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So is this guy a possible assistant coach for us next year?X&O's ...
Jeremiah Samarrippas - Men's Basketball Coach - Lincoln Memorial University Athletics
Head coach Jeremiah Samarrippas is one of the most successful young coaches in college basketball, coming off a 2022-23 season when he led the Railsplitters to almurailsplitters.com
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
Nah, Brad’s replacement
IMO TA’s replacement needs to not be white so an X&Os type like him or Yaklich has to be Hamer’s replacement.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
For me, as just one Illini fan ... this isn't the point. It's about pride. If it within the realm of possibility to raise the money to get our current coach to stay, I don't want to be the type of program that loses a coach to ANYONE - not the Blue Bloods and especially not Texas. This idea that we should reasonably expect any Blue Blood to be able to poach our coach relies solely on Bill Self leaving for Kansas in 2003. However, he is the only Illini coach in living memory to voluntarily leave Illinois for another program, and he left for his literal dream job (I actually do take him at his word that KU is the only job he leaves for, just as Roy Williams isn't leaving KU for anywhere but UNC). In contrast to that perception, in the last 30 years we have swiped two successful coaches from big-time, historically relevant power conference programs - Kruger from Florida and Underwood from Oklahoma State. That speaks to the prestige of this job, and I want to (1) keep up that prestige and (2) get to the point where our own fans have enough confidence in our program that we EXPECT to keep our coaches.
This is about pride. I get that enough money can (at least potentially) sway anyone to go anywhere ... there is always the possibility that SMU's donors get together so much money that they can incentivize Scheyer to leave Duke and go there, lol. However, if the money is even in the same ballpark, we need to hold on to our coaches as a simple matter of pride that Illini Basketball is prestigious enough and relevant enough that we should never lose a coach that we want to keep. The programs we aspire to be peers with would never expect to lose their coach to Texas under normal circumstances.
This situation with him being let go is weird. They have one of the most robust NIL programs for a non-D1 school, and now the whole team is in the portal. Wonder what happened behind the scenes.X&O's ...
Jeremiah Samarrippas - Men's Basketball Coach - Lincoln Memorial University Athletics
Head coach Jeremiah Samarrippas is one of the most successful young coaches in college basketball, coming off a 2022-23 season when he led the Railsplitters to a
Terry fired
Sean Miller to Texas looking very likely right now.
It’s a good thing we won on Friday night.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Just got the ESPN notification as well.
So Texas reached out to Pitino,Oats and Underwood and came up empty. All Miller’s now.
Top WVU Coaching Target Ben McCollum is 'Finalizing a Deal' with Another School
West Virginia's coaching search is nearing its end, but they won't be landing the guy a large portion of the fan base has been clamoring for, Ben McCollum. Acco
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OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Sports discussions in Des Moines should be fun this week . . .Top WVU Coaching Target Ben McCollum is 'Finalizing a Deal' with Another School
West Virginia's coaching search is nearing its end, but they won't be landing the guy a large portion of the fan base has been clamoring for, Ben McCollum. Acco
From the big X to it's bigger in X'as.
Brad/Brad’s people told Texas he wasn’t interested in their offer …
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Plural? Nice. Nice. Let's do this!
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