OT: Amaker Emerges as Top Choice at Georgetown
Would be a good pickup for G'Town, but is it a good move for Amaker? Is G'Town still a relevant program in this day and age of one-and-dones/AAU basketball?
The Big East doesn't really have programs that get the one and dones.
Exactly...for those saying their time is over. Look at Villanova. If you get the right coach, you'll be just fine.
Xavier and Butler both have had recent success. There's ZERO reason to believe Georgetown can't. Just have to get the players in there.
...is Amaker a good enough coach. Yes...he has been quite good at Harvard but at Michigan and Seton Hall? Not so much.
I didn't say one thing about Amaker.
My entire post was about the ability to win at Georgetown.
Villanova is more likely the exception rather than the rule. They were a 1 seed this year and list early. You have to go all way back to 1985 which was also Villanova's last championship before you find another school like Villanova winning. That was actually the time period when small programs were considered traditional powers.
If you have boosters who are willing to support your program, you can win anywhere. Ask Larry Brown.
That won him his only NCAA title. LB can coach his tail off, but there's no title without Danny.
I wonder if Amaker has grown enough as a coach to finally succeed at a high-profile school. I wish him well if he does, indeed, take the job.
In a pretty damn talent rich area too.
Although his foray at Michigan didn't go so well, he seems to know what it takes to win at small private schools (Seton Hall, Harvard). He took Harvard to 4 straight NCAA tournament appearances. Their only other appearance was in 1946. He may not reach the heights from the 80s, but consistent NCAA tournament appearances and occasionally a 2nd weekend appearance could be in the cards.
Didn't realize that John Thompson III hadn't made it past the first weekend since the 2006-07 season.
Also, looks like a lot of Hoya fans are on the Tom Crean bandwagon, with a large contingent of #AnyoneButAmaker folks. Crean also had success at a catholic university (Marquette) before heading to IU. Might be a good move, and they can hang out with John Harbaugh.
Hehe I want Tom Crean to get that job...for all of the wrong reasons.
My understanding is that Harvard before Amaker had the highest academic admissions standards in the Ivy League. He's crootin on a top-30 level primarily becauase he's convicned the admissions department to give a bigger break to basketball players. Presumably there already doing that at Georgetown, so he's not going to have that as a way to turn them around.
Amaker had a team that would've made the tournament if not for the sanctions. Who knows what that exposure would've done for his recruiting. Considering what Amaker had to deal with, and how young of a coach he was, I think he did pretty well. He definitely left the program in better shape than he found it.
Honestly thought Patrick Ewing was the front runner.
And expectation of the outcome.
I'd love a run-down of the last few years S16 teams, and an analysis of whether they are "one-and-done" type programs, or something else. I mean, even Gonzaga-UNC... how many one-and-done's on those two rosters? Neither team is Kentucky, right? What is the way to success nowadays? One-and-done, or "family"? I'm pretty damn happy with 3 S16 appearances in the last 5 years, but maybe the greedy need to be one-and-done programs to win NC's?
aren't good... in spite of winning 2 games in NCAA tournament
How about a BTT title?
8th place--actually tied for 5th
B10 tourney winner
One last second shot away from beating a team that should have had a last second shot at getting to the NC game.
If Amaker can run a more fast paced offense, he can be successful.
- As of yesterday, Danny Hurley, Tom Crean, and Jamion Christian had not been contacted about the position.
I kind of wonder where Tom Crean will end up next, but the idea of Amaker at Georgetown is actually rather interesting to me. Like Harvard, it seems like a situation that would be in his wheelhouse.
Dumb question: why would G'town even go after Shaka? He had a miserable '16-'17 season at Texas. Possibly looks like he's not cut out for big time programs. Is there a legit excuse for his poor season?
He is killing on the recruting trail especially this years class. There top 4 players this year were all freshmen and sophmores.
Having a young team in football is a bad thing. That's actually supposed to be a good thing in basketball especially if you are killing it on the recruiting trail.
The question I was going to ask is why would Shaka even consider going to G'Town? Wouldn't Texas be a more prestigious position? Would it only be a preemptive move to bail before he got fired?
than Texas. They've won National Championship and been to Final Four 5 times. Texas has never won it with zero NC game appearance but they did have 3 FF appearance.
actually won it all and have been to NC game 3 times where Texas has none.
This would be interesting, but I wonder what happens when Amaker goes back to a big-name program with expectations of success. He doesn't want to be a public persona, he doesn't like doing press, etc. He can do well at a place like Harvard, but unless he's learned something from Michigan, I don't know how Georgetown works out for him.
They offered 4 years $27 million, he turned it down.
100% agree. I think he's much better off in a program where he isn't in the spotlight. He'd find it hard to find as good a gig again if Georgetown doesn't work out.