I like Cuonzo Martin a lot. It's going to feel bad rooting against him.

Cuonzo played for Gene Keady at Purdue. All those Purdue players are not flashy, but very solid and hard working.

Cuonzo was a great coach and completely turned the MSU program around in his 3-years. Dumbass Vols fans are criticizing the hire, but they don't know what they have.

Cuonzo left for a bigger paycheck but Missouri State was going to up to keep him. Offered a six year exentison worth 700k per year with eccentives that would push it up 1.1 million.

61-41 isn't that great of a record.

Went from last to first in 3 years. That is pretty good.

any ideas on who you guys are trying to get for a replacement

Few names are being thrown around.

Inhouse we got Jon Harris, Kent Williams, and Steve Woodbury.

Outside of Springfield:
Paul Lusk, Purdue assitant (probably the top choice unless he takes the Purdue job)
Donnie Tyndall, Morehead State coach
Joe Dooley, KU assitant
Rodney Perry, Texas assitant
Melvin Watkins, Mizzou assitant
John Pelprey, ex-Arkansas coach
Tommy Amaker, Harvard Coach

That is some of the big names floating around right now.

I would try and get Jeff Capel, yea he failed at OU, but he started building the VCU program

Pearl seems like a perfect choice for MU

Mizzou wants a clean coach... and a coach who'll actually be available next season.

I can't blame Zo for moving on up. I wish he'd hung around, but schools like MSU can't expect anyone to stay when offered jobs as prestigious as TN.

It will be interesting to see .... He is going to a hornets nest. NCAA violations will take some time to get over not to mention, Vols fans wanting a big name, trying to get in on recruiting in the SEC.....

He is a very good coach and a good person but right now he is playing against a stacked deck.

I don't disagree. But honestly, worse case scenario is he makes some extra coin and is able to get right back into an MSU type position should things not work out at Tenn.