All Things Gophers Coaching Search Thread (rumors, tweets, tid-bits and more)

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2timegopheralum said:
It's a gutwrenching choice. You're basically deciding which side of your family gets to see their kids and grandkids more, to be tighter with for the forseeable future.

That he tends to go back and be welcomed back places he was before is a great sign for how he represents a university. Minnesota, Furman, Colorado State -- all multiple trips.

I'm not going to try to analyze where the family negotiating goes from there, and I'd do horrible things to have the opportunity to make that choice for a 7 figure annual bag, but it's still really a tough one.
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It’s not a tough choice at all, you go where your dream is. Your wife should and would want the same thing. He didn’t grow up in West Virginia. He’s the one coaching. He’d regret it the rest of his life.
 





WindyCityGopher said:
Again, a coaching hire is a two-way proposition, meaning the coach has to want the school as much as the school wants the coach. Why would a guy like Wade, who has spent his ENTIRE life in the South, suddenly make Minnesota his home, a place that’s completely foreign to him culturally, especially when he has a P4 opportunity in the South with a school that has a very strong basketball heritage and was in the Final Four as recently as…last year? And frankly, the chance of our administration hiring a guy who was fired for major rules violations, and then having to rehab his image at McNeese State, was less than zero.
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Tubby Smith a Northerner?
How about Clem Haskins?
 



Wanted Wade, or a big time assistant from a blue chip school, Someone with some excitement. Tired of the lame old MN connection hire.
 

kix4kix said:
Wanted Wade, or a big time assistant from a blue chip school, Someone with some excitement. Tired of the lame old MN connection hire.
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If ya only had a few million to spare your eccentricity may have been doable.
 







kix4kix said:
Would you invest with a firm that threw away more than 10 million dollars?
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Not an apt comparison.

In the hypothetical you’d be buying the solution you believe would work. Your return is pride. That’s why its an eccentricity.

And in that instance I’m creating additonal conditions attached to my “gift.” I’m not letting Coyle just play budget politics. I’d be insistent on the U’s investment in this be much more serious. After all, I’m payinf for their coach.

Btw, are you sure the U threw away $10mm?

You’ve seen financials indicating the cumulative loss for the period? I’m pretty sure they made money. It silly to assume they would have made a marginal increase given an “expensive coach” without some concept of their financial picture.
 

With DeVries off the market, the list is down to 8...Jacobsen, Dutcher, Medved, Calhoun, McCollum, Bennett, Tauer, and Joerger. I don't think it will be Joerger and have a suspicion it won't be Dutcher d/t the buyout (even though I think he would be an excellent hire) so we are down to 6...Jacobsen, Medved, Calhoun, McCollum, Bennett, and Tauer. I think McCollum is going to end up as the Iowa coach. That leaves 5...Jacobsen, Medved, Calhoun, Bennett, and Tauer.
 

Indiana Gopher said:
With DeVries off the market, the list is down to 8...Jacobsen, Dutcher, Medved, Calhoun, McCollum, Bennett, Tauer, and Joerger. I don't think it will be Joerger and have a suspicion it won't be Dutcher d/t the buyout (even though I think he would be an excellent hire) so we are down to 6...Jacobsen, Medved, Calhoun, McCollum, Bennett, and Tauer. I think McCollum is going to end up as the Iowa coach. That leaves 5...Jacobsen, Medved, Calhoun, Bennett, and Tauer.
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Bennett's out of the game. The man was clear why he stepped away from one of the best gigs in college basketball, and that's because the industry has changed so much that he no longer wants to be part of it. He's not coming back just 5 months later to coach Minnesota.

"The game and college athletics is not in a healthy spot. It's not. And there needs to be change, and it's not going to go back. I think I was equipped to do the job here the old way. That's who I am."
- Tony Bennett
 


WindyCityGopher said:
Bennett's out of the game. The man was clear why he stepped away from one of the best gigs in college basketball, and that's because the industry has changed so much that he no longer wants to be part of it. He's not coming back just 5 months later to coach Minnesota.

"The game and college athletics is not in a healthy spot. It's not. And there needs to be change, and it's not going to go back. I think I was equipped to do the job here the old way. That's who I am."
- Tony Bennett
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I think Jay Wright saw it coming thus his departure as well
 

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