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"meltdown averted. WE LOVE YOU SEAN MILLER!!! "

5/8/2011 11:51:29 AM

Thought this was funny this weekend:

I joined an alumni softball league in DC. We played Clemson Friday night. After the game, we were drinking with Clemson's team at the bar, and they were saying how they'd been to Raleigh, enjoyed the city and our stadium, etc, and we should go to Clemson for a game someday.

They were saying how they pride themselves on being welcoming of visiting fans. So I say State fans are welcoming for the most part too unless you're from Maryland or UNC.

The Clemson guy goes, "Oh yeah that's right. Maryland is the worst. Fuck those guys."

5/8/2011 11:56:03 AM

I would hope that on Monday's sports talk radio shows people will criticize Maryland's blunderous coaching search and just make up rumors about other coaches who have already turned them down

Fuck Maryland

5/8/2011 12:46:24 PM

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"I would expect to have that discussion at a bar with a maryland fan, not coming from a radio host who is supposed to be unbiased"

There's two hosts. Whenever there's any kind of topic with two sides, one of them zigs and the other zags. The go back and forth, and then take calls where folks agree with one or the other.

That's how you fill three hours of daily radio.

5/8/2011 1:04:56 PM

HEISMAN'D

http://maryland.247sports.com/Board/67/Brey-turned-us-down-2185779/1

5/8/2011 1:53:31 PM

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"This post is for members of InsideMDSports only. Join now!"

what a shitty site

5/8/2011 1:56:51 PM

their site sucks so much you can read half their premium posts

at least I can

[Edited on May 8, 2011 at 2:06 PM. Reason : LOL: http://maryland.247sports.com/Board/67/Hey-click-Show-post-to-InsideMDSports-subscribers-only-2]

5/8/2011 2:02:36 PM

thats what im saying, what the hell kind of website gives posters the option to either post a public general post or a specific post just to users, in the exact same thread?

5/8/2011 2:11:48 PM

it seems their "fuck it, let's just hire archie miller right now" plan is to promote the 3rd assistant from last season

lol

theyre really bad at this. i haven't seen one mention of grant or turgeon's buyouts yet, they completely ate out of the hand of people's "sources," are now trying to blame nike for sabotaging under armour (try doing this with adidas you dumb fucks) and so on

5/8/2011 2:20:20 PM

hahahaah eat it maryland.

that program is in really bad shape, i doubt they beat our hire

5/8/2011 2:30:24 PM

Lol I thought people said they had this shit set up already before Gary left.

5/8/2011 4:46:01 PM

Mark Turgeon?

5/8/2011 5:08:53 PM

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"that program is in really bad shape"

yeah it's been an entire fucking year since the last time they won the ACC regular season. probably time to shut it down.

5/8/2011 5:09:18 PM

turgeon would be a great hire, I don't know what the hell happened to him in state's coaching search, maybe he was one of the those rumored rejections or something

the stevens story should be interesting now, I'm just curious what type of program could get him out of butler, I predicted it would take a top 5

5/8/2011 5:57:12 PM

It will take Duke or Indiana to get Stevens out of Butler.

5/8/2011 6:57:28 PM

mike brey pulled his name out of the search.

cmon turgeon turn them down hahahaha

5/8/2011 7:25:24 PM

Well for all the hell that everyone gives us...this round of the coaching carousel seems to confirm that we have the 3rd best job in the conference.

5/8/2011 7:44:32 PM

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"It will take Duke or Indiana to get Stevens out of Butler."

where does all this brad stevens and duke talk come from? someone please explain this to me. indiana is obvious, but did i miss an interview where he said he preferred the duke job to any other top flight job out there?

5/8/2011 8:54:37 PM

Great to watch the MD meltdown.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=174&f=2580&t=7498885

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"So apparently no one wants the job. Maybe bowtie boy should consider having Frese coach the men and finding a new women's coach (which would be much easier to do). Honestly, she'd probably do just as well as Tubby or whoever else he's going to settle on."

