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My main concern is that if 2 guys from his previous staff are coming, why did it take two weeks to get them here? That tells me that those that were interviewed simply weren't that interested. I make no claim to know the mind of Coach Smith, but just to offer you an alternative possibility, maybe C...

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Brady's little brother is transferring from Boise State. Averaged 4.3 mins, 1.6 pts and 1.2 boards a game for them. Some were disappointed he picked Boise over USU initially. Here is the (now-locked) thread when he made his initial decision: https://www.usufans.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42013&h...

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interesting

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Colorado State assistants are now known: https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/981886413753978881 Nevada has announced it will be playing in the Las Vegas Invitational and its MW/MVC match up (a rematch against Loyola) At least we've had a coach in place for over a week. Fresno just hired their coa...

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FYI:

Getting interest from P5 teams.

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South Dakota is hiring Grand Canyon assistant Todd Lee as its new head coach. Since they aren't promoting from within, I would imagine that means all of Coach Smith's assistants with him at SD are available to fill similar roles at USU (assuming Smith wants to bring some or all of them with him).

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Official now:

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This Trib article has more details on the contract: https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-state-sports/2018/04/02/utah-state-basketball-coach-craig-smith-to-make-35-million-over-five-years/ 5 year deal, starts at $650K/year and escalates by $25K each year. $565K salary pool for assistants. We are payin...

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Incredibly, Ohio State is one of the schools that Jeff Goodman of ESPN lists as having already contacted Koby. Miraculous Here is the tweet in question, along with the other schools Koby "has heard from." I get some of the schools on here, but Akron? Grand Canyon? Really? https://twitter.com/Goodma...

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Is leaving. Bummer.

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We will likely never know but I am curious about what happened at CSU and why they didn't hire him. How do we know he didn’t turn them down? We know Stew left CSU because of better support in Logan. It’s not unreasonable to assume that Coach Smith felt like the support at CSU was lacking in some wa...

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$650,000 is more in line with Mountain West Conference teams. I always thought $375,000 was too low. Agreed - for comparison's sake, CSU gave their new coach (Medved) a 5 year deal at $700,000/year (with annual increases of $25K). CSU is also paying Drake a $425K buyout (and are still paying Eustac...

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Anyone have the details? What is Smith's annual salary? What is the term of years?

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WCC did announce today they are getting rid of two conference games (so teams can play two additional non-conference games), plus reinstating the double bye in the WCC tourney, two things Gonzaga wanted. If you are correct, then Gonzaga was using threat to go to MWC as leverage in negotiations with ...

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Apologies if this has already been addressed in another thread on Smith, but have the details of his contract ($ and number of years) been announced yet?

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bluegrouse wrote: ↑
March 22nd, 2018, 12:26 pm
Wow. Seems like a big risk.

He was an assistant under their former coach (Miles) for 6 years. I'm guessing that is big part of why they are willing to select him, but yes, I agree, it seems like a big risk.

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I guess that means we should be rooting for Gonzaga to lose this weekend so we can get an answer either way.

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Several of the candidates mentioned in conjunction with USU are candidates for the opening at Washington. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/mar/15/gonzagas-tommy-lloyd-mentioned-as-possible-candida/ So many moving pieces. That's a 2017 Article. Washington is not currently looking for a head coa...

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Several of the candidates mentioned in conjunction with USU are candidates for the opening at Washington. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/mar/15/gonzagas-tommy-lloyd-mentioned-as-possible-candida/ So many moving pieces. That's a 2017 Article. Washington is not currently looking for a head coa...

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Not sure how reliable their sources are, but latest Trib article claims Dave Rice (please no), Mark Fox and Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd among candidates being considered. Also claims we looked at Utah assistant Tommy Connor in 2015 before hiring Duryea, but he's currently thought to be out of our ...

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Charlotte is hiring UVA assistant Ron Sanchez, so another position filled.

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FWIW:

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Each win by a MWC team during the tournament means more $$ to the conference. It looks like Nevada and SDSU have earned USU an additional $100K to date (since we don't have a beat writer, I'm getting the number from the UNLV beat writer - and I'm assuming it's the same number for all the non-tourney...

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Unless Nevada can come back here, MWC is going to go 0-2. I know we aren't a P5 conference like P12, but we need MWC to win some games in the NCAA to 1) earn the conference more TV $$ and 2) reinforce that we deserve to be a multi bid league. PS - if Nevada loses, is Gonzaga the last western team re...

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He takes another job, they don't have to pay him a dime. Contracts have teeth. That's weird. I've never heard of a setup like that. Usually contracts are fully guaranteed and if you fire a coach they get paid regardless. If they find another job there is usually a clause that whatever salary they m...

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Looks like Mark Fox to CSU is going to happen, so cross him off the list as well:

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Here's one thing he did to help improve athletics - fired Duryea.

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Seeing Dave Rice is a potential candidate. He was 98-54 in his 4 + years at UNLV. I remember people liked him when he was on Stew's staff. Been a part of Nevada a year ago. Why was he fired at UNLV? I see they got off to a struggle in record that season. What are your thoughts. Dave Rice is Duryea ...

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Agree with everything he said in the article. Hartwell is quoted as saying he didn't like the trajectory the program was going. We made it to the conf. semi-finals. We have some great young players in the program and good recruits lined up. Looked like a bright future to me. Hartwell knifed Duryea ...

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Local columnist is saddened Dureya fired. Claims team overachieved this year, and blames lack of fan support on increased ticket prices and students not showing up. HJ clueless as usual. https://news.hjnews.com/allaccess/column-duryea-bled-aggie-blue-was-a-class-act/article_eeba7f71-872e-5218-91b7-c...

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Is lead candidate for Ole Mis job, so scratch him off our hypothetical lists (regardless of whether or not you were for or against hiring him).

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Aggie in Hawaii wrote: ↑
March 12th, 2018, 3:03 pm
Rodney Terry is gone!

And Fresno didn't even have a buyout in his contract, so they get nothing in return. And he left for UTEP - yikes.

VegasAggie71

I had no idea Merrill was battling leg injuries so bad that he couldn't even practice. Given the shape he was in, I was shocked to hear he was considering the CBI or CIT tournaments. Why risk your best players health further for a second rate tournament? Also, I'm even more impressed that Merrill wa...

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Obviously, the sooner we can identify and hire the right coach the better. Also, we aren't going to be able to hire any current coach/assistant until they complete their season (but Hartwell should already be in touch with agents of these guys anyways to gauge interest), so it will take some time to...

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From what I can find through google, here are current salaries for your wish list of guys: Tommy Connor - $525,000 T.J.: $300,000 Tommy Lloyd - Gonzaga is a private university, so unknown Crean - unemployed, but being paid $4MM over 3 years from Indiana per terms of his buyout Linder - $155K I imag...

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