Chicago is more akin to the Capitol of the Midwest than anything in common with downstate Illinois.
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He was a bright spot for them and and an underclassman. That roster is quickly getting ugly
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Yeah the SEC has tons of cash and is totally fine spending it to improve their programs. Bama and Arkansas got two of the hot young coaches that are cutting edge play style wise. A&M hired a proven high level coach. Even UGA did even though Crean has been bad so far.
Meanwhile Minnesota hired a BE assistant coach. Even PSU hired a B1G assistant although I like his background much more than the Minnesota hire
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I donât know if I would go that far. I guess you would have to look at age of coach, achievements etc⌠For instance the ACC has 4 coaches that have won a national title-Coach K, Roy, Boeheim and Bennett. A few of them are probably near the end but Bennett is a top 5 coach in the game maybe even better. Larranaga has been to a Final Four. Hamilton has FSU rolling now. Then include a team like Louisville. Mack has probably gotten the proverbial short stick had a real good team last year and the possibility of a big run. This year covid hit them a couple times and killing any hope of the tournament.
The best coach in the B1G?? Izzo. I wouldnât take Izzo over K/Roy/Bennett. The B1G really needs another coach to make a Final Four eg⌠Painter/Holtmann/Howard(still early)
Itâs worth it if you get him.
So for Indiana, no, itâs not worth it.
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Exactly. Well said
Iâm a Minnesota Vikings fan. (I know, leave me alone) I remember one year with Mike Tice as our coach we lost in the last Divisional playoff game of the weekend to Philadelphia. In his press conference Tice talked about how the Vikings technically âfinished fifthâ and were âone of the last 5 teams playing.â Iâm paraphrasing there but it was ridiculous. With that being said, I think Turgeon should absolutely be bragging about his his team made the âFinal 18!â
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Only if youâre black. The world continues to suck in some respects.
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Michigan Twitterâs inexplicable hatred of Mark Donnal has entered the chat
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Yeah, they rode that kid mercilessly!
Every conference has head scratchers of course, but I believe the ACC has better coaching depth than the Big Ten and I think the Big 12 is at least on par with the Big Ten, with less teams.
Again, Izzo, Painter, and Howard are the best three in the Big Ten and Juwan is only in year two, so still has to prove he has longevity. I donât think anyone in the next tier (Underwood, Holtmann, Turgeon, Pikiell, McCaffery) have proven any better then the mid-tier coaches in other leagues. Maybe the Minnesota and PSU hires turn out better than I think, but they just seem boring and uninspired.
Doesnât matter in the grand scheme of things, as long as Juwan has Michigan rolling I am good, but another batch of early flameouts for Big Ten teams has me pessimistic about the state of league coaching.
I honestly wish, and I know this isnât the world we live in, but I wish these cowardly, racist little twits (oh, there are some other words I wanted to use!) would have the courage, rather than hiding behind their phones or computers, to say what they have to say to E.J.'s and Kofiâs face! 
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I prefer PSUâs new hire over Minnesota. Minnesota was baffling but at least PSU has a coach with good credentials.
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Illinois was able to land Ayo and Miller but word is Antigua was the one who made it possible for Illini to land Chicago area recruits.
Yes exactly. Shrewsberry has some real pedigree. Under Stevens at Boston then Painter at Purdue. The problem is PSU is an awful job with limited resources relative to the conference and probably the worst fan support. So gonna be tough sledding.
Meanwhile the Minnesota guy got the job strictly because heâs from Minneapolis and that he can theoretically recruit the guys from Minnesota. Even though he was an assistant there and couldnât get them then. Which seems like a less than great idea.
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Shrewsberry knows Xâs and Oâs so it would mitigate some of the talent issue that heâll face at PSU. Purdue fans were sad to see Shrewsberry leave Purdue which says a lot about his coaching acumen. Maybe, heâll be a HR hire for PSU.
Minnesota is a good school. Cold there, but if I look around the league at places that COULD be fielding perennially strong hoop and football squads, Minny strikes me as the best candidate. I also think that if Northwestern got the right coach with good Chi connections, that school could be a great regular upstart thorn in everyoneâs side. Would mean defying the too-easy narrative that the schoolâs academic requirements are the problem. . .
Looking around the league, I donât see that many other schools so ripe for improvement. MD and Rutgers. . .
Ranging a little in our commentary here, but I always regret it when a Black coach is hired who pretty obviously isnât going to succeed. Ends up being a disservice. Hope Ben Johnson will surprise.
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Yeah Minnesota should be a much better program than they are. Not sure how good most of their nonrevenue sports are, but football has never been very consistently decent. I know their womenâs volleyball is good. But they get really good fan support and have local talent. But then you look at their history and itâs just not very impressive at all.
Maybe thereâs only room for one of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin to be consistently good? If youâre ranking which programs have the most going for them those 3 are probably fairly similar but below IU/MSU/UM/ILL/OSU/PU/MD. UW has been able to elevate itself because of an incredible coaching pipeline from Bennett to Ryan. Because before that they were a B1G bottom dweller
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Wisconsin found a formula that works for them to mitigate the lack of talent. They pretty much recruit the same type of player to fit their system and theyâre usually a 4 year player which helps them down the road.
Iowa wasnât ever going to get elite recruits so they found players who can shoot but are lacking in athleticism and thatâs Franâs moneyball approach to building the program.
Minnesota should be a sleeping giant because Minneapolis is starting to become a fertile recruiting ground yet they couldnât land Jalen Suggs and Chet Holmgren. Both are hometown recruits which is bad.
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