...as I predicted last month..has a top 5 class coming in.
Bryce Drew fired....
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Can Scott hire Bryce and maybe some of those top recruits can get released from their LOI's and sign with Baylor (like Jared Butler did, I believe)?
Recruits yes, but why would Baylor want any coach that just got fired for losing?
The first word in your post answers your question.Timbear said:
Recruits yes, but why would Baylor want any coach that just got fired for losing?
That's wild. Can't believe they wouldn't give him 2 more years with that class.Stefano DiMera said:
...as I predicted last month..has a top 5 class coming in.
I know it's never an excuse but didn't they have a lot of significant injuries this season?
Ok, cool
NBA playing experience and it never hurts to have a former HC as an assistant.Timbear said:
Recruits yes, but why would Baylor want any coach that just got fired for losing?
“People who live in glass houses...have to answer the door."
They had two 5* recruits this season. One, Darius Garland, is a projected first-round pick in the NBA draft this year. He played in 5 games, in which they went 4-0, and was injured for the year in the fifth after playing 2 minutes (they eventually lost that game to Akron).Yeek said:
I know it's never an excuse but didn't they have a lot of significant injuries this season?
The second, Simi Shittu (rough name) was a McDonald's AA but tore his ACL during his senior season and was working his way back all year, despite playing in all 32 games (think a Quincy Miller situation, except he probably won't be so foolish as to declare for the draft this year).
I'd be down to hire Bryce, except 1) he's probably going to get some HC offers, and 2) we'd have to lose an assistant to accommodate him, and Drew is extremely loyal to his staff, so I don't see that happening, unless Tang finally gets a HC shot.
Late to the game. Where did Bryce coach?
Waco1947 said:
Late to the game. Where did Bryce coach?
Vandy
Really just one injury, though it was significant. They had signed a 5-star PG who tore up his knee just 4 or 5 games into the season. He's projected as a lottery pick in this year's NBA draft even with the injury.Yeek said:
I know it's never an excuse but didn't they have a lot of significant injuries this season?
He was their best player, but their injury situation really isn't comparable to what Baylor went through, in my opinion.
On the one hand they had to reorient their whole offense. On the other hand, it wasn't like the injury disrupted them halfway through the season. They basically had all year to figure it out. And they also had brought in two other freshmen who were 4-stars.
They beat a couple of decent teams after the PG got injured. They also very easily could have been around .500 halfway through the SEC schedule. They should've beaten Tennessee right after the Vols went to No. 1 (blew a 6-point leader with a little over a minute to go and lost in OT) and came close to beating Kentucky in Lexington.
Bottom line was they didn't get better as the season went along; if anything they got worse. I saw them a couple of times on TV. One was their game at OU in the Big XII-SEC challenge. They looked abysmal, clueless and demoralized and lost by 30 or 35. And then I watched OU's very next game, when we went into that very same gym and beat OU by 30.
Bottom line is you can't go 0-19 in conference play and really expect to keep your job.
Their incoming class is supposed to be good, but I don't know if it's as heralded as this one (they've signed Scottie Pippen's son).
I'm sure they were also thinking about the cost to the program if they DIDN'T make a change. Basketball attendance already is down in most places because most games are on TV. It would be pretty hard to sell season tickets for a team that went 0-19 the previous year unless they have a new coach.
"Free your ass and your mind will follow." -- George Clinton
hmmm, in looking at Vandy's class. We have a Jordan (Turner), could we add a Pippin?rudylaw said:The first word in your post answers your question.Timbear said:
Recruits yes, but why would Baylor want any coach that just got fired for losing?
Could we hire Bryce as a "consultant" and get some of those recruits?
How many bottom lines do you have?bubbadog said:Really just one injury, though it was significant. They had signed a 5-star PG who tore up his knee just 4 or 5 games into the season. He's projected as a lottery pick in this year's NBA draft even with the injury.Yeek said:
I know it's never an excuse but didn't they have a lot of significant injuries this season?
He was their best player, but their injury situation really isn't comparable to what Baylor went through, in my opinion.
On the one hand they had to reorient their whole offense. On the other hand, it wasn't like the injury disrupted them halfway through the season. They basically had all year to figure it out. And they also had brought in two other freshmen who were 4-stars.
