Jay Bilas typically has better takes than this.  He comes across like an idiot.  Might be one of the worst most bizarre takes I've heard in a while.  Nothing about this makes sense.  Both Texas and Xavier seasons are over.  RT will be just fine with his $5m buyout.  Portal opens on Tuesday.  There was no question that CDC would be making a change afte Texas finished 14th out of 16 teams in the conference. 

Regarding Jay's rant against UT on the timing of the hire, Xavier was knocked out of tournament on Friday then news broke unofficially 2 days later on Sunday of Texas hiring Sean Miller.  Many teams are hiring their new head coaches with similar timing.  Most of those coaches are currently under contract thus a buyout is triggered.  Am I missing something here?  I might understand this rant if it were against NC State for interviewing/offering/hiring Will Wade while McNeese State was still playing in the NCAA Tournament.   Wade did a good job of acknowledging the move and getting his team focused in first round for win.  Maybe Jay doesn't want to slam another ACC school, given his personal allegiance.  Btw, news broke this morning that Minnesota is hiring Colorado State head coach Niko Medved, barely 12 hours after Colorado State lost on last second shot to Maryland. 

No idea why he'd refer to this hire as 'tampering' or 'poaching'.  Idiotic.  

 

 

Watched Bilas for years and this doesn’t surprise me. He’s a tool always has been! 

Iowa courting McCollum while Drake in the tournament.  Minnesota courting Medved while Colorado State in the tournament.  Virginia courting Odom while VCU in the tournament.  NC State courting Wade while McNeese in the tournament.  Baby Pitino might have a new job in the next 24 hours.  Gotta wonder how that could have come about. 

Dusty May was hired by Michigan a day after FAU lost in the tournament last year.  Todd Golden was hired by Florida the day after USF lost in 2022.  Illinois hired Brad Underwood the day after Okie State lost in the 2017 tournament, and he got the job at Okie State the day after SFA lost in the 2016 tournament.

It ain't nothing new. 

 

Edited March 24, 20251 yr by bierce

I think that post was poorly thought out, but obviously sent before Miller had been announced.  Bilas thought we were getting a unicorn too!

1 minute ago, bierce said:

Iowa courting McCollum while Drake in the tournament.  Minnesota courting Medved while Colorado State in the tournament.  Virginia courting Odom while VCU in the tournament.  NC State courting Wade while McNeese in the tournament.  Baby Pitino might have a new job in the next 24 hours.  Gotta wonder how that could have come about. 

Dusty May was hired by Michigan a day after FAU lost in the tournament last year.  Todd Golden was hired by Florida the day after USF lost in 2022.  Illinois hired Brad Underwood the day after Okie State lost in the 2017 tournament.

It ain't nothing new. 

 

It's part of Bilas' schtick in his defense of players' rights or something. 

5 minutes ago, bierce said:

Iowa courting McCollum while Drake in the tournament.  Minnesota courting Medved while Colorado State in the tournament.  Virginia courting Odom while VCU in the tournament.  NC State courting Wade while McNeese in the tournament.  Baby Pitino might have a new job in the next 24 hours.  Gotta wonder how that could have come about. 

Dusty May was hired by Michigan a day after FAU lost in the tournament last year.  Todd Golden was hired by Florida the day after USF lost in 2022.  Illinois hired Brad Underwood the day after Okie State lost in the 2017 tournament, and he got the job at Okie State the day after SFA lost in the 2016 tournament.

It ain't nothing new. 

 

Bilas has nothing left in the athlete empowerment department so this is his new schtick for attention. He forgets that these coaches have buyouts that have to be paid to leave but the athletes do not. I don't really get his whole argument towards this either.

Edited March 24, 20251 yr by Hashtag

I don't think he's necessarily saying Texas is doing anything unique here.

He is making a false equivalence in that coaches are technically free agents all the time and teams have to pay buyouts to acquire a coach. Players can enter the portal and transfer with no penalty, and often have these conversations when it's actually against the rules.

It's also worth noting that BOTH Texas and Xavier had pretty unremarkable seasons with equally unremarkable rosters. Texas is losing a ton of players. It's the nature of the game. RT being fired shouldn't be news to anyone and those players knew what they were signing up for. Bilas is just a talking head that can conveniently ignore all of the externalities of his argument because he's "fighting for the players".

Edited March 24, 20251 yr by yoyocc

2 minutes ago, yoyocc said:

I don't think he's necessarily saying Texas is doing anything unique here.

He is making a false equivalence in that coaches are technically free agents all the time and teams have to pay buyouts to acquire a coach. Players can enter the portal and transfer with no penalty, and often have these conversations when it's actually against the rules.

The post by Bilas feels like it's something from 10 years ago before portal was launched in 2018, enabling ease of player transfers, etc.  In today's college basketball, players are free agents and can evaluate coaches moves before they decide where they want to go play next.  The post doesn't make any sense and why he chose to single out Texas' decision to fire Rodney Terry as his example, is illogical.    

27 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Bilas has nothing left in the athlete empowerment department so this is his new schtick for attention. He forgets that these coaches have buyouts that have to be paid to leave but the athletes do not. I don't really get his whole argument towards this either.

Agree.  Contracts, buyout terms are the 'guardrail' for coaches.  

Bilas’ take on this is myopic at best and pure idiocy at worst. This is how coaching changes happen. Across college sports, not just basketball.

What an idiotic take