If he steps down, it saves Indiana buyout money.
The more I read this thread the more sure I am we should keep this coaching staff and roster together minus a quitter and a bust.
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Because you don’t think another coach could surpass this years excellent results?
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Mark Pope’s last 3 BYU teams were 18th, 77th, and 58th in Kenpom final rankings for that season.
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I have legitimately zero idea who IU will want to hire. Like sure they’ll make a run at Dusty May but I doubt he’ll leave. No one else seems to stand out.
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Steve Alford’s chance passed a dozen years ago, unfortunately for him.
Another in the “idk maybe, I’m bored” category, watching Ritchie McKay’s Liberty team look good against Louisiana Tech.
I think overall I’d be extremely meh about hiring Ritchie, he’s another Tony-lite (granted with a more accomplished resume than Ron), and also he’s about to be 60 years old so likely not a long term solution. But that’s not to say he isn’t a really solid coach. He’s found a way to produce some very good offenses while still running a disciplined packline and also not going at a very fast pace, mainly through chucking a metric fuckload of 3’s and hitting them at an elite rate. He’s got a fun Point Forward in Zach Cleveland who does a little bit of everything on the floor. He would probably get a ton out of Chance Mallory given his history with small guards (Darius McGhee was real fun). And he’s got a damn good eye for talent.
Still though, would be well down my wishlist of candidates I think. Liberty has underwhelmed a bit in C-USA play up to this point, and there are some things about Ritchie’s teams that do scare me in terms of translating to the high major level. Mainly the abysmal offensive rebounding and free throw rates his teams annually put up, reminds me way too much of the negatives we saw with late stage Bennett squads.
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Brad Brownell, Bryce Drew, John Groce and Mitch Henderson aren’t Indiana alums, but they all grew up in Indiana.
The Jamie Oakes school of journalism (compliment) taking a line and making a whole article
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Jamie was the absolute worst. He basically strung out his job at 247 for 18 months not even managing the board at all. He just had generic 247 guys check in once a week.
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Brian Earl - played at Princeton, assistant at Princeton, successful head coach at Cornell, and turned William and Mary around in a year. Proven performance at high academic schools. Team play very fast, press full court entire game, a lot of 3 pointers, and rotates almost entire bench throughout the game.
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Do we really even need a coach?
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40 Minutes of Hell, for you old timers.
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You know who is having a resurgence sorta? Chris Mack.
Would want to get a few answers on why the lockerroom got so toxic leading to the collapse and early exit his last year there. But he’s got Charleston at 7-2 in conference first year (17-5 overall I think) and his previous resume is pretty impressive
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“Thanks for meeting with us for an interview, Coach Mack. First question: how have you adapted your hiring practices to screen out assistant coaches who are willing to extort you?”
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Yeah that lockerroom went to shit Real Fast. He did have Luke Murray (carry over from Xavier) and randomly Dino Gaudio on his staff.
Chris Mack with Luke Murray as coach in waiting if Hurley leaves UConn?
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Mick Cronin with Jerrod Calhoun as coach in waiting making more than the $800k (?) hes making at Utah St (both Bob Huggins Cincy guys)
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Chris Mack with Luke Murray as coach in waiting
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Byington but working with our roster instead of his current roster at Vandy to build on
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Odom with Aldrich on staff
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Ritchie McKay
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Mack and Gaudio were assistants together at Xavier and Wake under Skip Prosser. Dino Gaudio was trying to blackmail his decades long friend.
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Brownell would actually be a good hire but doubt they’d do it. Drew makes sense but still don’t think IU fans would be happy.