Comments on: Taylor holds court at QB Club

By: islandman

islandman — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:26:20 +0000

24. man eating apple–Hawaii’s excuse is that they don’t want to pay at least $1.75 million for a basketball coach, the salary that the Wichita St. coach receives.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:48:02 +0000

Been hearing a few stories that several players have said they won’t return next season if Benjy is hired on permanently, anybody else heard that?

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:23:20 +0000

Poorboy is Runbows, Runbows is poorboy. Comments are very similar to me and the grammar is very similar too. Whatever.

I wasn’t pulling for the Chow and Arnold hire. Water under the bridge now. I’m not in the Taylor camp. I want a younger, high energy, smart guy who is a tireless recruiter who will surround him with some veteran assistants who is from the West Coast where his contacts are. Someone who has been in winning programs.

By: bouncingball

bouncingball — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 02:20:58 +0000

#17, I think more than 70% of “locals” wanted Chow as head coach.

By: bouncingball

bouncingball — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 02:16:23 +0000

#24, it’s people like “Poorboy”, who claim to be an avid UH supporter, who keeps UH athletic from reaching it’s full potential. As long as they get “local”, or what they perceive to be “local”, they’re happy. No mind that Benji Taylor has basically no “local” connection or empathy, is riding on the coattails of a good recruiting class by a disgraced ex-coach, of which he was an intimate part of, and did no better than .500 in a weak conference. Almost every other conference coaches already have him and the team figured out and the high expectations for next year Benji is hoisting on “poorboys” are a total sales pitch which, unfortunately, is working with lot of the “locals”. Haven’t all of us already been burned big time by the “local” connection used as a viable criteria in selection of a head coach – Chow and Gib?

By: oneseason

oneseason — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:40:26 +0000

It’s a lot easier to promise success than to deliver it. You don’t need to look any further than the last three seasons of football. We have a coach that lead MBB to two postseason wins in the Big West Championship. Compared to zero wins for the prior two seasons, that sounds pretty good. Looking back at the UH Athletics MBB schedules, UH hasn’t had a team win more than one conference tournament game since the 2001-2002 season. IMO, coach Taylor is a great bird in the hand and I want to see what he an his team can do next year.

By: Pocho

Pocho — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 03:16:14 +0000

Who ever the new coach to be. #1 is recruiting to Hawaii. If he can’t do that, sorry guys, you’ll be in for a big disappointment with the hire. Gib looked for the athletic type and so-far it’s exciting ball win/lose.

By: man eating apple

man eating apple — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 02:29:19 +0000

Don’t go for a big name coach. Go for a good young coach, who wants to make a name for himself. We have the best facilities in the Big West. We can be a big time program, if Wichita St. can do it.

By: man eating apple

man eating apple — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 02:17:06 +0000

Poorboy said “Hawaii will never be Gonzaga, Butler, Xavier, Wichita St. , no more the monies”

Wichita St. budget was $3.1M: http://www.kshb.com/sports/wichita-state-basketball-budget-less-than-pitinos-annual-salary

UH budget was $30M: http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/September-2013/University-of-Hawaii-Sports-2013-Go-Bows/Can-Ben-Jay-Save-UH-Sports/

Wichita St. plays in the Missouri Valley conference, which was just as no-name as the Big West, up until a couple years ago.

So, it’s possible to make a national basketball powerhouse playing in a no-name conference, with a budget of $3M. What’s Hawaii’s excuse?

By: man eating apple

man eating apple — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 02:12:03 +0000

GTbows,

I think it should be pretty clear, I was talking about getting a good coach. Clearly, I only mentioned Coach K, as an example of a good coach (he is too old already). I was using him only because I know even the bandwagon fans here would recognize him (and you did, good job).

In an example of the fallacy here, that knowing the culture is more important than being a good basketball coach. There are many good, young coaches that we should be on the lookout for.