If Shrew leaves Jay Wright should be the target.
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I didn't have a huge issue with the DeChellis hiring. He was a head coach that had success albeit in the Southern Conference. He started so far behind the eight ball that it was going to take time and unfortunately every time they made a little progress there was nothing behind that group, so it started all over again.
I think it fair to argue there were better choices but it wasn't as if DeChellis was a total head scratcher.
I hope that they aren't in that situation now. Year two success with a SR laden team. In 2023/24 they will be replacing a lot of minutes. The top returning guy is a 14 minutes per game guy.
yes, it was. that's some major revisionist history right there.
he was about the 16th best candidate who we heard about. it was probably the most disappointing day in the entire history of the program
Penn State was pretty clear that their candidates had to have head coaching experience so that ruled out all the guys that had only been assistant coaches up to that point. They also had to be cheap. Penn State wasn't going to be investing high dollars into the basketball coach. That was one of the problems with having Joe around. It was hard to justify paying other coaches more than Joe.
For all of Dunphy's success he has only won 3 NCAA Tournament games and 3 NIT games. It is hard to know if he could have been successful above he A10 level since he was never there.
they made the head coaching thing clear and it was a dumb criteria
IIRC, Izzo was calling Curley and saying hey my assistant is ready for a HC job would you want to interview him? and he didn't bother. yes, the search was that bad. it was atrocious. like if the goal was burning bridges and ending up with a coach whose ceiling was Virginia Tech, mission accomplished
Dunphy was at Penn but was a bigger name than Ed. made more sense recruiting-wise. and ignoring Lavin was just weird. he was practically a household name in basketball back in '03. one can try to claim he was too expensive but we know that they never bothered even talking to him, so that's pretty weak.
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How do you know the answer is no if you don't ask the question? Sure it's a big longshot but a phone call costs nothing and guys get the itch sometimes. One hundred percent of the shots you don't take you don't score.
First move should absolutely be keep MS. And you are right we should not even try to get a coach like Wright. He will never take it so why even try. Let's set the sites on a less accomplished guy who we can roll the dice with and hope can do what no other no name coach has ever really done at Penn State in the history of the basketball program. The reason Penn State basketball has never risen is because it has not taken a chance. Yeah I get everybody saying he would never do it but to not make him an offer would be plain foolish. There is not one negative that can be given to making him a great offer. Not one.
this does not make sense. there is no reason to make another coach an offer right now. this is the exact time that you try not to change coaches
Longshot or Noshot? Let's stop pretending there's even a 0.000001% chance that if we can't keep Shrew he (or his agent) picks up the phone let alone says yes
As mentioned, he isn’t interested in getting back into coaching right now For a host of reasons. He is a dynamic broadcasting host, public speaker, and ad pitchman. He may be making $20 million a year. Not sure he would ever even want to coach the Sixers at this point.
If Shrew leaves guess who goes with him? All those kids you mentioned. The program will be gutted again just like when Chambers resigned. It will take 2-3 yrs again and then that guy will bolt. There is no big John this time. I’m confident Krafty will save him.
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