NIL - can you blame anyone for getting out? It's a different world and presently there must be little joy in coaching.As much as I hated his team's style of play, I hope he's ok health-wise. Something must be up for him to do this at this time.
I agree, and all these great coaches hanging it up early just shows what a crap show it really is. They have plenty of money and makes since to me. Why deal with all of it for sure. Great man and coach.He is sick at what college bball has become....getting out like Wright k roy....it is a mess he wants nothing to do with
Bennett often seemed to build his teams around redshirts or other late-developing players. Hard to hold onto them in this transfer portal world. So you lose people just when they're ready. And the people you might pick up in the portal to replace them may not be able to adapt to his style in a single year, since they are unlikely to be familiar with it.NIL - can you blame anyone for getting out? It's a different world and presently there must be little joy in coaching.
Norm Sloan left NC State in 1980. So I'd guess 1980.Damn. Does that mean the ACC has zero coaches with a natty now? Was 73 the last year that was true?
It's his life and choice... but, the timing is really strange. I can understand that he may dislike the way the kids have newer opportunities and options that don't align with his style of building teams. I understand why all of the older coaches left. Bennett is much younger than them, but still very old school. If he's just up and leaving on impulse, without having some kind of backup in place, that's definitely going to hurt the school and players.Weeks before the season without an interim in place tells me it’s not a stance on what bball has become. If so that would be a shyt way to treat the current team. He doesn’t seem like that kind of guy. I would think something serious in his personal life.
I will. It made for interesting games.I certainly won't miss his style of play.
It was frustrating and boring.I will. It made for interesting games.
Not saying I want us to play that style, although you do have to admire the dedication to D.
I read where it was '81 - '82 season, before Dean got his first.Damn. Does that mean the ACC has zero coaches with a natty now? Was 73 the last year that was true?
I’ll never forget that sports talker whose name escapes me for the moment…he used to have a show on espn but moved to fox….oh yea cowherd, well after another one of those unwatchable uva games where they won like 47-40 in the acc tourney cowherd went off on the guy for pretty much the whole show. I laughed my asss off. He said Bennett set back basketball 50 yrs.It was frustrating and boring.
It was so hated because it was effective... most of the time. He was a good coach. I thought he would stay at UVA, and dominate, for at least another 10 years or so. I won't miss him.I’ll never forget that sports talker whose name escapes me for the moment…he used to have a show on espn but moved to fox….oh yea cowherd, well after another one of those unwatchable uva games where they won like 47-40 in the acc tourney cowherd went off on the guy for pretty much the whole show. I laughed my asss off. He said Bennett set back basketball 50 yrs.
He`s over the state of college sports with all the BS that goes along with it!!!!!!!!!!!!As much as I hated his team's style of play, I hope he's ok health-wise. Something must be up for him to do this at this time.
Sounds like a decision to leave school for what's best for him and his. Very common use of the portal.Based on all the UVA media and fan stuff I've read, it seems this was done entirely to force UVA to make Bennett's guy Ron Sanchez the head coach. He left UVA a while back and took the UNCC job, where he was pretty mediocre. Then in June 2023 he stepped down as UNCC coach and rejoined Tony's staff. Since then there was a lot of talk about Tony retiring, which subsided when he signed a contract extension this past summer. But apparently Sanchez was the main guy who recruited UVA's large transfer class this summer. It appears he's been taking on a larger role behind the scenes.
The other factor is the UVA AD Carla Williams. She apparently has a history of questionable hires. Allowing her the time to run a national search meant she likely would not have hired Tony's guy, and she may have hired a coach who would squander everything Tony built and take the program back to mediocrity.
So Tony did what he did to ensure his guy got the best possible shot to take over the program.
Sounds about right for our society.University sports are in a free fall of decline. Just saw that Clemson is charging their students $150 per semester for an “athletic fee”. So now not only are the “student athletes” getting paid as well as obtaining a free education but the students who are going into serious and in some cases lifetime debt are the ones paying them.
I think the only ones retiring or speaking out against the present rules (or lack of them rather) are the good guys. CalSlimy and Self(ish) seem to thrive on the present situation. Heck, they have had lots of practice throughout the years with player payments.Who is actually left that would be considered "Old Guard"? Not many left and most of the ones who have stayed would not be called "as good a person as he is a coach" like DES, Roy, TB, and Izzo. Wright & Few maybe but CalSlimy and Self (ish) aren't exactly role models!