MBB Head Coach Hire

[stingthemgood]

My educated assumption here is that Dr Wood is trying to find a big splash hire (thinking former NBA star or NBA coach) in the next two weeks. If he comes up empty then Orr will be working hard at the Final Four to shrink the candidate pool and then try to hire the week after the national title game.

 

[Hornet25]

The program needs a hard reset and rebranding.

If we want donors and sponsorship, there has to be a level of excitement that people are buying.

 

[SDHornet]

The program needs a hard reset and rebranding.

If we want donors and sponsorship, there has to be a level of excitement that people are buying.

Spot on. Wood/Orr need to bring in somebody who wins, and wins now. The local ties would be a nice bonus but we had a long run with a coaching staff that checked that box and never finished better than a tie for 3rd in the conference standings and finished in the bottom of the conference more often than not. I'm not sure what value the "local ties" truly has.

If the NIL money materializes and some of it goes to MBB, the new HC will have money to bring in some quality talent off the free market to make an impact. Maybe some of the Sac area talent finds its way home with a cash incentive.