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Terry and Golding are just lazy suggestions. I think Scott Cross is a lazy suggestion as well. There's better established mid-major coaches out there and plenty of exciting young assistant coaches out there.

UNM pays him 1.2 million. About what Kennedy gets at UAB.

Working on a long-term contract is not the same as getting a big raise and extension. To me it just means they're hearing whispers and are trying to lock him up before he takes another job. Not seeing anything that a deal is done.

$1 million in football gets you a few decent transfers and fighting to finish .500. $1 million in basketball can get you a legit group of transfers and competing for championships. We don't have the money to really compete in football. Throw most of what we have at basketball. The NCAA tournament exposure and related credits are too valuable to pass up. I know you've been preaching this already. Just can't help myself but reiterate it because it seems so obvious.

It's been said but the yearly raises are important to remember when looking at these salaries, and potential HC hires. Those raises add up and the longer a coach is at a school, the more they make. McCasland made $1.1 million during the 2022-2023 season. Kennedy made $900,000 that same season per the deal he'd signed in July of 2022.

Will Wade seemed to focus on athletes this past season. Not necessarily the best shooters or biggest guys, just great overall athletes. Just like undersized shooters, defensive guys who can't shoot, small guards, and so on, the high majors can't field a roster full of those guys or they'll be exploited. They can take one, maybe two, guys like that if they're just that exceptional at the one thing they're good at. Too many becomes an issue for them. You know who can take on all of those guys? North Texas. I wouldn't mind a roster full of athletic freaks who can't shoot the 3. Or a roster full of defensive minded guys who are a bit smaller. Or a roster of 3 point shooters who can't dunk. Or a mix of misfits who are being ignored because they're 2 inches too short or their arms are too short or whatever. There's a way for us to keep being successful. Just need a coach who knows how to get what he needs and maximize what he gets.

Breaking news! Coach in his 5th season and 2 NCAA tournament appearances makes more than coach in his 2nd season and no tournament appearances. Y'all can't actually be surprised Kennedy makes more, right?

The only school I could see him going to is Baylor. That said, if a huge school offered to double his pay, he'd probably leave. Money will almost always win.

Just think it's kind of funny how that situation kicked off all these chain of events that have us where we are today. Yeah, year 2 wasn't great but if I remember correctly, Pop Isaacs quit after the controversy. He was one of their leading players so it certainly affected things. Worth noting his first season, they won 9 more games than the year before with Chris Beard. I'm not saying Adams is perfect. I just think he should get a strong look. From our budget situation, we're either going to pay for a somewhat unknown commodity and hope he does well, try to pluck somebody from a low-paying school somewhere, or promote from within. Why not the known winner and make a splash?

He was fired from Texas Tech due to a controversial Bible reference. He made the Sweet 16 his first and only full season there. UT Pan Am was 30+ years ago. He was very successful everywhere else. I know he's old. I'm only suggesting him because he's a proven winner who could be here for a few years and groom another young coach. This is an important hire and that Sweet 16 Tech run was just 3 years ago. He's still very much in the game. Had he not been fired for the Bible verse controversy, he'd probably still be winning at Tech and we'd likely still have McCasland.

Player development. An 18 year old isn't ready for the NFL. Most aren't ready for the NBA or MLB either. I'd imagine your average pro team doesn't want to deal with developing kids.

Ok y'all, I'm curious about your thoughts. I know he's an older coach but he is still currently in the game and still seems to want to coach. He's a Texas guy with success at all levels. His winning percentage as HC is .680 and is currently an assistant at Ole Miss. Worth mentioning he was just at ECU last year so he's familiar with current AAC opponents. Would you be OK with Mark Adams leading your Mean Green?

I certainly am not trying to blame her or anybody else. Just an honest mistake and as others have stated, it was a very weak call. I do think there a foul but it certainly wasn't egregious and I would hope a D1 ref wouldn't call something that soft from across the court with time expiring.

There's just no reason to be so close to any Troy player on the other side of the court with less than a couple seconds to go. If they want to launch a desperation shot, let them. Poor situational awareness.

None of that has anything to do with hiring a head coach. The only thing I'm saying is there's no evidence to suggest he can't make a good coaching hire.

