silverbear
Semi-Official Loose Cannon
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I'm pissed, the Miners have their best season in a long, long time, and Auburn goes and hires their coach away... we Miner fans have been through this before, but it still sucks...
The only silver lining to this is the cast of contenders to replace him... at the head of the list is Billy Gillispie, another Miners coach who got hired away after they got semi-good, this time by Texas A&M, who he subsequently dumped to go to Kentucky (where he bombed)... maybe after that experience, he'll be happy to come back home, where he first found success, and actually stay a while... perhaps being a big fish in a small pond will be acceptable to him now...
Another top contender is Tim Floyd, the disgraced USC coach who was once a Don Haskins assistant... maybe he'll come to the Miners the way Mike Price (their current football coach) did after his scandal, and stay a while...
A third contender is a bit of a dark horse, Bob Marlin from Sam Houston State... he has made that program into a tournament contender most every year...
But damn, I liked Barbee... if nothing else, he could get you recruits from the Memphis area pretty consistently...
The only silver lining to this is the cast of contenders to replace him... at the head of the list is Billy Gillispie, another Miners coach who got hired away after they got semi-good, this time by Texas A&M, who he subsequently dumped to go to Kentucky (where he bombed)... maybe after that experience, he'll be happy to come back home, where he first found success, and actually stay a while... perhaps being a big fish in a small pond will be acceptable to him now...
Another top contender is Tim Floyd, the disgraced USC coach who was once a Don Haskins assistant... maybe he'll come to the Miners the way Mike Price (their current football coach) did after his scandal, and stay a while...
A third contender is a bit of a dark horse, Bob Marlin from Sam Houston State... he has made that program into a tournament contender most every year...
But damn, I liked Barbee... if nothing else, he could get you recruits from the Memphis area pretty consistently...