UNLV v. Virginia Tech

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Hmmm...

Lon Kruger must be asking his good friend from this board if he can help him get out of Vegas and into one of the 4 better Mountain West programs...I am guessing what was meant was BYU, SDSU, New Mexico and Air Force? Hilarious! If you are a mormon maybe 1 job is better than his in his conference.

Virginia Tech was picked by some to be a top 15 team which I mocked.

Seth Greenberg has a guy on his team who twice threw himself on the ground holding his face seeking an intentional foul call. Pathetic. Florida State which just lost at home to Florida may not be able to challenge the Hokies, but that 2 loss team would not beat TN, and it is a joke that some people on here pretended that they were significantly better than us.
 
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LSMvols said:
This is just considered obsession now
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Especially when 3 guys of Va. Tech's projected 8 man rotation are out. Of course, look at the source. According to him, winning a home game against the 10th best team in the Big Ten is a good win.
 
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VT will never ever ever be better than UT at anything, ANYTHING, other than maybe beating us in a "whos team has more flat-brim hat wearing and wannabe gangsta fans" challenge.
 
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UNLV as the 4th or 5th best job in the Mountain West is one of the dumbest statements ever made on this or any sports message board. Coming from someone who claimed to be friends with Lon Kruger makes this hilarious.

Also several people on here defended Virginia Tech when I ridiculed their inclusion in the top 15.
 
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iuvol2012 said:
Florida, Vandy, Kentucky, and Tennessee will all be in the Final Four this year :crazy::crazy:
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Actually, it's being expanded to the Super Six. They don't want to run the risk of excluding Georgia and Mississippi State.
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
UNLV as the 4th or 5th best job in the Mountain West is one of the dumbest statements ever made on this or any sports message board. Coming from someone who claimed to be friends with Lon Kruger makes this hilarious.

Also several people on here defended Virginia Tech when I ridiculed their inclusion in the top 15.
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At full strength they are a top 15 team, and that's all there is to it.

Also, even the people that defended Va Tech never said anything about them being significantly better than UT.
 
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emainvol said:
At full strength they are a top 15 team, and that's all there is to it.

Also, even the people that defended Va Tech never said anything about them being significantly better than UT.
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Hey, don't argue. You're debating with a guy who knows more about the relative desirability of coaching jobs than the coaches themselves. The fact UNLV has sold out about two games since Tark left bears out what a great job it is. So does the fact it wrecked Bill Bayno's career and is the only place Spoon didn't win big. Who wouldn't want a job like that?
 
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hatvol96 said:
Hey, don't argue. You're debating with a guy who knows more about the relative desirability of coaching jobs than the coaches themselves. The fact UNLV has sold out about two games since Tark left bears out what a great job it is. So does the fact it wrecked Bill Bayno's career and is the only place Spoon didn't win big. Who wouldn't want a job like that?
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Spoonhour never took them to the tourney?
 
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Hey Hat, Do you think Charlie's son Jay will ever be the coach that his father was. I know he is the coach of the local community college up here. but what do you know
 
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missourivol said:
Hey Hat, Do you think Charlie's son Jay will ever be the coach that his father was. I know he is the coach of the local community college up here. but what do you know
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Those are very lofty standards to try and meet. Jay did do a really nice job when he took over at UNLV on an interim basis at the end of Charlie's tenure there. It seems like he's happy at the JC level. Some guys don't relish the idea of dealing with all the stuff surrounding being a D-I head coach.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Hey, don't argue. You're debating with a guy who knows more about the relative desirability of coaching jobs than the coaches themselves. The fact UNLV has sold out about two games since Tark left bears out what a great job it is. So does the fact it wrecked Bill Bayno's career and is the only place Spoon didn't win big. Who wouldn't want a job like that?
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I LOVE that you actually want to have this argument.

On the one hand you have:
As of 2009, UNLV is the fourth-winningest program by percentage (.712) in Division I history — ranking behind Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas, but ahead of UCLA, and Duke. UNLV is 33-16 all-time in the NCAA tournament with a .673 winning percentage. In July 2008, ESPNU named the program the eighth most prestigious collegiate basketball program in the nation since 1984.

On the other you have the other programs in the Mountain West. You have to prove that 3 or 4 of them are better jobs than the one Lon Kruger is in. You claim the coaches know this is true, so even anonymously, please quote the coaches who said that UNLV is the 4th or 5th best job.

It is classic narcissism to be unable to admit when you are dead wrong.

UNLV as a job, did not make Bayno illegally recruit Lamar Odom.

Spoon?
Charlie Spoonhour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seriously? It is not even hard to understand. The guy won with the Missourl State Bears (AMCU-8/Mid-Continent/Missouri Valley) (1983–1992) and in that time period he won 1 game in the NCAAT. 1 game.

Then he went to the Saint Louis Billikens (Great Midwest/Conference USA) (1992–1999)
In 7 seasons he would not have gotten at a team like Tennessee because we would have fired him, he won 2 games in the NCAAT, by winning 1 game two different years. His overall record was 122-90 and his conference record was 44-50.

After UNLV he went on to great things fishing and golfing because he did not coach anywhere else. You are right though, the guy was on his way to the HOF before he went to UNLV. Lots of "winning big" if you mean doing NOTHING in the NCAAT but winning the Mid Continent conference.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I forgot the wonders coaching at Vegas did for Rollie's career. Bet he'd heartily recommend UNLV as a destination job.
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In 1992, he resigned from Villanova to take the head coaching job at UNLV. Initially, the hope had been that he would restore the success and credibility of UNLV after the basketball team's 1991–92 probation and the forced resignation of long-time coach Jerry Tarkanian. Two years later, Massimino was forced out when it was revealed that he and UNLV president Robert Maxson had cut a side-deal to lift Massimino's salary above the figure that had been reported to the state of Nevada. A state commission decided that this had violated state ethics laws, as well as UNLV rules.


The hits keep coming...

Cheating and getting canned and then blaming the "program" as being a "bad job" is a new defense. Let me know how that one works out for you there hat.
 
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By the way, I love Lon Kruger and I love what he is doing at UNLV. They are 3rd in the RPI I think as of today.

Games against SDSU I expect them to win, and it will be awesome watching them try to contain one of the best players in CBB this year in Jimmer when they play BYU. All three of those teams should make the tournament.
 
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Anyone want to quote the above posts? Apparently Hat no longer has anyone "reporting" to him on what I post. hahahahaha
 
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emainvol said:
It's December.
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That's crazy talk. Don't you remember how well MHFarce's calls on DePaul, Charlotte, Florida, Miami, and Virginia held up last season. What is now, will be in the future. It's some sort of law of physics.
 
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