Damon Stoudmire - Georgia Tech

[BballinsiderfromPitt]

Seems like an odd hire, but I guess they COULDVE done worse. Wasn’t really all that good at Pacific. Supposedly has tie to the Atlanta area.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Seems like an odd hire, but I guess they COULDVE done worse. Wasn’t really all that good at Pacific. Supposedly has tie to the Atlanta area.

Wow, big miss there. This is why the ACC cant get good at basketball. If Pitt had an opening and I only had 2 choices: Pastner or Stoudemire, I'd take Pastner. Maybe Stoudemire can keep the local kids home?

 

[CaptainMurphy]

I like it. There is some risk but he’s been a college HC for a decent amount of time and has ample coaching experience.

 

[BballinsiderfromPitt]

Wow, big miss there. This is why the ACC cant get good at basketball. If Pitt had an opening and I only had 2 choices: Pastner or Stoudemire, I'd take Pastner. Maybe Stoudemire can keep the local kids home?

Everyone is praising this hire like he is the second coming of Wooden. His staff will be huge here. He’s a pretty solid X and O guy, but so was Pastner

 

[BballinsiderfromPitt]

I like it. There is some risk but he’s been a college HC for a decent amount of time and has ample coaching experience.

Yeah but 71-77 is tough to sell a fan base regardless of how hard Pacific might be to win at

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Everyone is praising this hire like he is the second coming of Wooden. His staff will be huge here. He’s a pretty solid X and O guy, but so was Pastner

Who likes it?

 

[CaptainMurphy]

Yeah but 71-77 is tough to sell a fan base regardless of how hard Pacific might be to win at

I get that. But he took over a bad program and had a 20 win season in year 4. And I chalk some of the early season up to HC growing pains.

I’m not saying it’s a slam dunk hire but I think there is a decent amount of upside. I think it’s pretty good for a mid-tier program like GTech.

 

[KennyTheKangaroo]

He had a great pair of Nike shoes back in the day

 

[BballinsiderfromPitt]

Who likes it?

National guys

 

[JD1976]

Tech could’ve done much worse, but definitely not a slam dunk hire. Then again, I don’t think GT is in a position to make a splash.

 

[HailToPitt1985]

Boy, the name coaches are just fading away. How many do we have in the ACC? Maybe Larranaga, Bennett. In the NCAA's, they have Huggins, Self, Few, Calipari, Pitino (LOL), Izzo, Barnes, Pearl, Sampson. I'm sure I missed some. But these long-time legends of coaching are going slowly away.

 

[TD_6082]

Tony Bennett

 

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Yeah but 71-77 is tough to sell a fan base regardless of how hard Pacific might be to win at

Context..

Stoudamire proved a solid head coach at Pacific, a stint that included a 23-10 season in 2019-20 yielding him the West Coast Conference Coach of the Year award. He went 32-19 his final two years and 71-77 overall at Pacific, leaving the job to join Ime Udoka on the Celtics staff prior to last season.

Stoudamire has also worked in college at Rice, Memphis (twice) and Arizona as an assistant coach, giving him more than a decade overall of college coaching experience.