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Post by rgs318 on Mar 24, 2022 17:57:46 GMT -5
If true, are you sure Kevin W. was not using his so called interest in HC to get a better deal from SH ? Wasn’t KW on the verge of getting fired at Seton Hall? This was the only reason he was in play at HC. His firing was being discussed and it was a very near thing. He got some time to settle in and now is again moving up.
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Post by res on Mar 24, 2022 17:58:00 GMT -5
I think Paulsen is a good coach and would be a good candidate for HC once the Nelson era ends. I’m not sure UMass is hiring a coach who was just fired from another A10 school. Only Lehigh does things like that. Dave Paulsen would be a good candidate for HC, but Tom Crean would not? We have officially arrived in bananaland. There is coaching, and their is coaching in the PL. Paulsen won four regular season titles and two PL tournament championships. He left an intact roster that the now apparently inept Nathan Davis took to two more league championships. Paulsen moved up to the A10 and was not successful. If you can't see the difference, you are in babanaland.
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Post by bringbackcaro on Mar 24, 2022 18:03:56 GMT -5
Dave Paulsen would be a good candidate for HC, but Tom Crean would not? We have officially arrived in bananaland. There is coaching, and their is coaching in the PL. Paulsen won four regular season titles and two PL tournament championships. He left an intact roster that the now apparently inept Nathan Davis took to two more league championships. Paulsen moved up to the A10 and was not successful. If you can't see the difference, you are in babanaland.
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Post by trimster on Mar 24, 2022 18:04:07 GMT -5
Crean was good at ESPN, I think he'd stick with tv before coaching in the Patriot League. .Could see him in the MAC, though - Michigan guy who went to Central Michigan. I could see him doing a lot of other things besides coaching in the PL. BTW, tomorrow is his birthday.
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Post by hc87 on Mar 24, 2022 21:05:11 GMT -5
Blaney had more success at HC than RW....Holy Cross played at a much higher level in the 70s and even into the early 80s than Willard's teams and we beat many high-level and/or ranked teams during that era.
I believe Frank Martin was an assistant at Northeastern at one point....wouldn't be his first rodeo in the Bay State.
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Post by trimster on Mar 25, 2022 6:53:34 GMT -5
Dave Paulsen would be a good candidate for HC, but Tom Crean would not? We have officially arrived in bananaland. There is coaching, and their is coaching in the PL. Paulsen won four regular season titles and two PL tournament championships. He left an intact roster that the now apparently inept Nathan Davis took to two more league championships. Paulsen moved up to the A10 and was not successful. If you can't see the difference, you are in babanaland. I totally agree with what res said. Someone like Crean who is probably used to not having to be concerned with Admissions, his team playing in front of 10,000 fans and whose idea of a bus trip is the 30 minute ride to the chartered plane waiting at the airport, would be a fish out of water at HC. There are exceptions but they are rare. One could argue RW was one.
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Post by nhteamer on Mar 25, 2022 8:23:21 GMT -5
I hear Mike Brey has recommended Sean Kearney for the uMass job.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Mar 25, 2022 16:26:09 GMT -5
Frank Martin got it instead.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 26, 2022 8:30:48 GMT -5
I believe Frank Martin was an assistant at Northeastern at one point....wouldn't be his first rodeo in the Bay State. Martin was an assistant to Ron Everhart at Northeastern in the early 2000's. I think he was the primary person that recruited Jose Juan Berea to Boston. Both of them had ties to the Miami area.
Interestingly, Martin is following the path of his former boss Everhart in becoming a coach in the A-10. Everhart left Northeastern to coach at Duquense whee he compiled a 99-89 record before being fired in 2012. Ron has not been a head coach since then having been an assistant to Bobby Huggins at West Virginia for the last decade.
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Post by trimster on Mar 26, 2022 10:30:48 GMT -5
If the PL took athletics seriously, there would have been 4 men's hc gigs riding on the carousel this spring. Instead, there is one opening created by a retirement. IMHO, that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the PL. The official name should be the Participation League.
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Post by nhteamer on Mar 26, 2022 19:34:38 GMT -5
If the Queen had ba……………..
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Mar 26, 2022 19:58:41 GMT -5
If the PL took athletics seriously, there would have been 4 men's hc gigs riding on the carousel this spring. Instead, there is one opening created by a retirement. IMHO, that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the PL. The official name should be the Participation League. Very true. I’m shocked Brennan and Davis are returning.
