If that Monty tweet is spot on, I think it's a credit to Whitman that he got jilted at the alter by his reach candidate immediately. Go in with your biggest offer on day one and get the pipe dream stuff out of the way early. With MT it would have been weeks of intrigue and drama followed by a very public rebuke/wedgie and then back to square one looking weaker and more desperate.
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hooraybeer
- Pittsburgh, PA
the flight trackers are on top of it
ps: not excited about keatts if that's the guy
I understand that opinion as he is relatively unproven, but I'd be thrilled. I love his style of play and love his background. I think he has very high potential.
Trakis
- Chicago, IL
Wouldn't a train be the appropriate transportation to Wilmington?
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Personally, I'm very happy with Keatts if its him but it would be hard to tell if he was #2 guy, or #5 and 1-4 already turned the job down.
Maybe that's taking a page out of the post-Dononvan Florida hire?
If not that would have been a damning mistake. One I'm sure they didn't make.
From the News-Gazette article:
http://assets.news-gazette.com/spor...basketball/2017-03-11/whos-next-illinois.html
Keatts is the hot mid-major coach du jour, having led UNC-Wilmington now to consecutive 25-plus win seasons and consecutive NCAA tournaments after spending three seasons as an assistant at Louisville under Rick Pitino. It’s Keatts’ time as the coach at Hargrave Military Academy, though, that is most intriguing. His 10 seasons as head coach turned Hargrave into a national powerhouse and produced 103 Division I players.
Is this even possible? Ten D-I players every year for ten years? Did he recruit a new crop of seniors every year?
http://assets.news-gazette.com/spor...basketball/2017-03-11/whos-next-illinois.html
Keatts is the hot mid-major coach du jour, having led UNC-Wilmington now to consecutive 25-plus win seasons and consecutive NCAA tournaments after spending three seasons as an assistant at Louisville under Rick Pitino. It’s Keatts’ time as the coach at Hargrave Military Academy, though, that is most intriguing. His 10 seasons as head coach turned Hargrave into a national powerhouse and produced 103 Division I players.
Is this even possible? Ten D-I players every year for ten years? Did he recruit a new crop of seniors every year?
What other P5 coaching vacancies are out there? Who are we competing with?
North Carolina St. Who else is official?
North Carolina St. Who else is official?
bdutts
- Houston, Texas
Missouri
ILLINI IN NE
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No, just the return trip.
TownieMatt
CU Expat
- Chicago
Oh yea, it's very possible. But those schools recruit like college teams. It's not like he's developing them at some ridiculous clip.
Guessing Woj got this directly from Monty weeks ago and agreed not to leak it until now. Whitman would have been working Monty weeks if not months ago to gauge interest. He's had plenty of time to figure out the Monty situation prior to a firing.
TownieMatt
CU Expat
- Chicago
That stat may have meant that there were 10 eventual D1 players on his team every year, not 10 D1 seniors.
I think 13 or so of those guys were eventual NBA players.
hooraybeer
- Pittsburgh, PA
pretty sure hargrave is a community college 2-year type program, so it's possible he was inheriting 10 new guys every year
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