Lutz hired…Gottfried pulling together stellar staff

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It is now official…former UNC-Charlotte head coach, Bobby Lutz has joined the NC State Basketball staff.

Full article here.

Lutz won a school-record 218 games in 12 seasons for the 49ers, with five trips to the NCAA tournament. Lutz, 53, was forced out at his alma mater in 2010 and spent this past season as an assistant at Iowa State.

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32 Responses to Lutz hired…Gottfried pulling together stellar staff

  1. ADVENTUROO 04/11/2011 at 5:09 PM #

    Lutz is a GREAT hire. He comes from Catawba County, my home and of course, the reverred Ricky Barnes. Lutz (pronounced LOUtz….now LUT as in NUT Z) played for my arch rival school in lower Catawba County. He is a great guy, from a great area of course.

    Mark is doing a great job. I have expressed my opinion on the HIRING of Jim Harrick….and I do NOT believe it would be in the best interest of the school or the program. It would open up some sores from the St. Monteith area and provide those that are now agahast that BB is finally being REVIVED with some ammunition so they could take swipes at it. I also, and call me paranoid….I’ve been called worse by better…..beleive that if Harrick was added that SOME members of the faculty would “raise” the bar for our players and that there would be scholastic repercussions…..these are petty and insecure folks that we are dealing with. They do NOT, at least for the present, have any power nor the numbers, but give them a rallying cry and they will crawl out from under their rocks and torment our BB players in the classroom.

    THEN, if someone DOTH protest, who would you believe….the straight arrow faculty or those slackard BB players that have a know NCAA predator for an assistant coach.

    IF you feel strongly about this….email the folks in Holliday Hall….they WILL listen..

    I did NOT dispute the fact that Jim Harrick is probably a fine Basketball Coach…but his record would put an unnecessary blemish on the start of a new program.

    Welcome Bobby, even if you did play for Bandy’s High….I can’t wait to tease him and show him my high school class ring. Old rivalries are great…..and grow in stature every year.

  2. choppack1 04/11/2011 at 5:54 PM #

    Actually, Lowe’s assistants would have been fine. 2 of the 3 had extensive HC experience – and the other had long stints as an assistant.

    The problem was that neither, Lowe, Towe or Strickland had much success at all as a HC. I’ll put it this way, Lutz was much more successful as HC than all 3 of those guys.

    As for the skills they bring – there was a very telling quote in the article posted yesterday about Gottfried’s last few years at ‘Bama. His “defensive coach” left to spend more time w/ his wife – and not so coincidentally, his record went down the toilet. I also think that Early may have left around this time too.

    So, to me – the “concerns” about current staff remain as follows:
    *ability to coach Defense
    *ability to get our guys into good shape.

  3. PoppaJohn 04/11/2011 at 6:46 PM #

    ^ nailed it

  4. legacyman 04/11/2011 at 9:10 PM #

    Perhaps the ability to keep these assistants for more than a year or two might be very critical. Lutz will always be looking and I imagine the same for Early but that is usually the case for assistants…most of them would like to be head man and get the big bucks. Who could blame them. Now if you develop a very successful program and well pay your assistants then they might stay longer.

  5. choppack1 04/11/2011 at 10:15 PM #

    legacy – that’s a good point – but of more importance will be his ability to find coaches who can coach up D, get our guys in shape and follow the rules.

    You’ve got to think that Gottfried has learnded something from his downfall foloowed by his “break”. I’m hoping he’s learned that is defense is really, really important.

  6. hickoryhound 04/12/2011 at 4:18 AM #

    Welcome home Bobby Lutz from your supporters in Catawba County. This is a great hire by State that will be an important recruiting connection to the sate of North Carolina. I truly believe we are on our way. Coach Gottfried and Debbie Yow get it!

    Catawba County’s Bobby Lutz helping restore basketball Tradition at NC State

  7. ancsu87 04/16/2011 at 10:54 PM #

    Moxley is on the staff.

    http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/moxley-joins-gottfried-staff

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