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Tom Collen to be named new Ladybacks coach

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Bogghawg

March 23, 2007, 09:14:10 am #50
Quote from: GorillaJMonsoon on March 23, 2007, 08:18:02 am
Tom Collen spells "moon" M-O-O-N, laws yes.

+1 - Any friend of Stephen's is a friend of mine.
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John Futrall

March 23, 2007, 09:17:43 am #51
Quote from: DeltaBoy on March 23, 2007, 09:10:50 am
Hogs hired a mixed drink to coach the ladybacks WOW ! ;)



That is funny right there....
 

litmachog

March 23, 2007, 09:18:41 am #52
WOW!!!   I love it.  I was happy that Garner is gone.

But the question is"  Is Bev Lewis eating crow????

She got rid of Blair (I know A&M courted him away from Arkansas but she basically helped him pack she so much wanted him gone) and stated that she wanted a Lady Coach.  Well she got one in Gardner and she couldn't even win with the league's best player one year.

Now she hires a male coach and coincidentally he was an assistant coach at Arkansas for who?  Gary Blair.  Does that not sound like Lewis is eating crow and admitting Hey I messed up!!

HeathWimp

March 23, 2007, 09:42:06 am #53
Quote from: Bogghawg on March 23, 2007, 09:14:10 am
Quote from: GorillaJMonsoon on March 23, 2007, 08:18:02 am
Tom Collen spells "moon" M-O-O-N, laws yes.

+1 - Any friend of Stephen's is a friend of mine.

Very nice...+1
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GorillaJMonsoon

March 23, 2007, 09:43:54 am #54
Quote from: Bogghawg on March 23, 2007, 09:14:10 am
Quote from: GorillaJMonsoon on March 23, 2007, 08:18:02 am
Tom Collen spells "moon" M-O-O-N, laws yes.

+1 - Any friend of Stephen's is a friend of mine.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to catch that.  +1 back at you.

Ouachihog

March 23, 2007, 09:48:51 am #55
Quote from: DeltaBoy on March 23, 2007, 09:10:50 am
Hogs hired a mixed drink to coach the ladybacks WOW ! ;)



Ha, first thing I thought of when I heard his name. 

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DeltaBoy

March 23, 2007, 09:53:19 am #56
Quote from: Ouachihog on March 23, 2007, 09:48:51 am
Quote from: DeltaBoy on March 23, 2007, 09:10:50 am
Hogs hired a mixed drink to coach the ladybacks WOW ! ;)



Ha, first thing I thought of when I heard his name. 



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H&D

March 23, 2007, 10:46:09 am #57
Quote from: budcampbellfan on March 22, 2007, 09:22:13 pm
Quote from: RhodeHog on March 22, 2007, 09:19:30 pm
Quote from: notshavintilnuttgo on March 22, 2007, 09:18:35 pm
Fire Houston Nutt

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Flatfoot

March 23, 2007, 10:57:21 am #58
Quote from: notshavintilnuttgo on March 22, 2007, 09:18:35 pm
Fire Houston Nutt

NS, you are the most dedicated hater of all.  I love you man! 

Hopefully Tom Collen will right the ship on the women's side. 

Damn that sounds good I think I will have a Tom Collens bartender.
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prairiehogcompanion

March 23, 2007, 10:59:37 am #59
Quote from: pigfeet on March 22, 2007, 09:23:25 pm
Is this a good hire? I don't know anything about him. What are your oppinions on him?

Sounds like a good hire. Besides, Pokey Chapman wasn't available.

ErieHog

March 23, 2007, 11:24:20 am #60
Quote from: prairiehogcompanion on March 23, 2007, 10:59:37 am
Quote from: pigfeet on March 22, 2007, 09:23:25 pm
Is this a good hire? I don't know anything about him. What are your oppinions on him?

Sounds like a good hire. Besides, Pokey Chapman wasn't available.

I'm sure they could have interviewed her lickety-split.
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arod2024

March 23, 2007, 12:46:56 pm #61
If he is able to get Shakena Stricklin that would be great. He has a lot of work to do though cause we are pretty far down her list. Maybe he can get her out of that Vol orange.

pigsknuckle

March 23, 2007, 01:21:26 pm #62
Tom Collen is not just a good hire, he is a great hire.  He is the guy that recruited the group that took Purdue to the final four, he left the year before, and you Blair lovers ought to know that Collen recruited nearly all of the players that took Arkansas to the final four.  Lewis knew Tom Collen, respected him and watched him perform.  He is a proven winner and a proven recruiter, she did good getting him.

