I think good coaches tend to make jobs good, if that makes any sense?
Like Gonzaga has massive financial investment in hoops now, that will continue past Few.
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“He gets the best out of his guys. I want to play for him.”
lol
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Agree with this.
Am a bit divided however on whether Michigan’s success is a function of good coaching or the program’s fundamentals overall. Very much agree it’s not a Tier 1 coveted job, primarily because of the meh institutional support and institutional scruples that make it harder to be ultracompetitive. And that it’s a football school and lacks the fan/alum support and dedication of the bluebloods.
On the other hand, Michigan has won, consistently, since the 60s, and if you go back that far the dark period of the 00s looks more like the anomaly and the excellence of the last 10-12 years the norm. If this is truly mostly a function of good coaching, then Michigan has gotten awfully lucky for a long time in hiring good coaches, with Amaker being the outlier. Michigan usually has a very good basketball coach. Maybe not one of the best coaches fullstop, but a very good coach.
It may be recency bias again to suggest that Michigan sucks at hiring coaches, but, then again, this is the school that hired RichRod, Hoke and Amaker.
So, I really don’t know.
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Mike Hopkins reminds me of another Mike. Mike White, the nation’s worst coach. Michaels Hopkins and White are the coast to coast law firm of stench
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Mike Hopkins is the worst Mike
I think Mike white is a much better coach.
I saw Yates has an uncle on the Washington staff, so that helps.
Someone’s gonna have to explain how Capel is continuing to recruit decently well at Pittsburgh, though.
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Wasn’t Capel supposedly K’s bag man at Duke?
It’s definitely not due to his coaching acumen.
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Yeah he has been a bum at both power 5 job he has took.
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Do we think that Michigan and Kentucky will play a home/home or no?
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0.0% chance
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Would be great.
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This tracks with logic and previous reporting. The owners likely prefer the age rule as it does save them from a couple bad picks a year, and allows them to have rookies on rookie scale contracts at a later age. Silver has all along been he one pumping the idea about getting rid of the age limit. Still think it probably happens, but Silver + owners + NBAPA are gonna have to figure some things out
I’m confused on who is pushing for this, like is Silver on his own? As you say, the current rule benefits the owners, so I don’t see them pushing for it.
And while it benefits the future players, that is at the expense of the current crop of players in NBAPA, and I’d be surprised if they are pushing for it for this reason.
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It’s a good question… the only people who benefit are the players themselves and the agents. I guess you could maybe argue that the NBA (aka owners) benefit from getting Zion or Chet or Wemby a year earlier for the hype…but I would probably argue that their hype builds more in college that extra year.
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No argument that it’s just philosophically the “right thing to do?”
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Definitely agree re 'Nova.
Gonazaga maybe too low?
Is UCLA ahead of IU the big 10 schools?
I like the shout out to the HOGS!
It’s really hard to disagree among the top 4 but I think I might switch line 1 and line 2.
Awful news. Probably one of the best mid major PGs in the country.
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The NBA believes they can develop talent more effectively than college coaches. That’s why they would do away with the rule.
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