Marcus Q&A with Coyle: "I’ve started to have conversations with people today...I’ve had conversations with people about who is interested and not"

[USAF]

Well, with a detailed, well-reasoned argument like that...

Your entire point is Gopher basketball needs to aim for mediocrity as a ceiling. Herb Sendek will have a good chance to get us back to .500!!

What a dumbass idea.

Detailed and well-reasoned enough?

 

[USAF]

This is why I never put anyone on ignore. This board is endless entertainment. I’m the same with this basketball team, once you learn it’s entertainment, your emotional highs and lows become muted in either direction. I love gopher hoops but my life will never be so involved emotionally with it to ruin my day .

Yeah, that's what we should strive for in our sports.
Muted highs and lows.

How entertaining!!

 

[Ewert86PC]

We were on a break.

Unagi!

 

[ShushPush]

Unagi!

Just call me Jake.

 

[kg21]

Some of the same people who wanted Coyle to fire the head coach which he did also think Coyle will screw up the hiring of the next coach.

Then why fire the current head coach if you’re just going to screw up the new hire?

GHole never change. You provide endless entertainment.

because if Coyle throws darts to pick the next coach.......it's going to be hard to screw it up worse.

22 - 57

Just Damn!

 

[Outsider]

Yeah, that's what we should strive for in our sports.
Muted highs and lows.

How entertaining!!

That’s me personally, you do what ever you want.

 

[disco]

When season ticket purchases fall year-over-year and ticket prices with them, it is a failure to understand the value of money. Coyle is making the mistake of believing a budget determines cash flow and profitability. The only thing that does is the product. Right now, the product is crap making the budget garbage.

In person attendance for hoops is a drop in the bucket financially compared to TV money, Football, and revenue sharing.

 

[disco]

He has stated the regents expect him to follow a budget. Blame the correct party.

Every AD has some sort of a budget. Sure, some SEC football programs and Oregon probably have insanely wealthy booster groups that buyout and pay for new coaches like it's nothing, but you can't tell me that schools like the U - Indiana, Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin, Iowa, Iowa State, Missouri (insert other midwestern flagship school) don't have AD's that have to answer to the administration and regents before spending money.

 

[ShushPush]

In person attendance for hoops is a drop in the bucket financially compared to TV money, Football, and revenue sharing.

Do you think advertisers are chasing down the Minnesota games going "That's the place for my ad dollars"? I don't think so. As a revenue sharing league, we exist on the largess of others. If we don't attempt to pull our weight, then that looks bad and is bad. It is bad for everyone.

 

[bga1]

I was under the impression President Gabel got involved and forced Coyle into a corner about who he could hire.

She did. Coyle should have said, no way. I was joking about the "Ben blew him away" comment. I think Coyle understood that Ben should not have gotten the job, but had hopes he could succeed because of his character.

 

[Ewert86PC]

Do you think advertisers are chasing down the Minnesota games going "That's the place for my ad dollars"? I don't think so. As a revenue sharing league, we exist on the largess of others. If we don't attempt to pull our weight, then that looks bad and is bad. It is bad for everyone.

Minnesota, Land of Passive-Aggressive Superiority Complex.

 

[bmb5270]

LOL sorry no. Rick Pitino is 73. It isn't stopping him. 70 is the new 60.

Minnesota is not an entry level job. Whoever is hired is going to need to have experience working in environments where you don't have all of the advantages. Because being honest, Minnesota has few.

If it was me I'd probably hire for the right skill set rather than engage in age discrimination.

But hey if you want to hire another greenhorn and wonder why it doesn't work...

I'm open to other veteran options but honestly most of the ones with the skill set are already in major conference jobs.

Your list of active or recently active coaches with 9+ NCAA tournament appearances (Sendek has 8):
Izzo, Self, Calipari, Pitino, Huggins, Altman, Few, Pearl, Wright, Hamilton, Bennett, Larranaga, Marshall, Alford, Cronin, Mack.

