Getting close with Howland

[Fullodds]

Per twitter

Edit:  https://twitter.com/jerrymeyer247/status/447924311576563712

[Pakuni]

Specifically:

Jerry Meyer ‏@jerrymeyer247 4m
Hearing it is getting close to official between Ben Howland and Marquette.

[Blackhat]

[bradley center bat]

How would he know this?

[Eldon]

Someone else on twitter confirmed the same report

[GB Warrior]

Have any others put up the crystal ball for Marquette?

[Eldon]

Have any others put up the crystal ball for Marquette?

Yup.

4 picks for Howland, 3 for Marshall, 3 for Shaka, and 1 for former Vikings coach Mike Tice (?)

The most recent updates are for Howland.  Looks promising.

[Fred Garvin]

Hope they keep Chew

[WarriorHal]

  Roy Schmidt ‏@prepbullseye Protected Tweets  1h
Folks, Archie Miller is a great coach & will succeed wherever he's at. But 4 names are ahead of him in Marquette coaching search as of now.




Howland & Smart and who else?

[BenCat12]

Marshall I would hope

[Blackhat]

 Roy Schmidt ‏@prepbullseye Protected Tweets  1h
Folks, Archie Miller is a great coach & will succeed wherever he's at. But 4 names are ahead of him in Marquette coaching search as of now.




Howland & Smart and who else?

Sure Brey would be ahead of him too.

[Pakuni]

Marshall I would hope

Scot Drew would be nice.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

Can I just say I like the name "Archie" and tried to convince her to use it for my youngest? Alas...we went with Thomas.

[Litehouse]

It seems strange these "getting close" leaks would be out there with Howland.  Maybe MU is trying to reign in Shaka's asking price, or Howland is looking for a higher offer from Wake?

[GooooMarquette]

 Roy Schmidt ‏@prepbullseye Protected Tweets  1h
Folks, Archie Miller is a great coach & will succeed wherever he's at. But 4 names are ahead of him in Marquette coaching search as of now.




Howland & Smart and who else?

Marshall andMike Tice?

[connie]

How does Roy Schmidt have MU's list?  

[chapman]

Have any others put up the crystal ball for Marquette?

I laughed so hard at this for some reason.  Well done.

[Blackhat]

It seems strange these "getting close" leaks would be out there with Howland.  Maybe MU is trying to reign in Shaka's asking price, or Howland is looking for a higher offer from Wake?

[VegasWarrior77]

Jody Norstedt ‏@J_Norstedt  7m
Good for NDSU fans hoping to keep Saul > "@jerrymeyer247: Hearing it is getting close to official between Ben Howland and Marquette."

(Weekend sports anchor in Fargo, ND)

[BCHoopster]

Bad hire if it is Howland, has no idea how to coach offense, defensive coach, boring like Bo was until this year.  From a reliable UCLA fan, it was hard watching that team with Howland as the coach.  It is a safe hire, want a younger coach, does a 56 year old man want to drive to Chicago all the time, I doubt it.  Will lose most of the recruits MU had and has no players he can talk to, to come with him as he has been out of basketball for a year, no connections in Chicago would be my guess.  Chew would have to stay on, that is for sure.  So it has to be a package deal,
love Chew and Shaka Smart, that would be a good pair to start with.

[Fullodds]

How does Roy Schmidt have MU's list?  

He doesn't.  I like his info but Mark Miller tweeted the Shaka story and 6 minutes later Schmidt had same info.  Maybe thy have the same source?  I feel comfortable with Miller talking about Wisconsin and the Schmidt bros. talking about Illinois.  They go to a ton of games -- not sure about MU coaching searches for reliability.  

[Wojo'sMojo]

That SI story about Howland and UCLA have me doubting that he's the right man for the job. Some really disturbing things in there. He does have a great record though...

[Blackhat]

Bad hire if it is Howland, has no idea how to coach offense, defensive coach, boring like Bo was until this year.  From a reliable UCLA fan, it was hard watching that team with Howland as the coach.  It is a safe hire, want a younger coach, does a 56 year old man want to drive to Chicago all the time, I doubt it.  Will lose most of the recruits MU had and has no players he can talk to, to come with him as he has been out of basketball for a year, no connections in Chicago would be my guess.  Chew would have to stay on, that is for sure.  So it has to be a package deal,
love Chew and Shaka Smart, that would be a good pair to start with.

We'd have to hope he learned from his mistakes during the latter part of his UCLA tenure.

It is true though, they were pretty hard to watch toward the end.  With all that talent.

[NYWarrior]

It is true though, they were pretty hard to watch toward the end.  With all that talent.

He won the conference championship in his final year in Westwood

[ChicosBailBonds]

Bad hire if it is Howland, has no idea how to coach offense, defensive coach, boring like Bo was until this year.  From a reliable UCLA fan, it was hard watching that team with Howland as the coach.  It is a safe hire, want a younger coach, does a 56 year old man want to drive to Chicago all the time, I doubt it.  Will lose most of the recruits MU had and has no players he can talk to, to come with him as he has been out of basketball for a year, no connections in Chicago would be my guess.  Chew would have to stay on, that is for sure.  So it has to be a package deal,
love Chew and Shaka Smart, that would be a good pair to start with.

UCLA finished first in the Pac 12 in offense last year, ahead of Arizona....they were in the top 20 nationally.  When he was at Northern Arizona, three straight years they led the nation in 3 point shooting.

No doubt he is a defense first coach, but to say he has no idea how to coach offense is just not accurate.

He lasted 10 years at UCLA...the longest since a guy named John Wooden.  It's a grinder out here.    If he can get back to his roots, avoid the one and done types (which killed him at UCLA), he will be fine.