2009 LRA next HC thread would have been like:
āSorry, no sub-.500 records in conference play allowedā
āIf heās any good, heās just going to leave for Wisconsin when Bo retiresā
āWould he even be a high major coach if his Dad didnāt give him the job?ā
Though I think someone would have pointed out that opportunities to hire guys who have already been Naismith Coach of the Year come around once a decade at best.
Hey thats what I said! (Ducking)
I could be wrong because Iām from Big 10 country, but I think 94 coaches out of 100 would pick Ohio St. over UVa. Holtmannās NCAA tourney failures wouldnāt deter many from taking that job. I think their hands were a little tied last year when Diebler won some big games.
Iām currently becoming Richard Pitino-curious. Has a showdown with Jerrod Calhoun on Saturday for the top of the MWC. Should be strength-on-strength with UNMās very good defense tested by Utah Stās very good offense.
Ohio State might be one of the best non-blue blood jobs in the country. Pretty much unlimited resources and thereās some basketball history there.
Tangent off of AQās post: what do we call the MWC and A-10? Low/high majors? Mid major+?
Multi-bid leagues? (sometimesā¦ )
MM+ sounds right. Scouting terminology for HS kids at that level.
For a time weād call them high major while differentiating āpower conferenceā for the others. Then there got to be such a stark contrast with tv money I guess, people no longer do that. Theyāre just lumped in as mid-major which isnāt really fair.
Hereās a question. Is the new Pac 12 a power conference? Leftovers plus Gonzaga and the cream of the Mountain West.
ACC lite?
I say Yes for basketball-only. 7 out of the 8 are top-100 teams right now, Gonzaga gives the conference some top end. Not sure how the conference strength math will shake out, but from a glance it looks like they should end up close to where the ACC is right now.
Ed Cooley won this a couple years agoā¦
ā¦. Oh no.
Itās strange, because had Cooley stayed at Providence and been there the past two years with relatively the same success I imagine heād be near the top of our wishlist right now. I know his exit from Providence soured him on a lot of people but heās a very good coach, and heād recruit his ass off here.
That being said I donāt see him leaving Georgetown, so itās probably a moot point.
He lost me yelling at the seton hall student lol
Makes $6m a year to have a long leash. I wouldnāt leave
(Definitely not friar bias)
Their last two hires have been Chris Holtmann and Jake Diebler. Not even remotely close to the types of guys a near blue-blood can hire I donāt think itās a much better job than Penn State (itās better, but not significantly). Every penny of resources they have goes to football. I think you could legitimately argue Maryland is a better job.
Forbes also made a big splash at ETSU.
With a roster of JUCO guys who wouldnāt get into Wake.
Just handful of kids from the northeast who wanna go south for college and pay full tuitionā¦
Speaking of Mike Young, Dustin Kerns is a very solid coach who is very much still under the radar. Spent several seasons with Young at Wofford.
Very true. The ACC is a dumpster fire.