OT: Archie Miller IU
March 25th, 2017 at 12:47 PM ^
it's your program be stepped on.
It's all a matter of perspective.
Brady Hoke with the long con. He used Michigan position coach experience to get the Ball State job to get the San Diego State job to get the Michigan job to get the Oregon DC job to get the Tennessee DL coach job.
Well played, Hoke. Well played.
Yeah I feel bad for the Flyers as well having lived in Dayton for 7 years.
They are in that no-man's land where they crave national success but as soon as they get it, they lose their coach.
It must suck to be in that position. We've never had to face that at Michigan other than for self-inflicted reasons (too cheap - Orr, personality conflicts - Frieder).
At least Dayton is in the middle of the food chain, not at the bottom. They will just have to do the same thing and steal a hot successful coach from a lower level.
Big fish eats little fish. Bigger fish eats big fish. And so it goes.
March 25th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
Slighty better than Alford? Alford is a terrible coach considering UCLA can get whoever they want out of Southern California. He was on the verge of getting fired last year and happened to sign Lonzo Ball. He'll probably get fired next year when he can't sign Lonzo Ball.
March 25th, 2017 at 12:55 PM ^
I would've hired Chris Mack and never looked back.
What makes you think Georgetown is firing GTIII anytime soon? Nepotism gone wrong over there.
Xavier > Georgetown as a program now.
Oh... well that's interesting.
Edit: Patrick Ewing should be the dude who gets that job.
Welp that tells you how far GTown has fallen.
March 25th, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^
Well, if nothing else, Archie Miller seems to be aware of his own suit size, so the worry about self-pantsing like you had with Crean is greatly reduced. That, and the police can rest easy in Bloomington as the threat of net theft may go down.
In all seriousness, that's not a bad hire for Indiana.
*sigh*
It's just not the same
Add some sweat stains on the shirt - Miller is the sweatiest coach out there.
That's Sean Miller, Archie's older brother at Zona.
Unless it runs in the family lol.
It definitely runs in the family. Saw him repeatedly wiping sweat off his face and neck in one of his recent games. Maybe not Sean Miller level sweat (see below), but definitely sweaty. He was working up a nice lather.
Sweet!!!!!!!!
This is a really solid hire by Indiana.
We certainly have a lot of knee-jerk reactionary posters, but given that they were dead wrong on Beilein, why should we trust their judgment on Miller?
They're in Atlantic 10, which is one of the seven designated "Premier 7" Conferences in basketball along with Big East and Power 5 Conferences. Still don't know why it's like that though given how few teams reach the tourney each year in that conference
his teams play smart, tough, effective basketball.
I know when the look of a team tells you they are well-coached and when you can look at a team and know they are badly coached.
Dayton was well-coached.
Have to think this is a very solid hire.
It's a step up for Miller and I hope his ceiling ends up being lower than it would appear, but I can't help but be impressed by the kind of basketball his Dayton teams played.
That is some strong feelingsball.
I could probably come up with 30 or so ways to quantify it right off the top of my head, but when you watched the Dayton kids you could tell they knew what the fuck they were doing. When you watch a Baylor team, you can tell they don't have a clear idea what they are doing, they are weak-minded, and they can't adapt to things that are consistently damaging them during a game.
Badly coached teams are easily thrown off of what they are trying to execute, regularly break down into one on one play, and get very few baskets out of the offenses they run. They regularly have lapses in either concentration or confidence and are prone to giving up extended runs. A well-coached team knows how to turn a series of stops into a run and how to manage a lead. A badly coached team is careless with the ball and prone to committing unforced turnovers. A well-coached team can adapt to multiple defenses and multiple styles.
A badly coached team breaks under the Havoc attack, a well-coached team tears a press apart. Some of this is obviously personnel, but a lot more is having a plan and executing it.
I've seen thirty plus years of basketball at this point and for at least 25 of them, I've known what I'm looking at, thanks to playing for one of the best HS coaches you'll find anywhere in the country. You can tell which teams draw confidence from the sideline and know what they're supposed to be doing and then which teams get nothing but confusion from their coaches.
Name a great coach - how often do you see their teams break against something the opponent throws at them that over 40 minutes they never figure out how to adapt to? Almost never. More often, when they lose, it's simply a miss-make game, where they don't make enough shots on a given night.
There's obviously more to coaching than in-game coaching. There's recruiting, and just as important, skill development. Roy Williams, for example, is pretty damn good at skill development. But I think he's a weak in-game coach. Watching him coach against K is sometimes like watching a guppy get fed to a piranha.
A good coach can tell a team how to change things up when things are going wrong - a bad coach just gets more and more frustrated. Ever seen a terrible HS or AAU coach get dissected by a well-coached team? It happens in college, too.
March 26th, 2017 at 12:15 AM ^
What happened to the pornography part?
I guess the funny part about using that reference is that the fussy britches who said it thought everything was porn.
What is Wisconsin's mean? They've been to 19 straight NCAA tournaments and finished in the top 4 of the B1G 17 straight years.
I'll gladly take Wisconsin's last 20 year mean performance.
Who ruined the program Tom? Damn, I guess I did.
Indiana and Illinois have both made great hires this offseason IMO. Underwood and Miller both took midmajor squads to great heights in the tourney and consistency in conference play. I am excited to see what they do with two B1G schools. The one person I would love to see as a Big Ten coach is Frank Martin, but I have a feeling he will be at South Carolina for a while now.
Going to be interesting to see if Archie can revive the program that Jeff Meyer ruined.
March 26th, 2017 at 12:02 AM ^
a good hire from Marquette, a rising star in the coaching world. IU has simply done the exact same thing here. Hired another rising star from a less prestigious conference and handed him the keys to a big time program.
March 26th, 2017 at 12:39 AM ^
Got themselves a basketball coach I respect...