🏀 Next Basketball Head Coach Speculation Thread

Gotta represent Humphreys.

Shared that dorm with both Ryan Zimmerman and D’Brickashaw Ferguson.

Won the intramural basketball dorm league title with a group of mostly former WAHS and Woodberry Forest players and then beat the frat league champ for what they told us was the first time ever (no idea if that’s true, chose to believe it, though) - before losing the overall final against Cade Lemcke’s team in OT by 2.

Jealous of all of my basketball accomplishments, Fresh and Hav? :joy:

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You’ll have to get in line. I used to ride the bench for our Air Force ROTC IM basketball team. I’d log it as an hour workout too.

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D@mn didnt realize we’re probably same class and likely know a ton of the same people.

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My dorm (Hancock) 3 man hoops team won IMs my first year. To be fair I was first off the bench on our team but did get meaningful minutes. Back in the day we got t-shirts for winning an IM championship.

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Class of '06?

I still have my IM championship t-shirt for soccer! I was ballin’ walking around grounds with it on while no one else that I passed seemed to care at all. They were all jealous.

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Starter in 5s, baby! :wink:

I always regretted how much better I was at basketball in college than in H.S. mostly because I’d just live at the AFC. Needed that grind just a little earlier.

We DID get t-shirts. I got two - one for that glorious Humphrey’s team - one for inner tube water polo!

Okay - apologies - I’m just looking at the thread title now.

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Oh god no please no please NO!

Had a very similar experience - so much better in college than when I played “for real” in high school. I never meshed playing for my coach. Pathetically, one of my favorite sports moments was scrimmaging my old high school team with some other alums and they couldn’t stop me. The coach made plenty of smart-ass comments about it too. The downside - all of us college guys were sucking wind. I guess practicing everyday, running sprints and suicides, and (for me in high school) not drinking, all make a difference. I’ll shut up before we get moved to a new thread.

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I got kicked out of the Beta hoopathon for not passing so lets call it even…

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Discussion of the day since Im Bored

  • Jeff Capel
  • Kevin Willard
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  • Bob Richey (Furman)
  • Mitch Henderson (Princeton)
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Does Princeton still run the Princeton offense?

Is Bill Carmody still around? Wasn’t he essentially the inventor of it? That is what my hazy brain is remembering. It’s probably just revisionist history in my head.

I think Pete Carill. I remember some basketball camp drill called the Carill drill

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Mitch Henderson played under both Carill and Carmody and was an assistant under Carmody for his entire career before taking the Princeton job.

I have no idea what offense or defense he runs though.

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My better half had a shirt for inner tube water polo from around the same time.

Brian Barthelmes and Heath Miller were both on her team. Story goes Barthelmes bit someone in a match once.

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A comment made by someone in this thread a month-plus ago that has stuck with me:

“I don’t want our next coach’s top achievement to date to be an upset win over a Tony Bennett team in March.”

That, and that alone, has steered me a bit anti-Odom and anti-Richey.

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Its not wrong, but it does cut out a weirdly large number of plausible candidates.

I’ve decided to be magnanimous about it and accept them anyway.

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If the rationale is “we expect our next head coach to have better achievements than an upset NCAAT win” then sure, that’s logical to me. If the rationale is “this would be bad vibes” or “I don’t want to be reminded of that bad day” I am not in agreement.

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It’s pretty simple to me. If you have to think about whether this coach would be considered if he hadn’t beat UVA that one time, it’s a problem. Bob Richey has one NCAA tourney appearance, one win. Sure he’s consistently had good teams in the SoCon. But he inherited a good program, and the SoCon is an easy league to have a good record in, there’s a top tier well above the rest of the league.

Odom I think there’s still an argument for, he’s gone on and had some success at other higher programs. Richey shouldn’t even be on the list, and I doubt he actually is.

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