Oregon coaching search shows that money won't solve every problem

He’s a long shot because of his stability he’s created. I always thought he was a long shot because of his roots in the midwest and he can “wait out” any coaching job he wants now due to his tourney run.

My thinking is trying to find the next Brad Stevens. Is that Dollar because of his recruiting prowess? Maybe try getting a Ben Jacobson from No Iowa (I know he signed an extension, but lets be honest those things are more from the AD to the coach then the coach to the AD). I don’t know, I’m really interested to see where this search turns at this point.

I’m not really rooting for Carlesimo to get the job, but you can’t deny that the man knows a thing or two about coaching college ball. He did take Seton Hall to a National Championship game and was a pretty decorated coach in the Big East. I would suspect that he would have some good insights on turning things around.

Its not like football – bball turnarounds often can be tied to just a single player and a well coached system. They can happen pretty fast.

“If you fire a coach with the success (or lack thereof) of Ernie you better believe that you think you can get someone better in line.” – agreed.

I don’t think Oregon went into this thinking, “let’s take a step backwards in coaching, that sounds like a good idea.” I think it was a two part decision:

1. Were Ernie’s accomplishments (or lack thereof) worthy of him keeping his job another year? No. I think Ernie was fired because of what he’d done or didn’t do, not because of what other coaches were doing.

2. Do we believe we can find a better coach than Ernie Kent? Yes. Now the hubris came in thinking that all Oregon needed to do was spend a lot of money on an arena, throw a lot of money in front of really good coaches and they’d come running to Eugene. Obviously that’s not the way it’s working out.

You need to have a steady program, you need leadership in the athletic dept, you need facilities, you need backing from boosters, you need recruiting pipelines, you need the total package, and when looking around at the landscape of college basketball what “the power brokers” are finding out is that Oregon isn’t the only one that has those things. This has nothing to do with 1 or 2. It has to do with the how unprepared the “power brokers” were going into the hiring, not the firing.

You act like it was the potential hope of something better that drove Oregon to fire Ernie and none of it had to do with Ernie’s production or inconsistency. As for

I won’t accept your reasoning here. "ernie had run his course at UO It was time to move on"

I don’t think we need to go down this road again, I’m ok agreeing to disagree that you thought Ernie deserved more time to show what type of coach he was going to be, whereas I think it was plainly evident we knew what type of coach Ernie was and how far he was going to be able to take the Oregon program.

I always tell people, it wasn’t that long. It was just wildly public and our newsguys came on themselves over and over to break a scoop. So much so that some things were published that we know to be exaggerations!

And then I think – if I were hiring someone and paying them million, I might want to take my time and do it right as well! I’m cheering for and under-the-radar good coach for the Ducks (my favorite left coast team).

Yeah, actually 10 games and they only did it to hurt the blazers financially. Too bad there are any coaches in the Pac 10 we could try and get.

What about Stan Love? Think he’d come and coach for us?

That’s another way to spell Shufelt.