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Post by rf1 on Mar 28, 2017 10:23:51 GMT -5
Most that have taken the Duquesne position have never had better jobs afterward. This might not be an issue for Dambrot at his age. There are some reports that this seven year deal may be in the neighborhood of 1M/yr. If he gets fired, as has been the case with nearly all of the Dukes coaches in the last 40 years, he will be set financially for life and can simply start retirement. That turns out to be an understatement! I know next to nothing about Duquesne basketball so I decided to educate myself and found that of the last 8 Duquesne head coaches (not including 2016-2017's Jim Ferry) 6 never had another head coaching job after leaving Duquesne: John Cinicola, Jim Satalin, John Carroll, Darelle Porter, Danny Nee, and Ron Everhart. Mike Rice left Duquesne after 1981-82 season and then was head coach for five years at Youngstown State. Scott Edgar left Duquesne after 97-98 season and resurfaced eight years later as head coach for two years at SE Missouri beginning in 06-07. It looks like Duquesne is the place to go if you want to end your head coaching career... As a follower of the A-10, I can tell you that Duquesne is a very tough job. They have not been in the NCAA since 1977. That is the longest drought for a league school (even Fordham made it once in 1992). The Dukes are an afterthought in the Pittsburgh market. They are perennially near the bottom of the A-10 in attendance. They drew just 21,915 fans in total (18 home games) this past season for a home average of 1,218 that even many of their fans think was inflated. It was a strong program up until the late 70's but has not been since and the continued/extended lack of success has taken a toll.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 28, 2017 9:07:28 GMT -5
You do not hear of many 7 year deals. Takes him to 65 years old. Dambrot must have some agent. Lebron probably put in a good word for his HS coach Most that have taken the Duquesne position have never had better jobs afterward. This might not be an issue for Dambrot at his age. There are some reports that this seven year deal may be in the neighborhood of 1M/yr. If he gets fired, as has been the case with nearly all of the Dukes coaches in the last 40 years, he will be set financially for life and can simply start retirement.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 27, 2017 20:38:17 GMT -5
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Post by rf1 on Mar 27, 2017 11:24:23 GMT -5
This has been rumored for a few weeks but oddly had not yet been made official until today:
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Post by rf1 on Mar 27, 2017 10:28:08 GMT -5
Baker Dunleavy the frontrunner at QPac.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 25, 2017 12:16:55 GMT -5
Archie Miller to Indiana. A much better hire than Alford, who has bounced around from job to job without really doing all that much. I couldn't believe how disorganized his UCLA team was last night, losing to a Kentucky team that was just slightly less disorganized themselves. The A-10 is really taking some hits these last two weeks with regards to coaches. With Archie Miller going to Indiana, the perennial top two programs (VCU and Dayton) will have lost coaches to P5 schools just this week. Two of the teams that finished at the bottom of the league this past season fired their coaches some two weeks ago and are not having an easy time getting replacements. The coach of the 2017 A-10 Tournament Champion (URI) is being mentioned for one of the premier northeast college jobs (Georgetown). There was already going to be a lot of top player turnover in the league and now you can add coaching turnover. The A-10 will very much be a conference in transition next season.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 25, 2017 2:36:54 GMT -5
At that point you hold the guy to his contract...when you rehire a guy like that you're expecting he gives you a season at least. He never resigned, so technically was not rehired but still under contract at Winthrop. Because he is not being rehired, Winthrop is not part of the buyout, just Kelsey. He needs to stay there two years. Not sure we'd go after him personal, certainly not the 1 Million. At this point hope the X job opens up and he goes, then we can recoup some of the buyout money. I have read reports that Kelsey may never have signed an official binding contract with UMass. There was supposedly a signed Memorandum of Understanding which outlined general expected contract items. This type of document is not usually considered legally binding. If this is the case, it will be interesting to see what, if anything, transpires.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 24, 2017 11:14:25 GMT -5