How many coaches has Mosley had to hire? Burton, Hodge, and Eric Morris? So we won't give him credit for Hodge because he was already here even though I'd argue he still had the final say and chose to promote Hodge. We won't give him credit for Burton because it's not popular? Seems like some are cherry picking because they don't like the guy. I think Mosley deserves a bit more credit. Not a single one of those 3 hires has been bad. Football, especially in this era, is as tough to build up as ever. I know Morris hasn't had immediate success but I'd argue we haven't taken a step back either so there's still hope. And like CMJ said, we aren't a men's basketball coach graveyard. I think we're a very desirable midmajor job considering the proven recent upward mobility. I'm choosing to believe Mosley is capable of making the right hire until proven otherwise.

He should be allowed to coach the rest of the NIT for the seniors. Those guys likely won't play any pro ball. This is the end of a chapter for them. Let them finish on top.

Ummmm this is their 5th season in D1. He oversaw the D2 to D1 transition. Their final 5 seasons of D2 ball, he led UCSD to win totals of 24, 27, 21, 26, and 30. Sounds like a guy who can coach and attact talent at different levels of the game while staying competitive on a yearly basis which means constantly reloading on talent. They won 21 last year and 30 this year in their 4th and 5th seasons of D1 ball. This was their first season of being eligible for the NCAA D1 tournament and they made it. That also makes last year's 21 wins very impressive considering he was recruiting to a program that was not NCAA tourney eligible. They beat Utah State this year, something Ross couldn't do, and took Michigan to the wire ultimately losing by 3. Honestly, he'd be a great hire.

Looking at his yearly results, he really just started having success at the level Grant had. Bradley won 28, 23, and 25 the past 3 years but won 12 and 17 the years prior. I'm sure he's being looked at but let's not act like he's led Bradley to 8 years of winning basketball.

Understood. I think coaches want the best opportunity to keep promoting upwards. Pay and overall support didn't stop Hodge and Grant from being successful. I can promise you there's not a single head coach out there who doesn't think they could do the same.

Name them and post their salaries. Other than Mark Few and Hardaway, I don't know of any at the mid-major level. Drake lost their second HC in 2 years, Colorado State lost theirs, Utah State lost theirs a year ago, Arkansas State lost theirs, I could go on.

I'm not going to fight anybody who's worried about Jared's ability to find the right guy. That said, he could have come in 2 years ago, said I'm doing things my way now, and not promoted Hodge. Even though Hodge was molded and given to him, Jared still could have gone in a different direction. "Also, do you really think these up and coming coaches won't see the reasons for our success were 2 men that are gone." This is a really weird statement to me. Coaches, especially head coaches, believe in their system and their abilities to lead men and that they're capable of doing better than the previous coach. I don't think a single coach will look at UNT and think to themselves they can't accomplish was Grant and Hodge did. Quite the opposite, I think they'll look at UNT and see they could do the same or better and that if they do, the next high-major opening is theirs for the taking.

I know we're all upset about losing Hodge. Baring any unexpected promotions, it's effectively the end of the gritty defensive era we've grown to love over almost a decade. A few years ago, I'd read posts on the football forum saying that if we could become P5 launch pad for up and coming headcoaches, we'd be in a great position for continued success. If only we could have a couple head coaches be very successful and get plucked away, we could become known as a place coaches come to make a name for themselves and North Texas would become a desirable job as a place to jumpstart careers instead of burying them. With the news that Hodge is leaving to WVU, we've now had back-to-back head coaches hired away by Big 12 schools in the span of 3 years. When's the last time that's happened here? I can promise you, agents of coaches at various low and mid-majors are contacting their clients and pointing to the school in Denton, America as the place to be. The same goes for assistant coaches at high-majors/P5 who want to become a head coach. Want that big-time job? Come to UNT. The portal helps us even more now that most coaches know they're mostly starting over next season. Might as well start over at the BIG 12 head coach mill. We all know coaches come and go. We all prefer they be hired away rather than fired. Today is bittersweet but the future still looks bright. There will be no shortage of qualified applicants looking to wear green in the AAC as the leader of the Mean Green next season.

I did hear Shaw co-owns a mean Tex-Mex food truck.

Yup. Saw this earlier and kind of reminded that most teams are dealing with the portal. Many are still finding ways to gel quickly and win.