McDermott Stays at Creighton
Bruce Pearl plz
"I'm sure his skills are transferable."
Losing? Sure, why not? We don't call him John LLLLL Smith for nothing.
Thanks Gene, but I'm all set at Creighton. Outstanding!
that is willing to walk to Columbus to take the job.
but perhaps McDermott wants to be in an athletic department where basketball is #1. Clearly, OSU is a place where that won't be the case.
The Duke job has to be opening at some point, their coach is 70.
-at least one coach who interviews
-gets offered the job
-decides to stay at his current school
-school claims an offer was never extended
-sports fan rip said school
It's like clockwork. Happens everywhere, including here.
Very often, is a coach turning down a substantially higher "signature" job.
Other than recently, Ohio State has been a beast on the recruiting trail. They already have a man-made pipeline and a pretty decent pool in the midwest.
Creighton is in... Nebraska.
Yeah, Nebraska really sucks. It's like Michigan, except not pretty with no water and slightly fatter corn-fed women and in-bred idiots. In other words, it's exactly like Ohio.
The Creighton coach immediately prior to McDermott literally accepted the Arkansas job (that's a good job, they've won a National Title within the past generation) --- before changing his mind and deciding to stay in Omaha.
McDermott grew up in Iowa, and has coached his entire professional life in either North Dakota, Iowa or Nebraska. Maybe he just wants to stay in that part of America.
Won 25 games this past season, for the first time since 1995.
That's not a good job at all.
Altman turned down Arkansas 10 years ago, not yesterday.
Arkansas was still only 12 (not 22) years removed from their 2 consecutive Final Fours then. They had won 22 and 21 games each of the previous 2 seasons, making the NCAA in both.
Creighton, meanwhile, wasn't in the Big East in 2007. Still in the MVC.
Arkansas was a higher-profile and more-premier job vs. Creighton in 2007 --- I don't think there is a substantive argument otherwise --- yet, Altman turned it down. That was my point: those sort of things happen occasionally, and actually happened with McDermott's predecessor.
And maybe a little raise?
The sad thing is now they will probably end up with a better coach than him. I was hoping he would take the gig.
You are probably right.
Still, given what awful (and humorless) controversies have embroiled rival schools, this is a refreshing opportunity to point and laugh.
I'm kinda surprised they don't just do the Luke Fickell and throw away a season while actually looking for a coach long-term. Coaches are probably a lot more receptive to offers during the actual offering season. (There's an "in heat" joke in there somewhere.) They know that changing jobs right now is going to get them off on the wrong foot immediately.
That's a really good point. This is going to be a bad year no matter who is in charge.
Then again, a permanent coach can start recruiting for 18-19 right away, which is going to be the foundation of their career at OSU, so getting a guy now might not be the worst idea.
Timing is super awkward and you can't just wave a magic wand to make it go away. I imiagine finding a coach right now is going to be hard for them unless you get a semi-retired guy to handle the job for a year, while you get the search process in place.
Chris Jent... come on down!!!!
They are spoiled children, and i'm happy they didn't get what they wanted.
Donovan
Mack
Hoiberg
McDermott
Mike Brown
looks like they will just promote Chris Jent or Greg Pawlus
Appears to be the next target
that people do not perceive this as a hotter job. Also great.
A display of good judgment.
He's an Iowa guy that wants to stay in state. Not as embarrassing as some think. He's had other opportunities to leave and hasn't.