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If Smart leaves, I wonder how many of VCU's recruits leave. Didn't they have a pretty solid class coming in?

VCU's top recruit, Tevin Mack, just started following UT recruit Kerwin Roach. Interesting.

Mack had some offers from UCONN, Clemson, USC(e), etc

So yeah maybe.

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VCU's top recruit, Tevin Mack, just started following UT recruit Kerwin Roach. Interesting.

Mack had some offers from UCONN, Clemson, USC(e), etc

So yeah maybe.

I really thought he would go to USCe if he bounces.

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So exploring a job opportunity that involves a substantial pay raise is attention whoring?

Not necessarily, the issue is: what is the payout he is seeking? I doubt it is just money. Seeing those kids tonight wailing and crying for him to stay is his true pay dirt. This is what makes him an attention monger. The issue here is the drama involved. A night meeting at Siegel Center so that the students, optimally filing the Siegel Center to the scuppers, have the priceless opportunity to beg him to stay; the drama and the suspense that maybe, just maybe, assuming the kids wail and cry loud enough, he will change his mind and stay.

Brianstl, if you are friends with a psychoanalyst ask him about the key role played by the Siegel Center drama that Shaka is spinning for this occasion.

If you simply want more money and you get a $2 - $3 M offer you just give your notice to the administration and depart happily for the new place. No need for all the trappings and the blabberdash. THIS, the trappings, drama, and blabberdash, is what qualifies his actions as attention mongering.

This said, watch for him confirming tonight that he is leaving VCU regardless of any offer improvements by VCU and the throngs of wailing students. If he does that, he is after the money, not the attention, and it would make my analysis totally wrong.

Wouldn't it be nice for VCU to call his bluff and show him an open door, there are plenty of other coaches available. Who needs Shaka?

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Shaka has nothing to do with the rally to keep him at VCU. He, also, has nothing to do with the media reports about Texas wanting to hire him. Those are all originating out of Austin.

So Shaka just because some people at Texas have leaked they want to hire Shaka and then the students at VCU decide they want to hols a rally to keep Shaka, he is a attention *****? Shaka has kept his silence through this whole process, but amazingly some people think he is an attention *****.

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It is amazing how every year it leaks out that some big basketball school wants to hire Shaka. The institutions are always different though. And why would a school want it out there unless they were sure that it was happening - only to disappoint with their eventual hire? I wonder what side it comes from...who does that leak benefit?

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It is amazing how every year it leaks out that some big basketball school wants to hire Shaka. The institutions are always different though. And why would a school want it out there unless they were sure that it was happening - only to disappoint with their eventual hire? I wonder what side it comes from...who does that leak benefit?

Of course schools try to limit information getting out. Some are better than others. However, the nature of Universities is that there are big money donors "in the know" or others in an organization that mention something to someone and that's the leak. That's why beat writers try to make good contacts at a school. There always around and you get familiar with them and eventually they're your bud not the reporter and you them them things. It's an extremely hard thing to manage with people watching websites of tail numbers or local air ports etc etc. The key is to limit the information and use the way the media works to your advantage.

Leaks of interest can benefit the coach, see Marshall's new deal at WSU. It could benefit the school to gauge the fan reaction to a possible hire. Just depends on the situation.

As to Smart when you're a very successful coach but aren't yet at a school in one of the top conferences that's the way it goes see X, Butler, etc. Even sometimes you are a very successful coach in a top conference you can be poached by the very top schools see Marquette, Pitt, OU etc.

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Smart and VCU goes through this every year - sorry but this would get old to me. Missouri finally had enough with Anderson pulling this every year and let him leave for AR. Now did that work well for them - not my point - finally people get tired of all the chain jerking going on every year.

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Agree that a chance event is a chance event once in a blue moon. Something that happens regularly (or even yearly) as is the case with the "Shaka is leaving VCU" event is likely to be an orchestrated event with set patterns of news leakage, etc... Boo Hoo, Shaka is leaving VCU..., it must be April or May... And so what?, let him take his dog and pony show elsewhere. If he makes more money and finds himself at a higher caliber school, much the better for all involved.

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Also - I'll tkae VCU's ability to hire successful coaches over Shakas ability to be more successful than Barnes at UT.

Capel and Grant both flamed out after doing really well at VCU. VCU will be fine.

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Also - I'll tkae VCU's ability to hire successful coaches over Shakas ability to be more successful than Barnes at UT.

Capel and Grant both flamed out after doing really well at VCU. VCU will be fine.

I agree that VCU will be fine.

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I a m really surprised that Chris Mack's name doesn't come up for these jobs like Marshall and Shaka. Mack might not have the Final Four appearance, but he has as many Sweet 16 appearances as Marshall and Shake combined in less seasons than Marshall with the Shockers or Shaka with VCU.

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Also - I'll tkae VCU's ability to hire successful coaches over Shakas ability to be more successful than Barnes at UT.

Capel and Grant both flamed out after doing really well at VCU. VCU will be fine.

Barnes was OK but underperformed the last 5 years. I think Shaka can clean up in recruiting and results. Look at aTm's recruiting class it's loaded with TX top 100 kids. I think UT has 1 or 2 of those (on the ESPN top 100). OU does recruit DFW like UT but after Sampson it's been a mess.

I think VCU will be fine and I also think Shaka will achieve at UT.

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I a m really surprised that Chris Mack's name doesn't come up for these jobs like Marshall and Shaka. Mack might not have the Final Four appearance, but he has as many Sweet 16 appearances as Marshall and Shake combined in less seasons than Marshall with the Shockers or Shaka with VCU.

Perhaps it does and we don't hear about it.

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Pretty great clause in Smart's current deal:

Smarts contract also states that any new school would have to play VCU in a home-and-home series. The new school can get out of that provision for $250,000, according to the Richmond paper

great idea. should be NCAA rule.

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