And in truth, there probably is something to the idea that coachâs sons make for better coaches. Just like coaches love to recruit coachâs sons. Theyâve been up to their elbows in this stuff theyâre whole livesâŚand they probably have a decent amount of crazy in them.
Itâs like the crazy/hot scale but replace hot with basketball iq.
I mean itâs def true, but I think more than the nepotism part (which is def a factor) is the advice that they get when they pursue that career. Dave Odom has gone through the trials and tribulations of a career and can pass down very nuanced advice thatâll help his son avoid a lot of struggle. This is true of all professions as well. Iâve experienced the same thing with my family, who are all professors. I know way too much about which buttons to push and how to navigate grad school and academia if I were to go into that career (I wonât tho lol).
None of it matters at the end of the day if the talent isnât there. Especially in something as competitive as coaching. Ryan Odom def has the talent, which is why this is pertinent
Parody accounts are out of control. Both Jeff Goodman and Black Coaches Association retweeted it (screenshot from discord)
Wow man youâre sick
Iâm honestly a little surprised Nova is on board with this. Absolutely terrible optics.
Imagine you wake up the morning of a sweet 16 game and instead of being hype/having crippling anxiety you are learning your coach didnât even show up to team dinner last night because heâs taking another job and bringing Rodney Rice and Jakobi Gillipse with him to Nova apparently.
Thatâs dirty work. Actually feel myself feeling sad for Maryland. Unreal sin on Willardâs end to make me feel empathy for those couch burners
Nobody sees MD as a destination job because theyâre in a conference that is meh towards theirs existence. Among other reasons. Shoulda stayed in the ACC but they chased a payout.
Maybe thereâs a lesson in there for ACC schoolsâŚ
Like Cortez heâs burning the boats. Who will hire him next? Had to be his last gig right?
Heâs nearing Bobby Petrino territory.
Yeah Iâm sure Willard would stick around if they were in the ACC with fewer resources in a second rate conference. Thereâs no lesson here for ACC schools
Willard would stay if he viewed MD as a destination job. Why doesnât he view MD as a destination job? Complicated question with various answers. But I think MD being a mid-Atlantic school in a midwestern conference is at least part of the answerâŚ
Who wants the job? A midwestern guy (turgeon)? Nah, awkward fit. A NE guy? Nah, awkward fit.
Instead heâs going to a conference that knows what it is and what it wants to be and a school that knows what it is in that conference.
MD doesnât have the first clue what it wants to beâŚ
The only program that seems to be struggling with this is Maryland though. The western athletics programs in the Big donât seem to be suffering from some identity crisis. The only program that seems to be having this issue is.. Maryland. Which makes me think itâs more a Maryland problem than a Maryland in the Big 10 problem
Situationally, Iâd rather be where maryland is right now: in a well resourced stable conference. That should be the only lesson ACC ADs take from maryland: they greatly improved their overall outlook by leaving a dying conference early
Not complicated. College Park + Maryland fans
The ACC is dying, true. The same way the hoops only Big East was dying when Cuse and BC and UConn et al left. History is funnyâŚ
Will save the rest of this back and forth for the âhooray for chaosâ thread or whatever we call the realignment thread. Whenever that inevitably gets rolling againâŚ
I was working at Maryland when it happened. The story was Yow essentially bankrupted the athletic department and the BIG10 bailed them out.
The ACC was pretty meh towards Marylandâs existence too.
The ACC was aggressively meh towards MDâs existence. The Big Ten literally doesnât care
UVA in the B1G may potentially cripple or destroy my UVA fandom. Not being dramatic, not using hyperbole.
Money is important, security, all that. The BTAA/CIC would be great for the school⌠but at that point, I fear I would lose all interest in college sports. That, to me, would be waaaaaay worse than any of this free transfer / NIL stuff.
Phil Martelli Jr VCU presser:
