Kevin Keatts Hired

By now, everyone in the SFN community is aware that Kevin Keatts is our new men’s basketball head coach.

Obviously, only time will reveal if Keatts proves a great hire. But today — without being privy to the details — the optics on this suggest Keatts is a solid hire.

If nothing else, credit Yow with the efficient hiring of one of our three realistic targets — Archie, Wade, Keatts (we were always priced out of Marshall) — within 24 hours of him being available. Moreover, the hire has been universally praised nationally, which is important to shifting the perception of our program towards the positive.

All indications suggest (for whatever the reasons) Archie was not interested, and Wade would meet with his alma mater if they’re ready to replace Brownell. So Keatts was hired quickly and drama-free before he could meet with any number of others — LSU or Illinois, for instance.

Contrast that to the previous searches in 2006 and 2011, both of which dragged into April and ended, after public spurnings, with the hiring of coaches not even on our target list, and a general negative perception nationally about the state of our program. Also consider the many moving pieces that begin in earnest as teams are eliminated this weekend — any of which could have impacted a result.

But I will admit, there’s a part of me that will miss the too-familiar dumpster fire of a tragedy that could’ve been with a protracted coaching search ending with Seth Greenburg or Dan Dakich.

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  • #121874
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Every coach we have had since Sendek had recruited at a high level. If Yow hired a coach because he could recruit the area, as seems to be they logic on this thread, she is truly idiotic.

    #121878
    ancsu87
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    Every coach we have had since Sendek had recruited at a high level. If Yow hired a coach because he could recruit the area, as seems to be they logic on this thread, she is truly idiotic.

    No one has stated that. My comment was in reply to the Indiana recruitment statements.

    As usual you just throw out bitter name calling when the AD or anyone does not agree with you. You are the main reason I stay off this site because your name rhymes with what you are ….

    #121897
    McCallum
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    ^

    Slick Rick.

    That has a nice ring to it.

    McCallum

    #121902
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Every coach we have had since Sendek had recruited at a high level. If Yow hired a coach because he could recruit the area, as seems to be they logic on this thread, she is truly idiotic.

    No one has stated that. My comment was in reply to the Indiana recruitment statements.

    As usual you just throw out bitter name calling when the AD or anyone does not agree with you. You are the main reason I stay off this site because your name rhymes with what you are ….

    Someone said this
    ‘State actually has built-in geographic recruiting disadvantages. So some recruiting foothold is important or ability to recruit nationally or internationally’

    Which is what I was referring to. I am sure of if I wanted to I could fine l find more references because this seems to be a recurring talking point.

    #121903
    Rick
    Keymaster

    BTW idiotic is an adjective not a name.

    But it’s been many years since I was thin enough to be called stick so thank you.

    #121907
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    You are the main reason I stay off this site because your name rhymes with what you are ….

    lol you’re on here all the time what are you talking about

    #121908
    TheAliasTroll
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    One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is how the ACC refs will “interpret” KK’s style of play. Pressure defense attack style by an NC State team sounds like “foul out city” to me.

    #121911
    pakfanistan
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    One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is how the ACC refs will “interpret” KK’s style of play. Pressure defense attack style by an NC State team sounds like “foul out city” to me.

    Why don’t we just start by bending our knees and getting into a defensive stance and stop being grabby as fsck and see where that gets us.

    #121915
    TheAliasTroll
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    Why don’t we just start by bending our knees and getting into a defensive stance and stop being grabby as fsck and see where that gets us.

    Or we could just take the team off the floor when we don’t have possession.

    You missed my point.

    #121923
    pakfanistan
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    Why don’t we just start by bending our knees and getting into a defensive stance and stop being grabby as fsck and see where that gets us.

    Or we could just take the team off the floor when we don’t have possession.

    You missed my point.

    If your point is we get called for a lot of fouls because refs are biased against us, I didn’t miss it.

    We get called for a lot of fouls because we blow at playing defense.

    #121924
    ancsu87
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    You are the main reason I stay off this site because your name rhymes with what you are ….

    lol you’re on here all the time what are you talking about

    No I am not. I stayed off for months … as soon as Rick, Wulfpack, others become successful ADs instead of shrilling babies perhaps I would think they know what they talk about.

    #121929
    TheAliasTroll
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    If your point is we get called for a lot of fouls because refs are biased against us, I didn’t miss it.

    We get called for a lot of fouls because we blow at playing defense.

    Refs haven’t been an issue in the last two years because we’ve been getting handled.

    If your memory spans 2 years of NC State basketball then your in for a surprise IF KK’s new style shows hints of being successful.

    #121935
    YogiNC
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    At the end of the day this is the overriding fact in ALL of this. Keatts is our coach and there ain’t thing one that any of the words in this thread or any other thread on this or any other web site that can change that. And you can choose to support him or not and in the great grand scheme of things it will make little difference if you do or don’t. Hopefully he will be successful, but from my observation, whether he is or not will make little difference also to those who are predisposed to withholding their support. Had this medium been around 30 some years ago I’d bet a small fortune that some of these same folks would be castigating Jimmy V to no end for any and every small transgression or decision he made that they did not agree with. It is the nature of this beast and it sure seems like it’s getting worse and worse. It certainly is not progress by any measure.

