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OT: Michigan basketball coaching search is speeding up

My guess is Cooley didn’t get an offer. Otherwise there is no chance he turns down Michigan. As far as the tweets from NBA guys we got the same nonsense when Ollie was hired. Those guys don’t get that coaching college isn’t the same as in the NBA. But when you read a guy withdrew from consideration that normally means the AD at the new school called and said “Thanks for coming in but we’ve decided to go in a different direction”.
 
freescooter said:
My guess is Cooley didn’t get an offer. Otherwise there is no chance he turns down Michigan. As far as the tweets from NBA guys we got the same nonsense when Ollie was hired. Those guys don’t get that coaching college isn’t the same as in the NBA. But when you read a guy withdrew from consideration that normally means the AD at the new school called and said “Thanks for coming in but we’ve decided to go in a different direction”.
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Ok let’s mash those sour grapes and make some good whine.
 
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I like this hire.

Not so much if I were a Michigan fan. I just like the hire because it will make for added entertainment as a college basketball fan.

If I were a Michigan fan I'd be screaming bloody murder that my school didn't poach someone elses head coach. The problem is that Ed Cooley was not the caliber that Michigan fans believe they deserve.
 
Here is a list of current or recent college head coaches who played a number of years in the NBA:

Larry Krystkowiak, Johnny Dawkins, Aaron McKie, Danny Manning, Kevin Ollie, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullen, Penny Hardaway, Donyell Marshall, Fred Hoiberg, Damon Stoudamire, Scott Padgett, Jerry Stackhouse.

It looks like Holberg has had the best run so far, but I think it is tough to go from an NBA player to a college head coach.
 
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UofCT2009 said:
2 names:

Zhaire Wade
Bronny Jr
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Take a second and think if LeBron an Ohio man who says he would have gone to OSU had he went to college, would sign off on his kid going to Michigan.
 
UConnJim said:
Here is a list of current or recent college head coaches who played a number of years in the NBA:

Larry Krystkowiak, Johnny Dawkins, Aaron McKie, Danny Manning, Kevin Ollie, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullen, Penny Hardaway, Donyell Marshall, Fred Hoiberg, Damon Stoudamire, Scott Padgett, Jerry Stackhouse.

It looks like Holberg has had the best run so far, but I think it is tough to go from an NBA player to a college head coach.
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You forgot Thunder Dan Majerle.
 
This hire sucks. Let me rephrase that. How the AD went about this hire sucks. Juwan Howard might turn out to be a great college basketball coach but this is another case of hiring the big name who everyone loves and has found memories of. Sure, he's been an assistant in the NBA but do a friggin' national search. Warde got a do-over and mailed it in again. Regardless of how this turns out, Warde sucks.
 
StunningSteve said:
This is exactly what Clyde Drexler was doing... landing Gee Gervin, Moses Malone Jr, etc.

www.texasmonthly.com

Moses Malone, Jr., and George Gervin, Jr.

After years of watching their fathers tear up the NBA,19-year-old Moses Malone, Jr., and 22-year-old George Gervin, Jr., have the ball in their
www.texasmonthly.com www.texasmonthly.com
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Drexler had recently retired from the NBA when he got the Houston job. He found out the hard way that being a CBB coach is a tough job. He wasn't prepared for the amount of time necessary. He also had no previous coaching experience, so Reid Gettys actually coached the team during games, drawing up all the X's and O's on the bench. Drexler was a glorified recruiting consultant. He's a great guy, but it only took him two years to decide the job was not for him.
 
superjohn said:
This hire sucks. Let me rephrase that. How the AD went about this hire sucks. Juwan Howard might turn out to be a great college basketball coach but this is another case of hiring the big name who everyone loves and has found memories of. Sure, he's been an assistant in the NBA but do a friggin' national search. Warde got a do-over and mailed it in again. Regardless of how this turns out, Warde sucks.
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What do you mean? He’s a rock star!!! Rock head is more like it. Now do you believe he was hired at UConn because he won an APR award at Buffalo?
 
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freescooter said:
What do you mean? He’s a rock star!!! Rock head is more like it. Now do you believe he was hired at UConn because he won an APR award at Buffalo?
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He was hired at UCONN because Susan Herbst didn't have a clue about what she was doing. Much like coaches getting hired who had never coached before, she was a rookie university president at that time...no experience. We're still paying the price for her complete lack of judgment in hiring AD personnel.
 
UConnNick said:
He was hired at UCONN because Susan Herbst didn't have a clue about what she was doing. Much like coaches getting hired who had never coached before, she was a rookie university president at that time...no experience. We're still paying the price for her complete lack of judgment in hiring AD personnel.
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This is true but she did fire Hathaway, thank goodness.
 
Rocktheworld said:
Take a second and think if LeBron an Ohio man who says he would have gone to OSU had he went to college, would sign off on his kid going to Michigan.
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I don’t think he or anyone really cares about that rivalry outside of football
 
UConnNick said:
He was hired at UCONN because Susan Herbst didn't have a clue about what she was doing. Much like coaches getting hired who had never coached before, she was a rookie university president at that time...no experience. We're still paying the price for her complete lack of judgment in hiring AD personnel.
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Sorry but he was hired because he had just won an award from the NCAA for turning around UB’s APR. Susan and the BoT actually believed that the NCAA would reduce the APR ban because of the hire. And BTW there are very few college presidents who have presidential experience. Occasionally it happens but mostly they are administrators at other schools. One might argue that the best UConn president of the last few was Harry Hartley though. He knew his way around both Storrs and Hartford. Susan knew neither
 
uconnell said:
This is true but she did fire Hathaway, thank goodness.
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Yes, but that was likely already in the works before Herbst took office. They knew Edsall quit because he hated Hathaway, and also that Calhoun and Hathaway hated each other. Firing Hathaway was a no brainer given those circumstances. They weren't about to fire Calhoun.
 
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freescooter said:
Sorry but he was hired because he had just won an award from the NCAA for turning around UB’s APR. Susan and the BoT actually believed that the NCAA would reduce the APR ban because of the hire. And BTW there are very few college presidents who have presidential experience. Occasionally it happens but mostly they are administrators at other schools. One might argue that the best UConn president of the last few was Harry Hartley though. He knew his way around both Storrs and Hartford. Susan knew neither
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Turning around Buffalo's APR? That's my laugh for the day. That can be accomplished strictly on paper. You don't need an AD for that, just a room with a few accountants and a couple of computers. That's how it gets done.

If that level of naivete is why our administration hired Manuel, they should have all been fired, including the entire BOT if they had anything to do with that decision. Anybody at UCONN who thought that would happen with Mark Emmert in charge of the NCAA had to be delusional.
 
Pudge said:
Your intuition is correct

Warde Manuel is woefully inept at the concept,search & hiring of Program College coaches in major sports. We should be thrilled he’s at UM
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I’m going to print this and hang it on Chief’s fridge.
 
Oh god I hate this hire. Michigan wasn’t really in a place where they needed to take a risk like this. Can’t help but wonder what happened with Beilein? Any theories out there?
 
Pudge said:
Your intuition is correct

Warde Manuel is woefully inept at the concept,search & hiring of Program College coaches in major sports. We should be thrilled he’s at UM
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He's also inept at hiring Olympic sports level coaches. Within the past few months he hired a
"gymnastics consultant" at Michigan who had ties to the Larry Nassar scandal. There was such public outrage he was forced to fire the person about a week after the hire.
 
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