I also find it really odd that people comment on the Arkansas women's program without knowing a thing about the staff and the program.   Some have stated that there are only single females on the staff and that is far from the truth.  There are only two female head coaches -- one a co-head coach with her husband in gymnastics, and the other in golf, and she and her husband just had their first child.  I would bet that a person with the inclination of the former women's coach at LSU would find going tough at Arkansas

Remember, Bev Lewis also hired Blair, and she did not run him off,  he went of his own accord.  He was interviewing with every major job in Texas that came open (Baylor and A&M) and Lewis got tired of that and told him if he wanted to stay fine, but you seem to want out so go.  Blair got bent out of shape when he found that his family would not go with him so he then whined to the press and most people thought he was misstreated.  Not the case.  Blair was trying to blackmail the university and honestly they got tired of it.

I am sure Joe Foley is a nice fellow, but why in the world would anyone think the University of Arkansas should take another risk with an unproven coach.  Suzie Gardner had much better credentials than Foley and look what happened to her in the SEC.  Foley did well and I hope his success continues, but he is not ready for the major meat grinder of the SEC, his teams at UALR are barely in the top 100 rpi, and even as poorly as we think Gardner's teams were she was in the top 60 at the end of the year.

Collen will bring us back to where we were 5 years ago and beyond.  He will need a few years to get SEC level players at Arkansas, but he will be more than competitive.   

 

notreseveredname

March 23, 2007, 01:29:17 pm #63 Last Edit: March 23, 2007, 01:32:27 pm by notreseveredname
Tom Collens needs to help finish the package deal.  Then after we get UL basketball staff, we need to take over there football staff if BD doesn't come.

If Stan and HOOOten is still here.  I think razorback nation will be making a ton of Tom Collins to get us through the pain of Mens fb and bb.   I might even try to sneak some Tom Collins mix in and watch Tom Collens coach. 

Hog lite

March 23, 2007, 01:38:58 pm #64
Quote from: pigsknuckle on March 23, 2007, 01:21:26 pm
Tom Collen is not just a good hire, he is a great hire.  He is the guy that recruited the group that took Purdue to the final four, he left the year before, and you Blair lovers ought to know that Collen recruited nearly all of the players that took Arkansas to the final four.  Lewis knew Tom Collen, respected him and watched him perform.  He is a proven winner and a proven recruiter, she did good getting him.

I also find it really odd that people comment on the Arkansas women's program without knowing a thing about the staff and the program.   Some have stated that there are only single females on the staff and that is far from the truth.  There are only two female head coaches -- one a co-head coach with her husband in gymnastics, and the other in golf, and she and her husband just had their first child.  I would bet that a person with the inclination of the former women's coach at LSU would find going tough at Arkansas

Remember, Bev Lewis also hired Blair, and she did not run him off,  he went of his own accord.  He was interviewing with every major job in Texas that came open (Baylor and A&M) and Lewis got tired of that and told him if he wanted to stay fine, but you seem to want out so go.  Blair got bent out of shape when he found that his family would not go with him so he then whined to the press and most people thought he was misstreated.  Not the case.  Blair was trying to blackmail the university and honestly they got tired of it.

I am sure Joe Foley is a nice fellow, but why in the world would anyone think the University of Arkansas should take another risk with an unproven coach.  Suzie Gardner had much better credentials than Foley and look what happened to her in the SEC.  Foley did well and I hope his success continues, but he is not ready for the major meat grinder of the SEC, his teams at UALR are barely in the top 100 rpi, and even as poorly as we think Gardner's teams were she was in the top 60 at the end of the year.

Collen will bring us back to where we were 5 years ago and beyond.  He will need a few years to get SEC level players at Arkansas, but he will be more than competitive.  


I think Joe Foley has proven himself.
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THE FOLEY FILE
• CAREER RECORD: 489-132 IN 19 SEASONS
• NAIA NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: 1992, 1993
• NCAA DIVISION II NATIONAL RUNNER-UP: 1999
• NCAA DIVISION II SOUTH REGIONAL CHAMPIONS (ELITE
EIGHT): 1998, 1999
• NCAA DIVISION II TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES: 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
• NCAA/NAIA FINAL FOUR APPEARANCES: 1987, 1988, 1989,
1992, 1883, 1997, 1999
• AIC/GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE OR DIVISION TITLES: 1987,
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998, 2000, 2002, 2003
• 17 CONSECUTIVE 20-WIN SEASONS
• TEAMS WON 30 GAMES SIX DIFFERENT SEASONS
• LED ARKANSAS TECH TO THE ALL-TIME HIGHEST WINNING
PERCENTAGE IN NCAA DIVISION II WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
HISTORY
• NAMED NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR TWICE
• NAMED DISTRICT OR REGION COACH OF THE YEAR SEVEN
TIMES, INCLUDING THE 2002-03 SEASON
• NAMED AIC/GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE COACH OF THE
YEAR NINE TIMES
• 19 PLAYERS EARNED ALL-AMERICAN HONORS DURING HIS
TENURE AT ARKANSAS TECH
• CHOSEN TO BE ON THE 1994 US OLYMPIC FESTIVAL
COACHING STAFF
• INDUCTED INTO THE ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME AS
A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 2002

jhudson84

March 23, 2007, 01:43:31 pm #65
What do you mean recruit contact rules?  Ohio St. has a center committed for next years class, he was offered and accepted before he ever played a high school game.

