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Howland has a top 10 class for 2016 after just a few months on the job for a program that has historically been mediocre at best and generally a doormat
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Howland has a top 10 class for 2016 after just a few months on the job for a program that has historically been mediocre at best and generally a doormat
5-10 up and comers that were assistants at p5 and successful HCs at mid major and young and CEO type.
Easy peasy
Easy peasy
Howland was the most logical and best choice for us at that time, just like Sendek is the best and most logical choice for us this off season, hope we don't blow it again
Given the current state of the B-Ball program, I would gladly pay $4 million per for Kevin Ollie. He would turn the program around instantly.
Let's hire Coach K. I heard he likes grease trucks
I know. We need 4-5 of them because we aren't 1st in line with job openings as we are a undesirable job.
Pay more than fair market value. Eddie is getting what $2 million for one conference win in three years. Might as well expect to pay $4 million for someone to fix this mess. $4 million would get a guy like Archie Miller.
Let's pay Calipari 8 million. Why mess around.
Ollie has yet to win with his own players at UConn and is severely underachieving this year in a pretty bad conference (top 25 team turned bubble team). Don't think he is going to be as successful as some people think.
I'm not saying he wouldn't be a massive upgrade, and he seems to have a good repor with his players, but I'm not 100% sure he could turn around the program like you'd hope for.
Ollie won't leave his alma mater for us. Maybe another P5 school if he feels stuck in a middling AAC, but he won't be looking at RU.
Why would UCONN grad , NCAA Champion/ successful coach leave UConn to come here ....and if he did for how long?
Pass.
MO
Does he have coaching experience? I loved Willis as a Knick and team captain, not as a coach
I like Sendek, but I don't think he is a home run hire or someone that's going to get the fan base or recruits excited.
Can't believe there is no one from the coaching tree of Beilein, Cal, Pitino, K, Williams, Self, Izzo...worth looking at.
Tubby Smith doesn't excite a fan base or recruits but he has Texas Tech on the verge of the NCAAs.
Winning excites a fan a base more than anything. The rest is hype. And we've had hype before.
Sendk isn't my personal no. 1 but I don't think we can convince the two a10 coaches I like to take the job.
He turned down Florida.
His next job will be one of the top shelf positions. UNC, Duke, Kansas, Ohio State, etc
Ollie???? Wow. Not sure which suggestion is more insane:
- Ollie leaving Yuke-On for RU, or
- playing "2-3 games per year" at The Barclay's
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- Ollie leaving Yuke-On for RU, or
- playing "2-3 games per year" at The Barclay's
:chairshot::chairshot::chairshot::chairshot::chairshot::chairshot:
Bull. With winning come both recruiting and excitement. Gotta start somewhere and his track record alone will HELP recruiting. One SHOULD breed the other and so-on-and-so-on.
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Win some games and it will be easy to fire up the fan-base from the Jordan years.
As for recruiting, think he'll do alright once recruits see RU MBB doing better.
Main thing is Sendek is going to need a lead recruiter that will go hot and heavy on the recruiting trail after the good HS players then have Herb close the deal and make inroads with NJ HS Coaches.
That said: I'm not sure Hobbs will buy Eddie out, but he does have good reason with all the losses .
It's just that I feel Hobbs will give Jordan one more year with the explanation Eddie faced a tough task when hired and injuries slowed down his progress this season.
I think we need an up and comer. The first 2 rounds of the NCAAs is always a good showcase for those types of coaches.
Good post. But what should seal Jordan's fate is a pic of the student section at today's game.
There's no coming back from this under Jordan. No recruits coming to games, football recruits, coaches and players attending wrestling matches over basketball (and with good reason).
The program is going backwards
I'm reasonably sure that Hobbs will fire Eddie after this season. Injuries or not, W-L results count and Eddies's coaching performance has been horrendous over a 3 year period, not just this season. Even without the injuries I believe that the W-L record would look much the same.
IMO Hobbs will look weak if he gives Eddie another season. His reputation takes a hit if he allows this knightmare to be replayed for another year.
This thread is patently absurd and enormous waste of time...just my 2 cents
He also was on Pitino's staff at Providence.Think Sendek would be a good hire for you guys has proven he can rebuild a program and is a class act.
"Patently absurd and enormous waste of time."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is your Rutgers University men's basketball program.
So, sure, let's do it again next year with all-American shooting guard, Nigel Johnson, a remarkably poised, mature and academic all-American, Cory Sanders, National Comeback Player of the Year, DeShawn Freeman, and National Freshman of the Year, 6-10 (or is it 6-11?) Issa Thiam. All nurtured and developed by the battle-tested and highly coveted staff of Dalip, Shoes and Van and, of course, B1G Coach of the Year, Ed Jordan. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is your Rutgers University men's basketball program.
So, sure, let's do it again next year with all-American shooting guard, Nigel Johnson, a remarkably poised, mature and academic all-American, Cory Sanders, National Comeback Player of the Year, DeShawn Freeman, and National Freshman of the Year, 6-10 (or is it 6-11?) Issa Thiam. All nurtured and developed by the battle-tested and highly coveted staff of Dalip, Shoes and Van and, of course, B1G Coach of the Year, Ed Jordan. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years.
