Penn State has offered Mike Rhoades at or north of 3.5 million annually and will be the next head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, according to very plugged in VCU sources.
Rhoades to PSU?
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Penn State has offered Mike Rhoades at or north of 3.5 million annually and will be the next head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, according to very plugged in VCU sources.
I would not know this guy if he knocked on my door . I sincerely am asking why not impressed? Can he recruit? Develop players?
yes to both. and he wins. in multiple places including one that is much harder than PSU
Sorry, just my opinion. I guess the only acceptable answer by some here is it’s the greatest hire made across the nation so far this year. Outstanding.
it's a great hire.
unfortunately we have a fan base that is only ok with coaches who were great in 1992
Shrewsberry was a "pretty uninspired hire" as well.
not to people who knew what was going on. nor is this one. it is better than the previous hire
I've followed U of Dayton basketball since my youngest son started there in 2011 (and have an Elite 8 shirt to prove it!).
So I've watched a good many VCU games during that time as UD and VCU are two of the top teams in the A10 almost every year.
Rhoades' teams play tough in your face defense and play hard the whole game. He'll bring a hard nosed style of play, and recruit athletic players that can play great defense. And if he can bring over a couple of players from his roster that will help as well. The VCU roster shows that he has brough in some highly sought after players that are now underclassmen.
Note that he does not have any 2023 commits, which says he either was not losing anyone from this seasons team or he only planned for incoming transfers.
Pegula needs to send his plane to pick up Rhoades and drop him off in Denver and pick him up again when Carey Booth has re-committed to PSU.
So I've watched a good many VCU games during that time as UD and VCU are two of the top teams in the A10 almost every year.
Rhoades' teams play tough in your face defense and play hard the whole game. He'll bring a hard nosed style of play, and recruit athletic players that can play great defense. And if he can bring over a couple of players from his roster that will help as well. The VCU roster shows that he has brough in some highly sought after players that are now underclassmen.
Note that he does not have any 2023 commits, which says he either was not losing anyone from this seasons team or he only planned for incoming transfers.
Pegula needs to send his plane to pick up Rhoades and drop him off in Denver and pick him up again when Carey Booth has re-committed to PSU.
Right, that's kind of my point. Rhoades would be a pretty decent hire for PSU.
Just looked him up. He’s coached at 3 places-
1. 1999- 2009 at Randolph- Macon (Old Dominion conference), 197-76.
2. 2014- 2017 at Rice (conference USA), 47-52.
3. 2017- 2023 at VCU (Atlantic 10), 129-60.
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No I thought he was a good hire. Assistant coach with Butler, the Celtics, and Purdue before PSU.
i knew what you meant
just seeing all these other posts that have no idea what they are talking about. they don't know anything about the guy because they don't know anything about the sport, so they decide it's a bad hire.
I thought it was a very good hire too.
this one is better, and we may not have been able to get him when more schools have openings after the tournament
Really stupid comment. You have no idea. All I know he coached 5 years at VCU and was in tourney in 3 of them, penn states been in three in this century
Seriously? You immediately claim that this guy is an uninspired hire without explanation and then try to “defend” the criticism of your post by saying something asinine that the only acceptable answer is that this was the greatest hire made so far this year across the nation. Quantum leap much?
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so he has won almost 70% of his games. and took over an impossible Rice program that had won 3 games, and had a winning team in three years. sounds terrible
we literally have fans who think the best coach in 2023 would be a 82-year old Bob Knight. we seem to have a bigger problem changing with the times than many other places
we have seen repeated posters saying we should hire Jay Wright (who is retired and not even coaching), who then go silent on the fact that we had a chance to hire Jay Wright before he even went to Villanova and it was screwed up by moronic decisions at PSU
It was in response to the “here we go” flippant response before that because it wasn’t instant praise. Some people here have a real hard time with opposing opinions, ( ‘they’re really stupid’, ‘want Bob Knight and Jay Wright’, and ‘don’t know anything about the sport’, etc). In any event, we’ll see over the next few years. I hope it turns out to be a great hire.
Where are the multiple places that he won at? DIV 3? Come on, yes he's had success at VCU but we know that program was established when he took over. He was at Rice not sure you can claim he "won" there. He went to the CBI once.
So now that we know you're full of shit and don't know anything about this coach. You can stop you're all knowing BB coaching rift.
and what he did at Rice was the most impressive of those, which is why VCU hired him when they lost Wade to LSU.
the year before he took over Rice they won 3 games. It is much harder to win there than Penn State or maybe almost anywhere. getting them to the postseason in 3 years did not go unnoticed
Dude he had 1 season with a winning record...he didn't "win" there.
Stop trying to lie about his history.
Look he may end up being a great hire but he's not one today. This the kinda of coach PSU gets...nothing new to see. Only difference is we are paying him 3.5 million
He did a nice job turning then around but you're overselling which hurts the argument. Simply based on his job at VCU he earned this opportunity.
Winning at Penn State and in the Big Ten is more difficult than at VCU if we're being honest.
He took over a Rice program that had won 3 games. it is one of the most difficult places to win in D1. Within three years he had a 23-win season there. VCU's coach Wade was hired by LSU and VCU hired Rhoades to replace him.
That what my point Fairfax is overselling the guy. Like I said I hope he's the next Coach K. But let's not paint this as PSU going out and making a monumental hire.
It is a better hire than Shrewsberry was. I have not compared this to coach K at any point
Duke hired coach K from Army. cannot even imagine what kind of meltdown would have occurred on these boards if that was us and the message boards were around back then
You never know but I read he has PA roots and sometimes that means more - especially if he is successful at PSU and other big BB schools come calling
Fisher is irrelevant as is the current recruiting class--it's all about how he handles the portal
