Sources: Kennesaw State's Amir Abdur-Rahim is finalizing a deal to be the next head coach at South Florida.

[belgianbull]

8 minutes ago, JTrue said:

Remember when Odom was considered screwing up this hire? Just when you think...

Or when some were saying that Dusty May didn't win enough his first few years at FAU even though he was above .500. This guy won 6 games total in his first two years.

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[JTrue]

16 minutes ago, jjlovecub said:

If this is real, then Welcome Coach! Let’s turn it around!

I mean, what else do we do on this board besides bash somebody before they even step on campus for the first day?

Bash them for sucking ass once they've been on campus for a couple years? 

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[olafberserker]

6 minutes ago, puc86 said:

While I kind of appreciate a coach crying instead of just making us cry, it’s kind of funny that he is crying about his commitment to the program and the players buy in and commitment and then would leave a couple of weeks later to do 3 years at a job that is desperate enough to have had to find out w(ho)tf  you are.

I thought the same thing.   

[theman123]

2 minutes ago, olafberserker said:

It's actually hilarious. I'm listening to Doug Gottleib's podcast and he interviewed AAR before they played Xavier.

His second coaching job was at GT under Gregory. At that job, he was pretty much an intern, simply rolling around a white board from place to place and tracking stats. Says it was a humbling experience to go from scouting and working directly with players at Murray State to his role at GT which sounds to me like a glorified student manager.

10 years later he is taking Gregory's old job...

[John Lewis]

36 minutes ago, belgianbull said:

A guy who had a total of 6 wins in his first two years at Kennesaw. Horrible hire in my opinion. Especially considering we were talking Brey and Odom not long ago. 

Hope it works out, but if it doesn't, and we don't see considerable improvement in year one ( and that's for football also) I will be officially on the fire Kelly bandwagon

 

I know people are going to look at the first 2 seasons and be skeptical.

However, he took over a bad program and won more games in each successive season that he was at Kennesaw St. Sounds exactly like what Coach Taggart did here for Football. 

I can't even imagine what this board would be like if we won 26 games in a season.

[Cmr3]

In order to hire a established coach they have to have more then one year of winning record. Might as well just hire a assistant, in my book this is just as big as a gamble as a assistant. This AD sucks. 
 

 

[olafberserker]

4 minutes ago, jjlovecub said:

If this is real, then Welcome Coach! Let’s turn it around!

I mean, what else do we do on this board besides bash somebody before they even step on campus for the first day?

I don't think people are "bashing" him, it's the clown show of an athletic department that keeps leading us down these paths.  Hopefully he works out just like we hope that Golesh works out

[Chardizard]

2 minutes ago, belgianbull said:

Or when some were saying that Dusty May didn't win enough his first few years at FAU even though he was above .500. This guy won 6 games total in his first two years.

People said that on here?  Lawd

[olafberserker]

2 minutes ago, theman123 said:

It's actually hilarious.

Oh, I agree.  This is actually hilarious

[Chardizard]

3 minutes ago, JTrue said:

Bash them for sucking ass one they've been on campus for a couple years?