CC: USF Head Coach Amir Abdur-Rahim
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Abdur-Rahim
He’s 42 years old and seems to a have promising coaching career ahead of him. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Murray State before spending the next four years as an assistant at Texas A&M and Georgia. In 2019 he took over as head coach at Kennesaw State. They had won 16 games total in the two seasons before his arrival. He got off to a slow start going 1-28, 5-19, and 13-18 in his first three seasons before leading them to a 26-9 record and their first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2016 and second since 2008. In 2023 he became the head coach at USF and has led them to a 24-6 record and their first ever regular season title. They’re currently in the AAC tournament semifinal and are currently projected to be in the NCAA tournament.
AA in AA? Has a nice ring to it. But, Michigan's BB NIL is so underdeveloped that I wonder if it will limit the the number of coaches that will want to come with such challenges.
He's mentioned several times in the CC thread below.
Warrants a serious look
Please stop making new threads for every single coach in the country
Want me to call you a “Whambulance”?
(JK - Each new thread screams “look at me, I have an idea”!!!
The “unified “ thread is a piece of crap because of all of the snarky garbage posts from people that think they are funny
we could use one serious thread without all of the drivel
Am I the only one who likes CC season? No one is gonna scroll through a mega thread, and it's a very relevant topic to be posting about right now.
Oops, I made another one
I want someone with major conference experience.
Not happening, unless we dig really deep into a major conference.
Are Wazzu or OreSt coaches any good? They'll be major conference refugees soon. Granted I don't think either of those schools has a noteworthy MBB team so it's probably not a good idea.
Coach K is available.
After seeing his face I remembered that I know him from somewhere. Then it dawned on me...
Two of my kids graduated form Kennesaw State (hootie hoo!) and one goes there now. His face was on billboards here in ATL.
Dylan has an article on this at umhoops but I’d be down for Porter Moser. He has a lot of ties to the Midwest and may want to come back to the region and had a lot of success with Loyola. He’s still relatively young and looks like he’ll make the tourney this year with Oklahoma so also had some high major experience. We basically need somebody who’s not afraid of building from the ground up. His style reminds me of Beilein a little bit.
Who would have thought Amir Abdur-Rahim was a poster on MGoBlog?
So he's had 2 good seasons as head coach?
March 15th, 2024 at 10:31 PM ^
Give me Kim English or give me death
March 15th, 2024 at 11:00 PM ^
My choice! To be joined by Muhammad Ali Abdur Rahkman.
I have a work that works at south Florida in athletics and they said he’s the best coach he was worked with.