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Shaka beating feet out of town before the sherif shows up

(03-26-2021 10:39 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Shaka beating feet out of town before the sherif shows up

Pulling the old Tuberville Texas Two Step.

Will Kelvin move from Houston to Austin?

(03-26-2021 10:55 AM)chatcat Wrote:  Will Kelvin move from Houston to Austin?

Doubt it. He's made plenty of money, is old, and can field top 10 teams every other year until he retires at Houston.

(03-26-2021 10:55 AM)chatcat Wrote:  Will Kelvin move from Houston to Austin?

Yes. Unless Tillman Fertitta ponies up big.

(03-26-2021 05:19 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  

(03-25-2021 11:01 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Some recent buzz that there may possibly be a job opening that may be the topic of some heated discussion around these parts in the not too distant future.

Don't tease me.

Chances keep going up and up that we may have a new coach before the April 14th signing period.

Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

(03-28-2021 03:05 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

A 63 year old NBA lifer. Should be a perfect fit. But he's an IU guy!

Obviously Archie Miller wasn't an Indiana guy, but I don't get the obsession with schools like IU and Michigan to find someone who is a grad.

Going with the Indiana family motif.

(03-28-2021 03:05 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

I have been thinking that there is something to be said for hiring a black coach. In a game that they dominate, it seems like a black coach will have an inmate advantage on the recruiting trail. Now, perhaps the B10 schools aren't exactly the ones you'd think would be eager to go that route compared with city schools like Houston and Memphis, but Howard is working out great for Michigan, and Woodson has IU pedigree.

I would not be opposed to seeing a black coach get a crack at our own imminent vacancy.

(03-28-2021 03:14 PM)geef Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:05 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

A 63 year old NBA lifer. Should be a perfect fit. But he's an IU guy!

Obviously Archie Miller wasn't an Indiana guy, but I don't get the obsession with schools like IU and Michigan to find someone who is a grad.

Schools who haven't been relevant in their lead sports for decades tend to try to harken back to those times as much as possible. It's why so many of our fans are all about a severely underqualified former player who has shown no ability to coach well be considered for the job.

Going to be interesting to watch how the Matta/Woodson dynamic is, especially considering reports that Matta was the guy but failed a physical.

(03-28-2021 03:14 PM)geef Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:05 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

A 63 year old NBA lifer. Should be a perfect fit. But he's an IU guy!

Obviously Archie Miller wasn't an Indiana guy, but I don't get the obsession with schools like IU and Michigan to find someone who is a grad.

The only other example I can think of where an NBA lifer took their first college head coaching job in their 60s is Mike Dunleavy. We all know how that turned out, and Dunleavy came in with an arguably better NBA coaching record.

(03-28-2021 03:43 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:14 PM)geef Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:05 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

A 63 year old NBA lifer. Should be a perfect fit. But he's an IU guy!

Obviously Archie Miller wasn't an Indiana guy, but I don't get the obsession with schools like IU and Michigan to find someone who is a grad.

The only other example I can think of where an NBA lifer took their first college head coaching job in their 60s is Mike Dunleavy. We all know how that turned out, and Dunleavy came in with an arguably better NBA coaching record.

Larry Brown says hello.

Edit: Well I guess it wasn't his FIRST College job, but he had been in the NBA for 23 years before SMU.

(03-28-2021 03:47 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:43 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:14 PM)geef Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:05 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

A 63 year old NBA lifer. Should be a perfect fit. But he's an IU guy!

Obviously Archie Miller wasn't an Indiana guy, but I don't get the obsession with schools like IU and Michigan to find someone who is a grad.

The only other example I can think of where an NBA lifer took their first college head coaching job in their 60s is Mike Dunleavy. We all know how that turned out, and Dunleavy came in with an arguably better NBA coaching record.

Larry Brown says hello.

Edit: Well I guess it wasn't his FIRST NBA job, but he had been in the NBA for a long time before SMU.

He was the head coach at UCLA and Kansas, with a couple final fours and a national championship before starting his NBA coaching career.

(03-28-2021 03:47 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:43 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:14 PM)geef Wrote:  

(03-28-2021 03:05 PM)RuckleSt Wrote:  Mike Woodson to IU with Matta as an assistant. Pretty surprising hire.

A 63 year old NBA lifer. Should be a perfect fit. But he's an IU guy!

Obviously Archie Miller wasn't an Indiana guy, but I don't get the obsession with schools like IU and Michigan to find someone who is a grad.

The only other example I can think of where an NBA lifer took their first college head coaching job in their 60s is Mike Dunleavy. We all know how that turned out, and Dunleavy came in with an arguably better NBA coaching record.

Larry Brown says hello.

Edit: Well I guess it wasn't his FIRST College job, but he had been in the NBA for 23 years before SMU.

Whenever I think of an NBA coach stepping down to the college level to rescue an NCAA program, I think of Ed Badger. Imagine getting the former coach of the Bulls in here.

I told you IU was going to hire an IU guy.

And Matta was hired as an "assistant AD". Translation: Ready made replacement in case Woodson sucks.

(03-29-2021 07:15 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  I told you IU was going to hire an IU guy.

And Matta was hired as an "assistant AD". Translation: Ready made replacement in case Woodson sucks.

Matta is going to end up handling the recruiting, program development, etc...Woodson is just going to be the in-game coach IMO.

Hiring an NBA assistant strongly suggests that most of the favorites identified in an Indianapolis Star article a couple of weeks ago said no.

The thought that Brad Stevens was going to move from Boston to Bloomington suggests how unrealistic IU fans have become about the current lack of Hoosier hysteria.

Having said that, if we see a coaching change here this week, I think it will also be an unforeseen selection. Athletic Directors usually have a short list on hand and often those are not names familiar to us as fans, though they may be fine coaches. I'm not sure there was much of an outcry to hire Bob Huggins after UC parted with Tony Yates yet it ushered in a remarkable period in Bearcat basketball history.

Finally, I may feel differently in a day or a week but I don't see Archie Miller as a fit at UC. Anyone who watched IU play this year saw a team with some blue chip players where the wheels fell completely off the wagon down the stretch. Can Archie recruit and coach? I say yes. But he has zero personality. At this point, I think UC needs someone who can put the program back together competitively but also energizes local media and fans. We can argue about Brannen's results, but I think he failed totally in connecting with UC fans in a meaningful way.

(03-23-2021 07:15 AM)RealDeal Wrote:  

(03-22-2021 10:22 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(03-22-2021 07:39 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  Anyways, if Minnesota likes an assistant coach, they should go with him. P5 schools like Illinois were kicking the tires on Marcus Freeman as head coach this year.

That line of thinking works in football because there are likely only 20 "Good" head coaches to hire every year...in basketball, you can practically quadruple that number without even getting into assistants.

Freeman was also coming from the premier non-P5 program. The basketball equivalent would be hiring a good up and coming assistant from Villanova or Gonzaga. And again basketball is not an apple to apples comparison because you have so many D1 programs to hire HCs from.

Interesting sidenote.... Villanova's assistant coach was just hired as head coach at Fordham.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket...ball-coach

(03-29-2021 07:34 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 07:15 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  I told you IU was going to hire an IU guy.

And Matta was hired as an "assistant AD". Translation: Ready made replacement in case Woodson sucks.

Matta is going to end up handling the recruiting, program development, etc...Woodson is just going to be the in-game coach IMO.

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