College Bball Thread

[Stuhoo]

17 minutes ago, Hoosier Guy said:

What 2016 said. Hopefully that’ll let out some of the air in Purdue’s balloon. Yes they still want to beat IU of course. However, Purdue would be lying if they said they didn’t expect to be playing for a B1G championship this Saturday

 

No question that them not playing for the B1G title against us has got to be a little deflating. It doesn't make Ivey slower or Edey shorter, but it is still helpful.

 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

42 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

Of course he's a great on-court coach. Great coaching wins against mid/small conference talent. At Maryland he'll be up against top tier coaches, top tier recruiters, and top tier player talent. He'd also be 70 before next season starts. And he's a dirtbag. 

If true, this is a serious roll of the dice.

 

Right... He's never succeeded against top talent and top coaching before. 

[Hoosier Guy]

7 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

No question that them not playing for the B1G title against us has got to be a little deflating. It doesn't make Ivey slower or Edey shorter, but it is still helpful.

 

Helpful is all we can ask when playing at Mackey

[Stuhoo]

4 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Right... He's never succeeded against top talent and top coaching before. 

 

Of course he has succeeded before, snarky sandwich!

But every coach has a shelf life and every situation is different. I did not say he destined to fail; I said he's a great coach who is also a complete dirtbag and likely well past, or soon to be past his prime. And that makes hiring him at a P5 program a major roll of the dice.

 

[TheWatShot]

I was a little surprised when I saw Purdue was favored by 3 points last night. I found a link that shows the closing lines for all of their games this year. They've been favored in all but 2 games: UNC back in November and at Illinois.

https://www.vegasinsider.com/college-basketball/teams/purdue/

 

I have no idea why they were such a heavy underdog to UNC, but it was before Thanksgiving. 

 

(Edit: They actually were favored against UNC. Must have been a typo where I looked.)

[Uspshoosier]

Radford/NC A&T tied with 8 sec to go 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

Radford/NC A&T tied with 8 sec to go 

OT in the Big South 

[TheWatShot]

For your viewing pleasure...

 

[Uspshoosier]

32 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

OT in the Big South 

Nc A&T wins it 

[IUc2016]

lol

[Stuhoo]

4 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

lol

Self-awareness has never been Tom Crean's strength.

[Hovadipo]

8 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

lol

Kennedy Chandler is one more pump fake on air from going full "bless your heart" on Tommy.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

15 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

lol

Crean coaching a shooter!  What a hoot.  Someone find and post Crean's Hawaiian free throw from many years ago.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

The kiss of death?

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

 

Of course he has succeeded before, snarky sandwich!

But every coach has a shelf life and every situation is different. I did not say he destined to fail; I said he's a great coach who is also a complete dirtbag and likely well past, or soon to be past his prime. And that makes hiring him at a P5 program a major roll of the dice.

 

I wouldn't call him past his prime, or he wouldn't be doing well at Iona. And sure he might be 70, but if you're Maryland, would you rather rent 4-5 years of Rick Pitino to put you in a stable spot while likely contending for a B1G title at least once during that period, or have Danny Manning coach more games? And right now, who is even out there you for sure could go hire? College basketball right now is just in a spot where there really isn't any young coaching talent. I mean I guess they could go get Sean Miller? 

[Stuhoo]

16 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I wouldn't call him past his prime, or he wouldn't be doing well at Iona. And sure he might be 70, but if you're Maryland, would you rather rent 4-5 years of Rick Pitino to put you in a stable spot while likely contending for a B1G title at least once during that period, or have Danny Manning coach more games? And right now, who is even out there you for sure could go hire? College basketball right now is just in a spot where there really isn't any young coaching talent. I mean I guess they could go get Sean Miller? 

 

1. He's coaching very well this year, as if he's in his prime still. He will be 70 next year. He's at the exact age where many very energetic coaches want to slow down and get off the recruiting trail. It's also an age where health problems often arise for people that have lived in a  stressful fishbowl for many, many years.
2. There is no guarantee that Rick Pitino would put them in a "stable spot." Ask Louisville if he left them in a stable situation.
3. No one is anticipating that they will be keeping Danny Manning.  The choice for Maryland is most certainly not only between Pitino and having Manning back.
4. There is young (and older) coaching talent out there, and it isn't always necessarily a big name like Sean Miller. Mark Adams at Texas Tech and Tommy Lloyd at Arizona come to mind as recent hires that weren't especially big names, but who immediately engineered top 15 teams. Much of that untapped talent would be very, very happy to make $4 million a year to coach at Louisville. 

[Stuhoo]

PURDUE BASKETBALL? ONE PER MONTH:

 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

16 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

1. He's coaching very well this year, as if he's in his prime still. He will be 70 next year. He's at the exact age where many very energetic coaches want to slow down and get off the recruiting trail. It's also an age where health problems often arise for people that have lived in a  stressful fishbowl for many, many years.
2. There is no guarantee that Rick Pitino would put them in a "stable spot." Ask Louisville if he left them in a stable situation.
3. No one is anticipating that they will be keeping Danny Manning.  The choice for Maryland is most certainly not only between Pitino and having Manning back.
4. There is young (and older) coaching talent out there, and it isn't always necessarily a big name like Sean Miller. Mark Adams at Texas Tech and Tommy Lloyd at Arizona come to mind as recent hires that weren't especially big names, but who immediately engineered top 15 teams. Much of that untapped talent would be very, very happy to make $4 million a year to coach at Louisville. 

Adams picked up and continued a good culture from Beard. That'll be interesting to see as it goes on in a few years. Lloyd though has been great. That's kind of a crazy one. 

[Uspshoosier]

37 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I wouldn't call him past his prime, or he wouldn't be doing well at Iona. And sure he might be 70, but if you're Maryland, would you rather rent 4-5 years of Rick Pitino to put you in a stable spot while likely contending for a B1G title at least once during that period, or have Danny Manning coach more games? And right now, who is even out there you for sure could go hire? College basketball right now is just in a spot where there really isn't any young coaching talent. I mean I guess they could go get Sean Miller? 

Andy Enfield and Kevin Willard are the 2 names getting the most chatter 

[Uspshoosier]

UNC Asheville down 1 to Charleston Southern with 7 sec to go.   Asheville on the line for 2.   Southern is 1-15 in the league.