This just shows what we are up against. The guy had huge success taking over a team with a fired coach 2 seasons ago. He makes the tournament the next 2 seasons and gets fired. There's not one person currently in the athletic department that has the stomach for that kind of move. Nobody.
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looks like you're right.
Texas hires Sean Miller, who led Xavier past Longhorns in NCAA Tournament, as next head coach: report - WFIN Local News
If you can’t beat ‘em, make sure they join you? That appears to be the Texas Longhorns' thinking after they reportedly hired Sean Miller as their next head basketball coach. Miller coached Xavier, the team Texas lost to in their First Four matchup to quickly be bounced from the NCAA Tournament...
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Put that with a guy who took a team to the final 4 a year ago getting fired we have no real ambition in this era of college sports to succeed
It’s professional sports. Win quick and win big or you’re out
Coaches and big-time schools do things in a jiffy. Season's over... coach moves on and school announces its new hire.
Has Rutgers ever done anything quickly? I'm a lifelong fan and I can't remember a time it's happened. It's always... coach is given his/her walking papers, then wait weeks (even months) until a new coach is announced.
Has Rutgers ever done anything quickly? I'm a lifelong fan and I can't remember a time it's happened. It's always... coach is given his/her walking papers, then wait weeks (even months) until a new coach is announced.
McCollum has a lot of success at D2 and this season but I would say thats a little more jury is out hire than Niko Medved
Home run for Minnesota and he is another coach I would take over Pike yesterday
Home run for Minnesota and he is another coach I would take over Pike yesterday
Firing that guy is stupid tbh unless there's something else going on behind the scenes.
Its Texas... those funding the program are going to have a lot of say in the coach now if they are going to continue funding the program
That's fine. Maybe there are other reasons they don't like that guy, I don't know. But if it was a purely results driven firing they pulled the trigger far too quickly imo.
Try being the guy who won the ACC tournament and made the Final Four and got fired 1 year later
Meh. That guys had mediocre results virtually every year except that one year he got super hot at the right time. People put way too much stock in miracle runs which is essentially what that was, and then they were terrible this year. Firing him makes sense to me. The Texas guy not so much.
Rutgers is stuck in quick sand while other power conference schools react at a rapid pace .They don't kick the can down the road and let disappointing results persist .For a head coach working under NIL constraints job security becomes a nightmare.
His record is far superior to Pikes … 2 additional ncaa berths and a possible one during the Covid season
2 other 20 win seasons above their ncaa runs
And yet our fan base is divided about whether Steve should stay … similar resumes
I don't think his NCAA berths at UNC Wilmington mean much to NC State fans. At NC State he made the tournament three times. They were not projected to make it or even in the first four out (projected) in 2020. Pike also made it three times including the 2020 projection. Obviously Pike did not have a final four run.
Meh who cares about winning 20 games in a conference where winning 20 games doesn't get you in the NCAAs?
Yeah, bolded is a lot more accurate than "far superior". I mean, I don't think not firing him would be insane and I don't think firing Pike, outside of the contract issues, would be insane either. But this move makes a lot more sense on the surface than Texas' does.
One can make the argument that Medved can do better than Minnesota but the ties to Minnesota win out
He made it 3 times at nc state and has a trophy he brought the school
Pike has like 3 wins total in the big ten tournament in 9 years
Maybe they don’t care about 20 wins but my point was he put out a competitive product more often than Steve has
And my real point in the matter is if a school is willing to fire him over that then why aren’t we willing to even have the discussion with ours
I don't really understand Medved as a "home run". Solid hire, certainly, but "home run"? Why?
3 ncaa Berths in 4 years at a school not really known for hoops in a reasonably tough basketball league to a school that is by and large currently considered the worst athletics program in the big 10
For MINNESOTA this is a home run… for another school probably a wait and see but I think it’s far better than Minnesota could’ve hoped for
I refuse to focus on tiny samples of games because they are the "most important" games and I similarly refuse to not count 2020 as a tournament year for evaluation purposes.
Not really?
I generally will give a coach a pass for their first three years but since Keatts actually did better his first three years than his overall average I will leave them in for him. Kenpom ratings:
Keatts
2018 #46
2019 #41
2020 #50
2021 #71
2022 #128
2023 #52
2024 #45
2025 #127
Average #70
Pikiell
2020 #28
2021 #38
2022 #77
2023 #39
2024 #100
2025 #72
Average #59
Even if you include Pike's first three seasons (which I think is pretty unfair given what he inherited) his average only rises to #77 which is barely worse than Keatts'
Because our coach has a stupid contract.
