Miller to Texas

[Inyatkin]

How many destination jobs do you think other leagues have?

Just off the top of my head, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and UCLA easily qualify. You need to be University of Something, typically, and our conference has mostly small private schools. It's an issue

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Wow this didn’t take long. Miler beat the players in transferring before the opening date of tomorrow.

He was recruited in the handshake line last Wednesday.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Hans your existence is a present for me, like Xmas every day.

That's why they call it "the gift."
You're welcome.
#bewherewhen

 

[RuffRuff]

That's why they call it "the gift."
You're welcome.
#bewherewhen

You are the Faberge Egg of Boneyarders.

 

[uconngb]

Hans your existence is a present for me, like Xmas every day.

Ignoring him is an ever better present. It’s like not having a dog crap on your doorstep every day.

 

[RuffRuff]

Ignoring him is an ever better present. It’s like not having a dog crap on your doorstep every day.

Lol - I am fascinated at to what this very odd human is, if he's even human at all. I'm picturing a highly advanced labradoodle on a keyboard.

 

[navery12]

 

[BFieldHusky]

Haven't seen it yet, but I imagine Miller, who i believe signed an extension in the last year plus, had a buyout.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Haven't seen it yet, but I imagine Miller, who i believe signed an extension in the last year plus, had a buyout.

I doubt Texas is worried about the cost of a buyout, they have more than that in the tray where they put their spare change.

 

[BFieldHusky]

I doubt Texas is worried about the cost of a buyout, they have more than that in the tray where they put their spare change.

Not looking at it from that angle. Could give Xavier more money for NIL.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

That was also true of Barnes and Shaka Smart.

UT fans should sign up for Barnes-like results in an instant

 

[auror]

Not looking at it from that angle. Could give Xavier more money for NIL.

Yeah now that the AD can spend money on players, buyouts are now pretty useful for schools that don't have the revenue to spend up to the 22 mil cap normally, specifically schools that also don't need to split that money with football.

 

[HuskyHawk]

UT fans should sign up for Barnes-like results in an instant

Should is the operative word here.

 

[FearThePups]

He was recruited in the handshake line last Wednesday.

Really unbelievable. Way to support your players.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Really unbelievable. Way to support your players.

?

 

[Price0809]

The Big East is absolutely a stepping stone league. Who besides UConn is a destination job? Maybe Villanova. Georgetown I guess could be. Creighton lucked into a lifer. If any other coach in the league (75-year-old vampires aside) wins big they're on to bigger things elsewhere.

Agree UConn, Georgetown, Villanova are the three destinations (varying degrees of destination for each), in the Big East. With more money, NIL, the P4 football conferences, regardless of basketball tradition at schools, will be the end goals for any coach in the Big East and below.

 

[Tiamat7]

Marquette is top 20 nationally in annual basketball expenditures, dedicated fanbase, and good facilities. For certain coaches it would also qualify as a destination job. Not sure about their NIL, but I reckon it's reasonably competitive.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Lol - I am fascinated at to what this very odd human is, if he's even human at all. I'm picturing a highly advanced labradoodle on a keyboard.

It's as though pattern recognition doesn't even occur to you.

Fwiw, gb suffers from a similar blindness that makes him a quintessentially reliable poster. I have never followed curiosity about a 'missing' post and been 'disappointed' by what he's written. It's so consistently sour and/or dumb. I'm glad he's not part of my mix.

I loved last week when he wondered why there was no thread on a significant subject and somebody pointed out that the thread must have been started by somebody who ignores him.

By contrast, you're quite capable of adding value, but don't have the benefit of a good editor or enough flair to be be Substack-worthy.

Toward you, I aim to be helpful. You know that a labradoodle wouldn't poop in your path, but with glasses lowered on his nose, he might insistently nudge you into the present and stress the value of encouraging the best for UConn without feeling so strong a need to cover your ass by qualifying your enthisiasms with knowing insights about gaps & deficits, as though they aren't equally apparent to many who don't feel quite so strong a need to emphasize them.

 

[champs99and04]

Just off the top of my head, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and UCLA easily qualify. You need to be University of Something, typically, and our conference has mostly small private schools. It's an issue

That's the thing though. UCLA was a destination job in the PAC-12. I don't think it is anymore. I don't even think UCLA thinks it is anymore.

As for the others, Indiana I'll give you. The other three are big brands with a lot of resources, but I'm not sure they're necessarily better jobs. Ed Cooley (reportedly) turned down Michigan. He didn't turn down Georgetown. Jay Wright turned down plenty of offers over the course of 20+ years at Villanova.

I think the jury remains out on whether the small private school thing is an issue. It doesn't seem to be for Duke.

 

[dogpause]

Tough to win at that football school, unless KD is coming back to finish his degree

After what Bama has done, I don't think there's any such thing as a footbal school; just a sports school. Sports have seasons, when one is over we move on to the next.

 

[Dove]

?

I think the comment was at Miller, not you, Hans.

 

[RuffRuff]

It's as though pattern recognition doesn't even occur to you.

Fwiw, gb suffers from a similar blindness that makes him a quintessentially reliable poster. I have never followed curiosity about a 'missing' post and been 'disappointed' by what he's written. It's so consistently sour and/or dumb. I'm glad he's not part of my mix.

I loved last week when he wondered why there was no thread on a significant subject and somebody pointed out that the thread must have been started by somebody who ignores him.

By contrast, you're quite capable of adding value, but don't have the benefit of a good editor or enough flair to be be Substack-worthy.

Toward you, I aim to be helpful. You know that a labradoodle wouldn't poop in your path, but with glasses lowered on his nose, he might insistently nudge you into the present and stress the value of encouraging the best for UConn without feeling so strong a need to cover your ass by qualifying your enthisiasms with knowing insights about gaps & deficits, as though they aren't equally apparent to many who don't feel quite so strong a need to emphasize them.

Poetry in motion

 

[Inyatkin]

That's the thing though. UCLA was a destination job in the PAC-12. I don't think it is anymore. I don't even think UCLA thinks it is anymore.

As for the others, Indiana I'll give you. The other three are big brands with a lot of resources, but I'm not sure they're necessarily better jobs. Ed Cooley (reportedly) turned down Michigan. He didn't turn down Georgetown. Jay Wright turned down plenty of offers over the course of 20+ years at Villanova.

I think the jury remains out on whether the small private school thing is an issue. It doesn't seem to be for Duke.

Certainly if Mick Cronin leaves UCLA for Villanova or Xavier it blows a hole in my theory.

I do think Duke is one of one, and shouldn't be used to compare to other schools

 

[Waquoit]

I love how Cincy hasn't done squat since they ran Mick out of town. Mick was the problem, they said. Meanwhile, Mick has his Final Four and Cincy has squadoosh.

 

[NHUConnfan]

The Big East is absolutely a stepping stone league. Who besides UConn is a destination job? Maybe Villanova. Georgetown I guess could be. Creighton lucked into a lifer. If any other coach in the league (75-year-old vampires aside) wins big they're on to bigger things elsewhere.

There's honestly only a few jobs in the entire country that aren't "stepping stones"...it all depends on what the coach is looking for. I don't think you need to go much farther than looking at Buzz Williams's career as evidence of how fluid the coaching carousel is, even in the power conferences.