Fascinating article, and a very sad one. So many factors now conspire to ruin college sports.... You are unfortunately very right. The transfer situation is but just one factor hurting non power conference schools in college basketball. Other factors: Escalating Coaching Salaries and budgets NCAA Selection Process - Diminished role of RPI and greater importance on Top 50 wins (which non power schools have little opportunity for) Decreasing number of non power conf teams in NCAA Tournament Worsening NCAA seeds for non power conf teams Scheduling Increasing number of home games for power conf teams Increasing number of league games for power conferences (reducing games vs non power conf teams) Exempt tournaments with final four predetermined and additional home games for final 4 (which tend to be power conf teams) TV (power conf league creating their own networks)
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Post by rf1 on Mar 23, 2017 16:34:05 GMT -5
Some are speculating that Kelsey has a better job than Umass lined up. The rumor is that Chris Mack at Xavier will take the Indiana job once X is out of the tourney. Adds some reasoning why things have been rather quite on the Indiana job search. Kelsey will then return to Xavier (he was an assistant there to Prosser) to replace Mack. We might now if this has any credence in the next few days. Would at least seem plausible at this point.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 23, 2017 12:41:45 GMT -5
Unofficial reports out of DC that JTIII is out at Georgetown.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 22, 2017 11:56:41 GMT -5
Hard to imagine UMass ever being that relevant again. They caught lightning in a bottle, and oh yeah had to cheat to do it. It was certainly a great run for UMass basketball under Calipari in the 90's. The program however never came near that level of success before that era or since. Calipari is the only UMass coach to have ever won an NCAA Tournament game and the 90's is the only decade that UMass ever won NCAA games.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 20, 2017 9:05:03 GMT -5
Pretty sure this new contract was decided upon before Hopkins left I would agree. A contract doesn't get put together that quickly. My guess is that Boeheim had been in discussions with the school to stay on and the staff was aware. Hopkins saw he was not going to get the SU job soon so he looked at his other options.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 18, 2017 17:15:31 GMT -5
The league was devastated by those 2 injuries for two of their best teams--not overrated, at least not for most of the season No doubt that Creighton and Xavier were devastated by the injuries. It however greatly benefited SH, Marquette, and PC as they were able to get very highly rated wins against teams that were without key players. Many of the top 50 wins these three schools had were over X and CU. This helped get them into the NCAA tournament.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 18, 2017 16:26:42 GMT -5
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Post by rf1 on Mar 17, 2017 18:26:58 GMT -5
The Cross has played at least one of the last 32 NCAA teams as Rhode Island beats Big East member Creighton by double digits (84-72) leading wire to wire. If South Carolina wins tonight, it will make two of the round of 32 teams that the Crusaders faced this past season.
With URI's win today, it means that Holy Cross will HOST an NCAA Round of 32 team in Worcester at the DCU Center next year.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 16, 2017 21:27:15 GMT -5
When was the last time URI came to Worcester? I remember we played them in Kingston in December 2009 in a "buy" game. URI last played Holy Cross in Worcester 2/10/1982. The Cross prevailed 70-75. The teams have met once in Providence (1982) and four times in Kingston (2005, 2009, 2015, & 2016) since the Rams last visited Worcester. Holy Cross leads the series 26-14 and have hosted 17 games.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 15, 2017 23:30:01 GMT -5
So we have 3 more games with uri? Sorry. I had it wrong. Went back and looked at a post by Mike Laprey who does the URI scheduling. The game this season was not a buy game as it was the first game in the three game 2-1 series. URI will play Holy Cross at the DCU Center next year and the Crusaders will visit Kingston the following season to conclude the series.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 15, 2017 20:02:20 GMT -5
It was my understanding that the game at URI this past year was a one time buy game. Since then there are reports that the two schools have agreed to a future new 2-1 game series with URI getting two home games at the Ryan Center on its campus and one game hosted by Holy Cross at the DCU Center. This is the exact same arrangement that Holy Cross has with UMass, another A-10 member.
