If you assume Moos will be looking for a new men’s basketball coach, what do want in that coach? Not WHO, what criteria/qualifications would you like Moos or the search committee to look for?
Me:
1. An African-American. I’m a pasty white nearly 50 year old conservative, but it’s time for the U of N to give a chance to an African American coach in a major sport. Especially when you are trying to recruit mostly African American kids to come to a state where only 4.5% and a city where only 2.1% of the population looks like them.
2. I want a NAME! So help me god if the next hire is someone that the average fan (which sorry most Nebraskans basketball knowledge places them in the below average fan) has to say....who??? I might lose it. We need immediate name recognition. Someone that will make people around the country say WOW! If the name isn’t immediately recognizable to the recruits, it better be recognizable to their high school and AAU coaches.
3. A high level of success in the sport. Someone who is used to winning at a high level.
4. Someone who will run something unique to the conference. We can’t win here doing what a lot of others want to do. Personally I’d love to see a version of “40 minutes of Hell”, because you’d have to be a deep team. To do that you’d have to be committed to having a full roster (which we don’t). Recruits coming here would know they are going to have to play hard, and understand they WILL want and need to be subbed for. Recruits coming here will know ahead of time they will bust their *** or won’t play.
5. We are in the Big 10, and we need someone with major recruiting ties to talent rich areas. Chicago would be nice, but Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati or Milwaukee would work too. Matching that NAME with a natural Big 10 area pipeline would be a huge plus. Someone who knows the summer AAU circuit in the major cities in the Big 10 region.
6. Integrity. Enough said.
7. Someone with the voice/demeanor/presence/look needed to be successful and demand respect.
I could care less if our next coach has head coaching experience. We need a coach who can get players to come here. Period. Nebraska will likely never have a group of boosters who will partake in the dirtiness of college basketball, so we need a coach who will make recruits want to come here vs get paid to come here.
Basketball is all about who is playing for you. Ask Luke Walton, who was the next great NBA head coach at Golden State running the show while Kerr was getting healthy, and now is going to get shown the door in LA because LeBron wants him gone (possibly so maybe Lue can come there?).
Like I’ve mentioned before. We’ve tried the “up and comer” guy with some HC experience numerous times. Ho hum, whoop de do. Our history is a laughing stock. Time to try something else. What do we have to lose but more games?
Now, can we find someone who fits all 7??? I’m still looking. If Jim Jackson (Fox Sports) had got in to coaching he’d be close.
Me:
1. An African-American. I’m a pasty white nearly 50 year old conservative, but it’s time for the U of N to give a chance to an African American coach in a major sport. Especially when you are trying to recruit mostly African American kids to come to a state where only 4.5% and a city where only 2.1% of the population looks like them.
2. I want a NAME! So help me god if the next hire is someone that the average fan (which sorry most Nebraskans basketball knowledge places them in the below average fan) has to say....who??? I might lose it. We need immediate name recognition. Someone that will make people around the country say WOW! If the name isn’t immediately recognizable to the recruits, it better be recognizable to their high school and AAU coaches.
3. A high level of success in the sport. Someone who is used to winning at a high level.
4. Someone who will run something unique to the conference. We can’t win here doing what a lot of others want to do. Personally I’d love to see a version of “40 minutes of Hell”, because you’d have to be a deep team. To do that you’d have to be committed to having a full roster (which we don’t). Recruits coming here would know they are going to have to play hard, and understand they WILL want and need to be subbed for. Recruits coming here will know ahead of time they will bust their *** or won’t play.
5. We are in the Big 10, and we need someone with major recruiting ties to talent rich areas. Chicago would be nice, but Indianapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati or Milwaukee would work too. Matching that NAME with a natural Big 10 area pipeline would be a huge plus. Someone who knows the summer AAU circuit in the major cities in the Big 10 region.
6. Integrity. Enough said.
7. Someone with the voice/demeanor/presence/look needed to be successful and demand respect.
I could care less if our next coach has head coaching experience. We need a coach who can get players to come here. Period. Nebraska will likely never have a group of boosters who will partake in the dirtiness of college basketball, so we need a coach who will make recruits want to come here vs get paid to come here.
Basketball is all about who is playing for you. Ask Luke Walton, who was the next great NBA head coach at Golden State running the show while Kerr was getting healthy, and now is going to get shown the door in LA because LeBron wants him gone (possibly so maybe Lue can come there?).
Like I’ve mentioned before. We’ve tried the “up and comer” guy with some HC experience numerous times. Ho hum, whoop de do. Our history is a laughing stock. Time to try something else. What do we have to lose but more games?
Now, can we find someone who fits all 7??? I’m still looking. If Jim Jackson (Fox Sports) had got in to coaching he’d be close.
