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Post by timholycross on Mar 2, 2017 14:36:00 GMT -5
I decided long ago that there is really no point in me speculating about the future of any coach as I am rarely correct and often woefully wrong. That said, if we are in the market for a new coach, I am fairly certain that Ms Berube will not be in play (she has turned down numerous offers from much bigger & better programs over the last few years) or Sherry Levin (Nothing I've seen from NP would suggest he's going to hire someone whose entire career has been spent in the HS ranks). I get your point, but Sherry Levin has been a coach a long time and a lot of great college coaches coached hs (Jim Calhoun and Rollie Massimino come to mind). And there has been more than one college coach that's coached at WA specifically. At least it's much less of a stretch than the hue and cry from some BC bozos about making Flutie the AD. |
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Post by hchoops on Mar 2, 2017 14:39:53 GMT -5
I decided long ago that there is really no point in me speculating about the future of any coach as I am rarely correct and often woefully wrong. That said, if we are in the market for a new coach, I am fairly certain that Ms Berube will not be in play (she has turned down numerous offers from much bigger & better programs over the last few years) or Sherry Levin (Nothing I've seen from NP would suggest he's going to hire someone whose entire career has been spent in the HS ranks). I get your point, but Sherry Levin has been a coach a long time and a lot of great college coaches coached hs (Jim Calhoun and Rollie Massimino come to mind). You can add RW |
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Post by HC13 on Mar 2, 2017 15:16:21 GMT -5
True to both of you, but I don't think that hiring a 50 something with no college coaching experience is likely, honestly, I can't think of anyone in BB who has made the jump into D1 in the last 10+ yrs, but I'm sure there have been some.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 2, 2017 17:03:10 GMT -5
In this day and age, I very much doubt ADNP would bring in a head coach who had little/no experience in/with college recruiting. The days of a Jack Donohue / Lew Alcindor two-fer are long gone.
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Post by purplehaze on Mar 2, 2017 17:43:39 GMT -5
this team will have the dubious distinction of having the most losses in hc history with 22.
conversely, gibbons has had (for the most part) a successful career, and is approaching 600 career wins (he's at 590 now if my math is correct). in some ways, it would be a shame if he didn't get it at hc. does adnp give him one more year to reach that pinnacle ?
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Post by WorcesterGray on Mar 2, 2017 18:42:09 GMT -5
In this day and age, I very much doubt ADNP would bring in a head coach who had little/no experience in/with college recruiting. The days of a Jack Donohue / Lew Alcindor two-fer are long gone. I'm sure there are many good coaching candidates out there - that's not the problem. The problem is how do you persuade a guy with 600 wins, who's not even sixty years-old, that it's time to hang it up. You don't. Sadly and ironically, I don't think the sport which Gibbons elevated to importance at Holy Cross is important enough anymore here to force his hand. I remember vividly, when Fontana and Andrews committed to play at Holy Cross, that Gibbons talked confidently not about winning PL championships, but of becoming a Top 50 team nationally that could get a 12-seed and play a first-round NCAA Tournament game on a neutral court. And here we are. |
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Post by bringbackcaro on Mar 2, 2017 23:05:37 GMT -5
True to both of you, but I don't think that hiring a 50 something with no college coaching experience is likely, honestly, I can't think of anyone in BB who has made the jump into D1 in the last 10+ yrs, but I'm sure there have been some. Hasn't Marist been the poster child for a successful mid-major women's basketball program with a coach who made the jump from a local high school? |
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Post by HC13 on Mar 3, 2017 6:28:50 GMT -5
Giorgis is, but even he was hired 16 years ago.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2017 6:51:55 GMT -5
Won't next year be CBG's third year of the three year contract extension? If so, perhaps he will be told no more extensions. That can crimp recruiting and there are five juniors on the current roster. ____________________ Certainly, the Marist coach is a poster child, but he also had a phenomenal high school record. If one compares the Marist roster when he took over (2002-2003) and the year following (2003-2004), and the current roster, night and day from the standpoint of geographic distribution. The current roster includes two transfers, and a player from Iceland. www.goredfoxes.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27700&SPID=95216&SPSID=638736&KEY=&Q_SEASON=2016My sense is that, over the years, the HC roster has become more insular. |
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Post by HC13 on Mar 3, 2017 10:54:37 GMT -5
I believe BG's extension is through June 2019. I wouldn't get all that excited about Marist's roster as if you look at it over his career it is very Northeast centric, although he has had any number of foreign players over the years
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 3, 2017 10:58:06 GMT -5
I believe BG's extension is through June 2019. I wouldn't get all that excited about Marist's roster as if you look at it over his career it is very Northeast centric, although he has had any number of foreign players over the years You are right. It was a four year extension, not three, and ends in June 2019. |
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 3, 2017 11:18:47 GMT -5
I believe HCBG will be VERY motivated next season to produce wins. The young HC players will have matured and some key players may develop from the current highly regarded recruits. If things don't show clear improvement, that may be the time to end his distinguished HC career.
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Post by HC13 on Mar 3, 2017 11:38:59 GMT -5
Indeed he will, It will be interesting to see what his OOC schedule looks like next year
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 3, 2017 21:24:24 GMT -5
OK, back to the women's PL Tourney. Will tomorrow be the last gasp of HC basketball for 2016-17? Perhaps, in defiance of most logic, the women will put together a game like he ones they won against Bucknell and Lehigh. Massey makes HC a 7 point favorite with a better than 70% chance for a win. Such a win could end HC's 2 game losing streak and take some of the sing out of the loss to Lafayette (who was at the time suffering through a very long losing streak). Here's hoping.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Mar 4, 2017 6:53:48 GMT -5
Believe HC leads the series with Lafayette 54-9, going back over thirty years. I'd be willing to bet a small sum that we have never lost to them twice in a season.
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Post by bison137 on Mar 4, 2017 11:18:02 GMT -5
Believe HC leads the series with Lafayette 54-9, going back over thirty years. I'd be willing to bet a small sum that we have never lost to them twice in a season. Better keep that bet to a very small sum. LC had a couple strong teams in the early 90's and swept the regular season from HC one of those years. |
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Post by timholycross on Mar 4, 2017 15:34:28 GMT -5
Believe HC leads the series with Lafayette 54-9, going back over thirty years. I'd be willing to bet a small sum that we have never lost to them twice in a season. Better keep that bet to a very small sum. LC had a couple strong teams in the early 90's and swept the regular season from HC one of those years. Yes, you are right, according to the guide, LC beat HC THREE times in 1992. Other LC wins until this year in 1997,8,2006,7 and 2010. HC won 20 in a row over the Leperds, from 1999 through the first game in 2006. |
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