Arizona does NOT hire Tim Floyd

**womensbball4022** · 04-01-2009, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by Bobber

Maybe Larry Eustachy is a shoe in for the USC job.

I would love to have eustachy back. and keep robinson or hire morgan back for recruiting. but im dreaming to much

**dustinal** · 04-01-2009, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by arganbright2

And people complain about the players that bounce around from place to place. Thats why I can't respect guys like Calipari and Floyd very much---they have a new job every couple of years. I understand wanting to go to the next step and get paid but how can you consistently build a winner and put your personal stamp on a program like Johnny Orr did for us or even Tom Davis at Iowa. Its like hitting on the hottest chick at the bar---its risky and you may get lucky but if you hit on the average looking chick, you will probably spend the rest of your life with her and be happy. That made sense in my head anyways

Calipari was at Memphis for nine years. Just sayin'.

**Shinyhappyclone** · 04-01-2009, 10:55 PM

I want a cybookie with an over/under on years at Arizona. I say 4 tops....again.
Hell, let's even have a line on what his next school will be. He'll start some buzz in about 3 years that his second cousin's at ______school and coaching there was always a dream of his.

**arganbright2** · 04-01-2009, 10:57 PM

Damn was he there that long??? I still remember him in the Marcus Camby days at UMass. I still don't like him though. Tony Bennett is the example I was looking for as he was very popular with Wash St. fans before he bolted 3,000 miles away to UVA.

**LindenCy** · 04-01-2009, 11:03 PM

Wow, Floyd is 55? I know someone alluded to this in an earlier thread, but he looks good for his age.

**CyclonesRule** · 04-01-2009, 11:05 PM

I am kind of surprised that USC didn't have anything in his contract saying he could not leave for another PAC 10 school.

**CyclonesRule** · 04-01-2009, 11:06 PM

I guess this also means Capel won't be going to Arizona. Maybe musical chairs will now have him going to USC. Maybe OU will sign him to a big contract extention like MU did with Anderson

**MontyBurns** · 04-01-2009, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by arganbright2

And people complain about the players that bounce around from place to place. Thats why I can't respect guys like Calipari and Floyd very much---they have a new job every couple of years. I understand wanting to go to the next step and get paid but how can you consistently build a winner and put your personal stamp on a program like Johnny Orr did for us or even Tom Davis at Iowa. Its like hitting on the hottest chick at the bar---its risky and you may get lucky but if you hit on the average looking chick, you will probably spend the rest of your life with her and be happy. That made sense in my head anyways

I agree 100%. In Floyd's case, I think he bails before the NCAA shows up to investigate recruiting (like OJ Mayo) and before he gets hit with scholarship reductions for his APR (academic progress report). His players were the start of the time our 6-year graduation rate was less than 10%...of course by the time we had scholarship reductions, he was long gone. A lot of coaches can go somewhere, recruit a few good players, and have a 20 or 25 win season or two. The top coaches can graduate those players, recruit new ones, and do it again. And again. Just like Orr & Davis.

**CrossCyed** · 04-01-2009, 11:07 PM

Is it more wanderlust or just wanting a new challenge?

**kingcy** · 04-01-2009, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by CrossCyed

Is it more wanderlust or just wanting a new challenge?

Ego?

**chengyushen** · 04-01-2009, 11:11 PM

what is his record at USC?

**kingcy** · 04-01-2009, 11:13 PM

Maybe he didnt like being at a FB school and always being second to that.

**MontyBurns** · 04-01-2009, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by kingcy

Maybe he didnt like being at a FB school and always being second to that.

He handled it okay at ISU. Oh wait...

**MontyBurns** · 04-01-2009, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by chengyushen

what is his record at USC?

85-50 overall, 39-33 in the Pac 10, in 4 years. He had a better winning percentage at Iowa State.

**arganbright2** · 04-01-2009, 11:17 PM

ZIIIINNNNGGGG!!! SAD STAT OF THE DAY---Floyd won more games against in state foes in basketball than the entire football team won against everybody else during his time in Ames. That's sad.