Does the snake
surprise you? He makes Maturi look brilliant. Syracuse lucked out.The AAU coaches in the state deserve some heat as well. Ben was their guy that they wanted for the job and then they have failed to consistently send a large number of their elite players to the program.
Then I suggest you invest your time in another form of entertainment. College sports has been an ocean of sleaze for decades. Even the great John Wooden had a bag man (and it was an open secret for years).
Can you imagine giving any sway to a bunch of club coaches. Cripes!
Clem did what it took to win and you want him sainted.
And in a lot of markets, the local media would have kept their mouth shut about things going on in the local program.
Yes it was pretty dumb of Coyle to put any value on the word of coaches that is worth as much as a giant turd
The only thing dumber is listening to Jim Souhan. Oh. At least the Vikings didn't re-hire Leslie Frazier like he wanted.
You even capitalized it! We don't even have to guess the media you consume...
.....or the dumb things you believe. Leaving basketball out of it- woke ruins everything it touches. You don't need a news program to know that. Common sense is the only requirement to figure that one out.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: I've been in affirmative-action hiring environments for almost my entire career in both the public and private sectors. It's never given me a bad hiring outcome. Done well, it only makes you stronger. If Ben was hired solely because of his race, that's not the way a proper process is designed to work. Affirmative action does not equal race based. If anyone thinks that, they either have no experience with a good process or have racist bias.
He was hired for recruiting soley and that was a huge mistake. Same reason Brewster was hired in the pre fake news era, Ben in the woke era...the "news" consumption dictates the mandated language.
Same pattern with Whalen, and she's white. Coyle foolishly thought they'd both make a big local recruiting splash, the programs would be on their way, and coaching is secondary to talent. He has it completely backward and inside-out.
We are in the fake news era- just not the one you think.
100% that story would never have been written in Madison or Iowa City.
It's like chum in the water.
If someone is complaining about "wokeness" it's a clue that I don't need to take their opinion seriously.
I am curious how you came to this definitive conclusion?
Maybe but we really don't know that, and I'm not sure its an issue now.
Nobody wants to know what happened behind closed doors more than I do. Until I know more, I'm not going to jump to conclusions that confirm my bias(es). Connecting the dots with the Whalen hire, though, the local recruiting angle is the common thread. Humans have characteristics, and Coyle is a human. And someone as arrogant and stubborn as him is going to try the same thing over again in irrational belief that this time it's going to work. I had a boss a number of years ago who made something for a potluck where the potatoes were undercooked. He needed to have parboiled them ahead of time but didn't. And yup, he made the same mistake the next year. Arrogant, foolish man.
It's an unproven hypothesis that some people are writing into the textbooks as established fact.
The guy who thinks we should have played a man convicted of beating a woman while trying to rape her hates how sleazy the NCAA has become. You can't make it up.