that he hadn't yet talked to one coach. Looking up names on the internet doesn't count. Keep trying. [/QUOTE]

"Talking" is word of art. The reporters at the Sun never have the balls to follow up and ask if there was any pre-talk pursuit.

 

[T REX]

Well you're a dumbass so I'll make this simple.

Louisiana Tech is in the Conference USA. C-USA only ever gets one automatic bid to the tournament and no at-larges (not since teams like Memphis, Marquette, Cincinnati, and Louisville jumped ship). They went 15-3 in conference and won the regular season title last year, but since the NCAA has an idiotic rule that says only the conference tournament winner gets the automatic bid, they didn't make the tournament when a red hot UAB team took them out in overtime in the conference tourney (the same UAB team that beat Iowa St. in the Dance).

The year before, they lost to the #2 seed Tulsa in the conference tourney final. They would make it to the NIT Quarterfinals, beating UGA along the way before narrowly losing to FSU.

LA Tech was also a program that had only had three winning records in the ten previous seasons before White got there, and had only made the NIT once. They hadn't won a regular season championship since 1999. White had a winning season every year he was there and made the NIT three out of four years. I think that kind of improvement is something that commands a modicum of respect.

Excuse machine in full effect today. This is Will Muschamp all over again. But he did XYZ and he did this and that. Bottom line is he couldn't win the conference tourney ONCE in THREE tries as the best team in his league. Just gimme ONE NC2A...just one.

This is another reach by Foley. Don't try to find the next Billy Donovan. Find the next UF basketball coach.

 

[PatDooleySucks]

Excuse machine in full effect today. This is Will Muschamp all over again. But he did XYZ and he did this and that. Bottom line is he couldn't win the conference tourney ONCE in THREE tries as the best team in his league. Just gimme ONE NC2A...just one.

This is another reach by Foley. Don't try to find the next Billy Donovan. Find the next UF basketball coach.

I'd personally prefer a guy who won his conference regular season title (I think he has three in two different conferences?) then a guy who won his conference tournament. Winning the regular season title is a sign of balance and consistency.

 

[VulcanAlex]

Who cares if he made one call or 100 calls. Time will tell if this is a good hire or not. Assistants are also important and I would like to keep both of ours if possible. Give it time and see what happens.