2023 Coaching Carousel

[Johnny B]

has been coaches everywhere

[Mr. Nielsen]

Hurley at Connecticut needs to get going. Last two tournaments have been disappointing.

[brewcity77]

Georgetown fans must be so pissed. Imagine watching Shaka Smart, Shaheen Holloway, Sean Miller, and Thad Matta all come into the league while your administration twiddles their thumbs with Patrick Ewing.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Butler know Matta.

[MU82]

If Matta is all-in - and why would he take the job if he wasn't gonna be? - this is a tremendous hire. A little Shaka-ish, in that he got his "dream job" and maybe realized that such things aren't always what they're cracked up to be.

Agree with Mr. N about Hurley - he's overrated to me until he does something that matters at UConn. Obviously, the same can be said about Shaka.

[Shooter McGavin]

The coaches coming in definitely don't hurt the next TV contract.

[JWags85]

Hurley at Connecticut needs to get going. Last two tournaments have been disappointing.

He took over a program that was in purgatory with NCAA punishments from Ollie.  He's finished top 3 in the BE both of his first 2 years and made the tourney.  Sure you'd like to see a deeper run, but he's done just fine and UCONN is a contender in the BE again. To even mention him with coaches that need to "get it going" is silly.

[Mr. Nielsen]

Well, maybe. Yet, that feeling is there by UConn fans. Not sure anyone is saying hot seat talk. Yet, the tournaments exits the last two years for Connecticut are disappointments.

[Silent Verbal]

That's an unbelievable, pie in the sky type of hire for Butler.  Their program has taken two massive hits in the last decade with Stevens and Holtmann leaving, so this is great news for them and the conference.  Lavall Jordan was a hack who had no business coaching in the Big East.  Great to see the conference cleanse itself of some of these garbage coaches like Wojo, Steele, and Jordan the last few years. 

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Is there any conference that comes near the Big East in terms of name recognition among coaches.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Well, maybe. Yet, that feeling is there by UConn fans. Not sure anyone is saying hot seat talk. Yet, the tournaments exits the last two years for Connecticut are disappointments.

UConn fans aren't the best judge of rational feelings. 

[Not A Serious Person]

X hires Sean Miller
Butler hires Thad Matta

Does this mean the next MU coach after Shaka is Crean?  Of Maybe Buzz?

[willie warrior]

X hires Sean Miller
Butler hires Thad Matta

Does this mean the next MU coach after Shaka is Crean?  Of Maybe Buzz?

Maybe O'Neil

[wadesworld]

If Matta is all-in - and why would he take the job if he wasn't gonna be? - this is a tremendous hire. A little Shaka-ish, in that he got his "dream job" and maybe realized that such things aren't always what they're cracked up to be.

Agree with Mr. N about Hurley - he's overrated to me until he does something that matters at UConn. Obviously, the same can be said about Shaka.

Thad's time at OSU was much longer and more successful than Shaka's was at Texas.

[Herman Cain]

Matta's coaching record is impressive. If he can approach that level of success at Butler The Big East will be even more of a gauntlet than it already is. Will be interesting to see if he can get some prospects from the transfer portal. That has been a tried and true method for Butler over the years


https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/thad-matta-1.html

[MU82]

Thad's time at OSU was much longer and more successful than Shaka's was at Texas.

Absolutely. I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise.

[Scoop Snoop]

With the BE's three new coaches, our conference has the promise of soon becoming more like the Big 12 with its impressive top to bottom strength (Georgetown aside). St. John's remains questionable but even Coach Blue! Blue! and his Demons cannot be no longer be taken as an easy win.

Your thoughts on how Shaka and his system will perform vs. Butler, Seton Hall, and Xaiver once the new coaches settle in this coming season and afterwards? I think Holloway is the most difficult new coach to figure out, but he obviously likes a highly disciplined style, or at least did at St. Peter's.

Several people have posted about the cannibalism inherent in an exceptionally strong top to bottom conference and pointed out how the bottom teams of the Big 12 have been saddled with records that, at first glance, are unimpressive. Looking 2-3 years down the road, which teams do you think will be perennial powers and which ones besides Georgetown will be in 8th-10th place? 

[LAZER]

With the BE's three new coaches, our conference has the promise of soon becoming more like the Big 12 with its impressive top to bottom strength (Georgetown aside). St. John's remains questionable but even Coach Blue! Blue! and his Demons cannot be no longer be taken as an easy win.

Your thoughts on how Shaka and his system will perform vs. Butler, Seton Hall, and Xaiver once the new coaches settle in this coming season and afterwards? I think Holloway is the most difficult new coach to figure out, but he obviously likes a highly disciplined style, or at least did at St. Peter's.

Several people have posted about the cannibalism inherent in an exceptionally strong top to bottom conference and pointed out how the bottom teams of the Big 12 have been saddled with records that, at first glance, are unimpressive. Looking 2-3 years down the road, which teams do you think will be perennial powers and which ones besides Georgetown will be in 8th-10th place?

In 2-3 years I don't expect much to change. Still expect the same teams at the top, same teams in the middle, and DePaul, St John's, and Georgetown holding down the bottom.

[Scoop Snoop]

In 2-3 years I don't expect much to change. Still expect the same teams at the top, same teams in the middle, and DePaul, St John's, and Georgetown holding down the bottom.

Probably so for the bottom three, but I think Matta and Miller will have their teams solidly in the upper half of the conference within 2-3 years. Even if, as I expect, Nova has a slightly down year (by their standards) this coming season, they will continue to be first or at least second in 2-3 years. To me, both Hurley and Holloway are difficult to predict and I think Providence goes back to being somewhere in the middle of the pack.

The big question to me is where will Marquette be in the conference? Where will we fit in?

[DFW HOYA]

In 2-3 years I don't expect much to change. Still expect the same teams at the top, same teams in the middle, and DePaul, St John's, and Georgetown holding down the bottom.

If this is the case in 2-3 years, Georgetown will be playing its games at the DC Armory before 1000 a game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/TXC53IQKBEI6TCKCB32EFZMQSQ.jpg

[Hards Alumni]

If this is the case in 2-3 years, Georgetown will be playing its games at the DC Armory before 1000 a game.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/TXC53IQKBEI6TCKCB32EFZMQSQ.jpg

Why isn't there more pressure from the fan base to fire Ewing?  That BEAST tourney run?

[Pakuni]

Why isn't there more pressure from the fan base to fire Ewing?  That BEAST tourney run?

From what's been reported, it would cost more than eight figures to buy out Ewing this spring, thanks to the dumb and unnecessary (where was he going?) extension they gave him last year.

[MDMU04]

If Matta is committed, Butler is going to be a problem.

[DFW HOYA]

Why isn't there more pressure from the fan base to fire Ewing?  That BEAST tourney run?

No money for the buyout. Georgetown lost a boatload on COVID and isn't handing a check to a multi-millionaire without someone else footing the bill.

[Pakuni]

Western Michigan hiring former MU/Michigan State assistant Dwayne Stephens.