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Paperwork being finalized: Shyatt is the man

Schmoldt says the same:

Larry Shyatt is the new coach of the Wyoming Cowboys, per multiple sources. #gopokes
 
I need to correct above, base salary is $190K, incentives push it beyond $600K.

More from Gagliardi:
http://wyomingcowboysblog.com/2011/03/31/its-official-shyatt-hired-by-uw/
 
Known as one of the outstanding basketball minds in the country, Shyatt was named by Basketball Times as the top assistant coach in the nation four different times. The respect he has among his college coaching peers resulted in him being the first assistant coach to be named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Board of Directors from 1987-90. Shyatt also has an outstanding reputation as a recruiter. During his time at Wyoming, the student-athletes he and his Wyoming staff brought to Laramie included: Anthony Blakes (NABC Second Team All-District, Second Team All-WAC), Josh Davis (Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American, NABC First Team All-District, First Team All-WAC), LeDarion Jones (First Team Academic All-District VII), Brett McFall (UW Career Top 10 in 3-Point FGs and Assists), Chris McMillian (UW Career Top 10 in Assists and Steals) and Ugo Udezue (Second Team All-WAC). He also coached two players at Wyoming who earned individual honors in Jeron Roberts (NABC Second Team All-District, First Team All-WAC) and Gregg Sawyer (Second Team All-WAC).
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the guy can recruit
 
I find it hilarious that my contact scooped all the dumb ass Wyoming media.
it was all signed when I posted about the announcement! Ha...dumb ass media and his blog!
 
Holy Shyatt! I remember when he left for Clemson, he said that that was "home" and he wouldn't have gone to any other place. Now isn't he saying a similar thing about Wyoming?
 
AfiPoke said:
I was deployed overseas when he coached at UW but maybe someone can enlighten me as to why all the enthusiasm for him?

His HC record is pretty abysmal and not much love for him among Clemson fans.

http://www.thetigernews.com/news.php?aid=6270&sid=
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Clemson is a football school.

Wyo has been to more NCAA tournaments then Clemson. They only have one ACC regular season BB championship. Very tough to make it there. Frankly Wyo BB is a better job than Clemson BB in Some ways. This is a pretty sad stat, "In the first 92 years of Clemson basketball, the team was invited to the NCAA tournament a total of six times. The school also had only appeared in a single ACC Championship game"

Coaches grow and learn. My take is Shyatt took the clemson job before he was ready for that type of challenge.

Florida fans loved him
 
PokePride.com said:
So how long will he hang around this time, not sure he is the best choice?
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You could say that about any new hire.

But at 60 I doubt he is even thinking about climbing the ladder. He has been here before and knows what it is like. My guess is that he really wants to come back and retire here. Perhaps setting his son up for a D1 job as well.
 
fromolwyoming said:
PokePride.com said:
So how long will he hang around this time, not sure he is the best choice?
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Sounds like he wants to be here for the long haul.
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Every coach says that the day they are hired but Shyatt's track record speaks for itself. I guess we will just have to wait and see. Don't get me wrong I could careless who is on the sideline as long as the Cowboys are winning, so I do wish him all of the best.
 
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