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Post by gerry on Mar 27, 2022 20:21:26 GMT -5
Martin is a bit eccentric, but that is probably what UMass needs. They are sort of stuck in purgatory being a middling program from an ok, but not great league in a location that is bereft of talent unless you can crack into the local prep schools. He's got a much greater personality than the last "big name" coach they hired in Steve Lappas which is a plus. Massachusetts has eight D-1 schools scattered among seven conferences. With no direct competition other than BU (and on the recruiting trail), I truly root for all to do well. A rising tide lifts all boats
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Post by gks on Mar 27, 2022 20:30:24 GMT -5
Martin is a bit eccentric, but that is probably what UMass needs. They are sort of stuck in purgatory being a middling program from an ok, but not great league in a location that is bereft of talent unless you can crack into the local prep schools. He's got a much greater personality than the last "big name" coach they hired in Steve Lappas which is a plus. Massachusetts has eight D-1 schools scattered among seven conferences. With no direct competition other than BU (and on the recruiting trail), I truly root for all to do well. A rising tide lifts all boats Now is the time for UMass hoops to strike. Boston College BB is irrelevant and UMass can be the top dog in the state hoops-wise very quickly. Martin can use his personality to grab a couple of local stars (and there's plenty) and be off and running.
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Post by bfoley82 on Mar 27, 2022 20:33:07 GMT -5
Martin is a bit eccentric, but that is probably what UMass needs. They are sort of stuck in purgatory being a middling program from an ok, but not great league in a location that is bereft of talent unless you can crack into the local prep schools. He's got a much greater personality than the last "big name" coach they hired in Steve Lappas which is a plus. Massachusetts has eight D-1 schools scattered among seven conferences. With no direct competition other than BU (and on the recruiting trail), I truly root for all to do well. A rising tide lifts all boats Martin's wife was a swimmer at UMass back in the day. Martin was that Northeastern's group head coach in high school at Booker T Washington in Miami.
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Post by Ray on Mar 28, 2022 8:27:26 GMT -5
Hoopdirt says that Gate assistant Mike Jordan is in the mix at Lafayette.
I remain surprised that Matt Langel hasn't been poached from Gate. Maybe just not the right slate of openings this year.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 28, 2022 9:19:49 GMT -5
Maybe Langel is happy where he is ?
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Post by Ray on Mar 28, 2022 10:42:01 GMT -5
Maybe Langel is happy where he is ? Well sure, that's a possibility. But that would make him basically a unicorn in his profession.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 28, 2022 10:43:56 GMT -5
Maybe John Becker also ?
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Post by timholycross on Mar 28, 2022 11:08:12 GMT -5
Maybe Langel is happy where he is ? Well sure, that's a possibility. But that would make him basically a unicorn in his profession. How'd the guy at Bentley never get a look from anyone? www.bentleyfalcons.com/sports/mbkb/coaches/LAWSON_JAYNot so much now as he's 64, but that program was really riding high at the end of the 2000s.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 28, 2022 11:29:42 GMT -5
D2 basketball guys often are not included in searches, unfortunately. (amended) maybe in the northeast, anyway.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Mar 28, 2022 11:46:35 GMT -5
D2 basketball guys often are not included in searches, unfortunately. I can think of plenty of D2 guys who made the jump to D1 in recent years. A few that come to mind at the P5 level are Chris Beard and Kim Anderson. There are no shortage of ones at the lower D1 level: 137's favorite coach Nathan Davis, Josh Schertz (Indiana St), Ryan Looney (Idaho St), Paul Sather (North Dakota), Jerrod Calhoun (Youngstown St), Linc Darner (Green Bay).
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Post by timholycross on Mar 28, 2022 12:56:43 GMT -5
D2 basketball guys often are not included in searches, unfortunately. I can think of plenty of D2 guys who made the jump to D1 in recent years. A few that come to mind at the P5 level are Chris Beard and Kim Anderson. There are no shortage of ones at the lower D1 level: 137's favorite coach Nathan Davis, Josh Schertz (Indiana St), Ryan Looney (Idaho St), Paul Sather (North Dakota), Jerrod Calhoun (Youngstown St), Linc Darner (Green Bay). Bo Ryan also from D3 (did have a few years at Wisc as an assistant). And Dick Bennett coached at 4 high schools, then Wis Stevens Point. A lower division seemed to work for footbal, didn't it?
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Post by res on Mar 29, 2022 9:56:37 GMT -5
Maybe Langel is happy where he is ? Colgate has just announced that Langel has signed an extension through 2030.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 29, 2022 9:57:47 GMT -5
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