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Btw, people saying they could care less are technically saying they care more than zero. What you mean is that you *couldn’t* care less. I am ambivalent towards UST (which I believe is the more correct description). Because of that, I don’t care if someone talks about them. If you do, you are...

It is not like Xavier fans talking on a Cincy board (which probably happens, btw). It's like UNO news on Creighton's site or Robert Morris on a Pitt message board. There's just very little the programs (UST and MN) have in common other than geography. I do not understand why so many take umbrage...

My guess is they took a flier on him for his defense. I always have a hard time judging that in individual players, but he apparently has a decent reputation on that end. Wisconsin does value D as much or more than O, which is why a guy like Essegian lost his spot in the rotation in the year...

Iowa isn’t on that list really because they have been moderately successful for a long time - certainly more successful than Nebraska has ever been (who care about football and volleyball > hoops). We forget about USC who rivals PSU for empty arenas.

I don’t think Rutgers has a new arena. You can have an argument about which is a worse job, but RU (currently) has a rabid home crowd and a fertile recruiting area - both better than MN. OTOH, they are worse historically and played in lower leagues until joining the B10. I’d put that program...

My understanding is he also has a huge buyout, like $10m. The previous AD really handcuffed them. Without that issue, he’s underperformed enough to have been relieved.

That, and he'd have no leverage to get paid anything if his only option were to return to MN - this is a no-brainer. Kinda surprised it hadn't happened sooner, tbh.

People, in general, hate change. That’s different than being disinterested though. I’m not disinterested and several posters hit the nail on the head when they admitted their interest is directly tied to the success of the team they root for. It’s human nature.

I continue to be curious about this, so I looked up what percentage of ADs are black. According to one source that appears to be from the NCAA itself, it’s 13% in D1.

You keep on opening your mouth and removing all doubt, FWIW, there are a couple of Asian coaches that were hired in this cycle (and btw, the aforementioned Mike Bibby has a Filipino mother). I specifically only counted Black coaches (and not the broader category of non-white) because Black is...

I've updated the list with 8 new hires - of the 5 first-timers, 2 are black coaches (added Alcorn St. and Clev. St.). The updated tally is 6 of the 26 first timers are black (23%). There is also one more non-first-timer black coach (at Grambling). Overall, 12 of the 52 new coaches are black...

Yes. His dad is Henry Bibby who was the PG for the 76ers' teams with Dr. J.

I bolded the trust part - I'm willing to buy that ADs believe with every fiber of their being that race plays no factor in their decision. I don't believe there is open and conscious bias. However, the numbers are what the numbers are - qualified Black assistant coaches don't get opportunities...

Here’s where I got the 59% of assistants are Black: Link That article also suggests that Black assistants might be pigeonholed as recruiters for their primary role, and not viewed as X’s and O’s guys.

If you accept that 1) being a P5 assistant is an important qualification for getting a head coach job in D1 and 2) 59% of P5 assistants are Black, then it should follow that somewhere close to that same percentage of first-time head coaches should be Black. It’s math. Race probably does matter.

I decided to make a new thread to avoid being lumped in with the noise in the "Hallman thread". I was interested in what actually happened this year with the new hires. I found a list of 44 D1 men's basketball coaching changes and looked them all up to see if they had been a D1 coach before, and...

What I've learned is that players named Evans will be locked in at Minnesota and then end up taking the money at Louisville or UNC. Next time there's an Evans, maybe pass...

Well, the AAC is a better league than the Summit, but yeah, not what he was probably aiming for.

I probably said this in this thread somewhere else, but Washington had almost the exact parallel to Minnesota last year (hired a MWC coach with a good reputation and had to build almost an entire team from the portal). They had 4 conference wins.

I think depth is a not-so-sneaky problem for just about every team in this era. There is a small number of competent players in the portal who are willing to accept a lesser role when there are other teams who need them to play a larger role. Finding players 10-15 in the rotation is getting...