Basketball REPORT: Micah Shrewsberry considerd a leading candidate for Big East opening
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I don't see any way that PSU would lose Shrew to Georgetown. Any B10 position is better that Georgetown and better than any Big East coaching position.
The days of the Big East being relevant are long gone.
Notre Dame is another story, but their BB reputation is also not what it once was. But the Catholics will anti up with BIG $ which is always a factor......
The days of the Big East being relevant are long gone.
Notre Dame is another story, but their BB reputation is also not what it once was. But the Catholics will anti up with BIG $ which is always a factor......
Just jack up tuition, the federal government hands out student loans like candy.
I understand what everyone is saying. And agree it is a risk to tell him we need to see more. But I also get worried about 1 year wonders. Everything about this team has lined up perfectly, including sub par years from osu and Michigan.
Like football, recruiting is 80% of the game. He recruits well and does a great job with the portal, roll the dice.
I wrote on a sports message board in Pittsburgh that if Shrewsberry were to go to Notre Dame, it would be no better than a lateral move. Notre Dame has not been an elite program since the late 1970s. I realize they've also been better than Penn State in hoops over the past 40 years, but it's not been better by head-and-shoulders.
Anyway, I got blasted for saying Notre Dame is a lateral move at best. Penn State's athletic reputation is every bit as large on a national level. I think most posters on this board would agree with that. Plus, the Big 10 has greater financial resources than the ACC. Penn State has the money to pay Shrewsberry as much as Notre Dame would.
If one of the blue blood hoop programs came calling for Shrewsberry, (Duke, UNC, Kansas, Kentucky, or maybe even the second elite tier like U.Va., Texas, Michigan, UCLA, Purdue) I could understand the coach leaving. But to go to Notre Dame (which has been down for six years and just "OK" for the last 30-plus) that would be puzzling. And yet there are these know-it-all journalists who insist Notre Dame basketball is a definite step up. I say they are wrong and living in the past regarding the current landscape and hierarchy of college athletics.
Anyway, I got blasted for saying Notre Dame is a lateral move at best. Penn State's athletic reputation is every bit as large on a national level. I think most posters on this board would agree with that. Plus, the Big 10 has greater financial resources than the ACC. Penn State has the money to pay Shrewsberry as much as Notre Dame would.
If one of the blue blood hoop programs came calling for Shrewsberry, (Duke, UNC, Kansas, Kentucky, or maybe even the second elite tier like U.Va., Texas, Michigan, UCLA, Purdue) I could understand the coach leaving. But to go to Notre Dame (which has been down for six years and just "OK" for the last 30-plus) that would be puzzling. And yet there are these know-it-all journalists who insist Notre Dame basketball is a definite step up. I say they are wrong and living in the past regarding the current landscape and hierarchy of college athletics.
Penn State to Notre Dame is not a lateral move in men's basketball. It's just not. It screams bias/homer to stay that. And I hate Notre Dame more than any program in the nation...by far.
i was reading a notre dame message board today and posters no longer seem to think he will go there.
Reports this AM say Gtown is going with the Providence coach.
sports.yahoo.com
Reports: Georgetown expected to hire Providence's Ed Cooley as head coach
Ed Cooley had a 242-153 record in 12 seasons at Providence with one Big East regular season crown.
Cooley will do well at Georgetown. He's a really good recruiter and seems like a good game coach. Interesting moving within the same conference.
Issue at PSU is location and the size of the arena. SC is hard to get to for a lot of alumni during the week for a 7/730 tip off. Weekends are a little better, but regardless of how big of a fan you are, driving 3 hours plus for most alumni on a regular basis is difficult. They need a smaller, 10K arena to play in. this way even when not full, it doesn't look like it does now.
College sports are primarily for the students. They now have a reason to show up and should. 8,000 to 10,000 students should not be a problem when in session.
You're not close to reality if you think that 8k-10k students per game is "not a problem". It won't happen this season, or ever for that matter (or that hiring Mike Rhoades is moving the needle enough to make a big impact at this point).
NC State plays their home games in a hockey arena that is several miles from the main campus. OSU plays their home games in a massive arena that is no closer to their dorms than the BJC is to PSU's dorms. I don't know what their average attendance is to those arenas' capacities, but both of those programs have managed fairly well over the years.
Football sells 21,000 student tickets. It seems they are able to make it across the street to Beaver Stadium. As I said, 8-10 thousand should (emphasize should) not be a problem. It's the students team.
A good chunk of those 21k students are converging from across the state to come to games...and it's 7 games a year in mostly nice weather that all happen on Saturdays and are the heartbeat of the school's social scene.
If you think a Wednesday night game in December against Canisius (or even a 9pm Tuesday night game against Illinois in February) should be bringing out 8-10k students for the game itself with no other social aspect, you're going to be disappointed.
If only PSU were run like West Point or the Naval Academy, in which every student has to attend the Army-Navy football game; just joking.
Had they done that while I was in school, much of the student body may have hit the transfer portal after the 42-41 loss to Tennessee in overtime in 1996.
I am/will be disappointed if a winning product is not put on the court.
I will be surprised if students don't show up to see PSU b-ball if a winning product is put on the court. A 9pm start is over by about 11 leaving plenty of time to socialize at the bars until 2am.
I got a chuckle today reading a VCU board with lots of posters saying they’d rather the new coach than the older coach, talking about what a traitor the old coach was, minimizing his prior success, talking about how overrated the new program was, etc…they could have been copied straight from our board over the past few days.
Pretty much every board of every school,whe a coach leaves. Human nature is quite the interesting conundrum.
