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.
I wanted to start a new thread but my wife said I can't.
Bobby Knight!
Patrick Beilien
Bill Laimbeer
Colgate coach Matt Langel. Guy's been getting things done at a place with academic standards and limited resources.
Hoiberg or bust
Jon Sanderson
Shaka Smart. End of list.
The goal of college basketball is to win a national championship, not have weird hair and lose in the first weekend every season
Gruden
I got excited scrolling through these ideas until I was reminded of the AD. Does a great hire keep him around?
Bill Frieder is just sitting out there waiting for the phone to ring.
My wish list:
- Brian Deutcher
- Jay Wright (Retired guy I favor of JB)
- Tony Bennett
- Any Hurley
- Chris Collins
- Cronin
- Few
- Scott Drew
- Greg McDermott
Explore, kick tires:
- Holtman
- Nate Oats
- Danny Sprinkle
- Amir Abdur-Rahim
- Joe Pasternack
- Eric Henderson
- Doug Wojcik
- Kellen Sampson
Not:
- Dane Fife
- Crean
- Any Millers
- Will Wade
- Donovan
- Lavell Jordan
- Beard
- Anyone on current staff (move on)
- Pitino
- Anyone who can't NIL or Portal and at the same time live with M's peculiarities on this front
Oats just signed an extended deal this past hour. Bama shut the door on that.
I know Oats had drama baggage too from Buffalo days so I presumed he wouldn't make it anyway. Dude is recruiting though and getting results at a football school.
Only Hurley I want is Elizabeth.
March 15th, 2024 at 10:47 PM ^
And the Holt Man is off the board, off to walk in the footsteps of Ray and Joey Meyers at DePaul (55 years and over 950 wins between them).
Willie Green - Detroit Cooley and U of D grad, long NBA career, and head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans since 2021
Eric Musselman
Rick Pitino
make up for the Bill Martin sailing/squash fuckup from 25 years ago
I like Hoiberg, Kyle Smith and Abdur-Rahim.
I would definitely take 5 more years of Beilein over anyone though if it’s even an option.
Steve Kerr
greg popovich
phil jackson
rick pitino
March 15th, 2024 at 10:08 PM ^
Sounds like they’ve reached out to Cronin to gauge his interest.
That would be the definition of an underwhelming hire. Cincinnati never did anything in the tournament under him and UCLA went 16-17 this year.
He did knock our best team of the last five years out of the tournament in the Elite 8. The guy can coach. Perhaps I'm wrong, but my understanding is that UCLA had the kind of rebuilding year with a young team that will happen after a group of influential seniors graduates. Cronin might not be my first choice (I like the sound of this guy from South Florida, Amir Abdur-Rahim), but Michigan could do a hell of a lot worse.
March 15th, 2024 at 10:46 PM ^
Becky Hammon
March 15th, 2024 at 11:02 PM ^
Somewhat OT: Whomever Michigan selects as its next head basketball coach (and let's assume that Becky Hammon and Dawn Staley aren't interested), won't that person want to have a good idea of the roster he'll have to work with next season before he accepts that offer? I'm thinking of how Mike Rhoades went from VCU to Penn State late last March and then had to get nine transfers to build his roster for this season.
Tray Jackson, Terrance Williams II and Olivier Nkamhoua are out of eligibility. Jace Howard now has a good reason to play elsewhere.
Do Dug McDaniel, Nimari Burnett and Tarris Reed want to stay?
Does Jaelin Lllewellyn who started and played 21 games at Princeton in 2018-2019 have another graduate year because he missed the 2020-21 season due to COVID 19 shutting down the Ivy League season and he missed most of the 2022-23 season at Michigan due to injury?
Will the two recruited point guards, Christian Anderson and Durral Brooks who signed letters of intent ask to get out of their commitments? Will Dug McDaniel's cousin Khani Rooths decommit if McDaniel decides to leave?
March 15th, 2024 at 11:09 PM ^
Darian Devries from Drake. Please.
March 15th, 2024 at 11:49 PM ^
Watching SDSU come back from 17 down against Utah State, easy to see how this style would be hugely successful here. Deep bench of athletes who play lockdown D & outhustle you on offense. Bring Dutch back to AA.
March 16th, 2024 at 11:03 AM ^
People still watch basketball?
March 19th, 2024 at 12:50 PM ^
John Bellein.
His teams have been fun to watch.