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So Calhoun is making $200k base to build a winner at Youngstown State while Alnutt is making $295k a year here to burn every program to the ground. I have an idea on where Alnutt could find some money!

LMAO oh wow I didn't catch up on this thread before posting. We are in trouble

While Calhoun does not get me super excited winning at YSU as hard. From Jeff Goodman's poll a couple years ago on the best jobs in each league YSU was last in the Horizon League: https://watchstadium.com/horizon-league-coaches-rank-the-best-jobs-in-the-conference-12-28-2018/ Where they win: “Honestly, I can’t really think of anything. The job is brutal.” – Horizon head coach The knock: “Where do you start? It’s by far the toughest job in the league, and it’s not even close. They don’t have support, tradition or really much to sell, to be honest.” – Horizon assistant

I was thinking he’d probably be a D1 prototype of the type of big man McCollum has had at NW Missouri St. Same type of skill set but an extra few inches of height and good athleticism

Efficiency isn’t a scheme or a roster building strategy. Efficiency is the goal of all offensive schemes, McCollum just runs one of the best offenses in the country. It’s predicated on spacing the defense, this is done via “gravity”, making defenders stick to their man. They have to do this if they’re worried about you making a shot or cutting to get a shot when they help off. McCollum’s offenses largely force this via pick and pops off of ball screens, it’s not the only way to run offense, but it’s the way he runs his. Ball screens are a lot less dangerous if there is no pop threat, which Jack doesn’t present. He doesn’t have the skill to shoot or make a play off the bounce in a pop scenario. He does have good hands and finishes pretty well and he has a strong motor on the offensive glass. I’m not saying he’s a bad player but he just doesn’t really fit the mold of what McCollum does. I’ll also say playing a big man out of fear of the opposing team’s big man was a microcosm of what drove me nuts about Whitesell. Some coaches force mismatches and will make you match up with them. Other coaches will acquiesce and match up with the opponent. I felt Whitesell fell in category #2. I feel McCollum is in category #1. Oats was in category #1. Famously he saw DeAndre Ayton and Dusan Ristic and met that with Jeremy Harris (as opposed to leaning on more two big lineups with Perkins/McRae/Smart) who cooked them offensively. Then on the defensive end he schemed to help Harris with Clark/Jordan/Caruthers cheating off their men to help over the top on entry passes and dig down when Ayton put the ball on the floor.

Houston, Miami, Penn state, and Missouri are some notable tourney teams who get essentially no minutes from anyone over 6'8". Nick Perkins was pretty good at 6'8". Quibbling about a matter of inches on listed heights wasn't my main point. The point is that he values skill over being a big body. Recruiting in the D1 pool maybe it ends up being 6'8" and 6'9" guys, but he's not going to completely change his system to retain Isaac Jack.

Jack is a goner if McCollum is the coach. His whole system is predicated on creating space with pick and pop bigs and athletic cutters. Jack isn't either of those. He'll be a fine player somewhere but it wouldn't be at UB under McCollum Edit: i.e. last year their tallest rotation players were 6'7" and 6'6", they attempted 7.9 and 4.1 3-pointers per 40 minutes respectively. Jack attempted 0 all season and shot 57.1% from the free throw line

I have no idea how this is calculated but the Massey Ratings has a composite ranking of all basketball teams across divisions. NW Missouri was #126 this past season while UB was #181. https://masseyratings.com/cb/ncaa/ratings 2022: 131 2021: 106 I'm not sure what year that quote from the Lipscomb coach was about NW Missouri being a top-100 team nationally, but it doesn't appear far fetched.

I looked at his Twitter yesterday and I only saw the DOBO Jack Fitzpatrick following him so those are new I believe. For whatever that’s worth edit: Fitzpatrick is the video coordinator, Fox is the DOBO whoops

I don’t see it included but you can estimate from box score stats (you need PBP data for an exact answer due to the variance in FTs you can shoot, 3 vs 2 vs 1 depending on the situation). I have them at 61.9 possessions per game which would be tied for 358/363. So, very slow, I don’t know if he’s bound to that though if he can land higher caliber athletes here. Either way I value winning above all else and I will embrace the (lack of) pace if that’s what he brings

It seems he played there and did the oats “I’m never leaving” thing for a while but things change

For those concerned about free throw shooting in the past few years you’ll love McCollum’s teams full of shooters. Where his team from last year would have ranked in D1: FT%: 77.6% 18th/363 3P%: 39.5% 3rd/363

Charleston was the country’s hot mid-major this year and they started two D2 transfers, an NAIA transfer and had another D2 transfer play heavy minutes off the bench. Pat Kelsey did the same thing at his previous stop at Winthrop. I’m not suggesting he go that route, but not relying on landing a team full of 4 stars to win seems more sustainable as a mid-major program. It’s certainly something to consider but I don’t have much doubt McCollum can identify undervalued talent and I’d be excited to see what he could do recruiting to a D1 school. I think I’d be pretty pumped if we bring him in

Xander Rice was definitely from before Whitesell got fired and he has since committed to Monmouth. I’m guessing Snoddy was also pre-firing although that’s less clear because the first mention I saw was after the firing

Literally on this page there’s an article about a coach turning down a head coaching job. Even during a period where there’s reason for optimism this board reeks of pessimism lol

I wanna preface with the fact that Mike Anderson would be at best my third choice among who we’ve been connected to. His press hasn’t been solved, his offenses were the issue at St. John’s. Almost all successful mid-majors need a niche to recruit to and excel at, his press is not an issue, (think SFA, VCU, etc.) He’s recruiting fine, he just pulled in the 38th ranked class and there are a ton of P5 retreads killing recruiting at the mid-major level. He’d instantly be the most accomplished coach in UB history (prior to coming to UB) and the only one able to say they’ve produced NBA players. I won’t argue that he’s the best option because I agree I’d like an up and comer, but call UB and say NO is wacko shit

Fair enough, wouldn't want a retread, but anyway here's a guy who got fired for not winning enough in one of the worst conferences in the country. We can look the other way though because he had a good season in "The Basketball League". Is this Will Brown's account?

I looked at your post history and literally none of it is Xs and Os. You also suggested Will Brown. Thank god you're not running the search

Would love to see your Xs and Os break down on why Mike Anderson is a bad hire

If we had 3 offers out there would be some sort of news about it lol. We're using a search firm which is dragging it out

All people from Michigan are thieves now

I don't know the quality of sources but this is the first mention I've seen of Michigan assistant Saddi Washington Also mentioned the other usual suspects (Hodgson, Cohen, Hartman)

I think the answer is yes, I'm just surprised to see any level of recruiting going on without knowing what direction the new coach will take the team. I suppose reaching out doesn't hurt though

Not sure if our interest was pre-Whitesell firing or not, but:

I don't think so. I didn't thoroughly research this so maybe I missed a hire, but Kansas won the title last year and didn't lose any assistant coaches. Prior to that Baylor won and lost Jerome Tang to Kansas State, but he had been at Baylor since Drew took over that shitshow in 2003 and turned them around. Prior to that Virginia won and didn't lose any assistant coaches. The opportunity to make the jump from assistant to head coach doesn't come around that often, it usually requires a drop in level, maybe requires a paycut. I'd frankly be surprised if Hodgson is truly interested in making the jump to head coaching and we offer him the job and he says no.