Kennedy needs to get it through his head that we don't want him around Taking over for Mark Turgeon is Billy Kennedy of Murray State. If history is testament to hte future, than Kennedy will have a high-profile job in about four years.
I know about as much about Kennedy as I did about Billy Gillispie coming out of UTEP or Turgeon out of Wichita State.
I do know that Kennedy is 47 years old and he started coaching at the age of 21 as an assistant with Southeastern Louisiana. He went to New Orleans, Wyoming, Northwestern State, Tulane, Texas A&M, Creighton and California until finally getting a head coaching gig at Centenary, where he went 24-34.
He returned to Southeastern Louisiana in 1999 as head coach. He was 80-92, which sounds awful until you realize he won 20 and 24 games his final two seasons leading SE Louisiana to a NCAA tournament berth.
Then he quit. To become an assistant at Miami. Seems unnatural and weird. Why quit a head coaching job to become an assistant at another college? Especially when you are in a position to be a head coach at a big school. He was there a year before going to Murray State.
There, he made a name for himself winning 31 games two years ago and sneaking into the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Considering the past coaches at A&M, I'm sure Kennedy will be fine. I just found his history dubious and weird.
