Whoops. Sorry got RT’d into my feed.
DDJ is in support of the coach fwiw
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Sad. I always liked him. I’d rather he take a 6th team to the Tournament than retire.
I read that his son Kevin getting the Vegas job had a lot to do with his decision. I wonder if Lon would consider an assistant job there for at least a year or two, or if he’s just ready to be totally done with coaching and wants his son to forge his own path free of the critical eye of the father.
If this year’s tournament is any measure, what you do in retirement is attend your son’s games, wear your mask wrong, and watch your son wear his weird mask wrong.
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When Pat’s career takes off and John finally calls it, we all know that he’s going to be showing all these other retirees the most METICULOUS mask wearing skills around.
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I just get the idea after doing a great job at VCU he hasn’t become a bad coach suddenly.
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I don’t think Shaka is a bad coach but the longer his resume becomes, the more mediocre he seems. It’s a big risk to evaluate coaches on the tournament… his best achievement is a miracle run as a play-in game that he was never able to recreate.
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I tend to agree with this, but not having won a single game in 6 years at a place like Texas is edging pretty close to the point where I’d do it anyways.
But in that picture you posted, the Kenpom finished are more damning to me than the tourney finishes. Not having anything even close to a true contender with the talent he’s gotten is not great.
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Boom. Wow
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Whoa
If they had a choice between Beilein and Shaka and chose true latter, oof.
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Apparently Beilein is not much of a commodity 
I hadn’t heard anything about that job so I don’t know who else they were looking at
Colleges take their coaching opinions straight from Indiana message boards
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Awful hire.
That means Texas job is now open which is a big one. And Oklahoma. Potentially Maryland. Last year’s lack of a coaching carousel catching up to this year I guess. Means even more potential Beilein jobs could open up
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Feel like people really underrating how much his age impacts his valuation here. Schools are looking to hire guys they think can be there 10+ years. They want to hire somebody who will become synonyms with their schools program, not a stop gap.
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I think that’s clearly what programs are thinking, I’m just not sure for certain programs 4-5 years of Beilein isn’t worth it.
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Yeah not saying I agree with it. Like Minnesotas hire was terrible.
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Yeah I think it’s the type of hire where you say “ok, get us to the point of contention. Maybe have some years at that level. Then ride off into the sunset while we hire an elite younger coach who wasn’t interested during the first search because the program was a tire fire.”
I get why programs wouldn’t necessarily want that. But then they go out and make terrible, awful hires and I shake my head.
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I wonder if Tamar Bates decommits? He’d be a nice SG for whoever got him or if he stays