Targeting is a funny word choice when itâd be an internal hire.
Unless Iâm missing something, it looks like heâs only been a full-time assistant coach for one seasonâŚand now heâs going to be the head coach? I know heâs 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 menâs 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 WVUâs 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 canât hire a real coach and are going to go interim, then sure. But keeping one-year players shouldnât be a priority if you can hire an actual coach who you believe in.
The goal should always be to hire the best coach.
I agree, I just donât know that hiring a good one is a real possibility in late June
Itâs in Waterford
Sounds like Texas Tech just got a WVU guy, donât know which one though
Do we know itâs 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 didnât mention that which was why I was skeptical.
Itâs officially official (in the interim).
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 shouldnât 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 donât 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, theyâre able to do so
And if theyâve caught lightning in a bottle here they just promote him full time
Just have to hope you arenât good enough this year to feel pressure to actually hire Josh Eilert (i.e. Texas).
Tough situation, seems like they couldnât get anyone to actually bite.
Yeah thatâs 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 itâs practically really difficult to turn to the donors and tell them weâre 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
It would definitely be even more ridiculous, and Terry is absolutely more experienced⌠but Rodney Terry is never getting the Texas job if he wasnât on staff there as an assistant and then got the interim job.
Dylan, I know this isnât 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?
Yeah, that happensâLloyd Carr and Steve Fisher werenât getting the Michigan job(s), Mike Davis wasnât getting the Indiana job, etc.âbut 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. Thereâs a reason it took 15 years at WVU under the same guy before he got an on court job.