Let's not

I dunno, that's a lot of tall guys. Sure, two of them haven't played any minutes, and one plays 8 minutes a game. But they're really, really, really tall.

*Hire a coach between the age of 32-35

*At this age, you are getting a coach who is used to NIL/Portal pretty much out of the gate in his career and not getting someone who is 10 years older and used to recruiting pre-NIL/Portal era.

*I don't care about prior head coaching experience.

*Get somebody who isn't going to spout in interviews constantly that we can't afford a "big" because we can't pay a 6'9 guy $100,000.

Here is where I am with Boals. He's done. If not this year, then definitely after the 2026-2027 season. And when I say done, I just get the vibe that he doesn't want to be a head coach anymore in this new world of college basketball. He's had five years to adapt and evolve with change and it's not working for him. Something has been off all year with Boals and his energy. And I'm not saying this is a factor with Boals motivation, but now he can't even coach 'Lil Boalsy every day in practice for the next two years moving forward. I'm sure he was looking forward to coaching his son in practice for four years even though 'Lil Boalsy was never going to play in a game.

The program is a shitcapade right now. No discipline. No fire. No energy.

It's as stale as it can be.

Time for a change.

I'm not ready to fully lean into the firing of Boals. IMO there's still a lot to like. The area I need to see improvement in is record against Kent/Akron/Toledo/Miami. Improvement against those teams and the results will speak for themselves.

I actually have a real longshot. Memphis Grizz assistant Brian Collins. Age 40.

When Memphis inevitably fires their coaching staff at the end of this season, he should be totally available.

The juco team he coached went 54-11, was an assistant at several mids including Illinois State, took over a beleaguered program at Tennessee State and had four winning seasons in 6 years. That might not sound impressive but really is. Visualize a map of Nashville. On the nice "midtown" side of downtown, you have Vandy/Belmont/Lipscomb in the trendy/upscale area. On the other side of downtown you have TSU close to some projects that are so dangerous they are nicknamed Dodge City because of all the shootings. And he played for the legend Rick Byrd (805 wins) in college.

Classy after a win or loss...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MeFkj530Oc

Time to think outside the box a hire a minority basketball coach? Maybe.

Did somebody mention "Bahamas"??????????

Want a new coach? Scour startup companies and find the guy who brought in the most capital investments over the last 3-5 years. Hire him at the lowest $ amount possible. His job is to raise $ and sit on the bench during games.

As for the rest of the budget. Put it toward a scouting/analytics department to find free agents. Hire a GM to manage the budget and award free agent contracts. Use everything else to pay players and hope.

If we're gonna try and play like the Yankees in here then were going to lose to the Yankees out there.

While "Moneyball" was a great sports movie, we are already using the moneyball approach and it ain't working. Ben Nichol, Zay Mosely, Carter Reese??

The Yankees in this case would be Duke and Kentucky and UConn. That is not who we are competing with. Our competition is fiami, Akron, Toledo... and we can't even beat Ball State or Bethune-Cookman or ODU.

How about a coach fired up to do something besides get technical fouls and lose? One that still has the "mojo working" to quote the blues musicians.

Just as a desperate Saul apologist on here once compared Nate Springs to 4-time NBA scoring champ Kevin Durant, I will go ahead and fill the role of Boals apologist and compare Mosely to 7-time NBA All-Star Donovan Mitchell.

He is favorably comparable to Mitchell.

To brighten the morning, here are some Donovan Mitchell highlights so we all know what it is we all have to look forward to next season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOmYv8fIjQE

😀 😎🔥💯👍

We can only hope our "next Donovan Mitchell" doesn't turn pro after one season or transfer to Duke or Kentucky or UNC.

With three seniors starting and possibly losing whoever in the portal and very little bench strength and not much of a recruiting class coming in?

Who remembers the disastrous 5 win season? That included a 50 point loss to Ball State, a 40 point loss to NIU, etc. What could happen by keeping the status quo.

Your obsession with how bad Nate Springs was almost equals your obsession with name dropping random coaches and players from the great state of Tennessee. We get it, he sucked.