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"What we have here is the same thing we had in late December. This is the basketball version. Can't get Miller, Brey realizes he is the 3-4-5 choice and says I'm staying at my football school. We had no business wasting time with Dixon or Wright anyway. Don't show your hand so fast Necktie....for you will be doing this many times over the next 5-8 years and I hope you learn from these situations. For us to go from good to great you have to be great yourself. Our next coach did not have to be from the Big East or PAC 10 but a solid recruiter and X and O's man. Basketball is not college football. This is a debacle at this point as expected. GW is gone, a memory and all the Message Board Warriors will say is A) GW is overated and past his prime B) he left the program in bad shape and C) he announced this too late and screwed us. Maybe so but Necktie is screwing you harder and harder with each move he makes. Oh and of course D) This is all GW's fault because he never recruited anyone and if he had we would have been getting a better coach now, Point the finger at the Necktie and not GW, for he won a NC and went to two FF's and did a lot more than you give him credit for at UMD. But you get what you get.......now all the haters applaud Necktie and sell this one please..."

[Edited on May 8, 2011 at 9:28 PM. Reason : link]

5/8/2011 9:28:00 PM

their AD is like the new lee fowler.

5/8/2011 9:34:12 PM

i love that they are being publicly rejected... it's nice to be on the other side of this for a change

5/8/2011 9:48:59 PM

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"where does all this brad stevens and duke talk come from? someone please explain this to me. indiana is obvious, but did i miss an interview where he said he preferred the duke job to any other top flight job out there?"

It's the only top-flight job that's almost sure to open up within the next five or so years. Plus it's a small private school like Butler and is a magnet for five-star nerdy-ass white dudes.

5/8/2011 10:05:11 PM

Duke is obviously on the elite side of the top tier teams but at least 3, possibly 4 Top 10 programs should be in the market in the coming 5-7 years. Duke, Louisville, UConn and possibly UNC (how long does Roy plan on staying?)

I highly doubt Stevens has any designs on leaving Butler though for any of those.

[Edited on May 8, 2011 at 10:08 PM. Reason : and of course UK before they get hit by sanctions and Calipari goes to the NBA again]

5/8/2011 10:07:17 PM

I still don't see why duke is a top job.

The expectations are going to be INSANELY high.

5/8/2011 10:09:09 PM

^^ Point taken, but those schools don't fit the second two requirements I have arbitrarily set for Brad Steven's job search, which isn't even happening.

[Edited on May 8, 2011 at 10:09 PM. Reason : Duke is the top job of all top jobs]

5/8/2011 10:09:23 PM

Duke or UNC, to be sure. I don't know that Duke would be the top job though simply because UNC has less stringent admission standards (will Duke's next coach get away with sliding a guy who can't read like Dockery in? Remains to be seen..). Now that SHOULDN'T matter but I'm sure it does.

5/8/2011 10:11:19 PM

Dockery and William Avery are examples that anything is possible

5/8/2011 10:13:35 PM

i probably missed this somewhere already but - why did GW wait so long to announce retirement? he had to have known waiting until May would make it hard for the university to land a quality replacement

5/8/2011 10:34:46 PM

i don't think anyone has really said why he waited so long.

it seems like he was waiting on jordan williams to decide if he was going to stay in the draft or not.

5/8/2011 10:43:28 PM

^^also, why did they say they had it all figured out and were prepared for it when they clearly have blundered? Len Elmore will be the next coach, just like the Lowe search...only Lowe didn't have a law degree, unfortunately for his son.

but seriously, who is Maryland going to get this late? GW might have sucker punched the school on this one

[Edited on May 8, 2011 at 10:48 PM. Reason : .]

5/8/2011 10:47:58 PM

In regards to the admissions trouble to Duke...I worked with a Duke grad who majored in Black Studies and was a football player who played in the NFL for a few years. He thought apples grew under ground.

I think they'll manage.

5/8/2011 10:56:17 PM

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"^^ Point taken, but those schools don't fit the second two requirements I have arbitrarily set for Brad Steven's job search, which isn't even happening."

right, these two requirements are universally accepted and as far as i can tell totally arbitrary.

