Good read: Unless you have an elite job to offer, unwise to target A-list candidate

[BleedGopher]

Good read by Parrish. The days of a Minnesota hiring the hot mid-major coach from Gonzaga (fresh off an Elite 8 run) appear long gone. The mid-majors are now paying in some cases, as well or better than many high major jobs. Few, Marshall, Stevens (when he was at Butler), Miller, Jacobson etc. are at schools where basketball is the number one sport, with great pay, less stress of the Big Ten, and more realistic expectations.

It seems like most schools start their coaching search by going after the same guys and then after a week they have to adjust expectations and become more realistic.

Parrish writes about it in his column:

College basketball's coaching carousel has just about stopped spinning. The only thing left to decide is Delaware's coach. But all nine Power-5 jobs that opened have been filled.

And guess what?

Gregg Marshall didn't take any of them.

Neither did Archie Miller. Neither did Chris Mack.

And it should serve as a reminder for every AD in the country, and the reminder is this: unless you have a top-10 job in the sport to offer, you're likely not going to be able to hire an established and successful coach with a decent job who isn't running from something.

That's what recent history tells us.

Did you realize that 40 Power-5 jobs have opened in the past five years, and exactly two of them -- UCLA and Texas -- have been filled by established and successful coaches with decent jobs who weren't running from something. That's it. UCLA hired Steve Alford in 2013. And Texas hired Shaka Smart in 2015. But literally every other job that's opened in the past five years has been filled by one of the following types of coaches:

An under-compensated mid-major coach
An assistant
An unemployed coach
A coach-on-the-run for one reason or another

That's it.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...-offer-its-unwise-to-target-a-list-candidates

Go Gophers!!

 

[bc2211]

Decent quick read.

A couple of thoughts.
1) hopefully this means that if we ever get on the winning side again, that the coach that takes us there won't bolt immediately.

2) Parrish really doesn't provide meaningful criticism of these ADs. The director is obligated to search for the best guy that is willing to come aboard. Probably facing pressure from fans/boosters/etc. Obviously you can't let a coaching search last for too long, but why set your bar low? Interesting observation on hiring trends, but I don't like the spin Parrish put on this.


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[Ignatius L Hoops]

Good read by Parrish. The days of a Minnesota hiring the hot mid-major coach from Gonzaga (fresh off an Elite 8 run) appear long gone. The mid-majors are now paying in some cases, as well or better than many high major jobs. Few, Marshall, Stevens (when he was at Butler), Miller, Jacobson etc. are at schools where basketball is the number one sport, with great pay, less stress of the Big Ten, and more realistic expectations.

As an example: Gregg Marshall, according to this CBS sports column from a year ago, made $3.3 million per year (15% of the Wichita State athletic budget).

But place that $3.3 million in the context of the Shockers' athletic budget and the Missouri Valley Conference as a whole, and forget "eyebrow-raising" -- it's enough to pop the eyes clear out of one's head. Per US Department of Education's figures, available here, Wichita State's reported total athletic expenses for 2013-2014 (the most recent available) were $21,842,821. Though obviously that total will increase once Marshall's salary is accounted for come the 2015-2016 university year, at that number, Marshall's $3.3 million would have accounted for a whopping 15.11 percent of the Shockers' entire athletic budget

 

[DeathClutch]

As an example: Gregg Marshall, according to this CBS sports column from a year ago, made $3.3 million per year (15% of the Wichita State athletic budget).

But place that $3.3 million in the context of the Shockers' athletic budget and the Missouri Valley Conference as a whole, and forget "eyebrow-raising" -- it's enough to pop the eyes clear out of one's head. Per US Department of Education's figures, available here, Wichita State's reported total athletic expenses for 2013-2014 (the most recent available) were $21,842,821. Though obviously that total will increase once Marshall's salary is accounted for come the 2015-2016 university year, at that number, Marshall's $3.3 million would have accounted for a whopping 15.11 percent of the Shockers' entire athletic budget

Wichita State also has the Koch brothers as boosters, who are worth a combined $82 billion. They have ponied up money to be able to pay Marshall a competitive wage.

 

[Ignatius L Hoops]

Wichita State also has the Koch brothers as boosters, who are worth a combined $82 billion. They have ponied up money to be able to pay Marshall a competitive wage.

As detailed here:

http://deadspin.com/charles-koch-ponied-up-to-keep-gregg-marshall-at-wichit-1695496201


Last December, the Kochs gifted $11.25 million to the school, with $4.5 million going to athletics. He and Marshall reportedly have a yearly meeting to discuss the “state of the program.” (To be clear, Koch is not Wichita State’s athletic director or university president.) So, of course, he played a hand in convincing Marshall not to take an enticing interview at Alabama. Marshall’s base salary stood at $1.85 million a year; Koch organized a group of boosters and raised that to about $3 million, according to the Wichita Eagle. The Shockers keep the best coach they’ve ever had, and he gets a top-10 salary