A Thread to Put Ideas for Men's BBall Coaching Candidates
As much as I love seeing new threads about the first thing that pops into OP's head every five seconds, I feel we will all benefit from putting said ideas into one place.
Harbaugh
You should start a new thread for this suggestion.
1)Jim Harbaugh
2)John Harbaugh
3)Nate Oats
But not their brother in law please.
This is why we need a "serious replies only" label. Someone makes a legit topic to help clean the board up and the first comment is something stupid. The real content gets buried.
Limiting to only serious replies would knock out about 90% of the traffic on MGoBlog. We are good at producing produce snark and detailed statistical analyses, and not much in between.
Post something really good with lots of info? 3 upvotes.
Guy points out you missed a comma? 47 upvotes.
It is the way of the blog!
Kyle Smith, NY(?), Josh Schertz, Becky Hammon, Jay Wright, and of course...Murderwolf.
He’s always been here
Did someone recommend an entire state?
Your profile picture never fails to get a sensible chuckle out of me.
There has to be someone there who knows ball.
The Athletic had an amazing article the other week about Josh Shertz. Super interesting background and worth a look. May take Indiana St to first tourney berth in a long time.
This one? https://theathletic.com/5238989/2024/01/31/josh-schertz-indiana-state-basketball/ Love me a good biography on the Athletic.
I would definitely kick the tires on Josh Schertz. What he has done at ISU and Lincoln Memorial is impressive. Kyle Smith would be on my list too but further down. Becky Hammon is interesting but idk how well she would do at the collegiate level as all of her experience is in the pros. Jay Wright is a pipe dream. I would also add taking a look at Fred Hoiberg.
yes, please. i’d like to ignore one post rather than twenty.
Amir Abdur-Rahim
I mean why not!?
Amir Abdur-Rahim. Kennesaw state and USF turn arounds.
Great minds...
I posted this in the Josh Shart post but will put this in the consolidated CC post:
1. Tony Bennett from UVA - same challenges as Michigan from an admissions standpoint and has 1 National Championship under his belt. UVA is consistently an ACC and sweet sixteen or higher contender. Ugly basketball but is successful.
2. Mick Cronin from UCLA - is having a down year. Has been a consistently above average coach and might want to come back to the Midwest.
3. Chris Collins from Northwestern - same challenges with admissions as Michigan. Made the tournament at Northwestern and is in the verge of a second invite. Can he rebuild Michigan? Not sure.
I would love to pull Dan Hurley in, but he’s not leaving UConn.
I think your list is a Shart.
Re Hurley: UM just fired a coach who was involved in multiple altercations. We don't need one who regularly gets into it with fans.
Tony would be awesome, great call. Kinda boring ball, but hey, gets Ws
As someone who sees Tony Bennett on a weekly basis here in Charlottesville, I'd be absolutely dumbfounded if he didn't retire a Hoo. Dude's been here 15 years now.
Seriously! People are insane! No way anyone in your list even considers us for 5 seconds.
Absolutely fucking not Chris Collins. We're not Northwestern, we have substantially more recruiting ability. Michigan football has no problem getting valuable transfers in to pass admissions. There's plenty of kids who get decent enough grades. We just need a coach who's not too inept to spend tons of recruiting capital convincing players to transfer without checking if they, like, go to classes or not.
Coach K's coaching tree, in a word: Unimpressive.
Better than Jizzos
Excepting Crean's Marquette Final Four, agreed. (That's one more than Coach K's tree has made.)
Brad Stevens
Michael Barrett and no one else.
Keith Jackson
I’ve got some bad news for you friend…
He doesn't coach basketball.
Not unless we can get Bob Griese and Frank Broyles as assistants. That would be a great crew!
Shaka Smart!
He can help us play defense from the sidelines. 6 on 5.
I mean, sure if we want to win 20 games a year but never get out of the first round of the NCAA
After this year, that doesn't sound too bad!
I've been a Shaka hater since Trey Burke tore him apart a decade ago.
give hardaway props too for destroying their press
Gimmick ball. Currently it’s illegal screens. Shaka is a fraud.
I think it was Steve Smith that said before that game that Michigan would win easily as Michigan had multiple ball handlers that could address the pressure. So yeah, Shaka has a system that beats up on lesser teams.
Bobby Knight. Because he is just as realistic as anyone else's recommendations.
If you want to go that route, how about John Wooden?
Dean Smith and Al McGuire
James Naismith
Yeah, at least keep "I've heard of this guy" posts to one place.
Good idea DiS, but I guarantee there will be more “here is my idea for CC” threads!