Ron Hunter to Tulane!

[Boomer]

Now that Marlin’s best Frenemy is there hopefully this means we can start playing some home and homes with Tulane.

......Once he learns the 2nd line he will recruit NO very well!

[zephyr]

He will be stepping up in competition and will be touger to recruit academically. The kind of basketball that he plays will not do well against teams like Houston, Cindy, Memphis and UConn. Personally, I hate that type of basketball and it is ruining the sport. Look at GA State and Buffalo. They got manhandled by superior competition that played defense and had a passing game vs isolation 3 point shooting. He would do better upgrading to a public university over a private school like Tulane. It will be a career mistake, IMO.

There are plenty of high profile academic institutions that get good players. There are exceptions made for good players who may not fit the academic standards of the school. Forget Duke as they are in another stratosphere but schools like Cornell, Stanford, Yale, Vanderbilt, Villanova etc are all private schools who have players who will be drafted or play in the pros. We all know what Villanova has done the last few years anyway.

[epiccajun]

I’d like to add to the list of excuses for this year. Corey Davis jr. does not play for us

Actually that would have been crucial if he had been able to make it here when he initially committed.

I always thought he was way better than the Register kid we signed that same year.

[zephyr]

I’d like to add to the list of excuses for this year. Corey Davis jr. does not play for us

He would sure look good in a cajun uniform.

[Million$Mullet]

Actually that would have been crucial if he had been able to make it here when he initially committed.

I always thought he was way better than the Register kid we signed that same year.

Agreed

[Tripple Threat]

Now that Marlin’s best Frenemy is there hopefully this means we can start playing some home and homes with Tulane.

That would be cool.

[ZoomZoom]

Well, one thing about Hunter, he gets to the point...
GSUALUM17 Wrote:
From the Athletics article..

“I just wanted a long-term deal,” Hunter told The Athletic on Sunday. “So that’s on them. We could’ve had this thing done. I think they’re a little embarrassed right now, to be honest with you.”

"Hunter had one year left on his contract. Yes, one. He approached Georgia State officials about a long-term extension after last year’s second NCAA Tournament bid but was rejected."

“Generally in our business, if you have less than four years on your deal, you better be worried about getting fired,” Hunter said. “I had a conversation with Charlie, and he said, ‘We’ll get back to you with some details.’ I wanted to get going on it. I never even asked for (specific) money. I just wanted a long-term deal. I love Georgia State. When I went to them after the tournament last year, I just wanted a deal where I could retire here.”

Hunter again on negotiations: “I said to them, ‘Just give me something.’ That was in November. My agent’s phone calls weren’t even being returned after a certain point. So I don’t want to get into that.”

"He[Hunter] said he went to athletics director Charlie Cobb after the 2017-18 season to ask for an extension. One never came. He said it got to the point in the fall when “my agent’s calls weren’t even being returned.”

“I don’t know how we got to this point. I really don’t,” he said. If the school gave him a long-term deal after last season when the Panthers made it to their second NCAA Tournament, would he have left? “No,” he [Hunter] said.

[cajun_lannister]

Well, one thing about Hunter, he gets to the point...
GSUALUM17 Wrote:
From the Athletics article..

"I just wanted a long-term deal," Hunter told The Athletic on Sunday. "So that's on them. We could've had this thing done. I think they're a little embarrassed right now, to be honest with you."

"Hunter had one year left on his contract. Yes, one. He approached Georgia State officials about a long-term extension after last year's second NCAA Tournament bid but was rejected."

"Generally in our business, if you have less than four years on your deal, you better be worried about getting fired," Hunter said. "I had a conversation with Charlie, and he said, 'We'll get back to you with some details.' I wanted to get going on it. I never even asked for (specific) money. I just wanted a long-term deal. I love Georgia State. When I went to them after the tournament last year, I just wanted a deal where I could retire here."

Hunter again on negotiations: "I said to them, 'Just give me something.' That was in November. My agent's phone calls weren't even being returned after a certain point. So I don't want to get into that."

"He[Hunter] said he went to athletics director Charlie Cobb after the 2017-18 season to ask for an extension. One never came. He said it got to the point in the fall when "my agent's calls weren't even being returned."

"I don't know how we got to this point. I really don't," he said. If the school gave him a long-term deal after last season when the Panthers made it to their second NCAA Tournament, would he have left? "No," he [Hunter] said.

______ why can we not do that with Marlin

[RaginScotsman]

Ouch. I don't like the guy, but Georgia State just lost the coach of the one sport they were relevant in. Emphasis on the fact that Georgia State lost him, he wasn't taken.

Regardless of how he does at Tulane, he'll probably pad his retirement nest egg with the salary the Greenies give him.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Y’all can never accept what a coach says he would or wouldn’t do. Tim Floyd demanded and got a ten year deal with UNO only to jump ship to Iowa State with the ink barely dried.

Regardless the Big Fish ended up with a five year deal with almost zero chance we’d lose him. We absolutely got played.

[cajun_lannister]

Y'all can never accept what a coach says he would or wouldn't do. Tim Floyd demanded and got a ten year deal with UNO only to jump ship to Iowa State with the ink barely dried.

Regardless the Big Fish ended up with a five year deal with almost zero chance we'd lose him. We absolutely got played.

We could have offered him 2 packs of gum and a bag of chips and that would have been his best offer. But now we get 4 more years of mediocre basketball with Marlin being the top paid guy .. Hooray

[ZoomZoom]

"Generally in our business, if you have less than four years on your deal, you better be worried about getting fired," Hunter said.

How many times it has been said here, various sports, a coach needs to be able to go in a recruit's home and have a "yes" answer to "will you be there during my entire four years?"

That is why coaches are given extensions. Hunter had already received a 2 year extension from the prior AD, he was supposedly good thru '20. This AD, in 20/20 hindsight, pooped the bed, based solely on the on court performance of their team. We never know the backstory, even if there is one.

It is a very tough decision to give an extension. Sometimes it pays off, other times, it doesn't. So, let's say Broadhead or Marlin land in the dance two years from now, and no extensions have been granted? What does Maggard do? It's beyond our pay scale.

It's a process, not a knee jerk reaction. Same applies to every coach we have.

Side note, the Cajuns knocking the princess out the conference tournament was allegedly the reason he returned the next year...he wanted the NCAA on his resume'.