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Jamion Christian is back as a head coach at Bryant University.
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Good for Jamion! A class guy
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I’m very happy that one of our former coaches got another HC position. I often wonder why Karl Hobbs, who was much more successful at GW, never got a second HC position. Do you think he has ever been offered one?
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For Bryant’s sake, hope JC picked up a few coaching and teaching tricks since he was fired.
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Congratulations to Jamion. Shame that Tyler Brelsford is out of eligibility. Bring back the turkeys and the monsters.
As for KH, I am presuming that he makes roughly the same money as a top assistant at a major as he would as the head coach at a lower level. With those things being relatively equal, I'd say he prefers the bigger stage and working with better players. Plus, I'm sure some schools turned the other way back when he first left GW. Even while at GW, he only had a handful of interviews for more lucrative head coaching jobs (i.e. Cincinnati)..
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KH was reportedly a finalist for the La Salle job before it went to Dunphy.
Otherwise, like Mayhem said, I think financially being an assistant at GT is equal to or greater than what he'd make at a school lower than the A10-level.
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I do wonder what Omargate meant for KH's reputation, especially at the Power 5 level. I could see a world where Schlabach's tear-down of Omar and GW's athletics admissions would make a university President nervous about how they would maintain the mirage of "student-athletes." I think that's horseshit, but I think it's possible that any school KH would want might be skittish about hiring him.
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I doubt the prior use of NCAA-cleared players is a factor in the NIL-era coaching hires. Do players even have to attend class anymore? More likely, KH´s salary expectations and his current wages scare off potential hires. An ACC assistant probably gets more than a Big West or MAAC head coach.
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Let's remember that KH went from a hot coaching commodity (mid-2000's) to an available yet hirable coaching commodity (after parting ways with GW) to an older, past his prime head coaching commodity. Whatever KH may have been guilty of at GW (not much by my view) wouldn't apply all that much today but by the time things changed, KH was well on his way to being past his prime. And, I do agree with creeksandzeeks that many school presidents likely told their AD's to stay away when KH was a hirable prospect. Not so hard to believe given the fact that his own president (SJT) badly threw him under the bus over Omargate..
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There's a real common thread between what happened to 2 of our most successful coaches
in recent history from how it was "revealed," the timing and correctness of the allegations, where the nothingburgers surfaced, GW's reaction and our subsequent decline in for years afterward.
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Great guy and a Good Coach, way to go JC!
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jf wrote:
There's a real common thread between what happened to 2 of our most successful coaches
in recent history from how it was "revealed," the timing and correctness of the allegations, where the nothingburgers surfaced, GW's reaction and our subsequent decline in for years afterward.
When it comes to basketball, GW will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.