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Post by wcu72 on May 19, 2024 11:01:08 GMT -5
Our former coach just got named as a coach on the USA basketball team He will not be at the beach chickens for long if he is successful. Same blueprint for the chickens as he had at Western. He will try to get a lot of upper class men with experience and keep them together for a couple of years and make some noise in the Sun Belt for a season or two and continue to market himself by lobbying to get named to the USA basket ball team and other groups to raise his profile. He still has not won a conference championship anywhere and taken a team to the NCAA tournament. I think he is a decent coach but I think his team last year at Western under performed and he should have gotten more out of that team. Also, I can think of at least 2 or maybe 3 coaches in the SoCon that I would hire for any job before J Gray. He left Western in the nick of time, as he would have been lucky to break even next year. I hope he makes it to the top of college basketball but h he is going to have to do much more than he did at Western and prove that he can win consistently and build a sustainable program. Why don't we just give up on this guy?
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Post by catman72 on May 19, 2024 11:30:49 GMT -5
I agree.....He was a decent coach but he hasn't proved he is a championship coach yet.....I think our new basketball coach beat him all three times they faced each other......According to a Wake Forest buddy of mine what he has going for him is Chris Paul in his corner.....
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Post by catamountalum04 on May 20, 2024 7:46:10 GMT -5
Our former coach just got named as a coach on the USA basketball team He will not be at the beach chickens for long if he is successful. Same blueprint for the chickens as he had at Western. He will try to get a lot of upper class men with experience and keep them together for a couple of years and make some noise in the Sun Belt for a season or two and continue to market himself by lobbying to get named to the USA basket ball team and other groups to raise his profile. He still has not won a conference championship anywhere and taken a team to the NCAA tournament. I think he is a decent coach but I think his team last year at Western under performed and he should have gotten more out of that team. Also, I can think of at least 2 or maybe 3 coaches in the SoCon that I would hire for any job before J Gray. He left Western in the nick of time, as he would have been lucky to break even next year. I hope he makes it to the top of college basketball but h he is going to have to do much more than he did at Western and prove that he can win consistently and build a sustainable program. He is a smart guy when it comes to marketing himself but also I think his wife had alot to do with him leaving. When he was at WCU she was never in town. SHe was always in Charlotte or in her home country. Ever since the move to CCU she has stayed in town the entire time never going to Charlotte or out of the country
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Post by catamountalum04 on May 20, 2024 7:47:13 GMT -5
I agree.....He was a decent coach but he hasn't proved he is a championship coach yet.....I think our new basketball coach beat him all three times they faced each other......According to a Wake Forest buddy of mine what he has going for him is Chris Paul in his corner..... CP3 is who funded the basketball NIL at WCU and just started the big NIL at CCU. CP bought those black jerseys for WCU
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Post by catamountalum04 on May 28, 2024 20:34:43 GMT -5
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on May 29, 2024 7:20:59 GMT -5
I agree.....He was a decent coach but he hasn't proved he is a championship coach yet.....I think our new basketball coach beat him all three times they faced each other......According to a Wake Forest buddy of mine what he has going for him is Chris Paul in his corner..... CP3 is who funded the basketball NIL at WCU and just started the big NIL at CCU. CP bought those black jerseys for WCU I am not saying you are wrong, but where did you get this information. Is there an article about Chris Paul funding NIL at Western or Coastal? Is there an article about CP3 buying jerseys for the basketball team. Are these rumors or substantiated facts? If facts, please post your sources.
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Post by catamountalum04 on May 29, 2024 9:16:51 GMT -5
Honestly nothing was posted in writing but when he was hired and the school was touring him around and I went to an CC/alumni event where i live in Winston Salem and when i was talking to him one on one and asked him how he liked being back in WS where him and CP3 first teamed up he said "yeah it is great being back and I told Chris I was back in town." CP3 family still lives in the area, CP3 came back and graduated from WSSU and has his AAU team academy out of WS so he is in town in the off season. Gray went on the say he was in contact with CP3 about helping him out with his contacts at Nike about getting WCU some cool 3rd jerseys and a few months later the black ones showed up. I put two and two together on the jerseys. The NIL thing is well known in the college basketball circles. I had heard about it mid way through his first season but thought it was gossip as WCU never said anything about it but when Gray was looking elsewhere i saw it repeated on twitter by a verified sports writer about CP3 moving his NIL dollars from WCU to CCU and right after Gray was hired CCU announced thier new NIL program. Again I put two and two together.
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Jun 19, 2024 9:26:23 GMT -5
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Jun 19, 2024 11:15:56 GMT -5
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