most like coaching the pack? Trying to find out if anyone left can unify the fanbase

My vote is Billy Gillispie.

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 1:32 PM. Reason : Jay wright is not a realistic coach]

4/12/2006 1:25:00 PM

Gillispie

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 1:31 PM. Reason : iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

4/12/2006 1:25:31 PM

With all the hours I'm working, I don't have time to do it.

4/12/2006 1:26:44 PM

gillispie

4/12/2006 1:27:21 PM

Its Gillispie. http://www.aggieathletics.com/pressRelease.php?PRID=11124

4/12/2006 1:28:21 PM

1)Gillispie
1a) Turgeon

4/12/2006 1:28:24 PM

Gillispie.

4/12/2006 1:31:00 PM

1. jay wright
2. gillispie
56. john brady

4/12/2006 1:31:32 PM

i don't think jay wright is realistic

4/12/2006 1:31:56 PM

Gillispie - 6 votes
Turgeon - .5 votes

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 1:33 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2006 1:32:17 PM

^ i heard he wanted a pay raise though

4/12/2006 1:32:44 PM

^^^ sorry, no way in hell we get wright

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 1:33 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2006 1:33:03 PM

we need to wise up and not even talk to wright. only outcome that would have is increasing his paycheck to stay there. i saw we do nova a favor and save us some time and just let it go.

4/12/2006 1:34:05 PM

Gillispie




Least like?
Brady

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 2:04 PM. Reason : I'm not gonna be "that fan" of "Phillip" Rivers]

4/12/2006 1:43:25 PM

Gillispie - 7 votes
Turgeon - .5 votes

Brady - Negative 2

4/12/2006 1:44:41 PM

1. Dereck Whittenburg

4/12/2006 2:02:00 PM

Gillispie

4/12/2006 2:11:24 PM

Supposedly A and M is building some new facilities, here are the pics...

take a hard look at what the banners say, think you will get a laugh

4/12/2006 2:12:29 PM

bahahaha

4/12/2006 2:14:00 PM

Gregg Marshall

4/12/2006 2:14:45 PM

never seen so many NIT First round banners, lol, now thats tradition

4/12/2006 2:14:58 PM

for all of you saying gillispie, do you want him or are u just saying he is prob. the most likely possibility at this point?


b/c for most of the a&m games that i watched, they slow it down quite a bit, which was a main Herb complaint; they don't run the Princeton offense, but they do slow it down

4/12/2006 2:15:02 PM

Gregg Marshall

4/12/2006 2:15:19 PM

Stan Van Gundy, Paul Silas, Johnny Davis, Jeff Bzdelik, Tim Floyd, Bob Weiss, Randy Whittman, Chris Ford, Don Casey, PJ Carlesimo, Bill Cartwright, or Leony Wilkens

4/12/2006 2:16:04 PM

^^^when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense,

HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS....holy shit a new concept, something herb garden didnt know how to do

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 2:17 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2006 2:16:22 PM

he sounds promising (Gillispie) but this comes from the A&M athletic site so take it for what its worth:

Quote :

