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If any coach wins 35% of their conference games in the first two years they will have that problem. Based on Smith’s past it’s very unlikely for that to be the case. Any coach is a risk, but Smith is probably the lowest risk of the realistic choices.

The difference to an AD is that if you make an unconventional hire you are going to get more criticism if it doesn’t work, especially in football or men’s basketball. Obviously any hire that doesn’t work will result in criticism, but it’s magnified if you are going out on a limb. For example, PJ...

Does he have much appeal period? He’s been a D1 head coach for 8 seasons. In those 8 seasons he has zero NCAA berths and 2 wins over Power 6 teams. Are there any other Power 6 programs that would have him on their short list? I’m not convinced he’s on ours.

That’s how things go in my bracket. Biggest question for me was Illinois vs OK State

I understand the complaining about coaches underperforming with talented rosters. Shaka certainly fits the bill there. But I also don’t understand the lack of credit that those coaches get for putting together those rosters. A college coach is a GM and coach, so if the roster is very talented...

I’d be very surprised if Coyle was looking at that route. But maybe a NBA assistant? Dave Joerger? Kenny Payne?

His buyout is $10m. And that is in addition to all the extra baggage he brings. I generally don’t trust anything coaches say to the media, but I truly believe him when he says this is his last coaching job. He’s 68 years old with all the money he’ll ever need, and has a low pressure job doing...

Could be. Coyle has moved really fast with his hires. Of the major hires Coyle has made I think the one that took the longest was Motzko, and that was 6 days I believe. Unless Coyle’s top target is still playing in the NCAAs I’d expect an announcement by the middle of the week at the latest. If...

Eh, it would be weird if they let something like the NIT hold anything up.

I’d be very surprised if it’s Medved at this point. He’s one of the few on the long list who didn’t make the NCAA tournament. If Coyle wanted him it would have been a done deal already. Guess it’s possible that he’s a backup plan if Coyle is turned down by others, but I think it’s safe to say...

I’m not at all advocating for Boynton for us, but he did just two weeks ago beat West Virginia at their place without Cunningham

I’ve read a lot of articles on our coaching search. This is by far the worst. I don’t think this guy has any idea what he is talking about.

I think it’s kind of silly to talk about ranking coaching jobs. Outside of Duke/UNC/Kentucky and maybe a handful of other programs there would be some pretty different looking rankings of the top 50 jobs depending on who you ask. And even then, when it comes to hiring one person the consensus...

Their AD has publicly stated they are paying him as much as they possibly can. Plus, it’s terrible for him in terms of negotiating for a raise. Any other school that is interested will have to pay almost $7M to get him which almost surely isn’t happening. If anything, that contract is pretty...

Dutcher doesn’t make that much. Here are Dutcher’s salaries- 2020-21 : $930,000 2021-22 : $1.18M 2022-23 : $1.33M 2023-24 : $1.405M 2024-25 : $1.48M 2025-26 : $1.53M I think NM said they were going to pay around $750k-$850k per year. But in terms of his buyout here it also depends when that...

The Big Sky and Horizon League are very comparable. If you look at conference RPI ratings they are generally within a few spots of each other and have alternated back and forth between which is stronger the last 5 years. Cal was pretty good when DeCuire was there. Mike Montgomery was the head...

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His NM salary will be subtracted from the buyout. Plus it sounds like he and Coyle worked something out so the buyout itself wasn’t $1.75M in return for Coyle giving him a heads up so he could find a new job before it was too late in the hiring cycle. This really couldn’t have worked out better...

Honestly he probably just doesn’t want to move again. He had 9 stops (pretty much all in the south) in his first 26 years coaching that all would have required him to move to a new place. He was born in Iowa. Might just be sick of moving and wants to stay close to family in the Midwest for the...

The mitigation clause will still apply regardless. If he gets the NM job his salary there will still be deducted from the buyout