Bo Ryan Retiring

While the classless comments have begun, let's hold back on the shittiness until it's clear there's not a health condition involved. Very odd for a coach to escalate a retirement twice unless for health reasons or scandal... And there's been no smoke that I've seen for the latter

On a more serious note...

he always seemed like a solid dude and good coach.

This feels a little like the Spurrier reignation.  He may have felt he wasn't giving it all it deserved - best shot for the program might be to just let the next guy start now.  They just had a very strong run  and he knows it will be hard to maintain - probably right.

He was talking about it after the final four so not a total surprise.  Appaently Alvarez knew it might be coming.

 

I'd venture this is for health reasons.  True health reasons.  Doesn't seem like the type to give up and walk away "'cuz the going go tough".

I thought I remember he had wanted to retire in between seasons as well and then walked that back?  Not sure.

Dont have the hate for him like others do - or Wisconsin in general.  For a non conf team (wait - still in conf? Oh) .. well for a conf team that seem to do things the right way and actually care about academics to the point MSU steals 1-2 guys from them every year now in football that cant quality for the Badgers.   And specific to Ryan when he broke down during the final 4 run due to his dad I could see the heart of a vampire. 

It's pretty awesome what he did. It sounds like he wanted to retire at the end of last year. However, his chief assistant, Greg Gard, was busy helping his father battle cancer. Bo knew if he left at that time, Gard wouldn't be able to get his fair shot at the job (due to his commitments away from basketball). Gard's father passed, and Ryan gave it one more semester to give Gard time to get reassimilated. Now Gard gets at least a semester to make his case to be head coach. Pretty fucking awesome by Bo Ryan IMO. That's an old school loyalty that you don't see as often these days. He really made a statement for "his guy", who coached under him for 20+ years.

Pretty lame of Wisconsin to embellish his record by claiming that he won "7 Big Ten Titles" by combining tournament championships and and regular season titles. 

so a player takes a play off he is a bum and lazy. a college leaves mid season when the ship is going down ie Spurrier and they are congratulated. Bo may have a health issue and I'd so I understand, but Spurrier just plain quit.

I always yelled at the tv and said I hated the guy but I never meant it. He was a very good coach but now I'm not scared of seeing Wisconsin on the schedule anymore.

Sad to see him go, even though I hated watching his teams.

just in time for him to steal Christmas

has announced he will coach the basketball team for the remainder of the season.

Kind of strange that Wisconsin basketball and football used to be so bad. I grew up with them having one of the most stable athletic departments in the big ten in the mid 2000s. I only remember winning once in Madison in either sport and that is with Stauskas.

Bo knows... coaching. Impressive results. Won't miss playing against him. But will miss his intensity and the challenge his teams offered.

Good night, sweet prince (of the bug people from planet Xylorgtron).

Also, Death to Backboards.

His team's style of play was annoying, and I hated playing them, but I always thought he was a pretty good guy.  What a run he had - never missed the tournament, never finished out of the top four in the conference.  A shame he fell just short of winning it all.

 

 

Probably no one and no team in the Big Ten I hated playing more than them. Their slow, lumbering style of game pissed me off, and it seemed like they'd always find a way to weasel their way into beating us on some miracle shot or buzzer beater bullshit. It was like they had our number every single year.

Will not miss playing him, but I have to give Ryan his due credit. Man that guy knows how to coach some basketball.

it's better for the big ten to have good coaches, and Bo R. was one of 'em.

Got robbed in the title game last year, but what do you expect against the king of all whiners.

That 36-33 game against Penn State set back basketball by 50 years.

That said, you cant argue with success. Have to tip your cap to him.

 with respect to his top assistant is plausible. It is always tricky with recruits during a transition.

The other thing that occurred to me is that it is difficult to perform any job as a lame duck, though some can do it fairly well. I have often wondered if that was an issue for Lloyd in 2007, since it appears he knew that was his last season going in even if it was not publicly disclosed.

Pending this being for health reasons I think this is a pretty shitty move. It's not his job to pick the next coach, it's to coach this team. I understand all the outside circumstances leading up to this, but if his heart wasn't in this from the start of the year it really wasn't fair to the players or anyone else associated with the team for that matter.