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Post by knightlyfe920 on Mar 15, 2015 17:04:52 GMT -6
We won the regular season championship last year And? Where has that ultimately gotten us?
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Post by can opener man on Mar 15, 2015 19:14:39 GMT -6
If u win a conference regular season title. Then one game from it. You should be on the hot seat v bit do u think that is ridiculous. Give me one mid major in last ten years to let a coach go for that.
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Post by shooting the J on Mar 15, 2015 19:25:10 GMT -6
Let's stay on topic with the thread title.
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Post by gbbrl97 on Mar 16, 2015 6:44:03 GMT -6
With the names previously mentioned for DePaul, I think BW will be in the mix, but there are other names out there who have taken their teams to the NCAA's. I think it would be funny if Bobby Hurley got the job and you could have 2 Duke grads coaching schools in Chicago (Chris Collins is at Northwestern), and one up the road in Milwaukee (Steve Wojohowski is at Marquette).....Could Collins and Hurley start a NW-DePaul rivalry?
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Post by PantherU on Mar 16, 2015 16:02:58 GMT -6
Wardle wants the DePaul job. People I've talked to at DePaul have told me they are thinking of a younger mid-major head coach (nobody specific) to counteract the established high-major head coach they hired last in Purnell.
I dunno, the mid-major coach Wainwright didn't do much either. But the next coach, whoever it is, will do a lot better because they have the new arena coming. Actually having a student section will help.
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Post by phoenixphan87 on Mar 16, 2015 19:54:01 GMT -6
"Former IU basketball player Chris Reynolds, asst AD at Northwestern to become new AD at Bradley. Look for him to change basketball coach."
Tweet from Dave Kaplan CSN Chicago
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Post by knightlyfe920 on Mar 16, 2015 20:42:52 GMT -6
What are the odds that Wardle lands one of these jobs. I know that I want him gone, but I don't know the intricacies of the landscapes at Bradley and Depaul to know what the actual chances are.
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Post by GBPhoenix1 on Mar 16, 2015 21:15:31 GMT -6
Totally random but NKU fired their coach. Any chance Bothof has the funds and interest to bring Wardle there?
As for Bradley I think Wardle should be way higher up that short list than DePaul's. DePaul has millions to spend, it really shouldn't be that hard to land a guy that across the board looks good. Archie Miller would look good there.
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Post by gbbrl97 on Mar 17, 2015 6:30:44 GMT -6
I think BW has a good shot with Bradley, since he and his staff have strong ties to the Chicago public schools. BU is a basketball mad school with no football program to compete with. Even with a bad team this season, BU averaged 6000+ fans each home game in an 11,000 seat arena. BW would have a LOT more resources to work with.
Even if DePaul offered the HC job to BW, he would have more competition for that job (Bobby Hurley?, Archie Miller? Or do they make a run at Shaka Smart or Brad Stevens?). Although DePaul is getting a new arena, will they draw more that what they have been (at Allstate Arena/Rosemount Horizon)? Like GB, DePaul is a commuter campus. At Bradley, if BW got them back on the winning track, they may sell out Carver Arena again. That might not be the case at DePaul (at the new McCormack Place).
Intriguing that NKU fired their HC....I don't think Bohtof would hire BW to a budding D1 program.....but what's to say he asks Brian Barone about the job?
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Post by shooting the J on Mar 17, 2015 6:34:35 GMT -6
I think BW has a good shot with Bradley, since he and his staff have strong ties to the Chicago public schools. BU is a basketball mad school with no football program to compete with. Even with a bad team this season, BU averaged 6000+ fans each home game in an 11,000 seat arena. BW would have a LOT more resources to work with. Even if DePaul offered the HC job to BW, he would have more competition for that job (Bobby Hurley?, Archie Miller? Or do they make a run at Shaka Smart or Brad Stevens?). Although DePaul is getting a new arena, will they draw more that what they have been (at Allstate Arena/Rosemount Horizon)? Like GB, DePaul is a commuter campus. At Bradley, if BW got them back on the winning track, they may sell out Carver Arena again. That might not be the case at DePaul (at the new McCormack Place). Intriguing that NKU fired their HC....I don't think Bohtof would hire BW to a budding D1 program.....but what's to say he asks Brian Barone about the job? The new Bradley AD, Chris Reynolds, is an Indiana guy, and I'd bet he goes hard after Dane Fife.
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Post by gbbrl97 on Mar 17, 2015 6:48:42 GMT -6
Good point J.....It will depend on how open Reynolds is in bringing in a guy he may not know, but he (and whoever from the GB staff he brings) has stronger ties to the Chicago area, which is more important to recruiting and building the BU program back, and he at least got GB to the postseason (albeit a CIT and 2 NIT berths). Fife won't have the name and program recognition and history of Mich. St. to recruit to anymore, and did not get IPFW to a post-season berth, but he does have the IU connection with Reynolds.
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Post by shooting the J on Mar 17, 2015 17:33:17 GMT -6
UIC is iterviewing their 1st coaching candidate, Craig Robinson. The Chicago native is also the former Oregon State coach. However, he's best known as The President's brother-in-law.
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Post by gbbrl97 on Mar 18, 2015 6:32:30 GMT -6
Craig Robinson would be an intriguing hire for UIC. Running a variation of the Princeton offense and the 1-3-1 zone would give the rest of the HL headaches once he gets his kind of players in. He's a native Chicagoan and would keep some of the better HS talent in that area. Although he had an average tenure at Oregon St., that is not a program (in its current state) that is conducive to being a top tier Pac-12 team. When you're in a tiny little town in west-central Oregon (I've been to Corvallis and it's SMALL....I'd like to get Tulsa's take on this since he lives in the area), it's not exactly conducive in bringing in high-caliber talent when you have Nike-U (i.e. Oregon) down I-5......They have not had a bona-fide contender since the days of Ralph Miller in the late 80's.
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Post by GBPhoenix1 on Mar 22, 2015 9:50:12 GMT -6
UIC is iterviewing their 1st coaching candidate, Craig Robinson. The Chicago native is also the former Oregon State coach. However, he's best known as The President's brother-in-law. Steve McClain from Indiana and prior to that was the head man at Wyoming will be the new coach at UIC. I think that is an upgrade over Howard Moore but not a guy who is going to be able to bring UIC to the top of the HL on a consistent basis.
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Post by shooting the J on Mar 22, 2015 12:13:30 GMT -6
UIC is iterviewing their 1st coaching candidate, Craig Robinson. The Chicago native is also the former Oregon State coach. However, he's best known as The President's brother-in-law. Steve McClain from Indiana and prior to that was the head man at Wyoming will be the new coach at UIC. I think that is an upgrade over Howard Moore but not a guy who is going to be able to bring UIC to the top of the HL on a consistent basis. Agreed. Robinson would have been more interesting. Chicago State should make a coaching change now and hire Robinson.
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