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Underestimating Barry’s ego is a risky proposition. I don’t think it sat well with him Bo forced his hand. It would be a bold move, but not one that would shock me based on how Gard was hired.
There is no chance that Stevens returns to CBB for a job that isn’t even close to top 5 in its own conference.
Maybe, but I suspect Scott Drew will get a lot of run. Pat Forde wrote a piece at SI about that potential fit. Drew has done a wonderful job in Waco. Not sure what he wants moving forward but there is some sense in that marriage
Of course Alvarez should fire Gard.Aren't folks here saying that Marquette should have seen every "red flag" and fired Wojo as many as 5 years ago? Well, here's to ya, Greg Gard ...Losing record in Year 3 - red flag.No NCAA tournament wins in 4 years - red flag.18-point NCAAT loss (as 5-seed) to Oregon in 2019 - red flag.Missed out on the Hausers -- TWICE! -- red flag.Lost Tyler Herro to Kentucky - red flag.Red weinies on numerous other top state recruits - red flag.Losses to Richmond and New Mexico in last year's Legends Classic - red flag.Blowout loss to NC State in last year's ACC-Big Ten Challenge - red flag.Several lopsided defeats this season, his 6th as head coach - red flag.And the biggest red flag of all: 2-3 vs Wojo - RED EFFEN FLAG!Shouldn't Alvarez stop ignoring all those red flags? Shouldn't Gard get the ax?
I'm sure IU is ready to return to the Kelvin Sampson days. Then they can hire Wojo to clean it up and return to the Tom Crean days. Full circle!
Crean had to rebuild a program that was in shambles in so many ways. Not enough players, academic issues, Davis and Sampson generating a lot of bad press. He accomplished that, but he could never get over the hump the way Hoosier nation demanded.Miller was not the first choice. He has been a meh coach. The problem for IU is the same as for MU. There aren't that many great coaches out there. And times have changed. Bobby Knight would probably struggle today, just like Al. Wouldn't have the state of Indiana locked down like Al wouldn't get the cracked sidewalks kids. Crean's record is his record. Adequate, not great.
Crean had to rebuild a program that was in shambles in so many ways. Not enough players, academic issues, Davis and Sampson generating a lot of bad press. He accomplished that, but he could never get over the hump the way Hoosier nation demanded.
That said, I think MU would have beaten that Indiana team.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
May be for the best that we didn't get to play Indiana. I don't think this board could have handled it either way.
It depends upon how one defines "struggle," but there's no question Knight would struggle today compared to his own lofty standards.His last 6 seasons at Indiana, he won 2 NCAAT games. And in his 6 full seasons at Texas Tech, he won 3.So one of the most accomplished coaches in college basketball history won a grand total of 5 NCAA tournament games - getting to the second weekend once - in his last 12+ seasons.There are too many outstanding coaches who don't choke and shove and scream relentlessly at athletes. Why would the today's best players willingly play for a bully and ogre?I'm biased, but I like to think Al would have adjusted to the times pretty well. At his core, he was a "player's coach" before that term existed. Bobby? He was a dinosaur right till the end, when he handed his dreadfully unqualified son a sh!tty program midway through the season because he knew it was the only way Pat could ever get a P6 job.
Stevens told Nate Oats that if he would return to college, it would be at a school with a major football team. The spotlight would be on basketball from January to March. Why I think he would be more keen at ND versus IU. I do not think ND is in the same stratosphere as IU for basketball.
...if I had been any good as a HS player and Coach Knight called...when he was at IU, that is, i’d sign. Absolutely. No question. Most of the guys that played for him, from those teams in the ‘70’s thru his TT days, love him.
He didn't stop winning big at IU because he suddenly forgot how to coach. He didn't only win 5 NCAAT games in his last 12 seasons because he suddenly forgot how to coach.He stopped having second-weekend-and-better level success because he could no longer recruit the kind of athletes he got in the 1970s and '80s. Instead, he got guys like you, who were happy to sign on with the great Bobby Knight but who maybe weren't Isiah Thomas. (No insult intended; maybe you woulda been Isiah Thomas good if not for that foot injury.)Yes, many of his players, even in his later years, said they got a lot out of playing for him. Unfortunately for him, not that many of those guys were the elite players who helped him build his legend. Right until the end, he was a good enough coach to turn decent, hard-working players into NCAA teams. But he wasn't good enough to turn teams full of less-than-great players into Final Four squads.Great players simply said, "I don't need to get abused to get to the Final Four and to make the NBA. I have other choices."
I see no way they make a move unless something behind the scenes going on. Message board smoke if anything “There is actually some trouble brewing in Madison that i am not at liberty to go into right now.”
I'm biased, but I like to think Al would have adjusted to the times pretty well. At his core, he was a "player's coach" before that term existed.