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First time seeing them and to say I’m unimpressed would be an understatement. It’s not that they’re getting drubbed (although that undoubtedly colors things), it’s that they play at a shockingly low basketball IQ. Not well coached in this game.

And whatever high-priced mercenaries who will be all about the name on the back of the jersey, per usual. Wonder where Storr will be next season.

They're literally the definition of what I mean - they lost Hepburn and Storr due to $$$, went shopping in the scratch and dent aisle and came up with Tonje - he was not a high-priced free agent. It occurs to me that "Moneyball" might be a confusing term if you don't know what it refers to - it...

MN will never have better talent than the rest of the B10. To think that's changing with a new coach, even with more NIL/revenue sharing, is ... optimistic. Must be able to play Moneyball and identify gettable talent that will fit. I don't know that McCollum will be more successful than Medved...

Agree on Howard and Woodson. We'll see if anyone picks up Johnson as a head man - not sure anyone will

I stopped reading after this. This was not the assumption. Ben Johnson aside, the normal career progression for a P5 assistant is to get a low- or mid-major head coaching job first before going to a major (regardless of one's race). DeVries went from Creighton assistant to Drake head coach to...

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)...

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...

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...

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?

Wow, Nebraska didn't even make the BTT.

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...

But he is a little stitious..,,

Well, his defenses were inexcusably horrible. Usually last in the conference every year. That’s what I’ll miss….

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...

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

Lock the thread!

Can you edit the thread title to Ben Johnson WAS a disaster?

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?

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 %...