Paul Lusk Fired

[VUFWAlum]

Rob Jeter? I would laugh if I wasn't sure that there is a decent chance it happens. Can we hire Paul Lusk back already? We look very foolish by not hiring a search firm. Very foolish. Get his one right Clif or get out!

Rob Jeter was a good coach that got absolutely no support from his administration and athletic director. This is well documented by the media and Jimmy Lemke a blog writer who is perhaps the BB programs biggest fan. UNLV seems to have benefited from the addition of Jeter. Would he be the right person to replace Lusk... I don't know enough about Missouri State to have an informed opinion, but I do know that given the proper support Jeter could be a very good D1 coach. Lemke pointed most of this out in his Valley Hoops Insider report on UWM.

The backlash to the firing of Rob Jeter
Lemke vs Braun UWM AD
Player speaks out about UWM lack of support

[CaseyGarrisonforPrez]

It sounds like Colorado assistant Kim English is the choice. Our school president is enamored with social media and Kim English has a ton of followers on Twitter. He is also well known in the state of Missouri. He will win the press conference and Clif likes that sort of thing.

This potential hire is very displeasing to me. I prefer winning games to press conferences.

[BCPanther]

It sounds like Colorado assistant Kim English is the choice. Our school president is enamored with social media and Kim English has a ton of followers on Twitter. He is also well known in the state of Missouri. He will win the press conference and Clif likes that sort of thing.

This potential hire is very displeasing to me. I prefer winning games to press conferences.

29 years old with exactly 3 years as an assistant?

He's going to get KILLED with the other coaching talent in this league. You've just hired a less qualified Paul Lusk.

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Feels like it was just yesterday English played for that Mizzou team with the Pressey brothers that looked like it could win a national championship then suffered a stunning loss to the Norfolk State Spartans.

Can’t think of a single reason you wouldn’t hire Heiar here. You’ve got 3 coaches killing it (Jans, Earl, Forbes) as tangible evidence of what you might be getting.

[CaseyGarrisonforPrez]

Feels like it was just yesterday English played for that Mizzou team with the Pressey brothers that looked like it could win a national championship then suffered a stunning loss to the Norfolk State Spartans.

Can’t think of a single reason you wouldn’t hire Heiar here. You’ve got 3 coaches killing it (Jans, Earl, Forbes) as tangible evidence of what you might be getting.

This hire is not as much about basketball as it is about personality and grabbing the headlines in KC and St. Louis. Maybe he can live tweet during the games. That would attract attention and get people to notice.

[glm38]

It sounds like Colorado assistant Kim English is the choice. Our school president is enamored with social media and Kim English has a ton of followers on Twitter. He is also well known in the state of Missouri. He will win the press conference and Clif likes that sort of thing.

This potential hire is very displeasing to me. I prefer winning games to press conferences.

29 years old with exactly 3 years as an assistant?

He's going to get KILLED with the other coaching talent in this league. You've just hired a less qualified Paul Lusk.

I sincerely doubt he'll be as bad as Paul Lusk. But if true it's a very underwhelming hire. He could be good but with his lack of experience it's a huge gamble.

[bleach]

It is all speculation still but, if the speculation is right, Kim English better be much better than his credentials would indicate. I see nothing to indicate he is qualified to interview for the job let alone get it.

[CaseyGarrisonforPrez]

I encourage any and all MSU fans to email the administration and express their grave concern and supreme misgivings about this situation. They are listening and it is not too late.

[BCPanther]

Porter Moser was 35 and had 9 years as an assistant and 3 years as a head coach when he got hired at Illinois State.

Ben Jacobson was 35 and had 10 years as an assistant and 2 years as Coach-in-Waiting when he got the UNI job.

Dan Muller was 36 and had been an assistant for 11 years before he got the Illinois State job.

None of them were handed the dumpster fire that Missouri State is they still struggled mightily in their first two years and now you think you can bring in a guy 6 or 7 years younger with a fraction of the experience and be successful? I sure hope you aren't paying him much for when you have to pull the trigger on that buyout in three years.

[AndShock]

I really just can’t comprehend how an AD and Prez can be this incompetent. It goes back to last year where they guaranteed an NCAA tournament bid when every Average Joe in the world could see that that was a long shot at best. Now they’re making a hire that everyone in the world can see is terrible. It almost leads me to believe corruption over incompetence because no one is this dumb.