Ernie Kent Gone

The past couple years have been pretty bad, but I doubt Oregon will be able to bring in the big splash name they think they'll be able to. They have no history and a poor recruiting base (won't get the Midwest players Kent used to pull any more).
They'll probably never be able to compete with the UCLA's/Arizona's/Washington's of the world.

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Interesting

This comes out before tonight’s game is even over. Classy move, Belotti.

by brettb3 on Mar 6, 2010 7:09 PM PST reply actions

Can we refer to him strictly as "Classy Mike" on this blog from now on?

by B Money on Mar 6, 2010 9:09 PM PST up reply actions

Ernie Kent isn't the problem

He isn’t the problem and I guess they will find that out when they break in the new arena with a new coach.

by John Berkowitz on Mar 6, 2010 9:55 PM PST up reply actions

Somebody had to be the fall guy

and it just so happens that it’s easy to blame Ernie.

by B Money on Mar 7, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions

I don’t know what to think of Kent as a coach. I’m hard pressed to think of another guy with as up and down of a career as he’s had – two Elite 8 teams (with his players to boot) and last year’s disaster.

I have to wonder if Oregon is going to be able to do better…

by kirkd on Mar 8, 2010 1:04 PM PST up reply actions

Let the Rumors begin

Mark Few -—> U of O.

The Oregon press has been saying this forever. I can’t believe that Mark Few would go there though, even though there are many personal, non-basketball related reasons why he would.

by zeeehjee on Mar 8, 2010 10:46 AM PST reply actions

They’ll try to get Few, but I doubt he moves – at least not to Oregon. He’s got a great thing going at Gonzaga, and I can’t see him leaving that unless it’s a much more prestigious job.

Oregon will float a lot of name coaches. I saw a rumor elsewhere that they’ll go after Anderson and Mizzou (which I also find highly dubious), but they do have enough money and the Nike cache to think they might land one of them.

But I’ll call it right now – I highly doubt they’ll get Few.

by kirkd on Mar 8, 2010 1:02 PM PST up reply actions

I think a lot of their fans don't expect Few at this point

Want him? Yes. Expect him to leave Spokane? Probably not.

by cougfan on Mar 8, 2010 1:08 PM PST up reply actions

Stew Morrill?

Utah State has had a lot of success in the smaller WAC and I think this guy gets a looksy.

All I saw was purple

by crazidawg on Mar 8, 2010 5:31 PM PST reply actions

Too Old, among other things.

He’s nearly 60. He won’t even get a sniff.

by Bamer_ on Mar 9, 2010 5:53 AM PST up reply actions

But could take the Dick Bennett approach

Bring Stew in to redefine the program, meanwhile Stew could groom his eventual replacement. Sort of how WSU offered their job to Dick Bennett, who groomed his son to be his future replacement. WSU made it work, but have had trouble holding onto coaches.

All I saw was purple

by crazidawg on Mar 9, 2010 6:51 PM PST up reply actions