03-13-2014, 12:35 PM
On the Bowlsby hire of Dawkins:
That whole thing was a cluster bomb, starting with Trent's determination that he wasn't wanted (and thereby bolting for LSU) continuing with Bowlsby stumbling through the search (was pretty obvious BB who had no "short list" to replace the guy he allegedly did not want); sort of concluding with the hiring of Dawkins; and really concluding with (a) the release of the elder Plumlee from his LOI, and (b) Dawkins' ill-thought-out decision to help Coach K in his Olympics endeavor [And really, Coach K, how could you LET Dawkins even do that, knowing he was a rookie thrust into running his own program? . . . Oh, that's right, it's because you don't give a rat's a$$ about anything other than yourself/Duke basketball, and having Dawkins join you was "win/win" from that perspective].
But the point of this post is not to rehash the truthfulness of the above - I'll concede that it is only my opinion of what went down; rather, the point is to remind everyone of the rumor that Bowlsby was supposedly close to bringing Larry Brown to The Farm. Others thought it scandalous to hire the peripatetic Larry Brown, but I thought it would have been genius. And how about SMU under the Old Guy?
Ahhhh, what could have been . . .
That whole thing was a cluster bomb, starting with Trent's determination that he wasn't wanted (and thereby bolting for LSU) continuing with Bowlsby stumbling through the search (was pretty obvious BB who had no "short list" to replace the guy he allegedly did not want); sort of concluding with the hiring of Dawkins; and really concluding with (a) the release of the elder Plumlee from his LOI, and (b) Dawkins' ill-thought-out decision to help Coach K in his Olympics endeavor [And really, Coach K, how could you LET Dawkins even do that, knowing he was a rookie thrust into running his own program? . . . Oh, that's right, it's because you don't give a rat's a$$ about anything other than yourself/Duke basketball, and having Dawkins join you was "win/win" from that perspective].
But the point of this post is not to rehash the truthfulness of the above - I'll concede that it is only my opinion of what went down; rather, the point is to remind everyone of the rumor that Bowlsby was supposedly close to bringing Larry Brown to The Farm. Others thought it scandalous to hire the peripatetic Larry Brown, but I thought it would have been genius. And how about SMU under the Old Guy?
Ahhhh, what could have been . . .