Not a current HC. Don’t know if this is a good hire
U Minn New Coach
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The Sprinter?
Minnesota appears destined for the Wednesday Conference Tourney games for awhile
Minnesota appears destined for the Wednesday Conference Tourney games for awhile
Again, sounds very “FHJr” like. Recruiter maybe but never a head coach
I'm looking to see if he hires an ex HC to be his lead assistant to help his OtJT turn him into a respected HC and make the Golden Gopher more like gold to their fanbase than the fools gold it was under Little Rickey.
If Tim Miles doesn't land a HC position , Johnson would be smart to try and get him on the staff.
If Tim Miles doesn't land a HC position , Johnson would be smart to try and get him on the staff.
That’s what I thought too. Tough to get him when kids are transferring out, however.
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The initial grassroots of both PSU and Minnesota hires are actually more positive than the general public wants to acknowledge. PSU is going to lose most of their current roster but Shrewsbury brought back to PSU, a Purdue commit in the Top 150, that he recruited to Purdue as an assistant coach. PSU will need a pipeline to areas to get players.
Indiana as a hire, is very difficult for a host of reasons unrelated to basketball....it is too charged up with too many influences on what people want. It's turning coaches away and is going to take an obscene amount of money to lure someone established there.
Indiana as a hire, is very difficult for a host of reasons unrelated to basketball....it is too charged up with too many influences on what people want. It's turning coaches away and is going to take an obscene amount of money to lure someone established there.
The Purdue recruit whom Shrewsberry was instrumental in landing, Jameel Brown of Haverford (Philly area), reopened but has not committed to Penn State or anyone else. He’s class of ‘22.
Trying to decipher. The grassroots are more positive than the general public wants to acknowledge?
Two P5 teams hired guys with no head coaching experience. SMH. General public appears to be smarter than you think. So looks like FHJ. Thank God not RU hires.
that would be a bad hire for them...Matta to Minnesota would have made sense but the guy started to slip at Ohio State, Indiana is a higher profile program than Minny, if that is the route they want to go their fanbase would be incensed and it would be speak to how the job is turning others off.
As for the Minny and PSU hires, they are tough sells especially the latter. Obviously Minny seems to be wanting to go the route of focusing on area players but it just seems they could have done better
Interesting approach by PSU and Minn going the assistant route instead of looking someone with a proven track record as an HC. We shall see how that works out. If they get money for a strong staff, and hire a Martelli like individual to help with the x and o's and program management stuff, a strong recruiting HC might work.
Handicapping the Indiana job (really Thad Motta is on this list??):
I dunno, the guys on that list already have pretty damn good jobs- I don't see IU as much of an upgrade at this point. I just don't think Belein comes out of retirement. Feels like the Cavs job was his nest egg.
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He can probably retire with what BTN is paying him, forget the Cavs money. He's a coach, he probably wants to coach. Tony Dungys are few and far between.
Out in Indiana we were talking on Friday to a high school coach that is well connected even on the college level. I haven't read it anywhere(unless I just missed it everywhere), but he said Indiana offered Brad Stevens a 10 year contract for 7.9 mil per year and Stevens was going to take it the other day, but changed his mind at the last second and is staying with the Celtics.
Best of Luck,
Groz
Best of Luck,
Groz
Juwan is making everyone think they can hire an all-time great player to be a great coach. I bet Johnson will be pretty good. I'm not sure anyone is fighting Minn for their in-state talent (apologies to Dave Winfield) so he'd better bring more than that to the table.
I'm thinking Thad Matta might not have the stamina to hit the recruiting trail and take on the rigors of a B1G season year after year. Indy is not a one year turn around and they do have competition for there fertile in-state talent grounds.
I'm thinking Thad Matta might not have the stamina to hit the recruiting trail and take on the rigors of a B1G season year after year. Indy is not a one year turn around and they do have competition for there fertile in-state talent grounds.
From https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/goldstein-richard-pitino-was-not-a-failure-with-gophers
"The biggest knock against Pitino was his inability to keep Minnesotans at home, with Tyus and Tre Jones, Jalen Suggs, Kerwin Walton, Matthew Hurt, Rashad Vaughn, Reid Travis, Gary Trent Jr., McKinley Wright, Jericho Sims, Zeke Nnaji, and Dawson Garcia among the top recruits to pass on wearing the maroon and gold. Without a doubt Pitino could have recruited the state better, and it’s frustrating for any Gopher fan to see such high levels of talent head elsewhere year after year.
"But the idea that most of those guys could have stayed is laughable. No coach is going to convince someone to turn down Duke or North Carolina to play for the Gophers, which takes nearly half that list out of play, and one-and-dones like Suggs (or Chet Holmgren) staying home is a pipe dream. Even some of the lesser programs guys went to – Stanford for Travis, Texas for Sims, Arizona for Nnaji – have considerably more prestige than Minnesota."
Minnesota actually has good in state talent. Poster above mentioned many names. The Hurt kid from Duke whose older brother went to Minnesota even shunned Minnesota with his brother - though I get the Duke desire.