masster Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Canada Basketball did what the CSA should have done. They gave coach Leo Rautins a two year contract extenssion with the second year only guarenteed if Canada qualifies for the 2010 World Championships. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081216.wsptrautins1216/GSStory/GlobeSportsBasketball/home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthAfricaOrBust Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 And more importantly, naming a panel of internationally respected individuals to over see the association.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcl_19 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 That would take far too much outside the box thinking....or wait, common sense, for the CSA to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squid2 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Won't happen. The Fartcatchers won't give up control. Hiding behind an antiquated constitution while perodically reschuffling the administrative arms serve the men-in-waiting rather nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I like the panel, but Leo Rautins was never a coach before they gave him the nod. Samuel Dalembert won't play for him and it looks like our soccer program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianSoccerFan Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Big difference here. Rautins was out of contract Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 quote:Originally posted by CanadianSoccerFan Big difference here. Rautins was out of contract I understand that. What I am saying, is that the length of his contract is based on certain conditiions. For us, that would have been making it to the Hex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamiltonfan Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 If</u> my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarnado1555362291 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 not sure that Leo is even a good coach. I think public relations and management is more his style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag futbol Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Are you kidding me? Leo Rautin's is a !$%!$ terrible coach. He has no respect from the player for many reasons including using raptors TV as his soap box. Anybody who knows anything about basketball hates this guy!He has no business being extended one week let alone 1 or 2 years. Basketball Canada is basically CSA V. 2.0 Making this style of contract makes sense, but if it's the wrong person in the first place we're already sunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 quote:Originally posted by SouthAfricaOrBust And more importantly, naming a panel of internationally respected individuals to over see the association.. I'm curious. Do the USA, Honduras, CR federation use such panels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhat Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 quote:Originally posted by Blackdude I like the panel, but Leo Rautins was never a coach before they gave him the nod. Samuel Dalembert won't play for him and it looks like our soccer program. The team did not like Dalembert during the qualifying games as he was the prima donna who showed up for practice whenever he wanted. While Rautins was suspect as a coach, his experience at the international level was huge as a player. The problem with Rautins was that he had huge shoes to fill. I thought Rautins was a better coach than previous ones before him, other than Jay Triano and the legendary Jack Donohue. People were saying the same about Triano before he took over. As for the CSA comparison, that's pretty credible; it's just that the CSA for some reason or another would hire a failed U20 coach to its senior ranks, while Basketball Canada would hire a relatively inexperienced one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhat Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 From the article: "To that end, Parrish also announced a nine-member "council of excellence" comprised of some of the biggest names in Canadian basketball: Raptors head coach and former national team coach Jay Triano, Raptors assistant general manager Maurizio Gherardini, Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash, former Raptors GM and current New York Knicks senior vice-president for basketball operations Glen Grunwald, former women's Olympic team member Sylvia Sweeney, long-time Canadian coaches Ken and Kathy Shields, Don McCrae and Steve Konchalski." Could you imagine a similar panel for the MNT coach? Imagine Mitchell facing a panel with Holger Osieck, Jim Brennan, Thomas Niendorf, Charmaine Hooper, Bob Lenarduzzi, and Craig Forrest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squizz1402635577 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 You're right. The CSA should have hired Rautins instead of Mitchell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squizz1402635577 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 On another basketball-related note, am I the only one who saw tiny headlines on sports websites a few weeks ago that said "Mitchell fired as head coach" and got my hopes up before realizing the Mitchell in question was Sam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Rollins1555362254 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 quote:Originally posted by squizz You're right. The CSA should have hired Rautins instead of Mitchell. I thought that they did? http://neatesager.blogspot.com/2008/12/and-it-goes-round-and-round-and.html (sorry...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squizz1402635577 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 ^ Heh heh. Nice. Was the move announced outside a downtown Ottawa pet shop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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