It's one and Done time

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

And Hubbard would walk right out the door with Jans. Also, for reference, you are saying you would have hired Bucky McMillan in 2022 after two years at Samford in which he did not make the tournament and was a combined 27-24? Reminder he was a HS coach before that.

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I sure would have. I know Bucky and know what others in the basketball world were saying about him at the time

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Originally Posted by msugolf

I sure would have. I know Bucky and know what others in the basketball world were saying about him at the time

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I know hindsight is 20/20 but we were not embracing NIL and you would be wanting to bring in a coach in late March that had very little college experience.....it would've been a disaster. And I like Bucky and think he's a good coach. But he was still learning how to be a college coach at that time. Last year would've been the time to do it if you were going to do it, which is why he was hired last year and not in any of the previous years.

There’s a former player that knows Bucky and agrees with you.

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Originally Posted by msstate7

What if I told you Jans has made the tourney here without Josh?

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What if I told you that he ran 3 players off/couldn?t retain them from a tourney team last year, and replaced them with duds.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

I know hindsight is 20/20 but we were not embracing NIL and you would be wanting to bring in a coach in late March that had very little college experience.....it would've been a disaster. And I like Bucky and think he's a good coach. But he was still learning how to be a college coach at that time. Last year would've been the time to do it if you were going to do it, which is why he was hired last year and not in any of the previous years.

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Revisionist history at its best

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Originally Posted by msstate7

Revisionist history at its best

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I mean there's no other way you can look at it except guess. We don't know that Bucky McMillan would've been better than Chris Jans. What I do know is that if you would've hired a coach that was coming off a 21-11 year with no tourney appearance and a 10-8 conference record over a coach who had just went 27-7 and made it to the 2nd round of the NCAAT then to say you would've been criticized heavily is an understatement.

Bucky McMillan was a HS coach that Samford took a MASSIVE risk on. It paid off for both him and Samford. But two years in you couldn't tell people it was going to work. Hell in this new era, I still don't know that he'll work out at A&M. People were calling Todd Golden a massive failure after his 1st year and an average coach after his second and he's went 61-10 with a national championship since. On the inverse, people were singing the praises of Lamont Paris from the rooftops after year 2 about how he'd brought back South Carolina and he's 25-39 since and is lucky to have a job.

Auburn is the team that really missed out on Bucky by Pearl waiting to late to retire and basically making it a shoe in for his son to get the job. Jans job is safe and I am hoping this was his Dennis Gates 23-24 year. I really do like Jans and I think he is a good coach, he just needs to learn to evaluate the portal better.

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Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG

Auburn is the team that really missed out on Bucky by Pearl waiting to late to retire and basically making it a shoe in for his son to get the job. Jans job is safe and I am hoping this was his Dennis Gates 23-24 year. I really do like Jans and I think he is a good coach, he just needs to learn to evaluate the portal better.

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Yep. Bucky would've crawled to Auburn to have that job and I had always heard that was a job he openly coveted. I have no clue why that fan base has not completely turned on Bruce Pearl. He caused this season they are having by not stepping aside sooner so they could conduct a coaching search. He knew his son was a crappy coach and knew he wouldn't get the job if he didn't force them into hiring him.