Whitman's first day on the job was March 5, the last game of our basketball season was March 11. Obviously Whitman was engaged in courting Lovie before March 5, but that was his first day officially on the job.
Whitman was hired Feb. 16, the official start is less important as he was already meeting with Lovie in early March. As far as coaches, unless a coach is out of the NCAA tournament, it is hard to negotiate before late March early April (1.5 months after he got the job).
And the Lovie thing is just not comparable to what Whitman faces here, on a number of levels. This is going to be a bigger challenge for him.
That's exactly right, that is why I do not believe that Cubit (an interim coach) getting the job (with the school administration not having an AD) will have nothing to do with Groce (an existing coach) surviving.
I wouldn't have been furious if we'd made a move last year