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Kim English hired as new MBB AC (Jean Prioleau new HC at San Jose St)

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That's a great opportunity to get a MWC head coach job in a place where he can find recruits. It's a tough job, but it is also possible to be successful there. Congrats to Coach Pri. He's patiently worked his butt off and was ready for a HC gig a few years ago.
 
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Loses out on a trip to Italy, but a good opportunity for him. Any ideas who the Buffs bring on board to take his place?
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Easiest hire would have been Dwight Thorne, but he just took the basketball ops director job under Rodney at DU to get things started last July.

Maybe move Kearney into an assistant job. He's obviously qualified for it.

One thing with that is that it would give us about the most "middle aged white guy" staff it's possible to put together. I don't know that this matters much (there are other things that recruits and their parents care about a hell of a lot more) and it's certainly not fair if it does matter, but I'd assume that diversity has to be a consideration.
 
Buffnik said:
Here's the story from the San Jose Mercury News: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/04/san-jose-state-hires-mens-basketball-coach/

San Jose State hired former Colorado assistant Jean Prioleau as its new men’s basketball coach, athletic director Marie Tuite announced Friday.
Prioleau replaces Dave Wojcik, who resigned last month for personal reasons.
Prioleau will be introduced at a news conference Monday at the campus.
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Think Chauncey Might wanna help out his Alma Mater for a year so that they can do a search at a better time?
 
Great opportunity for Pri, but also allows for a staff shake up, which I think has been needed. Truly a win win.
 
Boyle said due to the timing of the move, it may be difficult to get a replacement in the fold before the Buffs depart of Europe. However, he believes that same timing will not be a detriment to bringing a quality coach to Boulder.

"I've always got a list of guys that I'll consider if anything happens with our staff," Boyle said. "So I have certain guys in mind. Because of Italy and the timing of it, I doubt we'll get someone in before then. But I'm active on it as we speak.

"We're losing a good man, a good coach, a good recruiter. But guess what? We're going to replace him with a good man, a good coach, a good recruiter."

http://www.buffzone.com/buffzonetop...-prioleau-leaving-cu-mens-basketball-san-jose
 
Buffnik said:
Easiest hire would have been Dwight Thorne, but he just took the basketball ops director job under Rodney at DU to get things started last July.

Maybe move Kearney into an assistant job. He's obviously qualified for it.

One thing with that is that it would give us about the most "middle aged white guy" staff it's possible to put together. I don't know that this matters much (there are other things that recruits and their parents care about a hell of a lot more) and it's certainly not fair if it does matter, but I'd assume that diversity has to be a consideration.
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No, no, no! Not enough another old retread as an assistant coach. Kearney is such a low bar.

See USC - let's hire a dynamic recruiter and move the program to another level.
 
Buffnik said:
Boyle said due to the timing of the move, it may be difficult to get a replacement in the fold before the Buffs depart of Europe. However, he believes that same timing will not be a detriment to bringing a quality coach to Boulder.

"I've always got a list of guys that I'll consider if anything happens with our staff," Boyle said. "So I have certain guys in mind. Because of Italy and the timing of it, I doubt we'll get someone in before then. But I'm active on it as we speak.

"We're losing a good man, a good coach, a good recruiter. But guess what? We're going to replace him with a good man, a good coach, a good recruiter."

http://www.buffzone.com/buffzonetop...-prioleau-leaving-cu-mens-basketball-san-jose
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Prioleau is decidedly not a good recruiter. I can't believe Boyle is saying that.
 
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Congrats to coach Pri! Tad's coaching tree is growing.

Unless we can find a recruiting savant, I would like to see a younger assistant hire, someone with ties to CU and/or Denver/Colorado in the Rodney Billups mold.
 
Don't feed the troll.

Congrats to coach Pri. Glad to get some turnover, and in such a positive manner. But it would've been nice to be filling the position before the coaching carousel had pretty much stopped for the year.
 
Highlander said:
And really makes other coaches super interested in coming in to work for someone that threw the last guy under the bus.
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My concern is that Boyle might actually believe Prioleau is a good recruiter. If so, he will be replaced by a similar type assistant which won't get it done if CU wants a top flight program in the PAC 12. See USC's staff for great recruiters - very little basketball tradition, possibly headed for the #1 class in the nation.
 
buffs233 said:
My concern is that Boyle might actually believe Prioleau is a good recruiter. If so, he will be replaced by a similar type assistant which won't get it done if CU wants a top flight program in the PAC 12. See USC's staff for great recruiters - very little basketball tradition, possibly headed for the #1 class in the nation.
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He might. Then again, he might just be being polite to help those that may be interested in replacing him know Tad has his assistant's backs.

USC has been a hell hole for basketball for an extended period. Whatever they are doing has nothing to do with Tad being a class act on his former assistant now being a head coach.

You do realize one of our assistant's becoming a head coach is good pub for CU's program and Tad, right?
 
buffs233 said:
My concern is that Boyle might actually believe Prioleau is a good recruiter. If so, he will be replaced by a similar type assistant which won't get it done if CU wants a top flight program in the PAC 12. See USC's staff for great recruiters - very little basketball tradition, possibly headed for the #1 class in the nation.
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USC is also smack in the middle of fertile recruiting territory. So there's that.
 
Goose said:
This is why USC recruits well.
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So it's not this anymore?
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Congratz to coach Pri.

The timing concerns me a bit. I think that having to hire another asst would be at least a minor distraction for the HC at a time where they are getting ready for the season.
 
In the Dallas Walton article Tad mentions that he has zeroed in on someone, but it likely won't get done prior to the Italy trip. Any thoughts on who it might be? Only potential name I've heard is Dwight Thorne.
 
Darth Snow said:
the basketball twitter overlords are loving this hire.


I like this hire knowing nothing about it other than it means Tad got his #1 target. I like this new era of what Tad wants, Tad gets?
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Tulsa has also been a pretty solid launching pad for basketball coaching careers. Good hoops school.
 
Kim English was a really good college basketball player. No clue about his coaching chops.
 
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