That’s stupid. Call him “Head Coach Ron Sanchez.” Needs to be corrected.
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Your program is your coach. It ends when he leaves and restarts new under the next coach. You can count on one hand the schools where there’s any carryover. Indiana has learned…your history, money, following, etc don’t mean a damn thing. All that matters is who’s running the program.
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I am finding it enjoyable to have my mental model of Ron as a coach updated game-by-game (partially because I paid zero attention to him at Charlotte). Going area by area, I have:
Scheme
- Half-court offense: Dunno, obviously they’re doing something different, but is it what he would have done if he had a full offseason?
- Transition offense: At first I wrote down “mostly not interested” but they’ve taken 18% of shots in transition, which is more than 38 teams. But I guess still mostly not interested (and his last Charlotte team mostly avoided transition).
- Half-court defense: It’s still the pack line. Prior is that he’s not as good at coaching it as TB because who is?
- Transition defense: Similar to TB? Has talked about offensive rebounds a little, but it seems to me like they focus on getting back and being sound.
Lineups and in-game decisions
- Bench usage: 9-deep right now, with 2 players getting 30+ mins in each game. Not particularly notable to me, I think this is probably what the average coach would be doing.
- Lineup composition: Not a lot of small-ball actually; Cofie-Saunders is the smallest he’s gone in the frontcourt. I had to double-check this because I would have bet there had been at least a couple of Power-Saunders frontcourt possessions.
- Foul trouble decision-making: This is where he’s the most different from TB; though I guess he’s only had one situation that would tell us anything with that.
- Leash length: Long? They’re like 200th in offensive turnover rate…that’s happened once before with TB but only when he had literally no other options at guard.
There are probably other things coaches do that are observable that I missed, so chime in.
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It’s like announcing the Bride and Groom at a wedding reception and the MC saying “ We’re not so sure this is going to last!”
Give Ron his deserved respect and hope for the best for the new couple and our new coach.
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He should be introduced as the Bodo’s Littlejohn’s and Arby’s Families Inconclusive Duration Unless He Achieves At Least One NCAA Tournament Victory At Which Time He Is 71.2% Likely To Be Retained And Bestowed With The Dean and Markel Family Bullshit Men’s Basketball Coach Dirty Ron Sanchez
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These seems right. Ron’s biggest differences to Tony will be in roster construction & lineup/in-game decisions. I think largely he’s a continuation in terms of scheme (though we might have gotten to this newer model earlier with Ron than Tony…same principles though).
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But no one will follow Ryan Odom to UVa because his team is all seniors and fifth-years.
Sent the same thing to HGN before opening night… just bullshit of the PA announcer to do. You’re calling that specific game and Ron is in fact the head coach for that game.
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So basically if we hire, let’s say, Ryan Odom as an example, we’re looking most likely at every player leaving and starting completely from scratch? Is that what typically happens or are there a few stragglers in most cases?
Could definitely see our good players, not wanting to stick around for a presumed rebuild.
I know it’s the likeliest path, but I just have such a hard time wrapping my head around an entirely new roster next year. The transfer season would be wild as we’d be looking at fielding an an entirely new team.
Safe to say don’t get too attached to any one Hoo
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Don’t ask @JoeBoxley. He’ll just use this as a way to talk up Kim English. 
Seriously though - in the past two years, at high major jobs with new coaches, very high turnover seems to be the norm. Even interim guys getting the job still lost a fair amount of guys (OSU lost Middleton, Roddy Gayle, Okpara, etc).
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Indeed. One year of limbo is preferable to three years of the Neptune experience Nova is getting.
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The words “the Neptune experience” sounds cool tho
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Oh don’t you count out Joe Bamisile. He always finds a way.
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If we keep CRS, we’re going to lose a bunch of players anyway. But if we hire a new coach, expect us to keep 50-70 minutes worth of players off the current team. Could be a little more or a lot less depending on specifically who it is and how the season goes, but I figure 50-70 is about right.
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Unless you got Qualtrics-level money (there was still a decent amount of turnover in that situation though).
But it’s becoming par for the course even for teams with coach continuity. Average returning minutes will be historically low this season.
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50-70 combined MPG or total minutes?
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I’m curious who Ron’s recruits have been over the course of his coaching career. Doing a quick correlation = causation analysis, it seems like his greatest strength (that we know right now) is that he’s a very good talent evaluator and a good recruiter.
My evidence for this is that in the years he was gone from 2018-2023 we had fewer recruits translate to the college game and he seems to have a good eye for talent with the guys he has recruited recently at UVA and Charlotte (Cofie, Ish, Aly Khalifa, Jahmir Young, Igor)
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MPG
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The Neptune experience is 35-33 in his first 2 years and he is still coaching. If Sanchez was to do that some of you guys would have hung him dammit