Chris Thomas (Commit Other)

[GIMMFD]

Well I'm glad he's still committed, and hopefully it stays and we have the best damn backcourt to start out in 2013 with Thomas - Dez - and Semaj.. that is if the world doesn't end..

[MADXSTER]

Chris' recruitment has been a roller coaster ride.

It wouldn't surprise me if he ended up at X simple because he and his grandmother are done with the ride and just want to move forward.

[PMI]

And right when I was really starting to buy into MHettel's conspiracy theory regarding Sheen and Thomas...

[Masterofreality]

Chris' recruitment has been a roller coaster ride.

It wouldn't surprise me if he ended up at X simple because he and his grandmother are done with the ride and just want to move forward.

Well, he's too damn good to go to Manhattan.

[muskienick]

Let's let Coach Mack get our staff stabilized and then go forward from there. He should be making whatever contact is allowed with Chris Thomas and using his "Bobinski List" (targets for the next coaching vacancies on his staff) to fill the two voids.

Given the many criticisms of our supposed lack of X's and O's coaches on the staff that have been expressed on Muskie message boards over the past year or two, many might actually see this situation as a big positive for the Xavier Men's Basketball Program. The big naysayers can't have it both ways! But I will not hold my breath waiting for them to turn positive in this situation!

[drudy23]

After the season we had, you knew some type of change was coming. Well, it's here.

[DoubleD86]

Let's let Coach Mack get our staff stabilized and then go forward from there. He should be making whatever contact is allowed with Chris Thomas and using his "Bobinski List" (targets for the next coaching vacancies on his staff) to fill the two voids.

Given the many criticisms of our supposed lack of X's and O's coaches on the staff that have been expressed on Muskie message boards over the past year or two, many might actually see this situation as a big positive for the Xavier Men's Basketball Program. The big naysayers can't have it both ways! But I will not hold my breath waiting for them to turn positive in this situation!

This is the part I don't get. I spent all year reading about how X's assistants were under-qualified and the reason X wasn't living up to its potential. How X needed to get better X and O's coaches and all this.

Now those same "professional recruiter" coaches who were deemed unqualified leave and the sky is falling?

Let me be clear, I in no way think either coach was unqualified and I wish them both well in their future positions (as long as it doesn't interfere with X) but let's be realistic in our recap:
Kelsey left for a year and then became Head Coach. Remember, when he left he was a finalist for a couple Head gigs and supposedly had accepted one. He wasn't coming back to X no matter what.

Richardson took a job at a bigger, more prestigious program who can most likely pay him more, and work for a future HOF coach. That is a promotion any way you slice it.

Davis left to go home to a program where he can be around his wife and kid. Yes, this one is a bit of a head scratcher, but remember Mack did the same thing at Wake. Why is it outrageous to think Davis wants to be home and possibly in line for HC?

[MADXSTER]

Davis left to go home to a program where he can be around his wife and kid. Yes, this one is a bit of a head scratcher, but remember Mack did the same thing at Wake. Why is it outrageous to think Davis wants to be home and possibly in line for HC?

Excellent point!

[GoMuskies]

Wake to Xavier and Xavier to Manhattan are comparable career moves? In what universe?

[xu95]

I think it is cool that Charlie Sheen is talking to our commits.