UPDATED: Bill Carmody out as Northwestern's HC

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goldengophers said:
As weird as it seems- considering he was fired at NW- I wouldn't rule him out.
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He's a game coach who seems to have a good basketball mind. Remember in our away meeting this year - the game that cemented the Gophers' drop from grace - he employed the slow-down system that destroyed the Gophers' confidence, and may have permanently scarred the players and coaching staff of our program. By all rights he overachieved at Northwestern, and simply never had the healthy players to carry him to the next level. Was the fact that he never had the players his fault or the program for which he coached? The answer to that question is likely the answer to whether or not he could achieve better at Minnesota, IMO.
 


howeda7 said:
I respect him as a coach, but I don't want to run that offense. It makes Wiscy look dynamic.
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What? Princeton offense is full of cuts and screens and motion. Kind of the definition of dynamic actually.
 

Gold Vision said:
What? Princeton offense is full of cuts and screens and motion. Kind of the definition of dynamic actually.
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Pretty sure Cal ran a form of the Princeton at Memphis too. Not sure what he runs now.

Thing with the Princeton is you can make it as complex (NBA version) or simple (high school version) as you'd like. Not an expert on it by any means, but it does seem to be pretty movement base.

My guess is the original poster is talking about the offense they ran when their whole team got hurt. The we can't beat you so we will just try and lose 21-19 philosophy.
 

howeda7 said:
I respect him as a coach, but I don't want to run that offense. It makes Wiscy look dynamic.
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Like his offense, don't want to go back to the days of Monson'esque like defenses though.
 


Any candidates from Tubby's coaching tree..............?
 

jovs said:
Like his offense, don't want to go back to the days of Monson'esque like defenses though.
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What about Tubby's defense do you enjoy so much? The part where no lead is too big to lose? The part where the opposing team gets 20+ wide open looks from 3 every game? The part where the interior defenders are taught to contest every shot such that they lose rebounding position and get a ton of fouls?

Was Monson's defense really any worse than Tubby's?
 

Chris Collins is the name being mentioned for the job already by a number of people.
 

howeda7 said:
I respect him as a coach, but I don't want to run that offense. It makes Wiscy look dynamic.
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You apparently have never seen NU run their Princeton. It is perpetual motion. It is true that they often do not take a shot until very late in the clock to eat up time but they make the Gopher half court offense look like "Night of the Living Dead."
 



gopherMD said:
You apparently have never seen NU run their Princeton. It is perpetual motion. It is true that they often do not take a shot until very late in the clock to eat up time but they make the Gopher half court offense look like "Night of the Living Dead."
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Agreed. If Tubby installed a faster paced Princeton offense a la Cal at Memphis, we'd be doing pretty well.

Eddie Jordan for Gophers assistant!!!
 

Goldy Gopher said:
Chris Collins is the name being mentioned for the job already by a number of people.
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Would be an interesting hire. Although, the Coaching tree for Coach K hasn't been very successful overall. Brey has been good at Notre Dame and Amaker has been okay. Dawkins hasn't done much at Stanford so far. Capel was a disaster after VCU and we all know about Quin Snyder.
 

Big Ten BB coach fired

It ain't Tubby!

After 13 years NW gave up.
 




scher215 said:
Pretty sure Cal ran a form of the Princeton at Memphis too. Not sure what he runs now.

Thing with the Princeton is you can make it as complex (NBA version) or simple (high school version) as you'd like. Not an expert on it by any means, but it does seem to be pretty movement base.

My guess is the original poster is talking about the offense they ran when their whole team got hurt. The we can't beat you so we will just try and lose 21-19 philosophy.
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Georgetown runs a variant of the Princeton offense as their base offense, too.

I love the Princeton offense. It creates so much space near the basket for players to operate, I'm not sure why more teams don't employ it - at least as a change-up offense. It can be made simple enough that it can work as a change up. Opposing teams have a hard time adjusting to it.

I remember a couple of my daughter's opposing middle school teams running it. It was deadly at that level because the league at that level frowns on zone defenses. If you have players with good instincts that can move without the ball and pass, it's a beautiful thing. Four players above the free throw line extended and let nature take its course!
 






If Norwood hires Bill Carmody to replace Tubby I'm jumping on the fire Norwood bandwagon.
 

jamalo said:
LOL. The most curious thing about Tubby is that he doesn't have a coaching tree. Most NC winning coaches out there have one!
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Come on, Ron Jirsa tried and failed to even get an interview at UW-Eau Claire a couple years ago.
 

If you look at Jim Phillips record at NIU, he hired Ricardo Patton to replace an ok coach in Rob Judson. If you think Tubby is mailing it in, take a look at Patton's NIU record & it makes Tubby look like John Wooden. NU's academics are harder, but I think Pat FitzGerald's success with the football and it's players has loosened up the restrictions just about. When Amaker interviewed for the NU job 13 years ago, he passed because the academic restrictions were way tougher than Duke's at the time.
 

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