childress22
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I bet Oats takes the Michigan job if it opens. He's from Wisconsin, but coached high school ball in Detroit for 11 years.
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SignUp Now!Man, I used to love Nolan. But he seems like a total two-faced snake in the grass, if I can mix metaphors. All this make me think that he really WAS trying to poach our recruits.
Couple paragraphs from a lengthy post-mortem on the Kenny Payne era at Louisville ( https://www.wdrb.com/sports/crawfor...cle_1035e2b8-de5a-11ee-a523-c35eca90e76a.html ):
In Nolan Smith, Payne signed the son of close friend and fellow U of L alum, Derek Smith, a program hero who played for the 1980 national championship team and died in 1996. Nolan Smith came from Duke, where he was an All-American point guard and starter for the 2010 NCAA Championship team before working on Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski’s staff, where he spent six years before joining Payne at Louisville.
But Smith was sensitive to criticism, had some contentious social media interactions with fans, and before the 2023-24 season interviewed with a G-League team, the Capital City GoGo. When athletics leadership concluded that Smith had been the source of a leak that resulted in national media reports saying Payne would be fired in December and Smith elevated to the head coaching job, Payne was advised to take the matter up with Smith.
Smith remained on the staff, and what measures Payne may have taken were not known.
Man, I used to love Nolan. But he seems like a total two-faced snake in the grass, if I can mix metaphors. All this make me think that he really WAS trying to poach our recruits.
nolan's been a disaster everywhere but durham and duke basketball. really strange, but clearly can't thrive in a less than perfectly structured environment.
"Offer on the table"? He and his agent had told multiple people there earlier today he was coming, and they had already set up chairs for a press conference. That's cold.Louisville might be done as a program. May had an offer on the table from them, too.
"Offer on the table"? He and his agent had told multiple people there earlier today he was coming, and they had already set up chairs for a press conference. That's cold.Louisville might be done as a program. May had an offer on the table from them, too.