Portal Combat (Hoops Edition)
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If you are a power 6 caliber talent I would think the bare minimum requirement when looking for a potential landing spot would be to have a reasonable expectation of playing in the ncaa tourney - I don’t know how you can sell that to any potential portal guys when you are bringing Fred back given his track record
I would agree on that , but is Fred coming back for sure . A OP stated a little smoke the last
48 hours that Trev is kicking some tires.
Robin is wrong more than he's right when it comes to NU Hoops Recruiting. Regardless, if we didn't even make his top 10, then he didn't have much interest.
Jeff Linder was a rising star in the coaching ranks a year or two ago, but that Wyoming program has gone into a free fall.
Yeah after he seemingly turned Wyoming around in 2 years and took them to the NCAA Tournament last year, I thought he could be a candidate here if/when Fred got fired. Then they imploded this year. Losing Ike for the entire season didn't help, but still....
I’m not sure why Fred wants to keep coaching. He could retire nicely tomorrow. WAY too much stress IMO.
Just saw a tweet from “coaching changes “ that there were rumblings about Greg McDermott. If he left Creighton, that would change a whole lot of ex Nebraska high school players interest in going back to Creighton. May even make some current players look at leaving. Also possible his agent is floating it out there to get him a big raise.
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I had that debate in my head a few min ago when I read the rumor....Curious what others think? Not sure what admission standards and portal restrictions he'd have to deal with there. It's a better job on paper, the kind people sign their names on to lure a guy like him away....with a bunch of zeros on it.
notre dame is not a basketball school, like N in that way. it's a hurdle in attracting qualified basketball coaches when the primary sport is football. that's the case here. clearly, nd is a more well known institution than creighton, but it does not have the jays hoops' reputation and tradition.
ohio state was not open last year. chris holtman was hired there in 2017. he's 123-75 over his stay. previously at butler, he was 70-31 and all three years in the tournament, best finish sweet sixteen.
I believe he did, my guess there is only a certain job he would leave for.But who knows maybe there isn’t.
I want to believe Creighton is a better job but I'm just not sure. I guess whatever happens...happens. Hope he stays.
Mac is looking around a bit because of the new(er) AD at CU. He doesn't have the same "freedoms" he once did with Rass. Nothing bad or wrong, just some AD's expect different things. Rass was sort of like Moose.
Basically the same reason that the talks with OSU started and then stalled.
Basically the same reason that the talks with OSU started and then stalled.
At the risk of interrupting all of the Creighton fans - Holy Crap!
Here's the link to the Creighton board for the rest of you, happy to help: https://creighton.forums.rivals.com/aud-feeds/
It’s a better Basketball job, now Working at ND over Creighton in general there might be a debate. I don’t root for Creighton but have met Mac a couple of times seems like a good Dude.
he tried the isu gig and that didn't work. he's uber successful at creighton. i can't imagine him leaving. going to nd is not like going to duke.
I've also heard from boosters it was like pulling teeth to get him a pretty negligible raise this past offseason
If that is true then Creightion officials are total fvcking morons and deserve to be dumped by Greg for a better school...still not sold that school is ND (not saying it is or isn't either) but it doesn't matter what I tbink.
McDermott doesn't even make hoiberg dollars (on paper)
their new AD must've graduated from the same cheap bastard admin program as Trev
If what you typed is true...and I could believe it, Greg needs to shove his latest Sweet 16 down his AD's throat and play some hard ball.
If Creighton let Greg walk away without matching whatever offer Greg might generate elsewhere I'd be dun with that school....I have a special place in my heart for em for reasons I won't go into but that would be it for me...if they don't care then I won't either.
because it's a private institution, they are 'required' to publish something about contracts, but not everything.
Greg's real take home pay is closer to double that reported number, but still less than we pay a hat rack to lose 65% of his games at NU
Yeah, the new AD sort of knows that he has Mac where he wants him (for now)
This cycle as of right now doesn't help either, nothing is really open except fro ND and UT.
ND would be a nice gig. UT would mean Macs death in about 5 months. UT boosters are insane.
i'm not sure texas is open. the whole rodney terry interim thing is strange.
i suspect there's already an agreement in place. they're not putting it out because terry's using it as motivation for his squad. otherwise, chris del conte is just an ignorant azzhat.
i suspect there's already an agreement in place. they're not putting it out because terry's using it as motivation for his squad. otherwise, chris del conte is just an ignorant azzhat.
Rumor is, about 5 coaches have said "no" mostly because Del Conte is a jackass.
But Terry is making it really hard to not be the guy.
Didn't Cuse just promote that asst coach?
Am I the only one that feels like Cuse is a **** job?