how does Gonzaga keep Mark Few and Tulsa can’t keep a good coach?
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Maybe we can. How long has it been since we had the chance?
I think he would have been a cancer if Danny kept him in the fold. His ego was way to large. He wasn't a team player even during his freshman year.Watching Gonzaga just makes me sad. They are so good and love the way the team is put together. Great recruiting and excellent coaching.
On a further note, Watching Clarkson adds to a depression. What would have been if Danny could have kept him in the fold.
Agree.I think he would have been a cancer if Danny kept him in the fold. His ego was way to large. He wasn't a team player even during his freshman year.
I thought that was a name on the short list that we agreed would not be mentioned on this board again.Watching Gonzaga just makes me sad. They are so good and love the way the team is put together. Great recruiting and excellent coaching.
On a further note, Watching Clarkson adds to a depression. What would have been if Danny could have kept him in the fold.
Danny. And whatever.
Spokane is a pretty place. There are some unique things about that university, like being Jesuit, that gives it some advantages. I’d rather live in Tulsa, but I don’t fault him.
I keep hoping Haith will be that guy that stays, but more importantly I hope we are building quality assistants under him to keep any momentum we have built.
The Jesuit thing works great for international recruiting. Nothing like priests steering players your way.
Spokane is nice. Lots of good fishing up there.
But my question is more philosophical and methodological in nature. Few has been at Gonzaga since 1989. First as a grad asst under Fitzgerald. Then as asst under Monson. Then as head coach in waiting under Monson. He is essentially home grown.
When you look at our head coaches and their staffs, we have had a lot of talented guys that came through but, we never cultivated that talented, loyal assistant to continue the success. Instead we scrapped all our previous success and started over. Every time. The one time we promoted from within was the Phillips debacle and he was never the top bench assistant.
We keep reinventing the wheel. Our recruiting suffers as a result. The product quality sucks and attendance suffers as a result. We lose local kids, like the Boone twins, Milton, etc, because they never know who will be at the helm.
I keep hoping Haith will be that guy that stays, but more importantly I hope we are building quality assistants under him to keep any momentum we have built.
There’s a lot of hope, internally, Shea will become that guy. He’s got his work cut out for him but if he can do it, when it is his time, we’d have a very long term coach. Only time will tell though.
Hindsight is 20/20 or better in these things. We’ve had some chances and whiffed sometimes and been right others.
Manning and Wake Forest just lost to Houston Baptist.
+1There’s a lot of hope, internally, Shea will become that guy. He’s got his work cut out for him but if he can do it, when it is his time, we’d have a very long term coach. Only time will tell though.
Manning and Wake Forest just lost to Houston Baptist.
Like how to get fired?Karma. He got what he wanted and is learning a valuable lesson.
We barely have enough money to pay a coach, there was no way Danny could have paid Clarkson more than the Mizzou boosters.Watching Gonzaga just makes me sad. They are so good and love the way the team is put together. Great recruiting and excellent coaching.
On a further note, Watching Clarkson adds to a depression. What would have been if Danny could have kept him in the fold.
I think Peete could be a Kim English type assistant.Tim Peete is a name we could see again in years to come. After helping us break our NCAA tournament spell he graduated and became a grad assistant at UNCG where he helped them win two conference titles and trips to the NIT and NCAA's. He's now working as an assistant at Chipola Junior College in Florida which is one of the state's top JUCO's.
I’m not debating hindsight. After all, captain hindsight is the greatest superhero of them all.
I’m just hoping for some thought to be applied to the process. Like you say, we go from one extreme to another. In football at least, we appear to have settled on a desired style. That helps in recruiting, and coaching staff selection. If we could settle on one in basketball, that would go a long way.
So u want to hire a woman or a muslim? Let's hire a muslim woman, I'm sure there a lot of good coaches in that category.I think this has more to do with luck than planning. Who would have thought the Few would be this good at coaching college basketball? Maybe we go out on a limb like when Nolan was hired and break another barrier?
Who cares if it’s someone who can win basketball games. Let’s be honest, the Christian men aren’t setting the world on fire for us, hard to be worse. Not sure what barriers are left to break but if it got us wins.....So u want to hire a woman or a muslim? Let's hire a muslim woman, I'm sure there a lot of good coaches in that category.
Was just poking fun at the idea of breaking barriers again. Mainly because, as you said, there aren't many to be broken.Who cares if it’s someone who can win basketball games. Let’s be honest, the Christian men aren’t setting the world on fire for us, hard to be worse. Not sure what barriers are left to break but if it got us wins.....
If we went the non-alum route, English has the type of personality thatI think Peete could be a Kim English type assistant.
He could probably bring Haith as an assistant... since I sincerely doubt Haith will get a 4th chance after us.If we went the non-alum route, English has the type of personality that
can recruit, and seems to be a bright basketball mind....