On one hand, that would have been the right timing to snag someone like Nate Oats. On the other hand, Coyle had interested candidates with accomplished resumes last year and didn't hire any of them. So who knows.
Is there another P5 that is similar to us? Probably, I'm just curious.
Clemson perhaps?
Yeah, that might be a good one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Clemson_Tigers_men's_basketball_seasons
We would kill for a sweet 16. Another school that always seems to underachieve is Missouri
One of those being a 2 seed and 21.5 pt favorite when losing to 15 seed Norfolk State in Omaha. I was there and the arena was electric the entire game - mainly because Norfolk was in the game, but also because of the Norfolk State band (they got a standing ovation at halftime and had the place rocking at each TV timeout.)
I remember how Villa 7 was going to solve all the problems when we ended up with Pitino. Is that outfit still around?
It re-branded itself as TopConnect.
I've never fully understood the value unless it's viewed as a LinkedIn for prospective head coaches. I realize ADs have a lot to do besides look for coaches, but shouldn't every one of them have a short list of probables/possibles in their desk drawer?
I've never understood it either. At the time, I thought maybe it was a group that did due diligence on the prospective coaches, but I don't think they do any of that.
Mississippi State. But their Final Four was kind of a fluke. They just fired their version of Tubby Smith.
That doesn't look infected. You're fine.
Yep, even when we win, we end up losing.
What do you think it was with Coyle…sins of the fathers?
No, I think it was he was pressured to keep a low budget program in tact…muss would have been a great story in Minnesota. Hos dad had some exciting basketball teamsWhat do you think it was with Coyle…sins of the fathers?
Numbnuts Pitino bobos wanted "one more year" for an obvious failure. He should have been shitcanned at least 2 years earlier.What do you think it was with Coyle…sins of the fathers?
No, I think it was because we won a tournament game and Coyle probably didn't have the political capital to get sign off for the financial impact of moving on from Pitino and hiring someone new. Unfortunately for Gopher fans, it was pretty clear it wasn't a fit for basketball folks but it was hard to convince the "powers that be".What do you think it was with Coyle…sins of the fathers?
Do you think Amir Coffey waiting until the last minute to declare for the draft maybe had an impact too? Feel like it would have been weird to have Pitino’s continued employment hinge on whether Coffey leaves or not, and that of course hamstrung us from finding another player to fill his scholarship. Coffey likely would have been a preseason All Big Ten player if he had stayed, then add in Marcus Carr and Daniel Oturu on top of that. That team wasn’t even bad by the metrics as it was, finishing #27 in Kenpom, just every game that came down to the wire, they lost. For comparison, Wisconsin is going to hang a Big Ten Championship banner with a team that is currently ranked #34.
The problem with that analysis is Kenpom rewards efficiency more than winning.
This is wrong. He wanted the job when Teague hired Pitino. He has no HC experience at that time and was an assistant at Arizona State. He had an interview set up and Teague canceled it.
