I hear you on not knowing how he would be as a head coach but the guy was considered arguably the top assistant coach/recruiter in the country and has a really good reputation as a big man coach. He's getting older and word is his goal is to be a head coach. Has a close relationship with DePaul's AD from when they were together at Kentucky. Makes a lot of sense because it would give DePaul a ton of juice in recruiting, he's about as connected around the country as it gets and there's always a bunch of talent in and around Chicago.
This is a great suggestion. I think he would leave.
I think Moser will other options. Good grief you guys say a UConn assistant shouldn’t take the head coaching job a Fordham yet you want a successful Head Coach to leave a great set up to go to a place that hasn’t had success in 40 years? I wouldn’t wish the DePaul job on Kim Jung Un. The other thing. The Big East is a big deal in its original footprint. Elsewhere not so much. If you have a choice between the Big East and the Big 10 and you’re in Chicago it is an easy one and you aren’t going East.
DL made more money than collinsworth does at NW. Depaul can and has recruited circles around NW with their academic restrictions. DL had a top 25 class coming in, does NW? no. go away.
Genuinely asking if his goal was to be a college HC then why would he leave for the NBA?
Whaaaaaat! Where is Butler, Xavier and Creighton located? By the way, kids from Big Ten country went to Big East school not Notre Dame often. Ryan Boatright, Caron Butler, Philip Nolan , Marcus White, Khalid just to name a few. DePaul had some really good players come through there under coach Dave. He has had some underachieving teams. Period!
The Big East is fine. It is a better basketball league than say the A10 but it is probably 6 th among the majors. And it is not viewed as a big deal outside more or less the original footprint. And guss what? In Chicago they don’t fetishize playing in Madison Square Garden. Even in Indianapolis they don’t. That particular fetish is largely limited to UConn fans near as I can see but certainly limited to northeastern Big East fans. look at every measure, top 25, tv ratings, reputation of the schools, every one the New Big East is behind the P5. The others should be throwing money at Villanova because without them it would be the American.
Payne leaving is the main reason why UK was awful this year. He ran the show at Kentucky. Calipari just took all the credit for it
Please show the numbers where every BE team is lagging P5 in tv ratings.
He would be great anywhere he ends up
My diehard Loyola friend is in deep denial.
Yeah then they all flamed out the first weekend except Villanova. It is a fine league but it is not even close to the Original Big East. And it is a cut behind the P5 in prestige. Its just what it is. Seton Hall and Creighton will never be bigger names than Duke and North Carolina or Ohio State and Michigan, especially in their home regions. I couldn’t find tv ratings for 2021 for the Big East but I’m pretty sure they were behind the P5. Between 1999 and the implosion in 2013 the big East won 5 Championships among 3 different teams. They had 2 final four teams twice and 11 in total. It was a monster. The current league has Villanova and 1 other team that has gotten to an Elite 8. By every measure Villanova is head and shoulders above the rest. Maybe UConn makes it a 2 team league. I hope so. But until proven otherwise the Big East is Villanova and the Pretenders.
I can't help but feel I am included as one of the dunk victims in this scenario. Because I am fragile, I'd like to point out that only one poster expressed skepticism about Leitao's firing, and it wasn't me. I never doubted that he would be fired. My point was only that @superjohn sometimes presents his opinions using words that normally indicate a statement of fact. This created a scenario in which he really was stating a fact, but a reasonable reader might interpret the post as an arrogantly phrased opinion. I am simply advocating the citing of sources where applicable, and, conversely, maybe an "in my opinion" where applicable.
