"...arguably the most challenging job in the conference."
Any job is what you make it. There was a time when, alternately, Wisconsin, Northwestern or Rutgers would've been considered the most challenging job in the conference, but those situations have turned around because they've been run...
There are no more important people in a sports organization than the head coach and the general manager. In college sports, those people are one in the same, making that person--and the choice of which person you hire--doubly crucial.
Even in any organization, who you hire for any job--from...
I can't believe I have to explain this, but this is why you don't do that (i.e., hire a first-time head coach; who hasn't even been a top assistant anywhere; who interviewed unsuccessfully at lower programs; who would be hard pressed to retain very many players from the roster he inherited...
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I could listen to this one over and over and might have actually done that.
From their recent appearance on CBS Saturday Morning:
Yeah, I still see Ben needing to pull a pretty big rabbit out of the hat to have a team that can match last year's accomplishments. Payne is a gigantic loss, and we already needed to add depth at that position, so now we need two centers. Good luck.
I'll be as curious as he is how this comes out. Certainly being advised that this is a weak class and a potential opportunity. At the same time, you can either play or not; you can either make a roster or not.
I echo all the posts on here that Coyle's statement feels like a weird, extreme cognitive dissonance.
The Lord helps those who help themselves, Mark. What have YOU done to help this situation?
It's true that you can't un-fry an egg and that college basketball isn't going back to the way it was before, but what the OP describes continues to feel unsustainable. Any game/sport needs rules, including as they pertain to roster constitution. Chaos isn't a good business model going forward.
...after Utah had thrashed VCU by 20. Indiana State is simply very good. They're a top 20 team. The Gophers did pretty well to hang with them with Hawkins out and Garcia in bogus foul trouble.