Yeah ultimately my gripe is with Coyle and how this was conducted, not Larson who I'm willing to keep an open mind about. Will be interesting to see what this conversation looks like in 2030 when Coyle's contract is up (assuming it doesn't get extended before then).
Johnson and Whalen were conveniently left off your list. Jury is still out Medved.
Medved was a home run hire. Whalen didn’t work out but that hire was lauded at the time. Overall Coyle has a good track record here and certainly has credibility.
I hated the process but if we win 3 Nattys in 4 years i will shovel Coyle's driveway from now to eternity
That’s reassuring.
Hell, if he wins 1 in the next 5 years I will.
Yeah I think those of us who aren't quite excited about this pick will happily eat crow if they raise that NCAA trophy.
I feel so much better now! I agree with you. Coyle fired Frost for failure to advance the program only to hire his assistant? He parts ways with Motzko only to hire his replacement at SCSU who spent the last 3 years building a record that would have most of these people here on this board screaming for his head like they did with Bob. I don't care that Coyle may have made some calls before pulling the trigger, I care that apparently the right people didn't want to take his calls.
Maybe the point should be that, regardless of who pays how much and how far away is your mommy, Minnesota kids should get back to bleeding maroon instead of red/green/blue. Moorhead kids seem to be able to handle it.
So of the four coaches put forward as his good hires, we include the coach who was just let go for poor replacement, his replacement (who has a less impressive resume than the guy we just let go), and a coach who has not qualified for a single NCAA tournament (im optimistic about Medved, but he has not yet produced results that would make me declare him a good hire yet)?
Coyle also renewed Eggum's contract as a reward for running the Wrestling program back to mediocrity.
Well said.
It’s coming from the fact he coached his team to a national championship in just his second season. He’s also been a part of 3 other national championship games. His successor at SCSU will do much worse. Larson will bring the long needed toughness to Minnesota.
He’s not a middling coach. You’ll see what happens at SCSU after he’s left. He’ll be the best Gopher coach since Lucia and Brooks.
The health of SCSU in general is why the next will do worse.
Either he gets a title or he doesn't. That's how he'll be judged then. We'll see.
I honestly don't think Coyle had much of a choice with the Johnson hire.
This part is the tough aspect given his buyout is crazy high. Only possible way is a huge money booster dumping dollars in
Don't ask the obvious questions about giving the hockey program what it needs and deserves
The buyout of ~2 million is what, multiple years of the hockey team's profits? Coyle has never been good at fundraising either from what I gather so it probably wasn't realistic to think that was a real possibility.