There is no question that had she wanted to, the late Pat Summitt could have coached any basketball team in the country regardless of gender. But there aren't a lot of Pat Summitt's around period.
Larry Eustachy sat in the announcing booth for a short time during a preseason tournament either last season or the season before. He was clearly drunk, and it was sad and embarassing.
He has been pretty solid so far. Only finished 3rd in the Summit this year, but with 9 freshmen on the roster.
No offense.....but HELL NO. Maybe I am simply being unrealistic, but this program needs a SPLASH! Like a Tubby hire. Someone that is going to bring in NIL---Nadine Babu tweeted earlier something to effect in terms of defending Ben that "a group of physicians refused to donate to NIL as long as Ben was coach"....she went on to say that we should support whoever is the coach. BS---the coach needs to drum up this support, either thru effort or thru reputation. Will Wade (or something to that effect) would do it. I just don't see a relative unknown like Henderson being able to do it. And let me say, he might be a fine coach, but now is not the time or place.
We could just dig up John Wooden. Prop him up by the court with a hat and some sunglasses. It'd be like a Weekend at Bernies type thing.
There'd probably be a snowstorm and he wouldn't be able to make the interview.
Despite what PJ said about rebuilding, which is part of what pissed off Kill so much, the program wasn't in terrible shape when he was hired. This is far more similar to when they hired Kill to replace Brew, who was arguably the worst Gopher FB hire in my lifetime. We all wanted a big time hire when Kill came here, but it was said that nobody of note wanted the job (except Mike Leach, who would have come, but the U wasn't going to touch him at the time).
Do they know him though? What is he even doing right now?
I think he means that a blind resume shouldn't consist of a blank sheet of paper.
A dog whistle is a term that's not supposed to be provocative i.e., discrete or literally, recognized only by the dog. DEI is of course a very provocative and direct term.
I honestly like this.
And 5 new starters. And somehow pulled Oscar Cluff in as a transfer.
At least the offense would have more movement than it did this past year!
IU basketball has become Nebraska football.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Why
Gilbert is all we actually know about. I'm not trashing on Wooden as a coach. Guy was an unbelievable basketball coach. But the people who put him on some kind of pedestal as the epitome of honesty and virtue are fooling themselves. And it's no coincidence that the NCAA investigation didn't go back farther than it did. Wooden was protected.
Non of the young kids in Minnesota in high school even though who the fuck he is
Because they’ve purposely blocked the memory of his 43-94 (.314) record coaching their favorite NBA team.
Sure, I can handle that.
Of course. Wooden was a brilliant coach. And with or without Gilbert (or whatever else may have been going on that we don't know about, if we want to be honest) he had the advantage of coaching in LA in the 60's and 70's. For whatever people want to say about LA and California in general today, what kid wouldn't want to live in southern California in that era? The culture, the weather, the pretty girls - it would have been paradise.