Tim Floyd comes back to UTEP as head basketball coach

[elhector1]

The University of Texas at El Paso has named former assistant to Don Haskins and current New Orleans Hornets assistant Tim Floyd to the head coaching position for the Miners basketball team.  Floyd's previous head coaching experience was for the USC Trojans of the PAC10.

[1989NDN]

For the sake of efficiency, can we here and now vacate all of the UTEP wins that Floyd will rack up at UTEP?  He wins games, but everywhere he has been, or had been, was left with a cloud of suspicion hanging over and around the program after he left.  He recruits well thanks to those under the table payments to AAU coaches and "handlers".  USC is just the latest example.  Sure, he will not be implicated ... it was not his fault at USC; the boosters that paid off Reggie Bush were responsible for the O.J. Mayo fiasco.  The alums and fans at UT-Juarez will need a shower after having Floyd run their program.  Thankfully, the Miners hired him and UH did not.  Now, we at UH need to hire Gillespie ... pay Billy $500,000 per year, hire him a driver to keep away from those pesky DUIs, limit his booze to weekends during the off-season, and keep him away from the young ladies walking the campus on Cullen Blvd.  If we can pull that off, then we might have a heck of men's BB coach.

Back to UTEP ... Barbee was a loss ... good coach and no baggage to speak of ....  I would have traded Penders to UTEP for Barbee ... even with the 2 losses that Barbee had to Penders in 2010.  Who at UTEP told Caracter that it was a good idea to go pro?  He was rock solid in CUSA, but, he's just another warm body at the pro level.  Perhaps his personal situation dictated that he needed to go pro overseas and earn some money for his family?  Too bad.  If he stayed, then UTEP had the makings of a strong, I mean very strong, 2010-2011 season.  You will need to find another wide body who has some skills ala Caracter and those kids do not just fall into your lap in CUSA.

Go Coogs.  Peace.

[elhector1]

I think Floyd was a "sentimental" choice.  He had assistant coached under Haskins, and is seen as taking the program back to the "glory days" of "Glory Road".  Who knows?  He's been an assistant at the pro level, so, as a coach, he can't be that bad. 

What I do think, however, is that he was cheap.  Billy, even with is problems, was higher priced than Tim was.  And UTEP is known for being the parking spot of scandalized coaches, both in footbal and basketball.

Now NDN, remember it's the Instituto Tecnologico de Juarez...UTEP is in the States...but just barely...lol... ;D

(500 feet from the US Mexico border...)

[1989NDN]

It won't be Gillespie at UH ... it will be James Dickey ... not a good decision by AD Mack Rhodes ... can we have Tom Penders back?  Instead of making a big splash, we Coog'd it up and will return to non-relevant status in men's college BB.  If it wasn't going to be Gillespie, it should have been a young coach who wanted to make a mark before moving on up.  El Hector, can we trade Dickey for Floyd?

Go Coogs.  Peace.