I got it .... The Coaches have been watching these NBA Dream Team's coming together & are looking to form their very own. Billy Donovan is coming to IL & he is bringing Coach K as his Associate; Izo is going to be the assistant handling the gamelans; & ole Bill Self is the lead recruiter.
The Illinois Coaching Search
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Yeah, you can discard every sitting NBA head coach, including Hoiberg.
Depends on your guess as to what "very very" means.
Canada pipeline redux!
sacraig
- The desert
Wild speculation! This is what I was hoping for earlier!
I actually, really did make popcorn.
Just have to wait until Loyalty After Dark starts, friend.
He could bring Kukla and Fran and there'd still be room for Jamall as an assistant! Sorry.
Name to watch, Coach K
kaptain80
- STL
Up and comer. Going to be a star one day.
Serious Late
- Peoria via Denver via Ann Arbor via Albuquerque vi
Bite your tongue good sir! Krystkowiak is an A+ candidate!Krystkowiak would be a tier 3 hire for me
Holding out a prayer for Archie, but Krystkowiak is a name I am befuddled by the lack of excitement over. He will win next year here if we hire him, take it to the bank!
IlliniFan12
- Cedar Falls, IA
Agree completely
The Galloping Ghost 77
- Wheaton, IL
Hoping JW can make a B1G time hire. Gonna be fun to watch.
schnaurt
- Phoenix, AZ
Mike Brey? Is his salary really under $1m? He has been at ND for 15-16 seasons
ND has been top 5 in the ACC the last 3 years and was upper division most of the final years of the Big East. Before Brey ND had missed the NCAA for a dozen years straight but he's got them into the tournament 11 times.
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zhawks
- Madison, WI
Exactly outside of duke what are they? Decent? Ok? I expected expect more than that at Illinois. Is NW in if this bubble isn't historically bad? Idk. Just being connected to duke, shouldn't mean you're right for Illinois.
Huggins would be a shocker given that he's an alumni. I was typing my Brey guess as your post went up.
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schnaurt
- Phoenix, AZ
Another wild guess. Mike Anderson.
I could not see Nolan's guy leaving Arkansas though.
There are not many others out there that I would consider successful power 5 coaches that have not already been discussed.
schnaurt
- Phoenix, AZ
I am just trying to think of anyone that has been successful that has not been discussed a bit.
I think both Huggins and Anderson are far fetched but who knows what is possible.
Brey I could see.
Yes I can definitely see Brey. Everything I see on his salary show it is below $1m but he's gotten $700k bonuses the last two years. Before that he was making $800k range which is criminally low for what he has done at Notre Dame.
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KrushCow31
Former Krush Cow
- Chicago, IL
ND has made the Elite 8 two times in a row. He's coached mediocre talent to a decent team for years. I just don't know if his mediocre recruiting is due to academic standards or because he is bad at recruiting. Either way, we all love him here.
BirdDog9048
The Chief Lives
- Chicago, IL
Huggins is never leaving West Virginia. And I don't mean that in a "Mark Few will never leave Gonzaga" way. I mean that in a "Huggins will coach at WVU until he dies" kinda way.
I had to look up Donnie Tindall. No effin way.
I thought it was conventional wisdom that no one really knows what coaches at private colleges make. It drove the Chicago media crazy that they couldn't get Brian Kelly's contract under the FOIA.
I agree that Huggins will coach at WVU until he dies. He may literally die coaching West Virginia, or on a barstool at the hotel postgame.
Serious Late
- Peoria via Denver via Ann Arbor via Albuquerque vi
I went through and reviewed every power conference school's coach outside the Big Ten to see what the potential pool of candidates might be. There were some definitely interesting tiers and a reasonable pool of "maybes" to consider:
Hall of Famers (Roy, K, Boeheim, Wright, Calipari, Pitino, Self, Huggins)
"Unicorn Hires" (Miller, Bennett, Altman, Buzz)
Early on the job (Mike White, Avery Johnson, Bryce Drew, Jerod Haase, Prohm, Underwood, Beard, Smart, Mullin, Hurley)
Good Coaches, probably last stop (Larranega, Hamilton, Dixon, Kruger, Mike Anderson)
No thanks, not good (Manning, Pastner, Brownell, Stallings, Gottfried, Christian, Cooley, Thompson, Leitao, Weber, Kent, Tinkle, Romar, A. Kennedy, B. Kennedy, Fox, Barnes, Jones, K. Anderson)
Don't know how to classify, but no (S. Drew, Alford, Pearl, F. Martin, Howland)
Remaining Coaches: Krystkowiak, Enfield, C. Martin, Boyle, Holtmann, McDermott, Willard, Wojo, Mack, Brey)
Ranking the remaining coaches:
1) Krystkowiak
2) Mack
3) Enfield
4) Holtmann
5) Brey
6) Wojo
7) McDermott
8) Willard
9) C. Martin
10) Boyle
Add in Archie Miller, Gregg Marshall, Kevin Keatts, Eric Musselman from the Mid-Major ranks and my personal top 5 goes like:
1) A. Miller
2) L. Krystkowiak
3) G. Marshall
4) C. Mack
5) Keatts/Musselman (tie)
Enfield, Holtmann are right there though. Brey gives me a big meh feeling, but I get he has been pretty successful.
Hall of Famers (Roy, K, Boeheim, Wright, Calipari, Pitino, Self, Huggins)
"Unicorn Hires" (Miller, Bennett, Altman, Buzz)
Early on the job (Mike White, Avery Johnson, Bryce Drew, Jerod Haase, Prohm, Underwood, Beard, Smart, Mullin, Hurley)
Good Coaches, probably last stop (Larranega, Hamilton, Dixon, Kruger, Mike Anderson)
No thanks, not good (Manning, Pastner, Brownell, Stallings, Gottfried, Christian, Cooley, Thompson, Leitao, Weber, Kent, Tinkle, Romar, A. Kennedy, B. Kennedy, Fox, Barnes, Jones, K. Anderson)
Don't know how to classify, but no (S. Drew, Alford, Pearl, F. Martin, Howland)
Remaining Coaches: Krystkowiak, Enfield, C. Martin, Boyle, Holtmann, McDermott, Willard, Wojo, Mack, Brey)
Ranking the remaining coaches:
1) Krystkowiak
2) Mack
3) Enfield
4) Holtmann
5) Brey
6) Wojo
7) McDermott
8) Willard
9) C. Martin
10) Boyle
Add in Archie Miller, Gregg Marshall, Kevin Keatts, Eric Musselman from the Mid-Major ranks and my personal top 5 goes like:
1) A. Miller
2) L. Krystkowiak
3) G. Marshall
4) C. Mack
5) Keatts/Musselman (tie)
Enfield, Holtmann are right there though. Brey gives me a big meh feeling, but I get he has been pretty successful.
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