(01-05-2019 03:18 PM)JMad03 Wrote:  

(01-05-2019 12:50 PM)jmuduke10 Wrote:  

(01-04-2019 05:22 PM)JMUrcc06 Wrote:  

(01-04-2019 03:18 PM)AssyrianDuke Wrote:  Looks like we have some competition for Longhorn's boi

http://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-bask...dv5mh2m2c5

When will JMU ever get even one alum with half as deep pockets? One can dream....

Yea Pitino is probably going to UNLV or UCLA, we never had a remote chance in getting him to come here

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Kind of foolish if anyone realistically thought he would even give us a glance.
We're not even good enough for Pitino to view as a "project". Our program is sewage and right now just need a garbageman to clean up the mess. And even then Pitino still wouldn't think of us. We might as well be a D-III school. Pitino is all about Pitino. He was never going anywhere but a P-5 program.

And all of this is crap anyway since we're probably stuck with our garbage coach for another year.

Money talks, BS walks. Admittedly it would take a perfect alignment of factors to get a coach like Pitino to JMU (such as Pitino becoming so radioactive no P5 or NBA team would touch him), and even then JMU would have to raise and wave the kind of money at him that has never been waved at any coach in the CAA (I believe Larranaga was a high-water mark making a reported $800k).

But the only "foolish" notion is that JMU is going to find a savior HC by continuing to search in the bargain-bin. We keep purchasing the pile of horse manure with promise a pony is hiding within.

At this point I'd be shocked if JMU came up with $500k as a starting point for the next HC...and I'm not sure that such a handsome amount (from a working Joe's point of view) is going to be sufficient to attract the right coach, the coach JMU needs, to turn MBB around. IMO JMU should be prepared to go up to and beyond $750k.