Or Ryan is saying something different now than he did back then. And I said he wouldn’t have made the money he’s making now had he stayed in the same place…and I know that because he worked at the company I work for. Only you see what I post as absolutes….that wasn’t an absolute, it was in relation to a specific position.
Or Ryan and dad didn't want to go for different reasons and Dad sold his version to people ignoring what Ryan actually thought which sadly happens often.
That wasn’t the decision…his wife wanted to move right then….his choice was to move or stay at his current job….that was the only decision at that time. Had he stayed, he would have stayed at that company because there aren’t a whole lot of other places to work in that area. As far as Switzer goes, unless you were friends with him and hung out with him in high school, you have no idea what he was thinking or saying at that time.
Spin- kind of like going out to a club after getting dumped and truying to console oneself that there are "more fish 8n the sea."
Get a coach quickly who has credibility; drum up a boatload of NIL for Booth then pray he is not locked at the hip with Shrewsberry and open to still playing for PSU.
What ifs. What if the MD bungled rebound does not drop in Wynter's lap? What if NW beats us once? Shrews is our coach and we are putting him on notice to make the NCAA tourney or else. Instead ND is groveling all over him. I agree that if we doubled his salary and he still walks then he had made up his mind and we were not giving him $28 million (7 years at $4 mil per). What has he accomplished? Great finish to the season and he was building a strong program but the sample size was quite small.
I doubt that mattered much. I think he was leaning hard if not ready to bolt to Notre Dump prior to the Dance.
It couldn't have helped. That's like when Dunn turned the lights out on a recruit
I’m quite confident that the impact of this would be absolutely zero…playing home games in a half empty arena while on the way to the NCAA tournament might have gotten his attention though.
To be fair, they did not seem on the way to the NCAA tournament after a February losing streak and blowing a 20-pt lead vs Rutgers. Can't make this season more than it was. Going into the B1G tournament we were hoping for a play-in game. He made a career off of that week.
The fact that we were on the bubble and playing in front of black curtains speaks volumes…very few schools at our level would have had 4-5k empty seats for senior day against Maryland with an NCAA bid hanging in the balance.
It tells me that our arena has 4k too many seats. This has been going on forever. I have been to concerts there where they do the same thing with the curtains.
Yes, Notre Dame sucks and finished near last in a horrible ACC…hopefully that continues.
When looking back at his comments this is likely the case..." I just love coaching these guys now, don't want this to end." He probably knew. It is interesting that he didn't do any interviews during the process that I've seen. He probably didn't want to lie...which doesn't seem part of his DNA.
I thought about him when looking at the possibilities. Maybe with an old school mentor assistant like Phil Martelli at Michigan for Howard?
You say he was building a strong program…that’s what we don’t know. Would we have been good next year or would we have been terrible? Hard to say, but we weren’t exactly loaded for bear.
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Seeing this list im confident Kraft will be able to find someone decent and hopefully retain Booth and add some transfers. I like Langel and Fisher for the local PA ties, which should help PSU's cause if they ever have tournament success.Interesting look at the candidates.
BSD’s Penn State Basketball Coaching Hot Board 1.0
Welp, time to fire this sucker back up!
Kraft fired Fran Dunphy who was Langel's college coach and who hired him as an assistant at Temple. PSU also famously snubbed Dunphy so they could hire someone from the Southern Conference. I think the chances of getting Langel to come here are a negative number
Maybe "famous" in your mind...I didn't see Fran as some superior candidate in 2003, and he certainly wasn't a hot commodity (he spent another three seasons at Penn before moving on). He was basically the John Becker of 2003.
No, there was not huge excitement about Dunphy in '03 but then look what we got. it made a heck of a lot more sense in terms of recruiting territory, etc.
Yeah this is a good list. We need a coach who preaches defense but is 3pt shooting friendly and who can attract 3pt shooters.
I was upset but you are right, time to move on and be pat of the current process - raid other schools for coaches and players. Hopefully PSU can get a coach who is ready to make a real 4 yr commitment and be able to retain the 4 Freshman and keep Cory Booth committed. A bonus would be getting the St. Francis Center and th Cal Baptist PG to come to PSU. Dream big my friends, dream big.
I've been debating with myself all day who the "winners" were under the Shrew seasons.
