Those posts were all before the official announcement. THESE are after it was official.
I doubt Self and KU let him leave to go to Texas if they wanted to keep him.
Yeah I won’t miss him he was a middle of the road assistant whose recruiting didn’t really live up to the hype. Some new blood on the staff will be welcome.
Not sure why he'd prefer Texas over Kansas with the coach he played for.
Lots of ways to interpret this:
1. Just part of Self's planned changes. Knows he has someone better on the way, helped Snacks find a landing place.
2. Snacks knows the hammer is about to drop and wanted out quickly.
3. Texas offered more money and we didn't want to match.
More #1, some #3 - but if Self wanted to keep him we would have
his contract was up and KU chose not to renew it.
I felt like the staff was getting a little stale, even though I didn't anticipate Snacks, sometimes I wonder how good of a coach he was anyways.
I'm betting he gets a pay raise and doubtful that KU wouldn't match unless Self was fine with him leaving. More to this story I'm sure....
Starts getting a little salty as the news sets in...
Good news don't let the door hit you on the way out. Need better than him at a program like ours
Pretty much a downgrade. Blueblood to a place where people don't care about basketball
I see absolutely no way in which this sucks. In fact, I'll say Self needs to shake up his coaching staff.
It’s time for some new blood on the staff. Howard was kind of overhyped as this great recruiter and was kind of underwhelming. Didn’t seem like he was a great assistant, as I thought Self took him in the first place because he was a former player under him and wanted continuity.
Howard was supposed to be instrumental in us landing Chicago area talent and all we got out of that was Markese Jacobs and a suspension of Howard for smoking dope
I can understand Howard wanting to leave for more money but to go to a rival within the conference is pretty much just a Dick move!
I guess I was never super impressed with him. He came in and was touted as a top assistant/great recruiter and was pretty underwhelming
If you've ever been to a KU practice, Snacks was the guy that stood under the basket and threw the balls back to the shooters. Other than that, I never saw him do much of anything. He was the liaison of sorts for the staff.Exactly. That and jumping around on the sidelines. No loss.
If Self thought Howard leaving would significantly hurt our standing with recruits, I doubt Howard would be leaving.
Honest question with all we’ve learn with the Nike and Adidas money funnel does an assistant coach being a “good recruiter” mean jack anymore?
You want a hot take? Here’s your hot take. Snacks is a total Nike sneaker head, and he took this job so he can get better access to swoosh kicks.
I don’t think beard is going to be any better at texas then he was at TT.
Uh... so UT will be in the championship game a few years from now?
"Texas Athletics is Zimbabwe. Print money and throw it at your problems, only to see the homeless use it as fuel for their shanty fires."
Well, he's not wrong on that front.
There's more, but I have to get back to work.