Aggies BB to hire Samford's Bucky McMillan as new coach

[ArizonaLonghorn]

Not an April Fool's day post, he's their new guy.  Career record of 99-52 which percentage wise is almost identical to 8-4.

From the Pete Thamel article on ESPN -

McMillan is the head coach at Samford, which he led to a pair of Southern Conference championships and one NCAA tournament in his five seasons there. His overall record there was 99-52, and he led Samford to four-consecutive 20-win seasons.

He defined a style that includes a heavy emphasis on pressing and disruption. It is one that not only plays fast on offense, but it attempts to speed up the opposition. In each of the past two seasons, Samford's opponents turned the ball over at a rate that put the team in the top 20 in the country for opponent turnover percentage.

The energy and style should help engage an A&M fan base that isn't organically a basketball group. A&M is expected to have nearly $7 million available in NIL and revenue share this season, a competitive number for the SEC that should give Texas A&M a chance to be competitive in the conference.

"A chance to be competitive" - looks like they're not setting the sights too high to begin with (no Jimbo Future National Championship plaque - darn).  This should be interesting.  The lads on TexAgs are taking a wait and see attitude for the moment.

Edited 18 hours ago by ArizonaLonghorn

[HookedOnTF]

Buckees Ball

[Thorn007]

they couldn't get better yo

[Glass Joe]

Of course A&M hires someone named Bucky.  

[Brho]

Looch said they were going to take some huge swings after Beard said no. Guess he needs a torpedo bat bc that’s a big whiff. 

[Robert Gilbert]

I don’t know enough about him to make any kind of intelligent guess as how well he will do at a&m but it does seem like an underwhelming hire. We will see. 

[Artie_Bucco]

Where in the hell is Samford?

Edited 16 hours ago by Artie_Bucco

[bierce]

McMillan is a very good coach.  If you saw the inbound play he ran with the two guys running around for the first guy to get open on an elevator screen against Kansas, then you would recognize this guy can coach.

This is brilliant stuff. 

I doubt A&M donors will get fully behind this hire, but if they do, then this could prove to be a very good hire.

Of course, if he gets A&M to the Sweet Sixteen in the next three years, then he's gone, because let's admit it . . . It's College Station. 

[qaertyisthatdude]

2 minutes ago, Artie_Bucco said:

Where in the hell is Samford?

Somewhere in Alabama lol

[Artie_Bucco]

3 minutes ago, qaertyisthatdude said:

Somewhere in Alabama lol

Where in the hell is Alabama?