Sean Miller

[D-West & PO-Z]

Been too busy on twitter and havent posted. My thoughts:

Sean is total scum. He was in coaching purgatory with only a poor program like South Carolina showing interest. Xavier threw him a lifeline (while getting a good coach, no doubt). He said he loved it here and missed it. Preached ALL IN. Then he literally said fuck X and left for the first big program who offered.

Don't tell me college bball landscape has changed since he took the job. NIL and portal were already here. Sean knew what he was getting into at X and what X could and couldn't do. He used them/us to get his next job. He can go fuck himself. Have fun being second fiddle at Texas with first fiddle pressure. He wont last as long at Texas as he did at Arizona with no Final 4 appearances.

As far as the next coach, I am adamant it not be an assistant. Too much risk and unpredictability. We are in a conference and at a point in our program history where it has to be a proven head coach with a track road, even if that is at a lower level. Cannot risk another Steele or even a Neptune type (I know he had 1 year at Fordham).

I would be happy with Mack if he still has the fire in his belly to do it at a high level. Not sure if he does or not.

If not Mack I don't know who, but has to be a head guy. There are enough guys out there with proven experience who would love the opportunity in the Big East.

Also, it has never been easier for a new coach to build a successful team year 1. This is not the end of Xavier hoops, but have to get the hire right. GC scare me a little bit there. We shall see.

Fuck Miller. Silver Bullets only from here on out!

[xuphan]

Yes! And we all knew that three years ago!! But Xavier hired him anyway. That was entirely their choice, so this is kind of at least PARTLY on them.

Won’t this be the same thing if they do end up hiring Mack?

[xubrew]

Won’t this be the same thing if they do end up hiring Mack?

I don’t think they should hire Mack, but even if they do I would say it’s not the same thing at all. Mack and his staff were never the target of an FBI investigation and no one ever went to prison for what they did under Mack’s direction and were then just sort of hung out there by him. I for one think that is a key difference.

[xudash]

Been too busy on twitter and havent posted. My thoughts:

Sean is total scum. He was in coaching purgatory with only a poor program like South Carolina showing interest. Xavier threw him a lifeline (while getting a good coach, no doubt). He said he loved it here and missed it. Preached ALL IN. Then he literally said fuck X and left for the first big program who offered.

Don't tell me college bball landscape has changed since he took the job. NIL and portal were already here. Sean knew what he was getting into at X and what X could and couldn't do. He used them/us to get his next job. He can go fuck himself. Have fun being second fiddle at Texas with first fiddle pressure. He wont last as long at Texas as he did at Arizona with no Final 4 appearances.

As far as the next coach, I am adamant it not be an assistant. Too much risk and unpredictability. We are in a conference and at a point in our program history where it has to be a proven head coach with a track road, even if that is at a lower level. Cannot risk another Steele or even a Neptune type (I know he had 1 year at Fordham).

I would be happy with Mack if he still has the fire in his belly to do it at a high level. Not sure if he does or not.

If not Mack I don't know who, but has to be a head guy. There are enough guys out there with proven experience who would love the opportunity in the Big East.

Also, it has never been easier for a new coach to build a successful team year 1. This is not the end of Xavier hoops, but have to get the hire right. GC scare me a little bit there. We shall see.

Fuck Miller. Silver Bullets only from here on out!

Great post.

[GoMuskies]

I don’t think they should hire Mack, but even if they do I would say it’s not the same thing at all. Mack and his staff were never the target of an FBI investigation and no one ever went to prison for what they did under Mack’s direction and were then just sort of hung out there by him. I for one think that is a key difference.

Well, there WAS the whole Dino extortion thing at Louisville. That was wild.

[kane79]

I don’t think they should hire Mack, but even if they do I would say it’s not the same thing at all. Mack and his staff were never the target of an FBI investigation and no one ever went to prison for what they did under Mack’s direction and were then just sort of hung out there by him. I for one think that is a key difference.

what about the blackmail and illegal recording or something with his assistant coach?

[Xville]

Yeah not thanks to Mack move the fuck on and get a coach who is outside this “family” I’m fucking over it

[D-West & PO-Z]

Not sure you understand what's about to happen here. Roster and recruits will be gutted.

X doesn't have the NIL funds to build an entire roster, and this news will likely result in a drastic decrease in confirmation of those funds. These donors are likely pulling back their commitments as we speak.

We don't have a coach. Recruiting the portal has already started. It's going to be very ugly.

Never been easier to build a new team. Those guys leave they aren't getting paid. The money is there, it's just convincing new guys.

[xuphan]

I don’t think they should hire Mack, but even if they do I would say it’s not the same thing at all. Mack and his staff were never the target of an FBI investigation and no one ever went to prison for what they did under Mack’s direction and were then just sort of hung out there by him. I for one think that is a key difference.

I didn’t even think of the FBI thing. I was thinking loyalty. Both left X for bigger paydays and ended up failing. If we hired Mack again I could also see him leaving in a few years as well.

[xubrew]

Well, there WAS the whole Dino extortion thing at Louisville. That was wild.

I had actually completely forgotten about this. Yes, it was wild!