http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3659611

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"Arizona's Lute Olson is stepping down as the school's men's basketball coach, a source has told ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale. Associate coach Mike Dunlap will take over the head coaching duties on an interim basis, the source told Vitale. Arizona spokesperson Tom Duddleston said Thursday morning that Olson hasn't informed the administration that he is resigning. Duddleston said he went to his superiors and was told, "no way," in response to the report. "We're not making any announcement to that effect," Duddleston said. "At this moment there is nothing going on." Olson is returning to the Arizona program after taking a year-long leave of absence, which the school said was not taken for health reasons. An ESPN.com reporter was at Monday's Arizona practice in Tucson and Olson was coaching on the floor and in good spirits. Calls to Olson and Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood weren't returned Thursday morning. Olson missed a practice Wednesday and an appearance at a local Rotary club for health-related reasons, the Arizona Daily Star reported. Assistant coach Reggie Geary, who replaced Olson at the Rotary event, said Olson had laryngitis. Dunlap, who handled practice on Wednesday, said the 74-year-old Olson wasn't feeling well. "It happens to everybody," Dunlap said, according to the Daily Star. Livengood agreed, saying in the Daily Star: "He's just sick." On the day before practice began last week, Olson told the Tucson Citizen that he was "excited to get on the court" and get going. Olson has a career record of 780-280 at Long Beach State, Iowa and Arizona. He's 589-188 since heading to Arizona for the start of the 1983 season. Arizona won the 1997 NCAA national title. His 27 NCAA Tournament appearances as a coach are one behind Bob Knight for the all-time record. His streak of 24 straight tournament appearances between 1985-2008 is second all-time to North Carolina's 27 (between 1975 and 2001). Entering the season, Olson was second behind Mike Krzyzewski of Duke for most wins among active NCAA Division I men's coaches. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. ESPN.com's Andy Katz contributed to this report."

what an odd situation

especially since this has been going on for 2 years now

10/23/2008 2:17:11 PM

i didn't think it was threadworthy, so i already posted it in the ASU thread

10/23/2008 2:23:29 PM

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"what an odd situation"

Agreed

10/23/2008 2:27:41 PM

i was just about to make this thread

10/23/2008 2:36:40 PM

i am still going to make this thread

10/23/2008 2:39:46 PM

Thank God this didn't happen last year or Brandon Jennings would have committed to Uconn and then jumped ship to Europe and they wouldn't have gotten Kemba Walker...

** That cheating bitch of a younger wife sapped all the will out of ole Lute I guess..

[Edited on October 23, 2008 at 2:41 PM. Reason : x]

10/23/2008 2:41:25 PM

from what I've learned on the ASU boards, Lute was one hell of an adulterer too

10/23/2008 2:46:31 PM

I heard he had a thing for Hispanics.

UofA blew before Olsen. I wonder if they'll blow again...

[Edited on October 23, 2008 at 2:48 PM. Reason : x]

10/23/2008 2:47:36 PM

It's disturbing that people speculate about the philandering of a 74-year-old.

That bastard stole Mustafa Shakur from us. Turns out Shakur wasn't all that, though. Definitely no Chris Paul.

[Edited on October 23, 2008 at 2:49 PM. Reason : 2]

10/23/2008 2:49:04 PM

Drazen Petrovic came out and said that he was in to underage French women with hairy armpits.

^ haha, we're just making shit up... it's not like we're really speculating.

10/23/2008 2:49:59 PM

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"sd2nc All American 7964 Posts user info edit post A big WTF to Lute Olson. In the last month, he has fired Kevin O'Neil, fired Miles Simon, hired Mike Dunlap, and his other assistant (recruiting) just resigned when Dunlap was hired-he went to Memphis"

Oh, and Brandon Jennings went to Europe to scout muff talent for Lute

10/23/2008 2:53:22 PM

Lute Olson will be remembered as one of the best, and most consistent coaches in college basketball history. He helped make Long Beach State successful when they went from being a junior college known as Long Beach City College to a 4 year institution. He left Iowa as the winningest coach in school history.

