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    Marcus article: Gophers are hiring while Big Ten men’s basketball has zero Black head coaches again

    In theory, but I would speculate that it has not happened in practice. Not every coaching vacancy that goes to a current head coach is a "recycle", I guess depending how you define it. I was thinking there are promotions (May going from FAU to Michigan), laterals (Musselman from Ark to USC)...
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    Marcus article: Gophers are hiring while Big Ten men’s basketball has zero Black head coaches again

    Please explain why first time head coaches matters. Not arguing it doesn't, but truly don't understand the point this makes. My guess - purely from a math and logic standpoint - is that the percentage of first time head coaches that are black > the overall percentage of head coaches. And that...
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    Marcus article: Gophers are hiring while Big Ten men’s basketball has zero Black head coaches again

    Link "An analysis by The Associated Press found Black coaches holding 59.4% of assistant roles in the top six basketball leagues – the Atlantic Coast, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, and Southeastern conferences – for the 2022-23 season. Yet the rate for Black coaches holding the top jobs was...
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    Dawson Garcia returning

    He did play 16 games for UNC, though, which is above the established 30% threshold for a medical redshirt. That’s why Tonje got a 6th year, having only played 8. Are they waiving the 30% rule somehow?
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    All Things 2024-25 College Basketball Other Games Thread

    Wow, Nebraska didn't even make the BTT.
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    Final Field of 68 Projection: Biggest Questions? Does SEC get 14 & does Mountain West get at least 4?

    I saw UCSD for the first time last night and they could be interesting. Their coach, Eric Olen, has a parallel story to Johnny Tauer, having been their coach since before they went D-1. I haven't paid attention to what kind of seed they're expected to get, but it's probably in that 10/11/12...
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    Mark Coyle: The Gophers' Michael Scott

    But he is a little stitious..,,
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    All Things 2024-25 College Basketball Coach Fired/Hired/Retired Thread

    Well, his defenses were inexcusably horrible. Usually last in the conference every year. That’s what I’ll miss….
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    Hallman: Black coaches' shelf life is much shorter & benefit of the doubt much less practiced as opposed to their White counterpart

    Putting aside the Minnesota opening and this Hallman character, we should acknowledge there is a problem. Most players are black and I read an article that shows 59% of assistant coaches at the P5 level are black. It's not really a pipeline issue - in another thread, someone talked about an...
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    All Things 2024-25 College Basketball Other Games Thread

    #277 BGSU lost by 30 to Akron today to mercifully end their well-below .500 season. A force they were not. Spank-ees.
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    Fire Ben Johnson

    Lock the thread!
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    Ben Johnson is a Disaster

    Can you edit the thread title to Ben Johnson WAS a disaster?
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA VS NORTHWESTERN BIG TEN TOURNAMENT WEAKLING WEDNESDAY IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    Collins is a wizard. Losing Barnhizer and Leach's 31 points is the equivalent of the Gophers losing Garcia and Patterson. Can you imagine THAT team?
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    Johnson: “I have some personal pride that I’ll be the only minority coach in the league. I take that with a badge of honor."

    No. I said that an individual situation like MN gets to choose the best candidate for the job regardless of skin color. You're missing the point. It's not about the situation at one school, it's about the bigger picture. Why do you think there aren't many black head coaches relative to the %...
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    Johnson: “I have some personal pride that I’ll be the only minority coach in the league. I take that with a badge of honor."

    I'm reading that black assistant coaches feel they're viewed more as recruiters than coaches - that rings probably true to me. If you've got mostly white head coaches and mostly black players, you rely on black assistants to bridge the gap on the recruiting trail.
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    Johnson: “I have some personal pride that I’ll be the only minority coach in the league. I take that with a badge of honor."

    I did a google search and an article from Spril of 24 said 59% of assistants are black in the P5. 23% of head coaches in all of D1 are black. Seems like it’s not a pipeline problem.
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    Johnson: “I have some personal pride that I’ll be the only minority coach in the league. I take that with a badge of honor."

    There will be other threads to turn to for discussing the news that Johnson will be retained (and I told you so over a month ago, btw), but I wanted to take a broader look at "the race thing". I think it's right that individual schools should get the best candidate without even considering...
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    Dawson Garcia named Second Team All Big Ten.

    First team: Smith (PU) Tonje (UW) Williams (Neb) Kaufman-Renn (PU) Queen (MD - coaches only) Goldin (Mich - media only) Second team were the 4 shared plus Queen and Goldin with the coaches and media votes switched.
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    Fire Ben Johnson

    No disagreement that the times have changed, but that hire is not currently a head coach - a criterion that this board has deemed a requirement. Utah and Fla St. did similar things. Their calculus is that it's more important to have a coach in place when the portal opens than it is to have a...
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    Fire Ben Johnson

    Honest question here - how can you have the next guy lined up when the ones everyone wants are coaching their teams into the postseason for the next couple of weeks? Yeah, you talk to their reps, but if someone is saying yes to you before they're done at their current job, that's not a great...



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