This writer, Mike DeCourcy, is not impressed by the Kevin Young hire. Haha

Apr 19, 2024
11:08:47am

Leonardo All-American

New hire report card: From John Calipari to Kevin Young, we grade the new college basketball coaches

When Kentucky hired Mark Pope, the last of the major head coaching vacancies in college basketball was filled. You know what that means: time to judge the hires before anyone has worked a game.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/new-hire-john-calipari-kevin-young-college-basketball-coaches/07a39399697d3f40e07f547b

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This writer, Mike DeCourcy, is not impressed by the Kevin Young hire. Haha

Leonardo

Apr 19, 11:08am

Tbh those are valid concerns

DanSmith

Apr 19, 11:10am

Exactly. We are in the honeymoon stage rn but he is right

provoprodigy

Apr 19, 11:11am

You are correct. But there are a tone of things unique to BYU that make this hire better than the average NBA guy

Blue2thebone

Apr 19, 11:14am

It’s pretty simple and Trevin said it in his interview: potential recruits will

wisconsincougs

Apr 19, 11:18am

I agree and I think it’s a home run hire

DanSmith

Apr 19, 11:18am

I think his comps are all a bit lazy. Each that he cited is a former NBA player

Charles Darwin

Apr 19, 11:17am

I agree with your point, Charles Darwin. Comparisons are a bit lazy.

BYUJoJo

Apr 19, 11:34am

Yep. Superficial analysis but valid concerns.

Forzaitalia

Apr 19, 12:40pm

True but his 9% number is way off. Those NBA assistants that go down to college usually aren't great assistants in NBA

puntersarepeople

Apr 19, 11:37am

They are

Forzaitalia

Apr 19, 12:38pm

I don’t think he’s wildly off target here

Indy Coug

Apr 19, 11:12am

I agree, its all hope right now, BUT, one minor diff with KY is

MrSandman

Apr 19, 2:31pm

Recruiting is a huge concern. You just don't have to do it in the NBA. But I think

CSoul

Apr 19, 11:14am

Agreed. He was way too generous to Pope.

Ham

Apr 19, 11:20am

Recruiting isn't as big of a deal with NIL.

dYrtbYkerYder

Apr 19, 2:25pm

But it might be with BYU's NIL situation. If we have players looking elsewhere, that suggests the BYU NIL, meaning

Bob Vance

Apr 19, 3:05pm

Most seasons we're not going to have Kentucky going after our players.

dYrtbYkerYder

Apr 19, 3:08pm

But we do want to be competitive in that space anyway when they have BYU/Utah ties

Bob Vance

Apr 19, 3:26pm

Exactly why those assistant spots are even more important than usual.

mokelembembe

Apr 19, 11:15am

Valid concerns, but I do like that BYU is taking a risk here. Big swing for

Cougar TD

Apr 19, 11:16am

Here's why I think it's different and Young "should" do better than others...

runnincoug

Apr 19, 11:17am

Almost all those guys he mentioned are former NBA players

BigHouse Coug

Apr 19, 11:25am

Yep, that pretty much sums up my fear.

Ham

Apr 19, 11:18am

Quote from article: “Coaches who arrive from professional basketball …

combblai

Apr 19, 11:21am

Seems to have pulled that number out of his rear end

DanSmith

Apr 19, 11:24am

Bingo

slatecoug

Apr 19, 11:37pm

Even if it's accurate, the coaching pedigree of Young is very different than a

dYrtbYkerYder

Apr 20, 3:46am

That's exactly right. You have to separate the top assistants in the league from guys that are way down on the bench.

slatecoug

Apr 20, 2:40pm

Like it or not, ya gotta imagine this is what our recruiting competition is telling our former players & our prospects.

SinkingQuffa

Apr 19, 11:22am

Young has coached in college before and wasn’t hired as an nba assistant

BYU '80

Apr 19, 11:27am

Agree with you, BYU '80. KY has way different experience than the

BYUJoJo

Apr 19, 11:38am

Here is my rebuttal on how all of those are different

BYUheaven

Apr 19, 11:29am

Exactly, BYUheaven.

BYUJoJo

Apr 19, 11:39am

agree on all those points.. and in addition

byukarl

Apr 19, 12:50pm

While I don't disagree with some of the concerns, the writer literally gave

BYUHawk

Apr 19, 11:29am

Legit concerns, but doesn't take into account small coaching pool

Dr T-bone

Apr 19, 11:32am

This is exactly why I'm not overly excited or depressed about KY. He's unknown.

P-Widdy

Apr 19, 12:25pm

The points he made were terrible. We didn't hire a washed up former player.

dYrtbYkerYder

Apr 19, 12:28pm

True, but he doesn't have any experience at the collegiate level. He said that

P-Widdy

Apr 19, 1:17pm

Other than Mark Madsen BYU was looking at a collegiate assistant, a top HS coach

VB2

Apr 19, 1:08pm

I remember when the Sporting News was a respected source of sports journalism.

cosmohio

Apr 19, 1:14pm

He does very little analysis of KY

niqmadu

Apr 19, 1:16pm

It is my sad experience that the nature and disposition of journalists to be eeyores

Hammurabi

Apr 19, 2:10pm

Ouuhhhh. I love that. Put a chip on his shoulder from the get-go

AF_Puma

Apr 19, 2:21pm

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