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I don't get USF basketball games here (I order the football ones) on TV so I mainly follow USF through articles and this board so I don't know what CRM was like.  Pelphrey is pretty animated, high energy and does a great job at game planning for teams.  South never has very big guys so they usually play up tempo on offense and try to run the floor and are big at shooting the 3.  

He does a great job at trying to tailor his game plan to his opponent.  I bring the Cuse game up again.  Syracuse had South WHOOPED down on the blocks so what does South do?  He comes out basically with 4 shooters and then double and triple teamed the big stud in the middle to make Cuse hit their long jumpers.  He basically said, let's make this a long range shooting game and whoever shoots better wins.

If he coaches that game any differently, Cuse wins by 20 EASY.  They were that much better than the South team.  As you can see by the run Cuse made, they should've been in the tourney.

So you can't really say, "Pelphrey runs this or that" bc he adapts based on the opponent.  

The problem is he isn't a big enough name to get the recruits to South Florida where he'd have the talent to do substantially better than CRM.  

This is a tough league and unless you can bring in STUDS, you'll be a sub .500 team.  Shoot, to go .500 in this league is an accomplishment.

Who knows, maybe this publicity he's getting right now may build enough excitement behind his name as an "upcoming Donovan" that he might have more sway in recruiting at USF; but we won't know that until he gets here if he does at all.

As far as a game coach, he's very good and everyone in the community likes him.  Very stand up guy and tells it like it is.  If they sucked, he said on the radio they sucked.  That's the kind of coach I like.

thanks for the analysis! I kinda like what I hear.

This has probably been discussed before and I missed it, but what type of play does Pelphrey run? for offense and defense. how does he react during games? is he energetic? For some reason, due to the fact that I haven't seen him coach and he was a former assistant at Florida , I keep thinking he is another Mccullum knockoff.

I'm not worried about the quantity of recruits that he will bring in, but I am worried about the quality of recruits he will bring in. Will they be good enough to compete in the big east or not. Could be wrong but thats just my opinion. Again I won't mind if he is hired but thats my only worry.

CBS Sportsline.com has the main story on the college basketball page about Pelphrey. I'd post the story but it's like 2 pages so I'll just post the link. http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10071660

I won't mind if he is hired, but I'm just worried about his recruiting.

I just don't think this is the right guy for the job, we need a known name to come in here who can convince recruits that we are going to turn this team around. Recruits probably don't even know who Pelphrey is.

I guessed and picked Gillan because so far he's getting the most press about the job.

yea, i would take him, even though he is kind of old and not the long term solution, but he could get the team turned in the right direction.

I hope we hire someone this week

lavin isn't coming here, you can say all you want about having to live with it if he does but reality is he is too expensive and not that good of a coach. he won't be coming here

pelphrey = mccullum

well, maybe its a slight upgrade. i won't be disappointed if he is hired, but he's just not one of the top candidates that I want.

i wouldn't be terribly disappointed if pelphrey was hired but he is definitely not in my top 5 choices

after watching xavier today, i wouldn't mind sean miller being hired

lavin isn't even that good of a coach. i don't want him

I should have played. I went 29-3 in the first round in the pool that i am in.

yea i'm thinking more than 500k too

how much money do you guys think it will take to get this guy? 500k or more?

i just want this tourney to end so we can get a coach already.....

same here

it was 1 game. get a grip

he's not coming here..if he's not interested then I don't want him

hiring pelphrey would be a mistake

My picks have been Steve Lavin and Gilispie (coach at Texas A&M) because both guys have a name and experience at a good program. I know the $$ issue exists, but these are my choices.

you actually believe gillispie is going to leave A&M for usf?? thats laughable. there's no way that a guy is going to leave a team like A&M with as much tradition that they have to come to usf. give me a break

I hope George Washington loses its first round game so we can interview him

___eats it, I'm guessing you're a single man, am I correct? Because you have way to much time on your hands.

well if he hires that quickly then we should have our new coach near the end of next week

is this OFFICIAL? where did you see this?