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Signed a 2-way deal with Philly. Man, I hope they get his back figured out.

UCLA with as bad a 5 consecutive offensive possessions as you will ever see. They can try to talk about the Purdue D all they want. No, that was UCLA with no plan.

Kaufman-Renn has become physical to the point of cheap. But to his credit he’s fully embraced the idea that if he simply bangs around his covers and never stops initiating contact on both ends all game every game the officials will just bake it into how he’s called. Actually think he’s worse than Edey because so much of the Edey stuff was him being basically impossible to referee fairly while TKR just dares refs to call him.

Continuing in my role as that guy on Stevens, I think if this approximated the argument he was actually chewing on then I’m not sure it would be absolutely necessary to have to pay him a couple million dollars a year more than Bill Self to try to bribe him into doing it. But I think the actual argument is being the President of the Celtics is absolutely still fun. You’ve assembled a great team and you really enjoy team building. Sitting in a folding chair in travel league events all spring and high school bleachers on your nights off during the season sounds no more fun than it was back when you got out of that racket. BUT, they’ve offered you so much jack can you really say no even if you have no interest in actually doing it and how long would you have to stay before you can justify splitting? That really feels more like the internal monologue going on here.

Would be pretty surprised if in the course of basic due diligence they wouldn’t have at least made a cursory inquiry with McDermott and he probably waved them off. If so, good for him and move on down the road.

https://x.com/TheFieldOf68/status/1895524250473370057 When Hummel’s right, he’s right

How nuts is that?

I got nothin’. Not only is that not prohibitive, it feels like a get out of jail free card.

No one in the history of the game needed that visual less. Brutal.

Archie’s as clean an example as we’ll ever see of a guy just being too small for a job. From that 1st presser where he looked completely spooked to the Indiana State debacle where he had no answers at all. He was dead man walking. The rest was just shouting.

100%. For all the BS about IUBB HC being Woody’s “dream job” it was nothing of the sort. It’s his dream TITLE, but that he’s been miserable in the college game is clear as day.

Appreciate that. If I were vetting Collins what I’d really want to know is why K’s number 2 who would have been in play for a bunch of jobs with higher ceilings opted for that one and then never left? Did he want to go home that badly or did he want a power conference job where the expectations weren’t nuts? Strikes me as an important piece.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that if one were to thumb back through the almost 1600 pages here and read the coaching evals one could conclude that with the exception of Brad Stevens, who of course walks in perpetual sunshine, literally no one else who hasn’t beaten a woman or cheated their a$$ off can actually coach.

Would be curious to see that as well. He was K’s lead recruiter for years, though if you can’t get kids to play for K that would be kind of an indictment. Would also love to know how restricting their academic standards are. For a guy from Chicago at a Chicago area school I don’t think he recruits that many Chicago area kids

It’s also a gross feeling that I want our guy to lose in the 64. I don’t want him going to the Final 4 so we have to wait 3 more weeks and the current school loses their minds driving up the price to keep him. Feels kind of d-baggy but it’s where I am.

I really hope you’re wrong in those last couple of sentences. Other than Stevens all of these guys are working and I think it would be fairly hideous for them to have to address rumors of a new gig while they’re coaching in the tournament. There needs to be nothing out there.

I think you really need to chew that sentence down to the bone for a second, And yeah, I cut the rest of the post out because I thought the above deserved special attention, but a couple of other points: What Drew did there is 1 of the greatest reclamation jobs in the history of D1 college sports. That thing was stone dead. And it’s not like it was pre-Sampson IU before Dennehy. It was a $hit job with no resources and always had been. There was literally nothing to build on. And that guy put it on the national map and then some. And the Crean comp, stop it. Nobody alive, including Tom Crean, thinks they’re on a similar level. Drew would be a top 10-15 guy in the country by consensus. Not sure he’d be my guy because there’s some temperament stuff I’d need to get comfortable with, but the idea that maybe he’s not really that good, c’mon.

https://x.com/jennamfink/status/1894978112003452970 Class guy.

A giant. If you’re too young to have heard of it, go check out The Conversation. It’s genius and Hackman was brilliant.

I’m not sure Cupps is gone unless the new coach waves him off. Splitting would fly in the face of that whole Cupps family ethos that “we persevere through every damn thing”. But Dayton would love him. On the actual question the only 1 I’d bet a reasonable amount on staying is Reneau. Mgbako’s long gone. Jakai needs to go somewhere where every memory of college isn’t rehabbing. Tucker wants shots. If he sees shots in the new system, maybe. I’d bet against the Rice/Carlyle parley, but if the system fits them maybe the next guy tries to keep 1 or both of them.

Otz, easily.

Then might as well just start a thread now predicting which OSU sub30% 3pt shooter is gonna drop 7 bombs that night.

He really is. But when he’s not on the floor it’s painful watching them try to generate offense.

I actually feel pretty bad for Rhoades. They had a terrific game plan. They got exactly the pace of play he wanted. For 35 mins they baited IU into trying to play through Ballo on the block. They put Goode into bad matchup after bad matchup. The problem is he’s having Dennis Gates’s season from last year where everything that can go wrong does.

You’re right, I guess I misinterpreted “small-time” and “terrified”. My mistake.