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Jay Wright Retiring?

I'm bummed, wanted to beat this guy

Bye bye Nova
 
freescooter said:
No sugarcoating this. It is an unmitigated disaster for the NEWBIE. Villanova was the sole national program in the league. If they regress, the NEWB will be a bunch of eh programs that will rarely need to pack extra uniforms for the Tournament. Val is probably rolled up in a ball in the corner of her office wondering why she left the A10.

I suppose it does leave an opening for someone to climb, but reality is that there is a huge difference between climbing to the top of the NEWB and climbing to the upper reaches of college basketball. And in terms of resources very few NEWB programs have enough to get there. And it is probably unlikely that another really successful coach will stick around long enough to take a program where it needs to be. Jay was from a different era. If St Johns were to make a final four run next year, as an example, my guess is Anderson would be coaching at Florida State or Iowa in 2024. I would think UConn is one of the few NEWBIE members who could make the move. We have facilities, financial resources, and we’ve been there before, though it has been close to a decade. And it would require a number of pretty major changes in the way the program is operating now. I doubt there is the stomach for it. The only others I see having any potential are Xavier and Creighton, but both are long shots.

It is really really hard to build a national program. And it is even more difficult to do it in a league where you are the only one. Jay had the advantage of having built Villanova in the Big East competing against Top 10 programs week in and week out. Maintaining it was a great feat, but not as hard as building something new in a much less fertile environment. If it were easy the A10 would have top 10 team every year.
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You actually sat down and typed all this out. Incredible.
 
freescooter said:
I’m a UConn fan. Have been for more years than most people who post here have been alive. Went to my first game, UConn-BC in the NCAA tournament when Cousy coached BC and Balesuknia played at UConn. Game was at URI, if you can believe it.
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Ah, so now I finally get what the issue with you is. You're really freaking old! :)
 
Ratso said:
going to MSG?
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Went last night.

As others have posted, the consensus in the Nova board is that stepping down is largely due to NIL. Seth Greenberg apparently claimed Jay told him that, but would never say that publicly. The guy wants to build his program in a specific, family oriented way and the new rules are going to make that extremely difficult.

We haven't seen anything yet with NIL. It is starting to develop in CFB with boosters putting together 30-40 million dollar pools for NIL yearly. Tennessee landed a top 5 kid at QB by paying him 2 mill and it's entirely legal. Obviously less money overall in hoops but the direction is clear.
 
Zissou said:
Put $50M aside in the bank and go out when you want to on your terms. Enjoy life.
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This reminded me of a story of a guy who sold his business he built for a long time
“Yesterday i had a million dollars and a million problems. Today I have a million dollars.”
 
upstater said:
You can't replace Hall of Fame coaches easily. No one has ever done it in college.

We'll see about Duke.

UNC, UConn, Indiana, UCLA, Kentucky, none of them managed to do it. I'm not going to bring up Kansas and their crookedness.
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UNC replaced Frank McGuire with Dean Smith. And went to the FF in the year following Coach Smith and Roy. It was turbulent when Gut left however, as it should have been Roy next up.
 
Compare and contrast Wright’s exit to that of Coach K…
 
Much different. Wright only announced when he did because word was starting to get around. He said his plan was not to announce before the basketball Banquet last night. That was for the players and staff and for those being recognized. There was very Little reference to Wright‘s departure .
Interestingly, Whitmore, Armstrong and their fathers were in attendance and acknowledged by Jay.. so Who knows if they try to get out of their NLI. But, that was an encouraging sign.
 
JeepCSC said:
UNC replaced Frank McGuire with Dean Smith. And went to the FF in the year following Coach Smith and Roy. It was turbulent when Gut left however, as it should have been Roy next up.
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If the second is what counts, then UConn also should be considered to have successfully replaced Calhoun with Kevin Ollie.
 
upstater said:
If the second is what counts, then UConn also should be considered to have successfully replaced Calhoun with Kevin Ollie.
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Kevin Ollie didn’t leave on his terms. Gut did, Hubert remains to be seen.

Though again, UNC replaced one HOF coach for another with McGuire and Dean Smith. Probably the most successful handover in history. The Smith-Gut-Roy transition would have been a close second if it had gone as planned. But that’s life.
 
HooperScooper said:
Ah, so now I finally get what the issue with you is. You're really freaking old! :)
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I'm really freaking old as well, but I don't go on those types of rants. He's just a crotchety old ba$terd...nothing more, nothing less. LOL
 
upstater said:
If more attention is paid to recruitment than development (what Calhoun is predicting) then the sport will suffer.
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Yeah, I’m a little worried that the Calipari model becomes the optimized approach to the sport. Bring on the best guys you can and hope for the best.
 
JeepCSC said:
Kevin Ollie didn’t leave on his terms. Gut did, Hubert remains to be seen.

Though again, UNC replaced one HOF coach for another with McGuire and Dean Smith. Probably the most successful handover in history. The Smith-Gut-Roy transition would have been a close second if it had gone as planned. But that’s life.
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There was also Doherty and 7 years past Dean Smith.

But Carolina is Carolina. I mean, Louisville eventually rebounded, as did Kentucky. I'm talking about picking up from where these guys leave off. There was a drop off in many of these schools.

Even when UConn won the national championship, everyone here was thinking there was a dropoff.
 
CL82 said:
Good article on why Wright left plus a funny Calhoun/Wright story
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Interesting quotes from Calhoun. I wonder how he would have dealt with this changing landscape. I'm sure he would have adapted and thrived. He never shied away from a challenge.

Is Calhoun shocked by Wright’s decision?

“In this time and era, I’m not,” the fellow Hall-of-Famer said. “With the way Jay says he wants to build a program, and in a way Danny (Hurley) says he wants to build a program, by developing kids — Jay’s done it, I think Danny’s trying to do it, but good luck with that.”

The NCAA’s one-time transfer rule, which allows players to transfer once without having to sit out a season, coupled with the extra year of eligibility afforded all student-athletes a couple of years ago, has made recruiting and maintaining a roster all the more difficult. In fact, Villanova and UConn were the only two Big East programs that didn’t bring in a single transfer last season.

Add in things like Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) legislation and other factors, and it may be no coincidence that Wright, Williams, and Coach K all retired within a 13-month span.

“Pretty soon, I don’t care if you’re 60 or 70 or 40, it’s got to weigh you down somewhat,” Calhoun said. “And now, a little bit more of what he’s done so well for so many years, bringing kids in who are real good players and develop them into great players ... the grind of that. You can’t go a day away from the phone anymore. All that builds up.”
 
I think it’s fair to speculate that Wright didn’t like the direction of college basketball with NIL and free transfers, etc. Just about every report on him retiring mentions it, he’s not denying it. If I were him I wouldn’t say it directly, there’s nothing positive that can come out of it.
 
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