Decent argument for retaining Martin and Hill

[cireksu]

Sign to a 4 year contract with low buyout.  Save next season.  Bring in solid recruits.  If they don't pan out we're still where we were this year but with more talent than woolly left us.  And we've showed we can sustain fan support over a period of time.  The coaching pool sucks horribly right now and we might hire a disaster.

So we keep them on After year 3 if we are underachieving, sucking what have you, kick em to the curb and open the piggybanks and go after someone very hard.  The coaching pool can't be worse than it is now and likely will be much better.

[michigancat]

Have we not learned that the dollar amount of buyouts are worthless?

[jaa1025]

High buyouts are worthless for keeping coaches but help pay for a replacement.

But I agree with this...it's not going to be expensive and likely the only players that will leave early will be Beasley and Walker...there will still be a solid group of players to build around for the next few years.

Martin and Hill aren't THAT big of a risk...there's not much out there for coaches and we aren't going to be able to "steal" anyone worth taking from programs.

[catzacker]

When is the coaching pool for KSU going to be good?  I think the past year has made us forget our real position in the college basketball landscape.  The only reason we got an established coach the caliber of Huggins was pure fate/luck.  Established coaches are not going to come here...that's not an inferiority complex, that's reality.  Maybe coaches that aren't employed (basically just Montgomery) would give us a look.  But essentially we have to try to identify the next good coach that's probably currently coaching at a mid major or is an assistant at a major program.  That's where we're at.  Frank Martin as head coach is a 2 year stop gap though having Dalonte on staff might produce enough talent to keep us competitive for a while (maybe a few more years).  Dalonte as head coach would be a one year stop gap and a complete failure thereafter.