That's fair. I would be happy with him as a Rutgers hire FWIW.
WVU struggling to fill their spot as their former and top 2 choices are all now in the Big 10
May have to settle for Calhoun from Utah State
May have to settle for Calhoun from Utah State
Theyll have a nice jump start when Bennett Stirtz commits to Iowa in a few days through the portal
Recruiting skills of a coach have probably diminished as a factor on a coach’s resume, but Arkansas State coach Bryan Hodgson has a reputation as a great recruiter (and evaluator of talent). He knows the East coast, too, hailing from upstate NY. He’d be my choice over Calhoun, who does have Ohio and Bob Huggins connections.
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Hawkeyes get their man,fans hope he's as good as advertised
Iowa native Ben McCollum has been named the head coach for the University of Iowa men’s basketball program, it was announced Monday by Henry B. and Patrica B. Tippie Director of Athletics Chair Beth Goetz. McCollum is the 23rd head coach in program history.
Iowa native Ben McCollum has been named the head coach for the University of Iowa men’s basketball program, it was announced Monday by Henry B. and Patrica B. Tippie Director of Athletics Chair Beth Goetz. McCollum is the 23rd head coach in program history.
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Story Courtesy James Allan – Iowa Athletics Iowa native Ben McCollum has been named the head coach for the University of Iowa men’s basketball program, it was announced Monday by Henry B. and Patrica B. Tippie Director of Athletics Chair Beth Goetz. McCollum is the 23rd head coach in program...
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| Villanova |
| Out: Kyle Neptune | In: TBD The school did the inevitable and moved on after Neptune's Wildcats went 19-14 this season and finished well off the bubble cutline. The standard on the Main Line is clear-cut: NCAA Tournaments every year, and competing for Final Fours often. The search seems to have centered on three names: Kevin Willard (Maryland), Porter Moser (Oklahoma) and Richard Pitino (New Mexico). I previously mentioned the off-the-board candidate potential here, and that came to light with Willard's name surfacing last week. Moser's candidacy seems to have faded. Does Willard really want to leave Maryland now that a new AD is incoming? This one still feels like it's up for grabs. Maryland making the Sweet 16 adds to the intrigue. |
 West Virginia | |
| Out: Darian DeVries | In: TBD After just one season in Morgantown, DeVries departed for Indiana, leaving the West Virginia brass to search for a new coach yet again. West Virginia went 19-13 (10-10 Big 12) in DeVries' lone season before surprisingly being left out of the NCAA Tournament field. WVU AD Wren Baker has interviewed a few candidates in the past few days and is still searching with a variety of names as of Monday night. Utah State coach Jerrod Calhoun has received some buzz, but I don't think that's on the table here. |
 Xavier |
| Out: Sean Miller | In: TBD Well, this one's still hard to intake so soon after Miller's decision to leave for Texas. It's not stunning, given he was rumored for the job, but still, there's an element of risk to leaving a good job for one in the cutthroat SEC. Miller's successor could be sewn up in a matter of two days if AD Greg Christopher works swiftly. Charleston coach (and former Xavier coach, of course) Chris Mack is an obvious name, but there are others getting looks right now as well. I'm told Christopher will be hiring a sitting head coach. |
| 20 |  Penn |
| Out: Steve Donahue | In: TBD It was a decade for Donahue in Philly, with the Quakers making the NCAAs in 2018. This year was the worst yet, with Penn going 8-19 and finishing 292 at KenPom. I'm told the objective here is to hire a sitting head coach. Robert Morris' Andy Toole is an alum and just took that team to the tourney. An obvious candidate. Was told told Fran McCaffery could be trying to get involved and make this his last stop. |
Makes you wonder if WVU has a $$ problem too. Utah state job in mountain west where you routinely compete in the top 3 of the league and make the tournament versus WVU where you’re staring up at 4/5 schools that will easily outspend you and you’re likely ceiling is similar to Rutgers which is a struggle
Not a great sign for similar programs in similar leagues
for their league they are likely in the bottom part with ucf, utah, ok st, tcu
to me wvu should be in the acc not big 12, i just think they have lost some relevance since they entered that conference
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