1 National Championship (1997)
1 Runner-up finish (2001)
5 Final Fours (1980 (w/Iowa), 1988, 1994, 1997, 2001)
4 Pac 10 Tournament Championships (1988, 1989, 1990, 2002)
11 Pac 10 Regular Season Championships (1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005)
1 Big Ten Regular Season Championship (1979)
1 Big West Regular Season Championship (1974)
3 Metro Conference titles (1970, 1971, 1973)
1 California JUCO State Championship (1971)
One of 8 coaches in collegiate history to coach in five or more Final Fours
One of 11 coaches who have taken two different teams to the Final Four

10/23/2008 2:54:33 PM

^ get out of here with that shit... I'm more interested in what 80's pornstars he banged out...

10/23/2008 2:57:39 PM

I wonder if this means we'll actually have a shot at beating them next year at the McKale Center. Well if we get Wall and/or Favors then we'll have a pretty good shot anyways.

10/23/2008 2:59:46 PM

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"from what I've learned on the ASU boards, Lute was one hell of an adulterer too"

HAHAHAHAHHAHA....I wouldn't go around admitting that you read the ASU boards. Seriously....not only are they clueless, but they're fucking retarded and if you think I'm kidding then I don't know what to tell you. Even their own prof's know what a joke that school is and anyway....There's no doubt that they would take any and every opportunity to try and make UA look bad considering their track record.

10/23/2008 3:00:22 PM

you're not hurting my feelings....

10/23/2008 3:08:39 PM

My co-worker's sister is a freshman at ASU. They have some weird policies. First off they organize dorms by major. She changed her major and they wanted her to move to another dorm. She said she wasn't going to move unless someone helped her move all her shit. She hasn't had to move yet. Also they don't allow freshmen to take courses that have class on Friday. Apparently they want to protect them from feeling too burdened in their first year. Hello, this is the real world they are now living in. Man up and make them actually have a normal schedule. Those that are strong and fit for the real world will survive. All that does is give them more of an excuse to party on Thursday night. No wonder ASU is considered one of the top party schools in the nation.

[Edited on October 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM. Reason : o]

10/23/2008 3:11:05 PM

well....just in case you need some more proof....

all true:

http://www.thespinzone.com/sundevilfacts.php

10/23/2008 3:11:16 PM

^^a lot of the UC schools have those same policies. The Friday thing has to do with them wanting more time to go back home and getting them off campus for the Thursday night mayhem.

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"When reached via text message Thursday morning, Scout.com asked if Olson’s retirement would impact his decision, Abdul Gaddy responded, “Yes it does.” Gaddy, along with Top 100 brethren Solomon Hill and forward Mike Moser may be back in play. Here’s what we’ve gathered from a source close to the situation. During visits and conversations in recent months, Olson guaranteed the recruiting class that he would be around to coach them. “Lute Olson personally guaranteed Abdul that he would help him get to the league from Arizona,” a source told Scout.com. Arizona owns commitments from Gaddy (No. 9), Moser (No. 60) and Hill (No. 64)."

[Edited on October 23, 2008 at 3:17 PM. Reason : l]

10/23/2008 3:12:35 PM

Man I had no idea Lute Olsen was such a pimp. This guy needs his own reality TV show.

10/23/2008 3:58:25 PM

Loot "The Wad" Olson

10/23/2008 4:02:56 PM

Abdul Gaddy chose UofA over UCLA, here's UCLA's resume for PG's over the past couple of years....

2006 Jordan Farmar 1st rounder, Lakers
2007 Darren Collison, stays in school
2008 Russell Westbrook, drafted 4th by OKC
2008 Collison is a senior, Jrue Holliday is #1 PG recruit in the nation. Both are 1st round locks, Holliday a lottery lock

Gaddy is so young that he'll have to stay two years cause he can't declare after his Freshman year. He's only a verbal commit. If he chooses UCLA, he'd join them after their last 4 PG's were first round picks.

