ORU Fires Coach

[TU_BLA]

ORU fired their head coach after 2 seasons of subpar performances. Surely if they can do it, we can after 3 years of roughly the same falling short.

Hell, ORU may be able to get Mills back once Wichita State crashes out of the AAC tournament

 

[goldenhurricane2]

Shoulda learned from us: you can’t make a lazy hire in this day and age. All that momentum Mills Put together is down the pooper now.

Lol at them tho - those morons talk a lot of noise until reality sets in and they’re back where they belong in the pecking order of college basketball.

 

[TU_BLA]

Shoulda learned from us: you can’t make a lazy hire in this day and age. All that momentum Mills Put together is down the pooper now.

Lol at them tho - those morons talk a lot of noise until reality sets in and they’re back where they belong in the pecking order of college basketball.

They've got a worse thing coming. They used that momentum from basketball to get some extra $ that they immediately put towards a whole bunch of new buildings. They tend to build things before they have full funding secured. And with the fed gov't tightening federal funding for schools they're about to be in a world of hurt because students at ORU tend to not go there if they need to take out a student loan (Dave Ramsey is the end all be all on money management in the evangelical world). My guess is they take a big hit on enrollment (although they've been fudging the numbers for years anyway).

Good luck to them...(not really)

 

[HHOOTter]

I have no insider info but current Michigan Asst Coach Mike Boyaton is a very strong Christian. If he is interested, not a bad opportunity for him to have a restart/rebirth. ORU easily has the best facilities in the Summit League, they just raised $50 million for their new construction & building improvements, & they still have David Green behind the scenes (Hobby Lobby & Mardal's owner) who bailed out ORU a while back for something like $300 million. And their enrollment last year was around 7K w/ a decant loyal alumni base.

 

[goldenhurricane2]

Boynton is a good recruiter but a terrible coach.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Boynton is a good recruiter but a terrible coach.

Surely she jests...

 

[TU 1978]

I have no insider info but current Michigan Asst Coach Mike Boyaton is a very strong Christian. If he is interested, not a bad opportunity for him to have a restart/rebirth. ORU easily has the best facilities in the Summit League, they just raised $50 million for their new construction & building improvements, & they still have David Green behind the scenes (Hobby Lobby & Mardal's owner) who bailed out ORU a while back for something like $300 million. And their enrollment last year was around 7K w/ a decant loyal alumni base.

Christianity and ORU are diametrically opposing concepts.

 

[TulsaRulzOSUdrools]

I have no insider info but current Michigan Asst Coach Mike Boyaton is a very strong Christian. If he is interested, not a bad opportunity for him to have a restart/rebirth. ORU easily has the best facilities in the Summit League, they just raised $50 million for their new construction & building improvements, & they still have David Green behind the scenes (Hobby Lobby & Mardal's owner) who bailed out ORU a while back for something like $300 million. And their enrollment last year was around 7K w/ a decant loyal alumni base.

Better than DU?

 

[TulsaRulzOSUdrools]

Better than DU?

DU wins national hockey and lacrosse titles. They won the hockey one last year.

 

[TU_BLA]

I have no insider info but current Michigan Asst Coach Mike Boyaton is a very strong Christian. If he is interested, not a bad opportunity for him to have a restart/rebirth. ORU easily has the best facilities in the Summit League, they just raised $50 million for their new construction & building improvements, & they still have David Green behind the scenes (Hobby Lobby & Mardal's owner) who bailed out ORU a while back for something like $300 million. And their enrollment last year was around 7K w/ a decant loyal alumni base.

It was $50M upfront plus an additional $30M over the next 3 years when the Green's bailed out ORU.

My inside information says Rogers State head basketball coach Justin Barkley will be a candidate.

The biggest question for any mid to low major D1 program these days is can the head coach recruit kids to little or no NIL? Can they get high school kids who are ready to play now? Can they keep said HS kids? These are important questions to ask any incoming head coach. What's the strategy for those 3 things. Candidates need to ask what is my NIL support going to be and I need that in writing.

The recruiting waters are about to be super muddy in college basketball. After the ruling that NAIA and JUCO playing years don't count against NCAA eligibility, you're going to have more and more players sticking around for extra years. The perennial powers will grab those players up leaving some pretty high level incoming freshmen seeking places to play. You might see places like TU able to grab some more of those players.