"In just three years as a college head coach, Billy Gillispie has made history. After achieving one of the most dramatic single-season turnarounds in NCAA annals at Texas-El Paso, Gillispie became Texas A&M’s 19th head basketball coach in March 2004. He inherited a team that had gone 7-21 the year before with an 0-16 mark in Big 12 play. The program had not had a winning season in 11 years. The Aggies were picked to finish last in the rugged Big 12, but Gillispie was not about to let that happen. The Aggies exploded to a perfect 11-0 start and went on to finish 21-10, the biggest improvement in the country. Gillispie became the only coach in history to lead the most improved team in consecutive seasons. A&M went 8-8 in Big 12 play, including victories against No. 9-ranked Texas and No. 25 Texas Tech. The Aggies won two games in the National Invitation Tournament, A&M’s first postseason appearance in 11 years and its first postseason wins in 23 seasons. As a result, Gillispie was the consensus selection as Big 12 Coach of the Year and was a finalist for national coach of the year honors for the season straight year. The United States Basketball Writers Association and the National Association of Basketball Coaches named him district coach of the year and the Texas Association of basketball selected him as its college coach of the year. A&M shattered all its attendance records and had four sellouts, tying for third most in the Big 12, and enjoyed the third best attendance increase in the country. The Aggies’ 17 home victories were the nation’s second most. Gillispie’s incoming recruiting class is ranked among nation’s top 10 and includes Eddie Smith, the 2005 National Junior College Player of the Year. Gillispie has a career record for 51-42, but is 45-16 in his last two seasons, including a 33-4 mark in home games. His record in the last two seasons is the third best among all Big 12 coaches. A native of the tiny West Texas town of Graford, Gillispie is the first native Texan to serve as A&M’s head basketball coach since J.B. Reid (1930-35). Gillispie’s Texas ties run deep as he began his coaching career in the state’s high school and junior college ranks before starting his Division I career at Baylor in the mid-1990s. He went on to successful assistant coaching stints at Tulsa and Illinois before becoming UTEP’s head coach in 2002. The Miners finished 6-24 in his first season, but went 24-8 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2004, an incredible 18-win improvement that ranks among the best in history. As a result, Gillispie was named district coach of the year by the USBWA, Texas coach of the year by the TABC, and was a finalist for national coach of the year honors. The Miners captured the 2004 Western Athletic Conference title, its first in 12 years, after being picked to finish ninth in the preseason poll. UTEP became only the third WAC team in history -- and the first in 35 years -- to win a league title after finishing last the previous year. In the exhibition season, the Miners ended the Harlem Globetrotters’ 288-game winning streak with an 89-88 victory. The Globetrotters finished their exhibition tour with a 7-1 record, including wins against Michigan State and defending national champion Syracuse. The Miners completed a 16-1 home ledger and built a huge following in El Paso, averaging 10,282 fans per game and ranking first in the NCAA in increased attendance. UTEP had eight sellout crowds of more than 12,000. A tireless worker, the 46-year-old Gillispie has built a deserved reputation as one of the country’s best recruiters. His prowess was reflected in his first recruiting class at UTEP, which featured a pair of first-team junior college All-Americans -- Filiberto Rivera and Omar Thomas -- and earned a top 25 national ranking. Rivera was the 2003 National Junior College Player of the Year, while Thomas was the all-time leading scoring in junior college basketball and was the only JUCO player ever to score 2,000 points with 1,000 rebounds. Prior to being hired at UTEP in 2002, Gillispie served eight years as an assistant coach at Baylor, Tulsa and Illinois. He was a member of Bill Self’s staffs at Tulsa from 1997-00 and at Illinois from 2000-02. Self is now the head coach at Kansas. Gillispie was part of a coaching unit that recorded 85 wins over three years, the second-highest total in the nation in that period, and captured four consecutive conference championships -- two in the Big Ten and two in the WAC. When the WAC title at UTEP is factored in, Gillispie was a part of conference championship teams in five of six years, a record matched by few others in that span. In addition, Gillispie was a member of the only coaching staff in NCAA history to lead two different schools to the Elite Eight in successive seasons -- Tulsa in 2000 and Illinois in 2001. Tulsa registered a 32-5 mark in 1999-00 and Illinois fashioned a composite mark of 53-17 in 2000-01 and 2001-02, winning back-to-back Big Ten titles for the first time in 50 years. The Illinois staff became the first since 1913 to win Big Ten titles in each of its first two seasons in the league. Illinois advanced to the Sweet 16 in the 2002 NCAA Tournament. Tulsa garnered a No. 9 national ranking in the final USA Today/NABC coaches’ poll in 2000, while Illinois finished the year rated No. 6 in 2001 and No. 11 in 2002. In his eight years as a Division I assistant, Gillispie helped recruit 24 players from eight different states, including 11 from Texas. Seventeen were high school standouts and seven were junior college products. His efforts on the recruiting trail helped Illinois land one of the nation’s top 10 signing classes in 2002. The group featured Parade All-American Dee Brown, James Augustine, Aaron Spears, Deron Williams and Kyle Wilson. Tulsa’s victory total climbed each year with Gillispie on the sideline, from 19 wins in 1997-98 to 23 in 1998-99 and 32 in 1999-00. Gillispie was the top assistant and recruiting coordinator at Baylor from 1994-97 under head coach Harry Miller. The Bears notched 18 victories in 1996-97 after consecutive nine-win seasons the previous two years. Baylor’s 1996 recruiting class was ranked as high as No. 6 in the country. A 1983 graduate of Southwest Texas State with a bachelor’s degree in education, Gillispie got his start in coaching as a graduate assistant at his alma mater from 1983-85. From 1987-93, Gillispie served as head coach at three different high schools in Texas -- Copperas Cove, New Braunfels Canyon and Killeen Ellison. His last prep team at Killeen Ellison in 1992-93 recorded a 32-6 record and set school records for winning percentage and points scored while finishing the year ranked No. 4 in the state. Gillispie was nominated for high school coach of the year by the TABC. His athletic director at Copperas Cove, Hal Mumme, was the former head football coach at Kentucky and is now head coach at New Mexico State. Gillispie joined the junior college ranks from 1993-94 as an assistant and recruiting coordinator at South Plains Junior College in Levelland, Texas. Born in Abilene on Nov. 7, 1959, Gillispie was the middle of five children and the only boy. When he was in second grade, the family moved to Graford (pop. 578), located 65 miles northwest of Fort Worth. He played point guard at Graford High School and was a two-sport athlete in basketball and baseball at Ranger (Texas) Junior College from 1978-80. Gillispie attended Sam Houston State for one year, where he was a student assistant coach, then transferred to Texas State, where he served three years as a graduate assistant. Gillispie is a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Texas Association of Basketball Coaches, Texas High School Coaches Association and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. "

4/12/2006 2:17:16 PM

Turgeon just signed an extension and got a raise. So take him off the list.

