I would hope Mitch wants to go back to special assistant and they can hire a second recruiter/coach type person.
This is beyond absurd. We are hoping Richmond accepts a demotion I assume with full pay. So we can pay someone else to coach and recruit.
All of our guards excelled on offense and we shot lights out. Coincidence? Let him be a face
of the program and work with the guards. His heart isn't in it to be out recruiting like a full-time assistant. What's so absurd about keeping him and bringing in a guy like Rice?
If he gets credit for the offense then he deserves the blame for the lack of defense. Honestly I don't disagree with you guys. I hope Richmond stays under the current situation. I also want an experiment coach added to the team. I want to win. I don't care who is coaching.
But it really bothers me that Mullin gets such a pass. He should have hired someone 2 years ago.
He did hire somebody 2 years ago.... Slice. He just needs to be replaced. An experiment coach?. Wtf is that? Richmond would be better for us at a lower role. We need somebody that can both recruit and help with the coaching stuff. I still like a hire like Mike Rice. He's organized, well liked by his players in general spare past incidents, and has great work ethic. He also has a ton of tri-state recruiting connections. He can help both with coaching duties and recruiting. There are others as well, but Rice is just sitting there, likely won't find his redemption as a head coach any time soon, and I think could really offer a lot.
I like what Rice has done being fired from Rutgers. Unlike Bobby Knight, he seems to genuinely be sorry for how he treated people. No one here knows if he genuinely is, but I think it's pretty presumptuous of us to assume that most of his former players like him. Ad don't know that.
And to be clear I'm not arguing in favor of or against hiring Rice. IDK if he's a changed man.
My concern with this staff is in the amount of risk they are willing to entertain. Livingston, Brown and now Rice could represent a poor example of learning from your mistakes as an institution. They had better be damn sure that Mike Rice is a different person now.
Truth is it doesn't have to be Mike Rice. I think his name came up a lot because he's local, out of a job, has experience and recruiting ties. I don't think it needs to be him, but as recent evidence with Matt's situation indicates, we need a yin to his yang on the recruiting trail. We can't be hostage to an assistant potentially leaving in the future, and we certainly could use some experience on the sideline.
While losing Slice didn't kill us, we never replaced him, and ran into trouble. Definitely need another upper level assistant that has experience and recruiting ties. Jim Calhoun relied on Blane. Pitino on Willard, amongst others. Doesn't have to be Rice but we'd be smart to have somebody like that on board.