Kolek planning to go pro
The programs finances and facilities were fine. The mandate to run a clean program, conference realignment, the roster you mentioned, and the fact that your only as good as your last season, we're all challenges Wojo was contending with when he was hired as a first time head coach. I suspect those challenges were the chief reason more high profile established head coaches didn't make themselves available.
The programs finances and facilities were fine. The mandate to run a clean program, conference realignment, the roster you mentioned, and the fact that your only as good as your last season, we're all challenges Wojo was contending with when he was hired as a first time head coach. I suspect those challenges were the chief reason more high profile established head coaches didn't make themselves available.Wojo was willing to take on those challenges, and was rewarded for the results he achieved with a modest extension that matched the results. If he wants to get another extension he will probably have to produce better results. With the recruits he has coming in, he just might get those results.Hope so.
Clean program, lolAll those NCAA sanctions, reduced scholarships, post season bans, banners that came down. That God we cleaned that mess up.
We agree, and Wojo and Deane are nowhere comparable in any way whatsoever.
I obviously meant compared to Buzz.
I am not sure why, but good experienced coaches do not want to coach at MU.
Marquette has never in my lifetime been able to hire a high profile established head coach. So the “why” is we are Marquette, not the minor or imagined challenges you mention.Again, no doubt whatsoever, the PROGRAM Wojo inherited - facilities, financial commitment, recent successes was strong.
Like Lens said, all those sanctions imposed, Big East championships nullified, NCAA tournament victories vacated, banners brought down from the rafters...oh...never happened after Buzz left? Never mind.
There are some on this board who have zero trust that MU can make the right choice. I'm not one of them.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Did MU ever even make a run at a high profile established coach? Cant recall one, did we ever make a run? Guys like Ryan, Bennett or any of another dozen or so?
I'm definitely not one who says "never fire a coach because you don't know who will replace them", that's stupid logic. However, I did want to address this point. I don't think the issue is "zero trust in MU", I think the issue is that selecting a head coach is difficult no matter who is making the choice. You can make the home run hire that every administrator, donor, talking head, and average Joe says is the perfect candidate....and they can suck. You can hire the under the radar coach whose hiring is a shock and a confusion to everyone (and outrage to the fans)....and they can be right and that guy can still suck.A coach who would be successful at one school won't necessarily be successful at another. You can hit a coach in the wrong part of their career. Or you may catch lightening in a bottle.I have 100% trust that MU would hire the best candidate for the job. I just recognize that the best candidate for the job may end up doing worse than the guy before him. Again, that's not a reason not to fire a coach that needs to be fired, but just the reality of the business.
Went after Sean Miller and Tony Bennett when Crean left.Went after Shaka Smarr when Buzz left.
Because 95% of "good, experienced coaches" are perfectly happy where they are and are only going to leave if it is for a clear upgrade. Miller and Smart were shooting for bigger jobs. And got them. Bennett would have been coming home, but is probably perfectly happy with the decision he made to wait.But I think it would be wise to move on from Wojo regardless.
95% ey? source? i'd will willing to bet if one floats the right amount of green in front of most anyone, many would be more perfectly happy to go almost anywhere
I have 100% trust that MU would hire the best candidate for the job. I just recognize that the best candidate for the job may end up doing worse than the guy before him. Again, that's not a reason not to fire a coach that needs to be fired, but just the reality of the business.
100%? Really? I’ll go out on a limb and say there is ample history that disagrees. If, for example, Bob Dukiet was the “best candidate” for the job when he was hired then the list of potential coaches must have been awful.
Mick Cronin from Cincy to UCLA - upgrade
I never compared Wojo to Deane. NEVER. It's hard to take your post seriously when you don't read or purposely misrepresent my posts. That said, I don't think we agree about MU and the people who work for MU. I like MU's athletic department and its ability to run a high major program. You don't think they are competent and can not hire a good coach; hence your position "be careful what you wish for". You need to own your position. Have some backbone. You may be right.
Not trying to undermine your point but Cincy is not a P6 school.
As is said in a previous post; "There is no guaranty the new hire would work out. Every college and pro sports team has made poor hires, but the good organizations recognize the error and correct it."Should MU decide Wojo is not good enough and you "100% trust that MU would hire the best candidate for the job", then the new coach will most likely be better than Wojo.The people who defend Wojo by stating "be careful what you wish for" or "so who will you replace him with?" are making the weakest pro-Wojo argument ever. If that is the logic behind keeping Wojo then MU has serious institutional problems. (I truly don't think that is the case but some here do)