twballgame9 {l Wrote}:eagle9903 {l Wrote}:HJS {l Wrote}:Cadillac90 {l Wrote}:DavidGordonsFoot {l Wrote}:lobstalova {l Wrote}:And to address the quoted comment I'm pretty sure tommy amaker (Ivy League coach) didn't want to come here. We offered and he said no.
Erroneous.
Bates offered Amaker an interview. Amaker responded that his resume spoke for itself and he shouldn't have to interview for the BC job. Bates refused to offer Amaker the job without an interview. Amaker went to the press and said he wasn't going to coach at BC. This is how it actually went down.
This. Not to mention there were a few others who openly expressed interest in the job as well as some rumored to have been interested. It is just plain stupid to say that no one wants to be the BC basketball coach so therefore be happy with Mr. .500.
If I recall correctly, Amaker was OK with interviewing... just that he didn't want to be a part of a process where BC interviewed a bunch of different coaches and then picked one (basically, use the interview as nothing more than the final step in the process... not the first). Essentially, Amaker wanted BC to run the search they way most major programs run their searches... identify your top 2 or 3 candidates. Find out who is interested. Hire them. If that doesn't work out, run through the dog-and-pony show of a nationwide search of mid-major guys. Amaker simply didn't want to be a part of the dog-and-pony show.
I'm glad we didn't hire Tommy Amaker.
Me too. He's not good at the coaching part of the job. Recruiting, he's a wiz
We said the same about Dazoo. I would not have minded living with good recruiting classes and then seeing if Tommy's coaching has gotten any better. While I was lukewarm about Tommy, I think a strong argument could be made that hiring Amaker would have been better than what we ended up with.
