Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

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Warren Carter Fanclub

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RabidDawgClassic said:
I’m laughing at the thought of a lame duck OA going into the office every day and asking Pope “okay, boss… who do you want me to build relationships with today?” 😂
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OrangeKrush1981

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I was checking into Kentucky's basketball history and found on the unimpeachable source, Wikipedia, some essential information:

"In 1919, George Buchheit became the new head coach of the Wildcats. An alumnus of the University of Illinois, he brought with him a new system of basketball. The "Buchheit system" or "Illinois system", focused on defense and featured one player standing under each basket, while three roamed the court. Bucheit varied the system he learned in Illinois in one important way. While the Illinois system employed a zone defense, Buchheit's system used an aggressive man-to-man scheme. On offense, he used a complicated system of passing called the "zig-zag" or "figure eight" offense."

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"Buchheit remained as coach through the 1924 season before moving on to coach Trinity College (later Duke University). C.O. Applegran immediately followed Buchheit as coach. Applegran had played for the University of Illinois, where he became an All-American."

So: Kentucky AND Duke basketball actually owe their success (clearly, 100% of it) to Fighting Illini basketball.

Finally, we really need to get back to the "Illinois system" for defense after this past season's defensive debacle. And we might even check out the "complicated offense", the "figure eight" from the glory days as well.
 
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OrangeKrush1981

OrangeKrush1981
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Even MORE evidence of Kentucky sourcing its coaching expertise from Illinois:

"[Kentucky] hired Adolph Rupp, who had played as a reserve for the University of Kansas 1922 and 1923 teams, under coach Forest C. "Phog" Allen. At the time of his hiring, Rupp was a high school coach in Freeport, Illinois."

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"University of Illinois head basketball coach Craig Ruby was invited to speak at the Freeport HS team banquet following the 1929–30 season. Ruby informed Rupp of the Kentucky head coaching job and followed up by recommending him for the job."
 
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IlliniFan42

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Is it just me or does it seem like Kentucky has really bungled this whole coaching transition?
 
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Illwinsagain

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Oddly enough, I happened to run across some of these old spy parody films and started to watch them again. I am currently watching one of the Matt Helm (Dean Martin) films. I always found them kind of fun to watch especially now as they are unintentionally funny. Martin is too old for the Matt Helm character and one jaw-dropping moment was when he was driving his car with Stella Stevens in the passenger seat (neither wearing seat belts) and Martin flips a switch or something and out pops a mini-bar and he and Stevens just proceed to pour whiskey down their respective throats while just driving along like this happens every day to everyone. Which maybe it did back then. Crazy.

Not that this is off-topic or anything. :)
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Thanks for the tip, hadn't seen these before.
 
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