ESPN Reporting that Bacari Alexander in contention for Wisc Green-Bay job.
Just seent over at UMHoops that Bacari Alexander is in the running for the Wisconsin Green Bay job along with 3 other candidates. Because I'm a selfish prick I hope that the Phoenix select someone else.
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grammar be not me strong suit.
Yoda I presume....
I think he meant "[I had] just seen..."
I'm not sure what I meaned
He mean he had just seent.
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This is not a bad thing. The guy is from Detroit (meaning he's local), he's only 38, he doesn't have any head coaching experience yet. When Beilein retires in 4-5 years, then the winningest coach in Wisc-GB history will be the obvious candidate to replace him.
Dave Buss won 270 games with WGB. Good luck to Bacari if that's his goal in 5 years
He will
LaVall Jordan will be tough to beat for the job. I think Beilein's grooming him to be his successor. Alexander could be a good Plan B though.
Do people really know this or are you just talking out of your ass?
You make it sound so pejorative. There is nothing wrong with the latter.
I just find it odd that Lavall Jordan is Beilein's successor in the eyes of fans without any concrete evidence. It's disrespectful to Alexander to not even include him in the discussion when people automatically assume Jordan is going to be the next Head Coach.
I think all you have to do is look at the development of our guards as opposed to our bigs. Alot of perimeter players have made huge leaps year to year and expanded their games with this staff whereas our bigs have not seen as much return. Part of it is that the offense itself is perimeter oriented giving our guards an opportunity to shine, but that doesn't account for all improvements. Now, we've had more talent to work with on the perimeter as well. But I think we have some concrete evidence that Jordan is very good at developing guards. We don't have as much evidence with BA and bigs.
Just seen is Michigandese for I just saw. We all know that.
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Incestuous hiring practices did the football program in. Let's not go down that road with basketball.
It's fine to go "inside" if the candidate is qualified. Hoke was a .500 coach at mid majors, so he would have never been considered if he didn't have Michigan ties. If Jordan or Alexander prove themselves at other jobs with some conference titles/NCAA tourney appearances, no reason why they shouldn't be considered. And when Red retires, going inside with Pearson as HC would be a fantastic decision.
I mean, yeah, that seems nice now and everything, but I'm assuming people weren't too happy at the time they were actually happening.
Two of those came under Moeller (who had opened his tenure with three consecutive B1G titles) and two came under Carr. Carr did face some scrutiny entering 1997, but we know what followed.
On the whole, 1990-99 featured five B1G titles, a national championship, two Heisman Trophy winners and seven bowl victories. I'll take another decade like that.
I remember people being pissed about the one-loss seasons in the 70s.
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The problem is the football program hired from within when they quite possibly weren't the best guy but maybe because they were well liked or they had been with Lloyd Carr on staff for 15 years. Lavall Jordan might actually be the best candidate for the job and could do the best job of anyone.
It shows we have a good staff when all of our asistant coaches are in in contention for jobs elsewhere.
I tend to agree, but there are multiple outlets reporting this right now.
Wish him luck if he leaves; feels like he might come back once Beilein retires, or at least will be at the top of the list. At this point, it behooves Michigan to have a semblance of a coaching tree.
According to a report from ESPN's Jeff Goodman, Michigan assistant Bacari Alexander is a candidate for the head coach's position at Wisconsin-Green Bay. He's joined on the short list by Green Bay assistant Brian Barone, Brooklyn Nets assistant coach Joe Wolf and Xavier assistant Travis Steele. - From MLive
I believe it was UW-Green Bay's coach that took the Bradley job, but all the same, it would be interesting to see a Beilein coaching tree really start to grow out from Ann Arbor. That being said, I found myself a bit partial to the "NO YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM" sentiment of Maize'n'Brew on Twitter too.
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Bacari's not "old", but it does seem if he has aspirations to be a D-1 HC it's getting time "to make that move."
For the mid-major world, Green Bay is a fairly good job. Win the Horizon and make the NCAA a couple times and other opportunities will open up.
You're right. I was extremely confused when Wardle jumped from GB to Bradley though. Seemed like a lateral move, or even a step down. He seemed like a guy that could have jumped to a P5 with a big season or 2 like Bruce Pearl going to Tennessee from UW-Milwaukee.