    Smarter than the average bear

    #121939
    Rick
    Keymaster

    You are the main reason I stay off this site because your name rhymes with what you are ….

    lol you’re on here all the time what are you talking about

    No I am not. I stayed off for months … as soon as Rick, Wulfpack, others become successful ADs instead of shrilling babies perhaps I would think they know what they talk about.

    Lol.
    States he stays off the boards because people call others names.
    Good on to repeatedly calls names.

    Irony at it’s finest.

    What’s really funny is I have no idea who he is. He/she is very forgettable but apparently I have scarred him. Anonymous boards are not for everyone.

    #121944
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    Yogi, spare the lecture towards 10 guys on a message board about progress. We just hired a CAA/High school coach. That’s a fact.

    But to be sure, my comment above was about the swofford led ACC refs.. of all the coaches, Lowe would have won us an ACC championship in his first year with referees from any other conference. I’m not optimistic Keatts is going to get the benefit of the doubt from a ref perspective in meaningful ACC games. Sorry for my doom and gloom opinion, but this ain’t my first rodeo.

    #121949
    pakfanistan
    Participant

    We just hired a CAA/High school coach. That’s a fact.

    Lol remember that time we hired our plan B after getting TURNED DOWN by a high school coach? What a joke of a program we are.

    #121953
    ancsu87
    Participant

    At the end of the day this is the overriding fact in ALL of this. Keatts is our coach and there ain’t thing one that any of the words in this thread or any other thread on this or any other web site that can change that. And you can choose to support him or not and in the great grand scheme of things it will make little difference if you do or don’t. Hopefully he will be successful, but from my observation, whether he is or not will make little difference also to those who are predisposed to withholding their support. Had this medium been around 30 some years ago I’d bet a small fortune that some of these same folks would be castigating Jimmy V to no end for any and every small transgression or decision he made that they did not agree with. It is the nature of this beast and it sure seems like it’s getting worse and worse. It certainly is not progress by any measure.

    Agree

    #121960
    ancsu87
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    You are the main reason I stay off this site because your name rhymes with what you are ….

    lol you’re on here all the time what are you talking about

    No I am not. I stayed off for months … as soon as Rick, Wulfpack, others become successful ADs instead of shrilling babies perhaps I would think they know what they talk about.

    Lol.
    States he stays off the boards because people call others names.
    Good on to repeatedly calls names.

    Irony at it’s finest.

    What’s really funny is I have no idea who he is. He/she is very forgettable but apparently I have scarred him. Anonymous boards are not for everyone.

    Oh I am so hurt Rick … but your right anonymous boards are mostly for those who can’t do anything but want to tell others how self important they are and how much better they can do a job. Agree when you are a successful AD then come here and tell others how to run NC State. How running down the current AD and coach we just selected is good for NC State anonymously in a public forum is a mystery to me.

    So go ahead and countine to broadcast your infinite wisdom on all things athletic .. just expect to be called on your BS and when you keep calling out AD idiotic because you think so expect to be called an idiot too.

    #121971
    Rick
    Keymaster

    expect to be called an idiot too.

    Name number three.
    Hypocrite much?

    #121972
    ancsu87
    Participant

    expect to be called an idiot too.

    Name number three by the snowflake.

    Whatever … your way past name number three on here with anyone that might have a slight difference of opinion. It is all good …

    #121973
    ancsu87
    Participant

    expect to be called an idiot too.

    Name number three.
    Hypocrite much?

    Ah you edited out the snowflake name calling .. good for you

    #121979
    ancsu87
    Participant
    #121998
    Rick
    Keymaster

    expect to be called an idiot too.

    Name number three by the snowflake.

    Whatever … your way past name number three on here with anyone that might have a slight difference of opinion. It is all good …

    If it’s all good why are you whining so much about it?

    #122000
    YogiNC
    Participant

    We just hired a CAA/High school coach

    It’s not a lecture, it’s fact. No one on here can even budge the needle to get their voice heard about the coaching hire (that’s a reference to how audio was once measured for the uninformed). The powers that be aren’t going listen to some who is a keymaster on a web discussion board. While DY can and does answer emails from concerned fans at the end of the day someone with the moniker of TheAliasTroll may as well live on Mars, your narrative is NOT going to make a hill of beans to the administration of NC State. If your name happens to end in Murphy and you have a ton of bucks then they listen. Money talks, BS walks. Thems the rules. You don’t control their pay you don’t control their ear, EVER! So, little does it matter what any opinion on here is, it’s just noise, and far below the threshold to be heard.

    Smarter than the average bear

    #122001
    Rick
    Keymaster

    Yogi is right.
    Murphy basically made this hire.

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