stevenglennn

March 23, 2007, 03:01:10 pm #66
Good, this means that the best women's college basketball coach in Arkansas will remain in Little Rock.  Joe Foley can get more from a group of players than anyone that I have ever seen.  Of course I am biased, having covered Coach Foley when he was at Arkansas Tech.  Care to make any bets on who gets to the NCAA first?  Oh, and Coach Foley's players at ATU had another good habit, it was called graduation. 
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cbjagman

March 23, 2007, 03:14:58 pm #67
Quote from: Mark Lericos on March 22, 2007, 09:16:19 pm

   At Friday's press conference in Fayetteville.  Collen served under Gary Blair here at Arkansas before making a few stops (some rather bizarre events in between), and for the last three years guiding Louisville to the NCAA Tournament.
Well at least between the two basketball programs we might finally have a coach who knows what he's doing...........'cause it's clearly been proven over and over again that Stan sure doesn't.

DeltaBoy

March 23, 2007, 03:43:40 pm #68
After reading the Presser I am happy with the HIRE .  Now to the rest of our Business FIRE NUTT AND CAN STAN April6th if not sooner!
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.

hogluv

March 23, 2007, 05:26:48 pm #69
Not excited at all. So what he won in the Mountain West Confernence with Colorado State. Louisville has only been in the big east a couple of years. If you read Susie Gardners resume she was a winner too. SEC is big time girls basketball and unless Tom Collen can do at Arkansas what Billy Gillespe has done at Texas AM and Thad Matta has done at Ohio State, than he is once again a waist of time and money. If he is any kinda real coach he will do what these guys have done. Remember it only took Kim Mulky four years at Baylor to win a National Championship. In four years I bet we are no closer to being a great team with this guy then we are now.

arkrazfan

March 23, 2007, 05:29:13 pm #70 Last Edit: March 23, 2007, 05:31:41 pm by Spam Malone
Quote from: hogluv on March 23, 2007, 05:26:48 pm
Not excited at all. So what he won in the Mountain West Confernence with Colorado State. Louisville has only been in the big east a couple of years. If you read Susie Gardners resume she was a winner too. SEC is big time girls basketball and unless Tom Collen can do at Arkansas what Billy Gillespe has done at Texas AM and Thad Matta has done at Ohio State, than he is once again a waist of time and money. If he is any kinda real coach he will do what these guys have done. Remember it only took Kim Mulky four years at Baylor to win a National Championship. In four years I bet we are no closer to being a great team with this guy then we are now.

Well, it is nice to see that you have already made your mind up already. I bet the Duke fans said the same thing when they hired Coach K from Army. Give the dude a chance, he has had the job for about three hours.

hogluv

March 23, 2007, 05:30:39 pm #71
Not at excited about Tom Collen at all. So what he won in lesser confernences. So did Susie Gardner. It only took Kim Mulky 4 years to win a National Championship at Baylor. Thad Matta and Billy Gillespe have made their progams great in 3 years. I gurantee you that this guy is just another easy hire for Bev Lewis so she does not have to go out and work to find a real coach.

OKhogfan1959

March 23, 2007, 05:35:22 pm #72
Great hire..I know I am talking to a great player about Arkansas right now...LOL..There is hope..

Bill_Smith

March 23, 2007, 05:51:34 pm #73 Last Edit: March 23, 2007, 05:54:00 pm by Bill_Smith
Now that we're done for the day, I'll welcome all the fans over to the Lady'Back board here in Hogville -- even the low post number trolls that obviously have not spent a lot of time around women's basketball to know the impact of hiring . . . .

wait for it . . .

wait for it . . .

the person with the 11th highest winning percentage in Division I women's hoops.  Granted, at the start of the season and that will jockey around with the retirements and changes in everyone's winning percentage but folks -- all Tom Collen has done for his entire career as an assistant or as a head coach is recruit players and win.  To the tune of 70+ percent in both roles.

Let me interject one other thing -- go out on the other national boards and look back and see how many of the other major jobs had TC in the "probables".  Almost all the major positions.  We scored a huge win for the home team.