5/8/2011 11:08:32 PM

SIDNEY LOWE EMERGES????

http://twitter.com/#!/sunjeffbarker/statuses/67403982003384320

5/8/2011 11:20:23 PM

^LOL

5/8/2011 11:27:29 PM

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"This search is completely different. NC State knew they were going to fire Lowe for weeks and had time to prepare. They did their search right at the start of the coaching offseason. Gary quit right when everything was settled and with no notice. It makes it a MUCH more difficult situation now that everything had settled and everything was done. Not a comparable situation at all. Its really beneath us to even listen to folks comparing the two situations or schools. If Gary quit at the end of March, Sean Miller probably has already got a few verbals for us by now. "

I really hope they get somebody worse than Lowe and they suck balls for the next decade. How the fuck were we in an ideal situation to lure away a big name coach by firing Lowe? We sucked ass for the last 5 years and they had a hall of fame coach who suddenly retired- both situations suck equally. If anything, having to wait until the end of the NCAA tourney made it harder to contact anyone to even set up negotiations in the first place. If they really were as storied as a program as they think they are, they should have had zero problems landing anybody worth a damn...Oh wait, that sounds soooo familiar.... I'm just glad we went through this first and landed a better hire than they probably will. This holier-than-thou shit blows my mind.

The truth is, Sean Miller wasn't going anywhere, and they got played for a raise. PERIOD.

[Edited on May 9, 2011 at 12:55 AM. Reason : asdf]

5/9/2011 12:52:33 AM

Maryland has less ACC Titles than Wake Forest

5/9/2011 1:02:25 AM

^Lol.

So, is there no truth to the Turgeon rumors? Earlier today it sounded like that was a done deal (I know they all said Miller was a done deal too)...I guess that was premature.

5/9/2011 1:31:34 AM

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"If Gary quit at the end of March, Sean Miller probably has already got a few verbals for us by now."

if miller would've left in march, he would've left yesterday.

5/9/2011 2:16:58 AM

#EhsanforHC trending in Washington

[Edited on May 9, 2011 at 9:48 AM. Reason : did anyone name phil jackson yet?]

5/9/2011 9:47:45 AM

No, but I found this gem.

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"Did K.A. approach Andy Katz? St. John's took Steve Lavin, why not Andy Katz? Andy loves the Terps, he calls it a top ten (10) program. He can't be making that much dough at ESPN - I bet the Terps could put a big package together that Andy would accept. Can you imagine the exposure the program would reap?? Why, the Terps would be on the front page almost every week! What is Andy's background anyways? Someone needs to get a copy of his resume because this guy knows college basketball!"

5/9/2011 10:16:46 AM

LOL Andy Katz

There are so many commentators and analysts with coaching or at least playing experience and they picked Andy Katz?

5/9/2011 10:39:07 AM

their blatant sarcasm was missed apparently

5/9/2011 10:46:45 AM

did MD hire a search firm for this masterpiece?

5/9/2011 10:59:11 AM

theyre now claiming their search isn't a clusterfuck like ours because they got turned down by all their top choices in a weekend instead of over a 3 week period

[Edited on May 9, 2011 at 12:35 PM. Reason : confirmation turdgeon is the "reverence for duke/unc guy" figured it was him from the start...]

5/9/2011 12:25:02 PM

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"theyre now claiming their search isn't a clusterfuck like ours because they got turned down by all their top choices in a weekend instead of over a 3 week period"

yeah 'cause that makes total sense.

seems more like they just said fuck no faster because they def. didn't want any part of MD while they took their time thinking about State apparently those geniuses forgot about a little thing called the NCAA tournament.

5/9/2011 2:01:16 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6515713

I will LOL if he does the same thing to them as Miller did

5/9/2011 7:16:17 PM

^ lol @ the comments on that story

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"MD needs to take a pass on Turgeon. As a Terp fan I think we need to start fresh and that means not taking Jamie Dixon or Jay Wright even if they were available. That is a step in the wrong direction. Turgeon doesn't impress me."

5/9/2011 7:33:41 PM

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"Out of all the names out there I liked Turgeon the most! Miller would have been a pretty good hire because he's a snake oil salesman in the same mold as Calipari. I hope they sign him because he can flat out coach and will have plenty of local talent to chose from."

5/9/2011 7:42:13 PM

Rumors are saying that Turgeon is meeting with his team/staff tonight. Take it FWIW...

Tx A&M beat writer Brent Zwerneman tweeted about it...so who knows the credibility.

5/9/2011 8:55:31 PM

twitter saying it's a done deal

5/9/2011 9:04:48 PM