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Here is the youtube video with Tony Bennett regarding his teams matchup with North Carolina. Pay attention to what he says it may answer alot of ?'s about his basketball philosiphy. If IU doesn' try everything to get this guy , then I may convert to a WSU fan. Tony is the man we need!!!!!
What only UCLA?
THe PAC 10 is overated!!! WSU has not beaten any top 10 teams this year? Only quality wins were two top 25 teams- Notre Dame and Gonzaga. They were swept by UCLA, Stanford-three times, and unranked Arizona-twice.
All that I'm saying is I don't know if Bennett is ready to coach a Big Time program like IU just yet. Maybe in a few years he might build a contender and that's a big if. I don't know if IU can wait that long to tell the truth. If he comes to IU- I only hope for the best, however, I still believe that Sean Miller and various other coaches are more experienced.
I guess I blame Bennett for 5 academic All Pac10 players, back to back 26+ win seasons working with nothing, 7 National of Yr awards.
That is like blaming Miller for losing by 20+ to ASU and Temple and also being beaten 3 times by unranked other teams.
Both guys are great coaches, play the same defense. One has a program built by Gillen, Prosser, Matta to work with and the other has nothing but what he has done himself
Bennett had help too!!!!!!
now, i will say that i agree with you, partly. i don't think IU has that kind of money, but i do think IU has access to that kind of money. if someone will fork over 550,000 to make a coach and situation go away, someone or a group of someones will definitely fork over the needed cash to bring a good coach in. if we want sean miller, or bruce pearl, or anyone who has a hefty price tag attached, i really don't see that being an issue.
1. Sean Miller
2.Tony Bennett
3.Anthony Grant
4. Bruce Pearl
5. Thad Matta ( would be higher but it would cost us way too much)
6. Rick Pitino ( yeah I said it)
FOr me they are no longer on my list but the top2 are fine
How could ANYONE be above Pitino? 1. Pitino 2. Bennett 3. Pearl 4. Miller
titties. ok got to go back to work. I apologize for the bad diction, but I have such a small period of time right now.
Thats the way pruce pearl games are, sometimes you can make a deep run into the tournament with that type of offense, sometimes you can't. Thats the way things go.
Like you, I also like Anthony Grant. Unfortunately, he's only had a couple of seasons at the helm of VCU, and with the CAA down this season they didn't earn an at large berth in the tournament, so they couldn't show off on the big stage again. I think, given time, he'd be an excellent decisiosn for IU; however, we fans are becoming bored with the contrite and mediocre and we want to win now, which would not give Grant the luxury of building a program.
in acc country ( that or my ex russian girlfriend has conditioned me to be defensive.... who knows (-: . Thanks again for the back up. Where do yo live in Acc country? JUst stay stubborn and be proud of IU through the good and bad.
I live in Durham, actually, but I'm moving over to Wake Forest in a month or so. And, I'm stubborn. I would just like the Big Ten to win the challenge at least once so I can hear these ACC morons on the radio shut up.
Most recent thing I've heard from Foundation people (not people on the committee, but people close to it) the target is Pitino. 1. Pitino, 2. Pitino, 3. Pitino, 4. Bennett is how it was described to me. Now, I'm not sure I follow that logic. To me it seems like if you're going so hard after Pitino, then you'd go after Barnes and Matta too before a Bennett type. But that's just my thinking. This of course could be a smokescreen too. Who knows? Just what I heard.
Now I also heard we are not interested in Pearl or Calipari (thank god on both accounts). Katz reported something similar tonight, that Pearl's arrogance wasn't well received. That's about it for now. But for what I'm expecting: Hard push for Pitino, and if not Pitino then we'll wind up with Bennett. Why? Must not have interest from Barnes or Matta, Miller is more expensive, and Bennett is at least equal to Miller.
In other words he's a priest. He doesn't make some huge salary.
What does this have to do with Miller at Xavier though? Are you saying that X can't afford to give both Fr. Graham a raise (assuming for the moment your "rule" exists) and Sean Miller.
Since 2000 Thad Matta got two raises and Sean Miller has received one raise. I don't recall Fr. Graham (or at the time Fr. Hoff) getting raises.
actually, Xavier may have a bit of trouble affording raises for both President Graham and Sean Miller:
Xavier's overall Athletic Department revenue 2006-07: $18.5 million
Texas' overall Athletic Department revenue 2006-07: $105 million
(http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?...)
quite a contrast huh? Miller’s salary is somewhere in the $800-900K range (let’s call it $850K). that is 4.5% of their total Athletic budget wrapped up in one guy.
their total endowment is only $108 million – to be that in perspective, Notre Dame’s is $6.54 BILLION. they don’t exactly grow money on trees at Xavier. i’m not saying they can’t afford to do it, but they are going to really have to stretch the budget and get some healthy donations to pull it off.
and i'm absolutely shocked that there was no press release announcing raises to Fr. Graham or Fr. Hoff. what, there was no news conference? i'm surprised CNN, ESPN, ABC, NBC, and CBS weren't there to pick up the press conferences live to announce that a Fr. Graham or Fr. Hoff got a raise. you usually hear about those all the time, because it is so news-worthy for a school President (that nobody knows/cares about) to get a raise.
i know you're new here, but do everybody a favor and get some reading done so you can pretend like you know what you're talking about before you post. thanks.
Head Coach Thad Matta made a base of $407K.
Fr. Graham made $230K. (all of which was latter paid to the Jesuit Community Fund).
So i guess that indicates that the University President doesn't have to make more than the head basketball coach.
hire Miller AND the president of X
Being that Xavier and Notre Dame are both private schools (as noted in the article) they don't need to release their payrolls.
Generally, Catholic schools (I went to two, undergrad and graduate school) like having priests in the president's chair because then they save a ton of money on paying the president. Unfortuantely, the priest tabbed to be my undergrad's president wasn't ready to take the role on last time they needed to change.
If you hire Pitino, it will be a HUGE mistake.
We will see soon how interested and how HIGH on the list TB is now that they are out of the tourney along with Pearl. I cringe at the name of Pitino.....
As such I donot buy arguments that we are not willing to pay
BBUUTT.......Bennett and Miller can create their own legend here at IU. Pitino ?........not so much