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Post by efg72 on May 20, 2019 19:40:58 GMT -5
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Post by sader1970 on May 20, 2019 19:44:27 GMT -5
Yes, was on the local Providence news on both NBC and CBS tonight. They make it sound like a done deal. He's a real Providence local but have no doubt he'd jump at a chance to go to Michigan.
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Post by hc87 on May 20, 2019 21:38:07 GMT -5
Good recruitahh, horrific game-day coach...he'd be a disaster in Ann Arbor imo
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Post by rf1 on May 20, 2019 21:53:32 GMT -5
One NCAA win in five trips. That is not good enough for UM.
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Post by bringbackcaro on May 20, 2019 21:57:10 GMT -5
If Fr Brooks didn’t botch the Big East decision, this would have meant that a team in HC’s league (the Big East - the league HC should be in) would be looking for a new coach FWIW.
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Post by Xmassader on May 20, 2019 22:52:21 GMT -5
Apparently, Michigan will select a new head coach by Friday. Sounds like current assistant Luke Yaklich, Fab 5er Juwan Howard and Ed Cooley are/will be the interviewees with a decision expected by Friday.
Many parallels to the suddenness and timing of the FHCRW (in 2009) and Beilein departures. Not sure the timing of either one could have been much worse. Michigan is already feeling the impact with one of two recruits asking for his release. The other may soon follow. Hopefully, it’s not deja vu for my other alma mater almost 10 years after FHCRW’s fateful decision sending the Wolverine program into a tailspin.
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Post by longsuffering on May 20, 2019 23:22:02 GMT -5
We've been in a tailspin so long, the people on the ground are no longer looking like ants. $2.6 million salary at PC - wow. Oh well, we have all of our Stadium PL Broadcast deal money to pay the next coach with.
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Post by gerry on May 21, 2019 11:16:20 GMT -5
Cooley has signed a multi year extension to stay at PC. Looks like the Michigan job is down to Howard or Yaklich
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Post by hchoops on May 21, 2019 11:55:39 GMT -5
Cooley played that well.
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Post by rf1 on May 21, 2019 12:21:29 GMT -5
Cooley would be best served to stay at PC where he makes good coin and only has to win one NCAA Tournament game every eight years. Expectations and pressure would be much higher elsewhere.
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Post by Ray on May 21, 2019 12:58:01 GMT -5
Cooley loves it at PC, and PC loves him. He has as much job security as any coach in the country. I don't believe he was ever close to taking the Michigan job. Great match between school and coach.
We would be lucky to have a coach of his caliber.
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Post by rf1 on May 21, 2019 13:15:03 GMT -5
I don't believe he was ever close to taking the Michigan job.
Can't take a job if it isn't first offered.
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Post by bringbackcaro on May 21, 2019 13:17:37 GMT -5
Cooley is a very good recruiter and seems like a great guy, but he's a really poor X's & O's coach.
Would be a lousy fit at HC, where the coach needs to maximize talent to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts.
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Post by Ray on May 21, 2019 13:43:21 GMT -5
As usual, agree to disagree. You've either got an odd definition of "X and O" or a poor eye for it. For one thing, PC has been in the top 40 of KenPom's defensive efficiency rankings for five years running. That's exactly the kind of mindset that you've been espousing for years around here, and strongly refutes the notion that all Cooley does is recruit his players and then roll out the basketballs in practice. That's also the primary path to get the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts in this era.
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Post by hchoops on May 21, 2019 13:46:35 GMT -5
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Post by bringbackcaro on May 21, 2019 14:42:47 GMT -5
As usual, agree to disagree. You've either got an odd definition of "X and O" or a poor eye for it. For one thing, PC has been in the top 40 of KenPom's defensive efficiency rankings for five years running. That's exactly the kind of mindset that you've been espousing for years around here, and strongly refutes the notion that all Cooley does is recruit his players and then roll out the basketballs in practice. That's also the primary path to get the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts in this era. His KenPom defensive efficiency rankings at Fairfield were 223-296-191-144-19. Aside from his last year there (a pretty significant outlier), those results are less than stellar. He was also only 4-5 in the MAAC Tournament over his 5 years at Fairfield, advancing to the championship only one time (and losing). |
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Post by billyjack9 on May 25, 2019 2:39:13 GMT -5
Friar fan here. Obviously very happy that Ed stayed at PC.
Ed Cooley-- his NCAA record could be better, but i expect a breakthrough at some point. Both Fairfield and Providence were disasters when he rebuilt both. His recruiting has been excellent. Record in close games is outstanding, like 50-20, and he's been a great in game coach. The Fairfield efficiency numbers shown above i think are misleading, cuz the Stags were horrible before he arrived and his teams sjowed steady improvement each season.
He's had wins vs top programs--- vs Arizona, Notre Dame, Florida State by 25, Miami by 20, U of Washington, USC, Mississippi State by 20, South Carolina, Illinois, probably forgetting some, like good URI teams and Memphis, Louisville by 31 early on... BC but they suck... also Villanova in both their recent National Championship years.
And no one really knows whether he was offered the Michigan job or not. Considering Rothstein etc reported that he was taking the UM job meant they were very close... maybe it was agreed that Ed would keep an offer quiet so it wouldn't screw up the ongoing search and insult Juwan Howard. The optics are fantastic for Providence that Michigan had serious interest yet he stayed with the Friars... tough to spin that negatively.
And best of all, Cooley runs a clean program, is a local guy, and is a great spokesman for the school and conference.
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Post by sader1970 on May 25, 2019 9:18:58 GMT -5
Met Cooley twice when I was doing my IVC volunteer work at Community Prep School in Providence. Despite the lofty name, it was for mostly inner city financially-challenged 3rd to 8th graders to prepare them for college prep high schools with a great success rate (3 were graduates of Holy Cross, many to BC, even Harvard, Yale, etc. A lot, as you might expect, ended up graduating from Brown (the founder and headmaster was a Brown grad). Cooley came to the school to give an inspirational talk because he said that he grew up less than a mile from the school and grew up poor like them and he demonstrated what kind of success they could have. My role there was many and varied but worked mostly with the kids and teachers and was considered part of the faculty except for when I worked in the Development office helping shake the money tree as they needed $1.4 million annually to cover expenses because only the very few rich, white kids whose parents wanted to have their kids interact with the mostly poor, minority students in order to not take their own privileges for granted could pay the tuition. Almost all the kids were attending at minimal expense but every parent/guardian had to pay "something" to have skin in the game. You would not be able to find more involved/dedicated parents and many students were either immigrants or whose parents were immigrants. The student make-up looked like what my Irish grandfather called "The League of Nations."
Sorry for the digression but wanted to share the background of how much Cooley meant to these kids and the kinds of things he does for the Providence community.
P.S. Oh, yeah, Cooley thanked me for what I was doing for the community which was a little embarrassing.
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Post by hchoops on May 25, 2019 9:56:53 GMT -5
You both should be congratulated.
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Post by sader1970 on May 25, 2019 10:19:07 GMT -5
Hoops, at the risk of it being a cliche, I truly did get a whole lot more from those kids and the extremely dedicated and talented teachers and staff. Admittedly, after 42+ years in the business world, I came in a little jaded and knowing that I wanted to do something radically different as I transitioned into retirement and these kids were so open to the differences in each other and welcoming. I got “paid” so much more than money.
Just so refreshing seeing optimism every day there as these kids were starting to live the American dream. Maybe hokey but true.
I have little doubt that in 15-20 years that many of the kids I worked with will be leaders in Providence, Rhode Island, New England and the United States.
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