New UNT Coach is Daniyal Robinson

[keith]

 

Edited Sunday at 09:08 PM by Coach Andy Mac

[CMJ]

Don't hate it, but don't love it.

[rjm]

Never heard of him but he seems ok.

No ties to Texas at all.

[meangreen10]

1 minute ago, rjm said:

Never heard of him but he seems ok.

No ties to Texas at all.

Was the Houston assistant from 10-13

[Green Mean]

2 minutes ago, rjm said:

Never heard of him but he seems ok.

No ties to Texas at all.

I think that matters less and less in basketball and especially in today's college athletics but he was an assistant at Houston from 2010-2013 according to Wikipedia.

[AleAlejandro21]

Underwhelming hire

[GoMeanGreen1999]

1 hour ago, AleAlejandro21 said:

Underwhelming hire

Very if correct.

[rjm]

4 minutes ago, meangreen10 said:

Was the Houston assistant from 10-13

You're right. I missed that.

[rojomojo]

6 minutes ago, rjm said:

Never heard of him but he seems ok.

No ties to Texas at all.

He has major Chicago connections and was a long time assistant at ISU... He has more connections than anyone UNT has hired in the past decade

[Green Lantern]

Don’t hate this hire. Pretty successful HC at an under resourced program. Still on the younger side. Winning overall record despite playing a Horizon league non conference schedule. Winning record in conference play with 2 of the 3 years being pretty darn good. Willing to give this a chance.

[meangreen10]

Just now, rojomojo said:

He has major Chicago connections and was a long time assistant at ISU... He has more connections than anyone UNT has hired in the past decade

Think he knows Rosevelt Smart?

[rojomojo]

8 minutes ago, rjm said:

Never heard of him but he seems ok.

No ties to Texas at all.

Get Todd Dodge off this site

[rjm]

He was under James Dickey and he did not have a great record. But that was before they gave a damn about basketball.

[rjm]

2 minutes ago, rojomojo said:

He has major Chicago connections and was a long time assistant at ISU... He has more connections than anyone UNT has hired in the past decade

Connections in nearby Chicago. That was a must.

LOL

[GoMeanGreen1999]

1 hour ago, Green Lantern said:

Don’t hate this hire. Pretty successful HC at an under resourced program. Still on the younger side. Winning overall record despite playing a Horizon league non conference schedule. Winning record in conference play with 2 of the 3 years being pretty darn good. Willing to give this a chance.

Pretty weak conference.  

Edited Sunday at 06:35 PM by GoMeanGreen1999

[Green Mean]

I won't pretend to act like I knew him before his name started popping up the last few days or so but given his career path it doesn't seem like a bad hire at all. Been around the big and a little programs and was able to maintain success at Cleveland State after their previous coach went to Mizzou. 

[NT93]

I don’t really see how this is underwhelming.  3 consecutive 20 win seasons in the Horizon, which I don’t know much about except Oakland won a game or two last year in the Tourney and Robert Morris gave Bama all they wanted this year.  Seems like a better hire than most other names I’ve seen mentioned…coaches with little to no HC experience with a mid-major.  I’ll support this hire until it proves to be a bad one.

[rjm]

72.8 PPG last year. Vs 68.1

[rojomojo]

4 minutes ago, rjm said:

Connections in nearby Chicago. That was a must.

LOL

He'll have all the time in the world to establish strong Texas ties. That's what a staff is for

Its just a bonus that he has national connections that will help us recruit 

[CMJ]

I don't really care about Texas connections.  These days with the way NIL is, talent evaluation and the ability to scour the JUCO and "lesser" conferences is more important.  And the MOST important thing nowadays is the capacity to mix and match rosters on the fly every season.  I really feel like pulling JUCO coaches up into 4 year institutions will be the way of the future.  Those guys have to build new rosters together from scratch every season...which is the way D1 is going too.

[Glory to the Green]

I don’t know much about him, but I’m willing to give him a chance. I wonder if he’ll be able to bring some of his players and possibly some of the better players from the Horizon league ala Dusty May did with Michigan and the AAC.  Let’s finish strong in the NIT while he builds his staff and gets recruits!

[BleedingGreen]

I am optimistic.  Head coaching experience is a plus plus a winning record.

i hope he talks to all of the assistants especially Forte and Andre Shaw and considers them.

[Travis]

26 minutes ago, rjm said:

Never heard of him but he seems ok.

No ties to Texas at all.

That’s really an easy thing to fix. Only a couple bucks off the internet. 
 

[CMJ]

9 minutes ago, rojomojo said:

Texas connections only really matter in football at this point

The difference is I think keeping McCasland/Hodge ties would be important.  NT is a really unique place with issues that very few seem to get.  I don't think someone who has worked at another Texas school would understand exactly what they were getting into in Denton. 

 

I'd have preferred to hire someone that has been on a NT staff, but if that doesn't matter just get someone you think can evaluate/pick up underrated talent and can work with an entirely new roster every season.

[meangreen10]

From reading their message boards, CSU people were talking about losing him about halfway through the season. Thought he’d get P4 looks.