Anyone else remember White playing at Ole Miss? I saw him play in person a few times. Solid player.

By "NOTHING" you mean his team has not won games in the NCAA tournament. Winning your league regular season for 3 consecutive seasons has to count for something. I am not sure how many coaches can say they won at least 27 games in each of their last 3 seasons. Sounds more like the Billy Donovan hire when he was brought to Gainesville. I am not saying he will be good or bad... hell, he may get the axe mid-season, but I can't say he has done "NOTHING".

 

That's the problem. Florida isn't the same program it was 20 years ago when Donovan was hired. They shouldn't have had to hire a guy with little experience and no success. And yes, when you coach in a crappy league regular season success means nothing. If you can't get your team to the tournament then you've done nothing.

Anyone else remember White playing at Ole Miss? I saw him play in person a few times. Solid player.

 

Yes I do. Very good player. He and Keith Carter were a pretty good back court duo.

That tells me that Foley isn't serious about basketball.

 

Don't agree. White is a solid coach

When I saw that Mack had hired a new assistant coach yesterday I figured that meant he was not in the running for Florida.

 

White appears to have done a lot of recruiting in Florida so that was probably a positive factor for him.

This is about like Tennessee hiring Donnie Tyndall (without the background stuff). In terms of coaching only, Tyndall was off to a good start at UT. I figure White will be similar as long as he can recruit at UF.

With the obvious difference that they've both actually won a lot at their current jobs. White has done NOTHING at Louisiana Tech.

 

I have seen Michael White's team play and I think he will show that your evaluation of him is wrong.

 

I think he is a great hire for Florida. However, Billy the Kid is a tough act to follow.