So we have absolute nos, guys that are probably retired, probably critically damaged goods -- Huggins and Marshall -- and Steve Alford and Chris Mack.

Although...if having a permanent personal driver was part of Huggins' contract...hmmm...

The last 2 hires would suggest that Minnesota IS an entry level job.

 

[Goldy-Wan Kenobi]

Herb Sendek??

Good lord. No. What a terrible idea.

Maurice Sendak? Now we’re talking.

 

[2timegopheralum]

Your entire point is Gopher basketball needs to aim for mediocrity as a ceiling. Herb Sendek will have a good chance to get us back to .500!!

What a dumbass idea.

Detailed and well-reasoned enough?

Not really but I guess it's what you're capable of.

Minnesota isn't going to get a big name and it's not a job that just anyone can have success in, even if they would be a good coach in many other situations. Sendek has experience being an underdog and making it work. No program he's ever left has come out better for it having happened. And obviously he's left them better than they were when he started, but that's not really praiseworthy bc they were so bad. What is praiseworthy is going to NCAA and NIT tournaments and producing NBA players with them.

Mediocrity would be an improvement for Minnesota. 1 winning conference season since 2005. But every coach with 4+ years in UMN history managed at least .500 or better season in the conference...until now.

There are 2 choices -- hire someone that can punch above his weight, or cheat. And cheating is pretty hard these days bc there aren't that many rules now.

 

[2timegopheralum]

The last 2 hires would suggest that Minnesota IS an entry level job.

OK fair enough.

An inexperienced hire cannot have success at Minnesota. Anyone who has never experienced setbacks and overcome resource disadvantages is not going to do well in the job.

 

[Gopher Ally]

Not really but I guess it's what you're capable of.

Minnesota isn't going to get a big name and it's not a job that just anyone can have success in, even if they would be a good coach in many other situations. Sendek has experience being an underdog and making it work. No program he's ever left has come out better for it having happened. And obviously he's left them better than they were when he started, but that's not really praiseworthy bc they were so bad. What is praiseworthy is going to NCAA and NIT tournaments and producing NBA players with them.

Mediocrity would be an improvement for Minnesota. 1 winning conference season since 2005. But every coach with 4+ years in UMN history managed at least .500 or better season in the conference...until now.

There are 2 choices -- hire someone hthat can punch above his weight, or cheat. And cheating is pretty hard these days bc there aren't that many rules now.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

Ally are you ok?! Are you ok Ally?! Ally are you ok?!…..

 

[USAF]

Not really but I guess it's what you're capable of.

Minnesota isn't going to get a big name and it's not a job that just anyone can have success in, even if they would be a good coach in many other situations. Sendek has experience being an underdog and making it work. No program he's ever left has come out better for it having happened. And obviously he's left them better than they were when he started, but that's not really praiseworthy bc they were so bad. What is praiseworthy is going to NCAA and NIT tournaments and producing NBA players with them.

Mediocrity would be an improvement for Minnesota. 1 winning conference season since 2005. But every coach with 4+ years in UMN history managed at least .500 or better season in the conference...until now.

There are 2 choices -- hire someone that can punch above his weight, or cheat. And cheating is pretty hard these days bc there aren't that many rules now.

Are you Sendek's agent? Or his mom?

There's really no other explanation for such nonsense.

 

[EG#9]

Mark's interview with the Strib and Mark's press conference today seemed to be very different. I was more encouraged by the press conference than the Strib interview.

I just never want to hear "doing it the right way" or "At Minnesota..." again. To me these are code phrases for not actually expecting to compete at the top and a built in excuse to fail.

 

[#2Gopher]

Yeah but he hired Ben after the last time he said that and everyone was pissed. He knows the position he's in now and I think he learned from last time. Under promise, over deliver.

I read somewhere that it was not his pick, but rather the previous president's pick. At the same time, it has been said he wants to make the pick. Perhaps some finger pointing here. I don't know as I wasn't a fly on the wall.