ESPN Coaching Jobs Rankings

[LAZER]

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/59874/ranking-the-coaching-jobs-big-east

I guess for the most part it's a pretty good job, nothing crazy.  My main two issues are with Wisconsin and Baylor being too high.  I'd think Marquette should be higher than ND too, but I'm obviously biased.

[JakeBarnes]

Ahhh... ESPN polls/articles in the offseason: the fluff that dreams are made of!

[CAGASS24]

Less money to spend?????  Aren't we like second only to duke in our basketball budget????

[brewcity77]

Hmm...I'd say that's a poor article. Marquette has less money to spend? Than who? Duke? Because our basketball budget is highest in the Big East and 2nd in the nation to only the Blue Devils. I'd knock Syracuse and Pitt down a bit because of their poor geographic fit in the ACC (and how can you not as they attempt the transition that killed BC?), and definitely drop UConn due to the woeful circumstances surrounding the program.

I guess I can see UL, Nova, and GT, ND maybe but it's at least close to a wash. No other jobs in this conference I'd think belong ahead of us.

[JakeBarnes]

The Marquette blurb sounds like we are a pro team trying to make it under a salary cap. How we are "allowed" to have JUCOs makes me laugh.

[Dawson Rental]

Less money to spend?????  Aren't we like second only to duke in our basketball budget????

Nobody said that they had to have their facts straight.

ESPN probably has a clause in the TV contract which allows them to have pre-notification of BOT changes to the basketball budget.

[Dawson Rental]

The Marquette blurb sounds like we are a pro team trying to make it under a salary cap. How we are "allowed" to have JUCOs makes me laugh.

Maybe other schools (like ND?) aren't allowed to recruit them.  If that's true for ND, that would be one very good reason to rank the MU job ahead of NDs.

[79Warrior]

Nobody said that they had to have their facts straight.

ESPN probably has a clause in the TV contract which allows them to have pre-notification of BOT changes to the basketball budget.

They seem to lump all the Catholic Schools together as having "budget constraints" Well, for starters, private schools don't have to worry about taxpayer money paying for coaches. Outside of maybe DePaul, the other Catholic schools are well funded. As we all know, Marquette has one of the highest BBall budgets in the country. To bad nobody at ESPN bothers to spend any time actually checking their assumptions.

[BrewCity83]

I guess I can see UL, Nova, and GT, ND maybe but it's at least close to a wash. No other jobs in this conference I'd think belong ahead of us.

I'd rank MU ahead of Villanova, too, based on our bball budget and our superior facilities and attendance.

[madtownwarrior]

Maybe Goose's SLU-ification of MU Hoops has started?

Nobody said that they had to have their facts straight.

ESPN probably has a clause in the TV contract which allows them to have pre-notification of BOT changes to the basketball budget.

[Bocephys]

Maybe Goose's SLU-ification of MU Hoops has started?

Just when everyone was playing nice...

[GGGG]

Maybe Goose's SLU-ification of MU Hoops has started?

Seriously, you have made your point.  You really need to stop.

[madtownwarrior]

I just want to see if I can get the word SLU-ification to be adopted by the board   

[Goose]

Madtown
IMO consider it adopted.

[The Process]

I'd rank MU ahead of Villanova, too, based on our bball budget and our superior facilities and attendance.

Exactly what I was thinking about this.  I was reading this on my phone earlier and was wondering what drugs the ESPN.com folk were on with their commentary about MU's having "less money to spend."  At least they seem to be giving the program a lot of coverage of late, so I'm not going to get too up in arms about this.

[Aughnanure]

ESPN now did it nationally:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8021169/ranking-nation-top-10-college-basketball-coaching-jobs

[Aughnanure]

Oooooh, and now a "You Rank E'm"...because fans are really good at this type of thing.

Its choices include Wisconsin, Gonzaga, Memphis, UNLV, Xavier, Baylor (seriously, wtf?), Missouri and Maryland.....but not MU?

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/8020337/college-basketball-jobs

[wyzgy]

http://csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=558940

there's a big drop off in attendance after marquette.  georgetown, pittsburgh and villanova belong behind mu just due to this rather large discrepancy.  espn used to be pretty good, but shady journalism isn't just limited to the "main steam" anymore.  their product is really watered down and when they try to manufacture stories, they are not well researched.  they think they are front and center...slipping

[Silkk the Shaka]

ESPN now did it nationally:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8021169/ranking-nation-top-10-college-basketball-coaching-jobs

No way Ohio St. should be ahead of MSU in either of these rankings.  Izzo and the hoops team are worshiped there, in Columbus they're kind of an afterthought compared to football.  MSU had a championship with one of the greatest of all time (Magic), a championship with Izzo, and several other final fours on top of that.