UPDATED: Andy Enfield the new HC at USC

[Holy Man]

UCLA is dead in southern cal.

I saw FGCU in January and they were good then and certainly had potential to make noise in the tournament. In case people missed it, in conference play, certain teams get your number. A conference loss to a "bad" team does not make the team that lost a bad team. It happens.

The more I learned of his background, the more I thought he could make it in the big time, including here. That said, the beautiful people like he and his wife are not typically looking at Minnesota as a place to relocate. Lifestyle wise, I suspect we were never in the running.

 

[bga1]

The longer this takes the more and more I am thinking Gregg Marshall is the number one target. If he wasn't, that'd either mean we really have been turned down by everyone and we are scrambling or that Teague has someone and for whatever reason is waiting to announce it

And with every major job being filled, if he is truly interested we have only one competition for him. The school he is currently at. UCLA is filled. Northwestern is filled. USC is filled. Texas Tech is filled.

GW also alluded to their being potential reasons he may look at MN.

I think if Marshall ends up being the hire, NT deserves enourmous credit for how he handled this. I think it really would be chess vs. checkers at that point letting every position get filled, not panicking, and just waiting for his guy.

I'd compare it to the draft. Let's say your opinion is there are no all-star pickes outside of the top 2 (Shaka and Stevens). Guys 3-30 are all pretty similar in your eyes. Except for one. Only issue is, he won't come over from Europe for a year so teams shy away as they want a guy now.

NT may not care if he ends up with Stephens from MSU or Enfield as he views them as similar quality so he can gamble on Marshall coming over after the tournament run. He may, for whatever reason, be fairly certain of Marshall too. Who knows.

Marshall would be a good hire.

 

[westcoastgopher11]

Marshall would be a good hire.

+1

 

[THE SCOUT!]

Greg Marshall...dream on fellas

 

[Plinnius]

UCLA is dead in southern cal.

I saw FGCU in January and they were good then and certainly had potential to make noise in the tournament. In case people missed it, in conference play, certain teams get your number. A conference loss to a "bad" team does not make the team that lost a bad team. It happens.

The more I learned of his background, the more I thought he could make it in the big time, including here. That said, the beautiful people like he and his wife are not typically looking at Minnesota as a place to relocate. Lifestyle wise, I suspect we were never in the running.

They also lost to East Tennessee St. and Stetson, so there were multiple bad losses. There were also a few "bad" wins. Beat Alcorn St. by two. Florida International by three. 3-27 Kennesaw St. by nine. North Florida by two. South Carolina Upstate by one in OT. Jacksonville by three. Northern Kentucky by seven.

They were certainly an odd team.

 

[drinks at Northpoint]

If they draw 2 seed Duke instead of Georgetown, we never hear his name.

 

[Hungry and Starving]

Late to the party and it may be somewhere else, but is Marshall a Villa 7 guy?

 

[Gopher07]

Late to the party and it may be somewhere else, but is Marshall a Villa 7 guy?

Nope. Became a HC at Winthrop in 1998, Villa 7 started in 2004.