HMMMMMMM, I WONDER WHERE HE'LL GO GEORGE?

[Edited on October 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM. Reason : a]

10/23/2008 4:16:26 PM

wrong side of the country

10/23/2008 4:30:36 PM

Dude, two more years and he could have had the record for most teams in the NCAA tournament.

10/23/2008 5:34:58 PM

gaddy's going to memphis, after which john wall will have no choice but to come here.

it will be the most beautiful thing ever.

10/23/2008 8:14:47 PM

this makes EVERYBODY happy!

10/23/2008 8:34:55 PM

Butch Davis to UofA?

what if Calamari jumps from Memphis to go coach at a big school? would UofA's academic standards get in the way?

10/24/2008 9:19:06 AM

Wow, this is one story I truly could not care less about.

10/24/2008 9:26:39 AM

but there's so much potential here.

calipari to arizona? gaddy to memphis? things could get crazy!

10/24/2008 10:54:43 AM

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"Associate coach Mike Dunlap will take over the head coaching duties on an interim basis, the source told Vitale."

Lol, I just read that Dunlop told them to fuck off and he didn't want the head coach position. SO they offered it to a different assistant. I guess he didn't want Miles Simon bagging his wife too...

What a circus that joke of a program has become...

[Edited on October 24, 2008 at 4:26 PM. Reason : x]

10/24/2008 4:26:36 PM

Lute has really tarnished his reputation there. Fuck up.

10/24/2008 4:28:08 PM

But wait... there's more!

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"The move to make Pennell interim head coach may be as stunning as Olson suddenly calling it quits. Pennell was most recently an AAU coach in Phoenix and a radio broadcaster for ASU. Before that, Pennell was on Arizona State's staff for eight seasons, but that didn't end well."

Hey, maybe when Lowe is gone, we can hire Woody Durham to coach our bball team!!!!!

10/24/2008 4:31:43 PM

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"I guess he didn't want Miles Simon bagging his wife too..."

lolwut?? was he the cause for olsen's divorce?

10/24/2008 4:50:01 PM

I mean, I wasn't there when Miles bent her over or anything... but that is popular message board opinion...

10/24/2008 4:56:10 PM

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"A big WTF to Lute Olson. In the last month, he has fired Kevin O'Neil, fired Miles Simon, hired Mike Dunlap, and his other assistant (recruiting) just resigned when Dunlap was hired-he went to Memphis""

I think the recruiting coach was Pastner... I didn't even know he still had assistants left, haha

10/24/2008 6:08:59 PM

Gaddy decomit is official now...

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/264276.php

10/26/2008 8:19:18 PM

cmaaaaaaaaaaan memphis!

10/26/2008 8:20:18 PM

^^, ^ If he doesn't verbal to UCLA in the next few weeks, he'll wait until the spring and either go with UW or UCLA. I can't see him going to Memphis, but who knows?

10/27/2008 10:32:56 AM

Howland is in Washington watching him right now....

10/28/2008 6:41:38 PM

we have to be nice when talking about Loot from now on

he had a stroke

10/28/2008 7:00:39 PM

bobby knight probably headed there

~via inpeckable source.

10/29/2008 1:10:19 PM

http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9292860

11/6/2008 2:58:09 PM

jesus

this whole situation sounds like a fucking soap opera

11/6/2008 3:13:07 PM

Anybody see the retarded Arizona fouls last night?? Lute made sure he recruited some real scholar-athletes before he left.....

11/19/2008 10:23:05 AM

sweet lord the end of that game was AWFUL

that ending would have qualified as some serious nc state shit

11/19/2008 10:36:26 AM

^^,^ You know it's a bad situation when an Assistant who hasn't coached a game with UofA turns down the Interim Coach position...

11/19/2008 10:41:37 AM

:carl face: Lute Olsen :carl face:

11/19/2008 11:33:35 PM