Oso planning to go pro
One would never leave the NBA and that is Doc Rivers and the other one the University would never hire is Rick Pitino.How satisfied is the President and AD along with the board of trustees in where the Mens basketball program is?That is the question.Do they want to win at a high level or be competitive and have a very clean program?
No...and after reading many many psosts from people on this board that do...I have to say I'm MUCH better off, if this is the type of "intelligence" a degree from MU gets you. It sure is on full display I will say that.
I really wanted Wojo fires after the epic collapse last year and I really wanted us to pursue Nate Oates. Oh well.
Nate's not exactly killing it at Alabama. 8-7 overall, 1-2 in conference (where they're giving up 90 ppg). And it's not like he had nothing to work with ... two of the top three scorers from last year returned - and four of the top seven - and he inherited two RSCI top 100 freshman from Avery Johnson (actually three, but one is injured).His 2020 recruiting class currently ranks 83rd in the nation and 12th in the SEC. Pretty sure that wouldn't be acceptable around here.None of this is to say Oats is a bad coach (he's not), but nothing he's done at Bama says Marquette missed the boat on him.
Nate's not exactly killing it at Alabama. 8-7 overall, 1-2 in conference (where they're giving up 90 ppg). And it's not like he has nothing to work with ... two of the top three scorers from last year returned - and four of the top seven - and he inherited two RSCI top 100 freshman from Avery Johnson's recruiting class (actually three, but one is injured).His 2020 recruiting class currently ranks 83rd in the nation and 12th in the SEC. Pretty sure that wouldn't be acceptable around here.None of this is to say Oats is a bad coach (he's not), but nothing he's done at Bama says Marquette missed the boat on him.
Oats would have been a great MU hire. Played his college ball in WI, plays Buzz style ball, energetic guy that would recruit well with our history & resources and get fans engaged.
Fairly disingenuous.Preseason Alabama kenpom rank (so how they should do "on paper"): 70Current Alabama kenpom rank: 53Preseason MU kenpom rank (how we should do "on paper"): 18Current MU kenpom rank: 39Oats would have been a great MU hire. Played his college ball in WI, plays Buzz style ball, energetic guy that would recruit well with our history & resources and get fans engaged.
Would've been a great hire when? In 2014 when he was a first year assistant at Buffalo coming off a 10-year stint as a high school coach?I like Oats, but at no point of his life was he a viable name for an open Marquette job, nor should he have been.
They want to be Princeton or Northwestern. They did not like the feel of big time sports. They liked recruiting in the Wisconsin boondocks, it made for goood press. Image isn't everything, it's the only thing.
This. Lotsa revisionist history in ScoopLand.Oats was no more of a realistic hire when we actually had a viable opening than Beard was. Scoop would have been collectively outraged had either been hired for the position in 2014.We heard of 4 viable candidates in 2014, and there is no evidence to support any contention that any of the other 3 would have done any better at MU than Wojo has. Also no reason to believe that any would have done worse. One rejected the job because his wife didn't like Milwaukee, and he has vastly underperformed all expectations where he ended up; the other two were desperate retreads who have done no better elsewhere.The biggest surprise about this thread's OP is that he seems to think only 2 guys would be superior to Wojo as MU coach. I can think of a bunch who almost surely would be better; whether any of them would be available is another story. There also are a bunch who would be worse, or who would be question marks; a lot more of them would be available.
Last year, when there was Wojo to UNLV/VA Tech rumors.2018 UB preseason Kenpom rank: 1512018 end of year Kenpom rank: 622019 UB preseason Kenpom rank: 722019 UB end of year Kenpom rank: 19He's an overachiever, and he plays a style I like. With MU type resources and several years of head coaching experience under his belt, he would have been a home run hire here last year. I believe Alabama got a good one.
So when we didn't have an open job. Nothing against Oats, but it's fairly disingenuous to say he would've been a great hire for an opening that didn't exist.
We should do a poll on that....