And for the millionth time...Gillispie ran a high-paced offense at UTEP. He took over a 0-16 Big 12 team at Texas A&M and did not have the horses to run with the league. So he slowed it down and went 8-8. He'll run if he has the personnel.

I want Gillispie...but I'm starting to think that's a pipe dream. We're going to end up with a fucking Brady.

4/12/2006 2:20:49 PM

I think Gillispie coaches at whatever pace puts his team in the best position to win. At Texas A&M that means low-scoring games.

I think he is realistic and would like to see him hired. Gregg Marshall wouldn't be bad either, but Gillispie has shown success at a mid-major better than the Big South, as well as in a major conference.

4/12/2006 2:21:07 PM

Stan Van gundy would be an amazing hire

Is it common for AD's to look in the pro ranks as well?

4/12/2006 2:50:50 PM

i vote JohnnyPenis

4/12/2006 2:54:38 PM

jordan collins

4/12/2006 3:13:44 PM

1. gillispie - 10 votes
2. marshall - 2 votes
3. JohnnyPenis - 1 vote
4. collins - 1 vote
5. van gundy - 1 vote
6. turgeon - .5 votes
7. brady - -2 votes

4/12/2006 3:18:39 PM

Herb

4/12/2006 3:33:53 PM

i havent really looked at gillispie at all because i havent known his name before this whole coaching fiasco

but i think ill be content if he comes here

vote Gillispie

4/12/2006 3:34:12 PM

Will Langley

4/12/2006 3:38:20 PM

Gillespie!

BRADY IS OVERRATED, HIS FANBASE AT LSU WANTS HIM GONE, WHY WOULD WE WANT HIM?

desperation..... ugh....

4/12/2006 3:38:26 PM

1. gillispie - 12 votes
2. marshall - 3 votes
3. JohnnyPenis - 1 vote
4. collins - 1 vote
5. van gundy - 1 vote
6. turgeon - .5 votes
7. brady - -2 votes

4/12/2006 3:40:11 PM

Red Aurbach

4/12/2006 3:42:00 PM

I am changing my vote:

its gonna take a buttload of $$ to buy a badass coach & badass team:

GEORGE STEINBRENNER

4/12/2006 3:42:39 PM

1. gillispie - 11 votes
2. marshall - 3 votes
3. JohnnyPenis - 1 vote
4. collins - 1 vote
5. van gundy - 1 vote
6. gillespie - 1 vote (not sure who this guy is)
7. Red Aurbach - 1 vote
8. GEORGE STEINBRENNER - 1 vote
9. turgeon - .5 votes
10. brady - -2 votes

4/12/2006 3:45:21 PM

This motherfucker had a girl as a point guard and fat ass anthony anderson as a power forward and was still winning ball games.

Reggie Theus baby.

4/12/2006 3:46:26 PM

^yeah, lets make sure our next basketball coach is openly homosexual...great strategy

4/12/2006 3:47:02 PM

John Fox.


duh

4/12/2006 3:50:26 PM

i'd like to throw my name in the hat for NC State's Men's Basketball head coach...
my qualifications are that i currently don't have another job, so i can't just use NCSU to get a raise...
oh, and my car is red

4/12/2006 4:51:02 PM

1. gillispie - 11 votes
2. marshall - 3 votes
3. (t) JohnnyPenis - 1 vote
3. (t) collins - 1 vote
3. (t) van gundy - 1 vote
3. (t) gillespie - 1 vote (not sure who this guy is)
3. (t) Red Aurbach - 1 vote
3. (t) GEORGE STEINBRENNER - 1 vote
3. (t) Reggie Theus - 1 vote
3. (t) John Fox - 1 vote
3. (t) timswar - 1 vote
12. turgeon - .5 votes
13. brady - -3 votes

alright that's enough candidates. everyone should vote on the best of these lol.

v done

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 5:08 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2006 5:00:16 PM

-1 vote for Brady

4/12/2006 5:04:51 PM

to the people wanting Gillispie, can you really stomache another "slow it down" offense? I didn't really mind the Herb-O that much, but to think that we are looking for a new coach and we bring in another guy running a boring ass game about makes me barf.

4/12/2006 5:11:47 PM

most people think that gillespie ran the slow down O because he didn't have the horses to do it any other way, and maybe with some faster, ACC type recruits this may change

i think he liked to move the ball up and down at UTEP before he was at A+M

4/12/2006 5:15:54 PM

count one for Jay Wright if he is still on the market...

4/12/2006 5:18:46 PM

geez. does this need to be posted in every thread where gillispie is mentioned? here goes:

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

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"when he was at UTEP, they ran an up and down offense, HE ACTUALLY ADAPTS THE OFFENSE TO THE TALENT HE HAS"

and yea, he gets my vote.

[Edited on April 12, 2006 at 5:23 PM. Reason : ]

4/12/2006 5:22:32 PM