College Basketball 2022-23 Discussion

Targeting is a funny word choice when it’d be an internal hire.

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Unless I’m missing something, it looks like he’s only been a full-time assistant coach for one season…and now he’s going to be the head coach? I know he’s been with Huggy for quite a while but this seems like a major reach.

Josh Eilert, who has spent the last 15 seasons on Mountaineer basketball staff, including serving as an interim assistant coach during the 2016-17 season, was named assistant men’s basketball coach in July 2022.

Eilert moved into the coaching role after serving as Assistant Athletics Director for Basketball Operations. He moved into the operations role on the staff in 2013 after spending the first six seasons under Bob Huggins as the video coordinator.

For the 2016-17 season, Eilert served as an interim assistant coach. During that time, he was responsible for on-court scouting, off-campus recruiting and working with WVU’s wing players.

At this juncture, I think the guy that keeps as many players on the roster as possible, regardless of X & O acumen makes the most sense

Real possibility they played a season with several walk ons in the rotation

If everyone turned you down and you can’t hire a real coach and are going to go interim, then sure. But keeping one-year players shouldn’t be a priority if you can hire an actual coach who you believe in.

The goal should always be to hire the best coach.

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I agree, I just don’t know that hiring a good one is a real possibility in late June

It’s in Waterford

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Sounds like Texas Tech just got a WVU guy, don’t know which one though

Do we know it’s a WVU guy? I see a Devan Cambridge, from ASU, crystal bal was put in for them today.

Makes sense as an interim. The report earlier didn’t mention that which was why I was skeptical.

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It’s officially official (in the interim).

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This is really the only thing that made sense

They tap a guy who has a hope of maintaining the roster (he coached or recruited most of them) along with maybe supplemental bag dropping. I know you shouldn’t make a long term decision like this with short term (this one season) thinking but lots has been invested monetarily, I think they have to be really wary of burning the donors that made the roster happen.

They don’t tie themselves down to being committed to him long term so when the calendar roles to the time of year where they can make a real hire, they’re able to do so

And if they’ve caught lightning in a bottle here they just promote him full time

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Just have to hope you aren’t good enough this year to feel pressure to actually hire Josh Eilert (i.e. Texas).

Tough situation, seems like they couldn’t get anyone to actually bite.

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Yeah that’s the concern and I guess at that stage you just have to trust your eval, whatever it is

I just think that this team coalesced due to a large amount of blood and treasure and it’s practically really difficult to turn to the donors and tell them we’re taking this one on the chin

Struggling to see the comparison between Rodney Terry, who had 16 years as a D1 on court assistant and 10 years as a D1 head coach prior to last season and Josh Eilert who has exactly 1 year of college basketball on court experience, that as an assistant. Rehiring Rodney Terry made sense. It would take a Steve Fisher 1989 run to justify retaining Josh Eilert.

Hoshua Eilertios

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It would definitely be even more ridiculous, and Terry is absolutely more experienced… but Rodney Terry is never getting the Texas job if he wasn’t on staff there as an assistant and then got the interim job.

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Dylan, I know this isn’t the AMA thread but I have been meaning to ask you. in your opinion, when a hooper throws down a slam jam, is he hooping it up?

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Yeah, that happens—Lloyd Carr and Steve Fisher weren’t getting the Michigan job(s), Mike Davis wasn’t getting the Indiana job, etc.—but at least those guys had substantial coaching experience and there was thus some reason to believe they could succeed. No matter how WVU does this year, it would take an epic coaching performance to retain Eilert. There’s a reason it took 15 years at WVU under the same guy before he got an on court job.

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