This is going to require some serious mental gymnastics to spin this as a good thing if Alford lands in Indiana.
EDIT: I see you've noted this.
There are two of them, there is only one Indiana job.
He's like best friends with Lorenzo Romar. I know they all are, but he is.
They could have Alford if we get Marshall or Bennett. Marshall at IU is my nightmare scenario.
Whitman BETTER have gotten a good jump on the market. This firing scares me.
I also think it's wild that you can win the conference one year, then get fired the next.
Whitman BETTER have gotten a good jump on the market. This firing scares me.
I also think it's wild that you can win the conference one year, then get fired the next.
Romar is godfather to his son. That is exactly the point. For the right coach, Porter Sr. moved across the country. It is not that he just wanted to move to Mizzou and only Mizzou for any coach. He has a relationship with Cuonzo. It is possible he would have followed Cuonzo to UI as well.
Archie at IU is mine.
My bigger concern is the resultant vacancy at UCLA. They will be gunning for the same sort of people we will.They could have Alford if we get Marshall or Bennett. Marshall at IU is my nightmare scenario.
So are we rooting for UCLA to have a deep run in the tournament now?
My stress level about this coaching search just went up a few orders of magnitutde.
The worst news? The chances we have a guy at a podium next week just cratered, and even the week after that might be dicey now.
No. Whether it's yes or no, we want the Alford to Indiana answer absolutely as soon as possible.
I didn't even consider Coleridge a possibility, but that would be a grand slam. And there's the obvious Khan connection, which everyone has been overlooking. I like how Coleridge describes his motion offense:
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean
To me, it sounds like he's talking about a free flowing motion offense that sometimes runs on 5-out principles and really emphasizes attacking the glass to create second chance opportunities. I can get behind that.
I mean, with $25 million in the war chest, should we be talking about Wordsworth too?
No. Whether it's yes or no, we want the Alford to Indiana answer absolutely as soon as possible.
We are going to be just fine. Plenty of good coaches to go around.
Why? Crean was always likely to be fired.
Two of his daughters play basketball at Mizzou currently. They lived in Columbia for years and only moved away because of this Romar deal.
I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, but do not yadda yadda the fact that Columbia, MO is home for the whole Porter family, whereas they have no ties whatsoever to Illinois, and only vague ties to Cuonzo Martin.