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Little Rock to hire Darrell walker
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My God that's a terrible hire. What on earth is their AD thinking?

Now we're going to have to listen to Arkansas media fawn over him for the next 8 months, and pig fans proclaiming they might attend a game now. That's going to be nauseating.
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I like it. Reasons should be obvious.
03-25-2018 08:16 PM
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Awful hire. I hope Little Rock can afford to can him in a couple of years.
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Not a bad job at Clark Atlanta, but this looks more like a donor-driven hire. I know there were some LR money people who offered to pick up part of his salary if AState would hire him.
03-25-2018 08:54 PM
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What is a Clark Atlanta?
03-25-2018 09:19 PM
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(03-25-2018 09:19 PM)_x_ Wrote:  What is a Clark Atlanta?

They are a DII team that went to the NCAA tournament this year with a 24-6 record. He won, at least, 20 games in each of his 2 season there. He is well-liked in LR, is friends with the Walton and Stephens families (2 richest families in the State), played 10 years in the NBA, coached 2 teams in the NBA, coached at the minor league level, and now coached at Clark. He will create excitement and sell tickets in Little Rock. He has a home in Little Rock and, at 57, he will retire here if successful. I don't think we could have found a better fit for our program.
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He's done a hell of a job at Clark Atlanta in a short time. Could be a potentially great hire.

(03-25-2018 09:37 PM)mjs Wrote:  
(03-25-2018 09:19 PM)_x_ Wrote:  What is a Clark Atlanta?

They are a DII team that went to the NCAA tournament this year with a 24-6 record. He won, at least, 20 games in each of his 2 season there. He is well-liked in LR, is friends with the Walton and Stephens families (2 richest families in the State), played 10 years in the NBA, coached 2 teams in the NBA, coached at the minor league level, and now coached at Clark. He will create excitement and sell tickets in Little Rock. He has a home in Little Rock and, at 57, he will retire here if successful. I don't think we could have found a better fit for our program.
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RE: Little Rock to hire Darrell walker
Here is more info from the Atlanta Voice;

There has been speculation that Clark Atlanta University men’s head basketball coach Darrell Walker, in his second year with the program, has been offered the same position at the University of Arkansas Little Rock.

According to a source familiar with the program, the Atlanta Voice was notified of the offer but cannot yet confirm whether Walker has accepted the position.

Walker, a Chicago native with ties to Arkansas due to his time at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith and then as an all-conference performer at the University of Arkansas from 1980-1983, was hired by Clark Atlanta University Athletics Director J. Lin Dawson in 2016 and proceeded to turn immediately turn the program around on and off the court.

Walker, who both played and coached in the NBA, was selected by the New York Knicks with the 12th pick in the first round of the 1983 NBA draft. Over a ten-year career, he played for five teams – the Knicks, the Denver Nuggets, the Washington Bullets, the Detroit Pistons, and the Chicago Bulls.

Walker has served as head coach for two different teams—the Toronto Raptors and the Washington Wizards. He was the Raptors’ second coach, following Brendan Malone, and led the team for a season and a half.

In 2000, he replaced the fired Gar Heard in Washington for half a season (the first coaching “call up” in history, having previously been the coach of the Rockford Lightning of the CBA), but was then replaced by Leonard Hamilton the next year.

He remained in Washington as director of player personnel and later head scout before joining the Hornets as an assistant coach. In March 2012, Walker became an assistant coach with the New York Knicks, where he was on staff until 2014.

Under Walker and longtime Panthers assistant coach Alfred Jordan, the Panthers won the 2017 SIAC tournament and played in the conference tournament finals earlier this month. In the past two seasons under Walker, the Panthers have qualified for the NCAA DII tournament, a first in the program’s history.

Clark Atlanta University’s media attention rose to an all-time high the past two seasons, including feature stories in this publication, ESPN’s The Undefeated and on local news outlets. All can properly be attributed to the winning brought forth by the changes Walker made within the program.

The Panthers were 24-6 this season, losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Mar. 10 to Claflin University 72-61, at Forbes Arena on the campus of Morehouse College.

As more details surface the Atlanta Voice will provide them in both online and in print.
03-25-2018 09:52 PM
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With everything I know, gotta believe this hire wasn’t the AD’s call. Chancellor probably saw the potential money involved and made it his call. And one must remember, this comes on the heels of a big donor for wrestling. Chancellor is probably still feeling the high from that and probably wants a similar outcome since there are more than likely big money players at the table.
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(03-25-2018 09:19 PM)_x_ Wrote:  What is a Clark Atlanta?

Um....a pretty historically significant HBCU
http://www.cau.edu/about/cau-history.html
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(03-26-2018 02:14 AM)LRFan Wrote:  With everything I know, gotta believe this hire wasn’t the AD’s call. Chancellor probably saw the potential money involved and made it his call. And one must remember, this comes on the heels of a big donor for wrestling. Chancellor is probably still feeling the high from that and probably wants a similar outcome since there are more than likely big money players at the table.

You may well be right. Don't see how a school in our situation can ignore the potential financial benefits. Is there a better coach out there that we could get? Maybe, but there are certainly no guarantees.
03-26-2018 09:36 AM
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Simply put, this is a political mess for the administration.
Nobody with half **** for brains has high hopes or expectations.
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The deal has not been announced as signed yet by the university. Yet his supposed hire is all over the media. Smells of political negotiations and pressure to commit. I can't imagine our AD Chasse Conque had Walker as his first or second choice this time around although his record at CAU makes him more palatable today. Walker was passed over for Chris Beard three years ago because back then Beard had College experience and Walker none. Rumor was that Walker said some unkind words toward LR AD or something after that. I am hopeful for a reasonable outcome due to the AD's fortitude to stand up to them before and our new chancellor is not a good ole boy insider.
03-27-2018 09:53 AM
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It's now official. Darrell Walker is the new coach at Little Rock.
03-27-2018 12:26 PM
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Here’s video of Walker saying goodbye to his former team

https://youtu.be/gKvwqmvSpow
03-27-2018 02:52 PM
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Classy way to leave. Don't see that with every coach these days. Gives me a good first impression of Walker as a person.
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(03-27-2018 03:45 PM)_x_ Wrote:  Classy way to leave. Don't see that with every coach these days. Gives me a good first impression of Walker as a person.

Makes me want to recommend him for an Academy Award. A lot of theater in this fair well.
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