All together now -- WPS
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moses_007

March 23, 2007, 05:55:29 pm #74
We got Collen...now we need Rick Pitino too.

:razorback: :razorback: :razorback:

hogsgonewild30

March 23, 2007, 05:58:41 pm #75
yeah i think it was a real good hire.

Broken Trigger

March 23, 2007, 06:26:22 pm #76
Quote from: hogluv on March 23, 2007, 05:26:48 pm
Not excited at all. So what he won in the Mountain West Confernence with Colorado State. Louisville has only been in the big east a couple of years. If you read Susie Gardners resume she was a winner too. SEC is big time girls basketball and unless Tom Collen can do at Arkansas what Billy Gillespe has done at Texas AM and Thad Matta has done at Ohio State, than he is once again a waist of time and money. If he is any kinda real coach he will do what these guys have done. Remember it only took Kim Mulky four years at Baylor to win a National Championship. In four years I bet we are no closer to being a great team with this guy then we are now.

   Maybe Suzie was a winner when she came here, but obviously things just didn't work for her.  You can't really make a comparison until the new coach has been here four or five years.
   The best we can ask of the athletic department is to keep hiring winners.  Unless we start hiring proven losers, then we can't really complain.  The Stan Heath hire was the same thing.  It was a good hire at the time, because he was a hot commodity.  He was the Gillispie of five years ago.  My hat is still off to those who made that hire. 
   I realize that we all are now questioning whether or not Stan is the right man to lead the Hogs to the pinnacle of success.  I am not sure, i would definitely support either decision at this point.   Hire proven winners, if they win keep them.  If they lose, lose them.  The main thing is that we made a good hire based on the info we have, and there is really nothing to be critical of the Athletic department for on this one.  Keeping Nutt, on the other hand, is a different story.  Give credit when it is due, and lay blame when it is deserved. 

Dwight_K_Shrute

March 23, 2007, 10:30:32 pm #77
Just saw the press conference on the News at 10:00.  Who was the dude sitting next to the new coach?
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oldtimerhog

March 23, 2007, 10:43:29 pm #78 Last Edit: March 23, 2007, 11:12:27 pm by oldtimerhog
Have Houston and Danny Nutt tried to take credit for the hire yet?  Has Houston denied that Gus should get credit for the hire?
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oldtimerhog

March 23, 2007, 10:48:45 pm #79
Quote from: CorningHog on March 22, 2007, 11:46:25 pm
My only problem is that he is a "cousin" to Mike Markuson who coaches for Nutt at Arkansas.  Hopefully he won't be so.............

Just kidding.  The picture on the Louisville bio makes him look a little like Markuson.

That's just cruel, picking on the new guy like that!
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maniax22bolts20

March 23, 2007, 10:49:41 pm #80
ok welcome to the newest Ladybacks coach ! May he be able to sail a sinking ship into port for repairs and the loading of championship and postseason trophys.

PS . One of the best drink names at the new Maxines will be the  T.C. .

oldtimerhog

March 23, 2007, 10:51:31 pm #81
Quote from: Sao Ming on March 22, 2007, 11:50:57 pm
FIRE TOM COLLEN ! !

Let's let him coach the football team!  He would do a better job than Nutt
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Broken Trigger

March 23, 2007, 10:53:17 pm #82
Quote from: oldtimerhog on March 23, 2007, 10:43:29 pm
Have Houston and Danny Nutt tried to take credit for the hire yet?  Fire the Nutty Boys!

LOL.  +1  "You guys to remember that Mowluhzon didn't have anything to do with this hire, but me and Danny did...........and Theresa."  :)

oldtimerhog

March 23, 2007, 10:55:07 pm #83
Quote from: Spam Malone on March 23, 2007, 04:19:00 am
Quote from: pigfeet on March 22, 2007, 09:23:25 pm
Is this a good hire? I don't know anything about him. What are your oppinions on him?

It is better than Susie. Kinda like getting a pop tart for breakfast instead of just going hungry.

Kind of like pictures of Carmen Electra instead of Rosie O'Donnell - Collen should be a huge step up!
Welcome Petrino Brothers - We have waited a long time for you!

oldfart

March 24, 2007, 03:01:29 pm #84
Kim Mulkey was my first choice, but I have to admit from his resume that Collen might be very successful. He seems to have been a good recruiter wherever he has been. For those who say "he has only gone to the first or second round of the NCAA's" my answer is, when have the Ladybacks even BEEN to the NCAA's?  Its been a while!!!   And then was sparked by Collen's recruits.  We will see pretty soon how well he can recruit to keep the current committments and then work on the gal from Morrilton...

BTW Collen, keep your eye on Megan Herbert in your own back yard at Shiloh!!!!
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