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jsonline: Boylan as lead assistant?

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:24 am
by carmelbrownqueen
Skiles eyes Boylan as lead assistant
By Tom Enlund
Monday, Apr 28 2008, 06:40 PM

Former Marquette University player Jim Boylan has emerged as the leading candidate to become the lead assistant to new Bucks coach Scott Skiles.

Boylan was the Skiles

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:38 am
by MickeyDavis
That's fine with me. He flamed out as Bulls head coach but most assistants do under those circumstances. If Marquette gets off to a slow start they can fire Buzz and Boylan can do double duty.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:41 am
by carmelbrownqueen
Yep, pretty much expected him to be the top choice for lead assistant once Chicago let him go and we hired Skiles.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:45 am
by Matches Malone
any new, news on sampson? I haven't heard anything about him lately.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:49 am
by carmelbrownqueen
Well we probably won't hear anything more about Sampson until toward the end of the week I would imagine. Because according to this article Skiles will probably have his staff in place by the end of the month.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:33 am
by carmelbrownqueen
So his staff will probably be"

Lead Assistant is Jim Boylan
Assistant Joe Wolf
Assistant Kelvin Sampson
Assistant Craig Neal

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:34 am
by Tommy Udo 6
Boylan was just a Dollar Store version of an NBA coach for the Bulls, They were not going to pay money for a real head coach since they were spending on Skiles after letting him go.

Boylan is a fine assistant - but he wasnt expected to be a success. Players did not listen to him because they looked on him as a temporary worker, sort of a substitute teacher

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:32 pm
by Jez2983
Tommy Udo 6 wrote:Boylan is a fine assistant - but he wasnt expected to be a success. Players did not listen to him because they looked on him as a temporary worker, sort of a substitute teacher


Imagine that - using a caretaker coach only for the rest of the season. They should sign him to a multi-year contract before we sign him as lead assistant.

carmelbrownqueen wrote:Lead Assistant is Jim Boylan
Assistant Joe Wolf
Assistant Kelvin Sampson
Assistant Craig Neal


I honestly don't know much about a lot of those names other than what I read here. All seem to come from systems in which they were successful/filled their roles well.
Also, most people are excited by these appointments and it would seem that Hammond and now Skiles are getting what they want.

And with that, let the cautious optimism continue to grow!

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:44 pm
by smauss
carmelbrownqueen wrote:So his staff will probably be"

Lead Assistant is Jim Boylan
Assistant Joe Wolf
Assistant Kelvin Sampson
Assistant Craig Neal


Maybe add "The Dobber" as a special big man coach for Bogut to help him with him jumper.....

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:26 pm
by Hollywood24
The ties to Marquette never hurt

Boylan

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:31 pm
by Badgerlander
I just saw the article as it is printed in the paper and I can't stop laughing about the line right beneath the title. I can't believe they printed it like that, don't they have editors?

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:35 pm
by Three34
Put it this way. Boylan was on the Bulls staff for a few years, and we have absolutely no idea what he did.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:39 pm
by MickeyDavis
As is the case with most assistants.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:23 pm
by carmelbrownqueen
Bucks.com updated their website to reflect all the assistants and soforth that have been let go. The only other name listed for assistant coaches is Bill Peterson, and supposedly they are still evaluating him.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:56 pm
by Nebula1
I really hope Sampson joins the ranks.

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:16 am
by carmelbrownqueen
I get the impression that perhaps Boylan, Sampson, and Wolf are done deals.. with perhaps an announcement in the next day or so. Not sure about the third person, or if he will feel the need to continue to hold onto Peterson.

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:16 am
by bango_the_buck
The latest from Woelfel:

Skiles' staff shaping up; Badgers' Butch awaits call

BY GERY WOELFEL

There doesn

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:36 pm
by carmelbrownqueen
So maybe Hollins instead of Neal?

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:49 pm
by Three34
MickeyDavis wrote:As is the case with most assistants.


OK, fine. But here's the one thing we do know about Boylan: he was astoundingly, staggeringly, unbelievably bad as a head coach.

"We're not hiring him as a head coach."

I know that. But if Skiles gets ejected, let someone else - anyone else - run the rest of the game.

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:52 pm
by xTitan
Sham wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



OK, fine. But here's the one thing we do know about Boylan: he was astoundingly, staggeringly, unbelievably bad as a head coach.

"We're not hiring him as a head coach."

I know that. But if Skiles gets ejected, let someone else - anyone else - run the rest of the game.


Are you kidding??? :rofl: Or what if a meteor hits Skiles car on the way to the Bradley Center, then the entire franchize is screwed!!!!