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Post by rf1 on Mar 15, 2017 15:57:16 GMT -5
Will these two games replace the $$$ games like syracuse and UNC? Would make the schedule a little easier in a rebuilding year. Smart. I will assume you mean the Syracuse and South Carolina games played back in November. They were technically tournament games (Broolyn Hoops Classic) and not buy games even though they were on the opponents home court. The only real buy game by definition that Holy Cross played was URI. I would think these will replace the Brooklyn Hoops Classic games from this past season. The problem however is that was four games this past season and the Belfast tourney is just two games. Crusaders were fortunate to get two home games this year without any reciprocation. Crusaders have two more games they will have to schedule now making buy games very likely. I believe that Holy Cross will likely play both UMass and URI on the road next season as part of 2-1 series (would guess host URI at the DCU Center in 2019).
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Post by rf1 on Mar 15, 2017 15:09:15 GMT -5
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Post by rf1 on Mar 15, 2017 12:35:30 GMT -5
Only three New England schools in the tourney this season - Vermont, Providence, and Rhode Island. Pretty exciting for college basketball in the state of RI since it is the first time two local schools made the tournament since 1997 (PC and URI then as well-also occurred previously in 1978) . While many teams were shown on the Selection Show watching their name be called out in their cushy basketball lounges, this is how the Rhody players (in route back to RI via commercial flight at the Pittsburgh Airport) found out who and where they were playing:
PC vs Southern California 03/15/17 9:10pm truTV Dayton Play In Game (winner plays 03/27/17 3:10pm truTV Tulsa) Vermont vs Purdue 03/16/17 7:27pm truTV Milwaukee URI vs Creighton 03/17/17 4:30pm TBS Sacramento
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Post by rf1 on Mar 14, 2017 9:50:26 GMT -5
A-10 update on coaches: My guess is that Jim Ferry at Duquesne might very well be out of a job soon. The Dukes are 10-21 after having lost 13 of their last 14 games. There is also some speculation that Derek Kellogg might be in trouble. The Minutemen (14-17) started off their season ok but things have gone south in league play as they have lost 10 of their last 12. GW will have an interesting choice to make as they must make a decision on interim coach Maurice Joseph who led to the Colonials to an 18-13 record despite difficult circumstances following the late dismissal of Mike Lonergan. I guess I am 2-2 on my predictions. It however did not take a genius to see the handwriting on the wall. Jim Ferry out as Duquesne men's basketball coach March 13, 2017 3:07 PM www.post-gazette.com/sports/duquesne/2017/03/13/jim-ferry-fired-duquesne-dukes-basketball-atlantic-10-coaching-rumors/stories/201703130165According to reports, Maurice Joseph offered HC job at GW:
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Post by rf1 on Mar 13, 2017 15:07:57 GMT -5
A-10 update on coaches: My guess is that Jim Ferry at Duquesne might very well be out of a job soon. The Dukes are 10-21 after having lost 13 of their last 14 games. There is also some speculation that Derek Kellogg might be in trouble. The Minutemen (14-17) started off their season ok but things have gone south in league play as they have lost 10 of their last 12. GW will have an interesting choice to make as they must make a decision on interim coach Maurice Joseph who led to the Colonials to an 18-13 record despite difficult circumstances following the late dismissal of Mike Lonergan. I guess I am 2-2 on my predictions. It however did not take a genius to see the handwriting on the wall. Jim Ferry out as Duquesne men's basketball coach March 13, 2017 3:07 PM www.post-gazette.com/sports/duquesne/2017/03/13/jim-ferry-fired-duquesne-dukes-basketball-atlantic-10-coaching-rumors/stories/201703130165
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Post by rf1 on Mar 13, 2017 5:15:39 GMT -5
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Post by rf1 on Mar 11, 2017 19:24:59 GMT -5
Did anybody else notice the crowd shots of the Northwestern/Maryland game Friday night? Seems like each time they showed the Northwestern crowd, there was a guy with a HOLY CROSS sweatshirt on in the center of the picture! Wanted to support Northwestern but the only purple apparel he had was the HC sweatshirt?
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