Because it makes your eventually hire look like the 5th or 6th choice, no matter how Teague tries to spin it at the press conference. Think Sidney Lowe at NC State. How many times do you think a top shelf/unlikely coaching candidate has ever been hired because an AD decided to give it a whirl? I bet not many. It's never a good thing to have a list people to turn down your coaching vacancy.
How long did it take other Big 10 teams to find coaches?
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Because it makes your eventually hire look like the 5th or 6th choice, no matter how Teague tries to spin it at the press conference. Think Sidney Lowe at NC State. How many times do you think a top shelf/unlikely coaching candidate has ever been hired because an AD decided to give it a whirl? I bet not many. It's never a good thing to have a list people to turn down your coaching vacancy.
I'd say it's been much longer than 7 days that we started looking at candidates. NT knew well before the end of the season that Tubby was canned.
I think it is the number of coaches that have already been offered/contacted and said "no" rather than the length of time that is giving folks heartburn.
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I think almost every coach is hired after the AD or GM (in pros) tries to go after the people that are almost impossible to land. Of course, we have no idea who has all been offered for the Gopher job. I think Shaka was probably discussed and Flip. I don't buy the Hoiberg stuff in the least, in never made an iota of sense, Doogie had a tweet and Hoiberg got a raise.
As far as examples of coaches who didn't appear to be the first choice who went on to do well. . .Brian Kelly at Notre Dame (football) really didn't appear to be in their top 5, Michigan pushed hard for Harbaugh after firing RichRod, Bo Ryan was not WI's first choice (or didn't appear to be), the Indiana job had a TON of names floated out there before they found their guy, Illinois had a ton of names floated out there and I think Groce did a really nice job. . .
Most of the coaching vacancies, the teams will take a swing at someone who is highley unlikely and it doesn't really seem to have any impact on the success of the future coach.
Oh, no doubt. You can probably find tons of examples of successful coaches who weren't the top choice. I'm just speaking from a PR perspective. Some may not think its a big deal, others may think the perception of the program matters.
Bottom line is who ever gets hired, if he wins its all good.
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I agree, from a PR perspective people go crazy during these coaching searches. It's almost like they've never seen one before. According to the media (everywhere), it seems like every coaching search is dragging on and they are doing a terrible job. It's the nature of the beast.
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He probably didn't waste time going after high profile "unrealistic" candidates that you are almost obligated to go after when you are a major conference program. That by itself probably saved him at least a week.
Correct. It's a totally different situation making a mid-major hire. Teague basically had three candidates he was considering, one dropped out, so it was basically between Shaka and Russ Springmann (Assistant to Rick Barnes) and he knew either would accept if offered.
On the contrary, to me it seems like he has a plan. But I see absolutely no issue with him hitting up the big guns on the off chance they would be interested. Why shouldn't he? It never hurts to ask. If one of them says yes, score! If they say no, we haven't lost anything.