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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 11, 2019 16:44:31 GMT -6
LOL, 2020 ;-)
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Post by phoenixphan87 on Mar 12, 2019 14:17:43 GMT -6
Former GB assistant Brian Barone get SIU Edwardsville interim job- replacing former GB assistant Jon Harris
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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 12, 2019 14:34:18 GMT -6
I hope he gets a permanent shot at the job. He's paid a lot of dues over the years.
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Post by phearthephoenix on Mar 12, 2019 15:28:22 GMT -6
I hope he gets a permanent shot at the job. He's paid a lot of dues over the years. It sounds like Barone will be the permanent guy, the interim label is required since the official hire requires board approval
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Post by yayphoenixyay on Mar 14, 2019 21:02:24 GMT -6
FYI, Kowalczyk's Toledo team has a 25 win season going into their conference tournament. Toledo Tod can't get it done once again, the Rockets lost to NIU in the conference tourney...yikes
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Post by phoenixphan87 on Mar 15, 2019 7:51:45 GMT -6
FYI, Kowalczyk's Toledo team has a 25 win season going into their conference tournament. Toledo Tod can't get it done once again, the Rockets lost to NIU in the conference tourney...yikes We are all too familiar with this. Hard to find another tenured D1 coach with the success Tod has had without a NCAA appearance.
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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 15, 2019 12:07:00 GMT -6
It will happen for Tod. He runs a clean program and has now turned two programs around from rock bottom. He left GB in better shape than he found it. At Toledo, he has had his contract renewed twice.
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Post by yayphoenixyay on Mar 15, 2019 12:56:29 GMT -6
It will happen for Tod. He runs a clean program and has now turned two programs around from rock bottom. He left GB in better shape than he found it. At Toledo, he has had his contract renewed twice. Will it? I mean he's been at it for years and years with no meaningful postseason play to show for it. What would you rather have? Consistent 20+ win seasons and NO tourney appearances, or slightly more volatility and win between 15-20 games, but make the tourney at least occasionally? I would rather have the latter. Sure, consistency helps build a "program," but what does it mean if that program has no postseason appearances to show for it, no matter how "solid" that program is?
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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 15, 2019 13:35:43 GMT -6
Tod was called on at GB and Toledo to fix morbid programs. He brought Green Bay back to respectability in the Horizon League and handed the program over to Wardle who was a better recruiter. Both K and W became better coaches for their experience with the Nix. At Toledo, the program was an absolute wreck with NCAA scholarship limits because of academic penalties. I equate Kowalczyk to Miami coach. Jim Larrañaga. I knew Larranaga when he was an assistant at Virginia. From 1977 to 2011 he was pretty much a journeyman head coach He started at American International College from 1977 to 1979, Bowling Green State University from 1986 to 1997, and George Mason University until 2011. He finally hit the brass ring taking George Mason to the Final Four in I think 2006. That lead to his gig at Miami and a pretty solid run since then. That's the kind of career I see Kowalczyk having. Based on covering sports my guess is Wardle will get a shot at a high major but may have problems with in-game adjustments of X's and O's. His success will depend on the right situation and assistants compensating for his weaknesses. I'm also concerned about how he will mature. He really needs a Dutch Uncle.
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Post by GBPhoenix1 on Mar 15, 2019 15:05:14 GMT -6
If I were at DePaul, Penn St, Illinois or something similar hiring a guy like TK wouldn't be the worst move. He would get those programs back to respectable. In today's world that would get him in the dance.
Being in one bid league's hasn't helped him. He has run into Butler, Bruce Pearl and now Buffalo. I know he lost to NIU but would it feel any better to lose in the MAC championship to Buffalo?
I hate having down years. Being consistent is a first step to winning big.
Wardle is really underrated as a coach. He is probably one of the best defensive coach's. Watching good defense doesn't excite some people but his GB and Bradley teams were darn good on that end. He recruits winners, guys who play hard, guys who get down and dirty. A lot of those guys aren't great offensive players but he gets a fair amount out of them especially from where they start at.
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Post by phoenixphan87 on Mar 15, 2019 21:49:00 GMT -6
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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 15, 2019 22:52:25 GMT -6
That's the concern I've had about Wardle's career. The earlier P^%$#! contest with the Press-Gazette reporter I attributed to growing pains. But what I'm seeing with the confrontation now with the beat report for the Peoria newspaper sounds like act two of the same play. The Bradley administration and the basketball coach need to understand the difference between cheerleaders and journalists. A beat reporter can't be both. Have difference, yes, but don't hold grudges. Anything else is immature kid stuff.
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Post by yayphoenixyay on Mar 15, 2019 23:16:19 GMT -6
That's the concern I've had about Wardle's career. The earlier P^%$#! contest with the Press-Gazette reporter I attributed to growing pains. But what I'm seeing with the confrontation now with the beat report for the Peoria newspaper sounds like act two of the same play. The Bradley administration and the basketball coach need to understand the difference between cheerleaders and journalists. A beat reporter can't be both. Have difference, yes, but don't hold grudges. Anything else is immature kid stuff. Is it a coincidence that this stuff seems to follow BW? I think not. You’re right...a beat writer is absolutely not a cheerleader, but you don’t seem to see this stuff follow guys like Linc. The problem seems to be following Wardle, and there must be a reason for that....
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Post by GBPhoenix1 on Mar 16, 2019 7:05:00 GMT -6
This stuff doesn't follow Linc because GB doesn't have a beat writer, the GBPG pretty much chooses to not cover the team. That and as a Gannett owned company they probably charge too much to have an article published LOL
As for Wardle this reduction started in January yet they choose now after the team finally has momentum to break their silence. Why is that? The beat writer in question is negative about BU and BW, I've read tons of his stuff. Having his friends post this now confirms that for me.
We haven't lived in a fair and balanced media world for a long time. People want to get all up in arms when a guy wants to hide behind the ideal of the media and not his real body of print and social media. I actually entirely agree with BU and BW this guy doesn't need extra access.
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Post by thetulsawarrior on Mar 16, 2019 10:14:34 GMT -6
Three-time Sports Reporter of the Year in Illinois, decades of coverage without a reaction like this to his journalistic work? This is the second example of Wardle getting into a p^%$! contest with a reporter. It's a stupid thing to do on a number of levels and will not serve his career aims. As to the comment above on the state of American journalism -- that's something that needs more than a sentence or catchphrase to do justice to the discussion.
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