They beat a couple of decent teams after the PG got injured. They also very easily could have been around .500 halfway through the SEC schedule. They should've beaten Tennessee right after the Vols went to No. 1 (blew a 6-point leader with a little over a minute to go and lost in OT) and came close to beating Kentucky in Lexington.
Bottom line was they didn't get better as the season went along; if anything they got worse. I saw them a couple of times on TV. One was their game at OU in the Big XII-SEC challenge. They looked abysmal, clueless and demoralized and lost by 30 or 35. And then I watched OU's very next game, when we went into that very same gym and beat OU by 30.
Bottom line is you can't go 0-19 in conference play and really expect to keep your job.
Their incoming class is supposed to be good, but I don't know if it's as heralded as this one (they've signed Scottie Pippen's son).
I'm sure they were also thinking about the cost to the program if they DIDN'T make a change. Basketball attendance already is down in most places because most games are on TV. It would be pretty hard to sell season tickets for a team that went 0-19 the previous year unless they have a new coach.
Because a lot of failed head coaches are outstanding assistants.Timbear said:
Recruits yes, but why would Baylor want any coach that just got fired for losing?
Do you even sports, bro?
The AD who hired him died and the new one has been on the job a month or two. He had never had a sit down meeting with Bryce until he fired him. Until this AM Bryce thought he had one more year to turn it around.
Sorry to hear it. Want the Drew brothers to succeed.
Vanderbilt with the clown shoes move of trying to convince him to take another position at the school so they could avoid having to pay his buyout. What a joke.
The old AD had actually retired, but then he died only a week or so after his retirement took effect.beardoc said:
The AD who hired him died and the new one has been on the job a month or two. He had never had a sit down meeting with Bryce until he fired him. Until this AM Bryce thought he had one more year to turn it around.
Seems rather strange there hadn't been a sit-down meeting with the new AD until now.
"Free your ass and your mind will follow." -- George Clinton
Unless they recently changed things, Vanderbilt doesn't actually have a separate athletic department. Athletics reports to the Department of Kinesiology or some goofy ish like that. It's a very odd school in general.
So, no moonlighting Drew bro. on ours sideline next year?Mitch Henessey said:
Vanderbilt with the clown shoes move of trying to convince him to take another position at the school so they could avoid having to pay his buyout. What a joke.
I think I'd rather have Homer on our sideline than Bryce.Michibear said:So, no moonlighting Drew bro. on ours sideline next year?Mitch Henessey said:
Vanderbilt with the clown shoes move of trying to convince him to take another position at the school so they could avoid having to pay his buyout. What a joke.
Not that Scott seems to need any help with game management these days.
"Free your ass and your mind will follow." -- George Clinton
bubbadog said:I think I'd rather have Homer on our sideline than Bryce.Michibear said:So, no moonlighting Drew bro. on ours sideline next year?Mitch Henessey said:
Vanderbilt with the clown shoes move of trying to convince him to take another position at the school so they could avoid having to pay his buyout. What a joke.
Not that Scott seems to need any help with game management these days.
If the recruiting success at Vandy was primarily due to Bryce, then it would be well worth it to have him on board, especially considering that recruiting has been a weakness the last couple of years.
Yeek said:
I know it's never an excuse but didn't they have a lot of significant injuries this season?
One key injury
Only three years on the job, but new AD and winless SEC season
I'm good with him joining Baylor staff
What do you want, a cookie?Stefano DiMera said:
...as I predicted last month.
Sure! . Or some work boots.
Can Scott Drew playing on he is Bryce''s brother not try to get that class from Vandy now or have they actually signed and would have to transfer.
Why would Bryce come here? He'll have several offers as a head coach at a mid major school.
Yeah that would be weird..I don't have any siblings but I'm sure at his age he doesn't want to work under his brother...and will have options.
On a side note, I guess this means we can now play Vanderbilt again.
He'll get another HC opportunity but I'd be surprised if it was as early as next year.
That school just sucks on the welfare teat of SEC money...they have invested ZERO in facilities.
DanaDane said:
Why would Bryce come here? He'll have several offers as a head coach at a mid major school.
I kinda doubt it.
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