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[hawkeye12345]

Harvard's Tommy Amaker in University of Miami's head coach searching sights - ESPN

Meanwhile, Kansas State coach Frank Martin would listen to Miami and would be willing to go home to his native Miami, according to multiple sources. But those same sources told ESPN.com that the search firm called Martin's representatives and said that Miami and the search firm had no interest in pursuing Martin.

Miami is interested in Amaker but not Martin? What gives?

Amaker sucked at Seton Hall and sucked at Michigan. He gets a Harvard team to beat up on all the other ****** programs within the Ivy league and loses in the 1st round the of the NIT.

Frank Martin meanwhile has taken a K-State team to the NCAA tourny 3 out of his 4 years there. He averages 24 wins per season.

Wow. Sounds like Miami has hired Bob Bowlsby as their new AD. Joking.

 

[CAARHawk]

Meanwhile, Kansas State coach Frank Martin would listen to Miami and would be willing to go home to his native Miami, according to multiple sources. But those same sources told ESPN.com that the search firm called Martin's representatives and said that Miami and the search firm had no interest in pursuing Martin.

Miami is interested in Amaker but not Martin? What gives?


Joking.[/QUOTE]


Don't you see those two dreaded words, "Search Firm?" Those two words have brought us the worst stretch in the history of Iowa basketball and it was post Bowlsby.

 

[hawkIhoops]

Martin has a checkered history with Miami area hoops and I doubt even the U wants to open themselves up for that kind of scrutiny. I lived in KC when Martin was hired at K State and there was quite the uproar about his involvement with a high school program that was basically given a NCAA type death penalty punishment. I don't remember all the details, but it involved everything under the sun from covering up a rape by 1-2 star players so they could play in the state tourney. paying kids to transfer, academic fraud etc. I don't know that Martin specifically was to blame for all of this stuff, but if memory serves, the high school program got shut down.

Amaker is a safe hire from this perspective, but Miami is one of those dead end coaching jobs in a place where nobody cares about hoops. The best in state talent goes to FL or leaves.