UNC Basketball Possible coaches - UNC hires ex-Nuggets HC Michael Malone

Also, this isn't necessarily Malone's last job. I mean, if it works out very well, it will be and we will be happy. But it's not like BB where he has no incentive to be good other than personal competitiveness. Malone might want to go back to the NBA at some point, or if he gets fired, coach somewhere else. Who knows.

Point is, I view the possibility that he might leave for the NBA as a positive, rather than a negative. It gives him an incentive to put his all into the job. So long as he's not thinking about going back to the NBA in a year or two lol.
 
Calheel said:
This is a good test of my theory that when a coaching replacement is named, there is great dissension for the first 24 hours, but within a week, virtually everyone has come around and thinks it is a great hire.

So, I'll come back to this thread next week and take everyone's temperature on my sociology theory.
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For @superrific
 
superrific said:
Thanks. But is this a sociology theory? It would be if everyone comes around because of some sort of social dynamics. It would not be if people just woke up to the fact that their initial impressions were wrong.
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But it happens almost every coach search. Unless you get an unquestionable home run hire, like Roy 2003, the initial coach announcement almost always produces primarily negative or mixed reviews. And then, almost like clockwork, the opinions on the hire become almost universally positive within a week.
 
Calheel said:
But it happens almost every coach search. Unless you get an unquestionable home run hire, like Roy 2003, the initial coach announcement almost always produces primarily negative or mixed reviews. And then, almost like clockwork, the opinions on the hire become almost universally positive within a week.
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Well, that would indeed seem sociological. Or perhaps more precisely, a matter for social psychology. Either way, I get the point.
 
Congratulations on being introduced to the Family, Michael Malone. It’s fine that you come from the outside, but as a newcomer you have to be an earner. If you bring a Championship to the Family you’ll be a made man and a full-fledged member of the Family.
 
BlooVooDoo said:
Is he? I’ve never heard of him. What recruits has he brought in?
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He runs "operations"
Everything from Carrying coaches bags today at the Airport-to being the guy that calls Mike Jordan to get new gear-to having a network that helps keep players out of jail
Linda Woods use to do all this and be Deans' Secretary-but Hoots makes 10 times what Linda made and of course things are more complicated today
 
Presser was encouraging. I liked a lot of what he had to say. Especially liked that he showed HD a ton of respect, more than just obligatory lip service, and it sounded like HD had done the same and sent him a congratulatory message after the hiring.

I’m more onboard now than initially. Let’s see how it goes with the roster. So far it’s a lot of “I’ll surround myself with the right people…” Hope that framework is already in place.
 
mpaer said:
He runs "operations"
Everything from Carrying coaches bags today at the Airport-to being the guy that calls Mike Jordan to get new gear-to having a network that helps keep players out of jail
Linda Woods use to do all this and be Deans' Secretary-but Hoots makes 10 times what Linda made and of course things are more complicated today
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I was asking about Chuck Martin.
 
The hire might not have won the press conference, but Malone sure as hell did with his performance.
 
Calheel said:
This is a good test of my theory that when a coaching replacement is named, there is great dissension for the first 24 hours, but within a week, virtually everyone has come around and thinks it is a great hire.

So, I'll come back to this thread next week and take everyone's temperature on my sociology theory.
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I think there's probably something to that. Optimists and pessimists will usually have opposing reactions to a hire, but by a week in the energy and excitement and newness of the "new" hire sort of tends to buoy everyone along.

I'm already more optimistic about the hire than I was when it was announced, though I still have doubts. As I said before, speaking for me personally I think it was the shock of Malone (who had never been seriously discussed as a candidate on IC) that made it seem like a desperation hire.
 
Oddball said:
He is the guy who does all the leg work for Calipari recruiting, Google can list the dudes but this season it was Acuff
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Ah. So he replaced Orlando Antigua? I didn’t even realize he left Calipari until I saw him on the Illinois bench.
 
Oddball said:
The hire might not have won the press conference, but Malone sure as hell did with his performance.
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Certainly the folks who have been very angsty about losing the "family" aspect of the program should be more at ease. Saying all the right things in the presser doesn't mean there won't be problems down the road but everything about Malone (including that interview from this past October) suggests that his respect for the program and tradition is genuine. (Now we'll see what happens when his daughter graduates and the NBA comes calling, lol).
 
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