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You hire for what a coach WILL do, not what he’s done. What he’s done is only part of the calculus of figuring out what he’ll do.

I think this might be the highest ceiling play

Among the “former high-major HCs” I think he’s by far the most appealing.

I think I’d be pleased with Candle but Toledo has a pretty strong history for a MAC school. The question is can he level up or does he Archie Miller in a bigger job?

When was the last time he was a good football coach? Not within the living memory of anyone suiting up.

The pro-Fitz camp should consider that NW isn’t missing him and all they did was hire a guy who was around. Huge no from me for many reasons.

Would love this, reportedly makes $4M/year and has a $4M buyout this offseason. Do it, Scott

Yeah, specifically I think some of the issues Trey and X are exhibiting are based in a lack of trust. They both have limitations but we have long track records displaying their capability.

Missed some of the game but a couple additional thoughts: Mgbako hasn’t caught on to the switching rules. Chris is right, he doesn’t get in a stance, but he’s also literally confused. WSU’s last two threes happened when MM followed a cutter he’d ALREADY SWITCHED OFF and was someone else’s man. Then his man was wide open. I also think we need to get used to Woody not caring much about beating the spread/kenpom. Could the team have been better the last three games? Yep. Does a veteran team that’s played together take care of business in a way that beats those projections? Yep. But Woody didn’t play the type of rotation he’s going to play Sunday.

UC Irvine beat USC while we were sleeping. SC couldn’t throw it in the ocean.

UAB up on Maryland by 5, one FT to come, 3:55 left, ESPN 2

I don’t disagree but I think they’ve looked shaky so far, and they were somewhat lucky in schedule draw and outcomes last year. Probably a bubble team close to .500 in the conference I’d guess?

Yep. I was willing to be impressed by them but so far, nope. So among the B1G contenders below the first tier, I’ve adjusted upwards my expectations of UW & UM — both of whom I’m skeptical of, still — and adjusted downwards my expectations of NW, UMd, and OSU (only slightly in OSU’s case).

JG is in and has looked pretty good, basically the guy we know: pick-6 steal and dunk, nice pass across the zone for an open 3 (missed), late/lost on some defensive rotations. I find it notable he’s at the 4. Slightly small 4 is clearly his best spot, still.

Watching Maryland/UAB in Asheville. After starting UMd’s first two games, Jordan Geronimo begins this one on the bench.

In per-dollar terms, it’s very bad. I understand it’s a demanding job, continuity matters, there’s a market salary rate…but short of like Nick Saban, at some point you’re just throwing money away instead of saving $2M/year and taking the next guy on your list. The other hilarious thing about A&M: this is what they are! Like look. Two titles: 1919 and 1939. 18 conference championships in 121 years of football. It’s vaguely like if Wyoming or La Salle or Holy Cross or someone with one ancient hoops title was pretending their whole history was as a power and not just an occasionally good program

Also by DD’s own metric, he himself falls short of the Army staff. What is he doing

The Willard/UL noise sounds to me like contract jockeying from Willard’s agent more than anything. Maybe KW has interest, but would not guess he’s too high on their shortlist. Billy Donovan, if he’s looking for a soft landing and/or the Bulls rebuild? Jerome Tang or Dusty May making a leap? Scott Davenport, Ryan Odom, some other guy not top-of-mind with more recent juice? All seem as likely or moreso to get a sniff before Willard

They blew a TO to set it up. To me it looked more like something they should’ve run before calling the TO so they could run a SLOB, NBA-style, after advancing it.

Resume-wise, nobody deserves it more. Not sure they’ll make it but they’ll get votes. when they beat MSU, Torvik pointed out that after tonight they’ll be favored in every game until January. Could be among our last unbeatens

Stephen F. Austin @ MTSU going to OT on ESPN+

1. The JMU unis @ MSU were beautiful. These…not so. 2. Kent State ran the “Phinisee beats PU” BLOB to get and hit a corner 3 to tie and send it to 2OT

Double OT

JMU did it

Aha ok so the post-grad year counts as one of his “5 to play 4,” then he redshirted and played 3: that’s 4 seasons that count in 5 years, and his actual 4th season seeing the court is the COVID year. so my amateur evaluation is he’s dead to rights on appeal. He’s still like 2 years older than the typical student who would’ve been leaving HS for a post-grad year…just interesting, I guess.