PSU basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry to ND???
Sources: Notre Dame is finalizing a deal to make Penn State coach Micah Shrewsberry the school’s next head coach.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) March 22, 2023
He’s done pretty well at PSU with limited resources. This is probably a decent hire for the domers.
PSU was super veteran and he rode that to a nice season and a big payday. Probably going to be significantly worse next year.
Thin resume. Doubt it works.
Agreed, and I hope they pay him an exorbitant amount of money for at least ten years.
Waste that cash.
Is anyone else as dumb as sparty?
I get the Tuck Cummin’ deal but that whole Tiny Tom thing has worked out. And this from a klompen wearer who hates Sparta as much as anyone else.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:40 PM ^
The current Spartan braintrust didn't hire him though. He's been at MSU for 40 years (going back to his days as an assistant).
His resume is loaded, what are you looking for? It's not like he's going to UNC or Duke.
I think he’s a promising candidate, but he has two years‘ experience as a head coach and in the first year he went 14-17. ND wouldn’t have hired him a year ago.
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:11 AM ^
I'm more concerned about the two years of head coaching experience, but this is Penn State basketball. They literally hadn't made the NCAA tournament in over a decade. In that period they have as many post-season trips to the College Basketball Invitational (which I didn't even realize was a thing) as they do to the NIT.
He's from Indiana, coached at various Indiana colleges for like 15 years (including two Purdue stints). Six years as a Celtics assistant. Then two years as HC at a Big Ten program, including PSU's most successful season in like 20+ years. Add the fact that he's supposedly beloved by everyone -- had Jalen Brown and Tatum facetiming the PSU team this year bc they were rooting for him so much.
This is an incredible hire for ND and huge loss for PSU. The bar for basketball success at ND is also pretty low. Look at Brey's career. 23 seasons and missed the tourney 10 times.
Says a lot about something that Penn St, flush with B1G cash, has to watch their coach make a lateral move (at best) like this after a successful season.
Apparently they failed to tame the Shrewsberry.
Penn State is historically cheap in spending for athletics --- unless it's football.
Simple as that. This doesn't surprise me. Neither will be I surprised if/when they re-hire Jim Ferry from UMBC (ugggggggggggggggggggggh).
(Even in football, spending $ is a recent development. JoePa & his staff had fairly modest salaries --- well, modest by big-time college football standards, that is. The "cheapness" is rather institutionally embedded into the athletic department)
So lets see, they have a very large stadium that sells out, they get B1G money splits, they sell a ton of merchandising, and they are very cheap with non-football spending, forget about looking for Hunter Biden's laptop (/no politics!) WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY GOING???
Saving for the lawsuits?
This cheapness is/was embedded into the PSU Athletic Department since well before 2011.
As regards PSU's various Sandusky settlements and who pays what, it's a long, tortured, back-door, outside-the-media fight between PSU and their insurance companies. I don't care who wins that fight, both parties sort of suck there.
Kind of sounds like us, historically, to be honest...
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:29 PM ^
JoePa? Seriously? Everyone in that era had modest salaries.
obviously no one knows if this will work out but Shrewsberry seems like a decent coach and an even better person.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:45 PM ^
Sure, maybe in the 60s and 70s. But Paterno coached all the way to the early 2010s, of course. And he made a reported $1.1MM in 2010. For 99% of professions, nobody would consider that a modest salary, even today.
But in the relative sense versus the likes of Bob Stoops, Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Mack Brown and Les Miles, his 2010 salary absolutely was modest. All of the above were making $4MM plus in 2010.
(PSU finished each of 2008/2009 in the Top 10, so the team was still performing well)
Penn St can have all the money in the world, but without institutional will to spend that money on basketball, they'll never have the facilities to compete with even ND.
Isnt Shrewsberry an Indiana native? Sometimes guys just wanna head home. We certainly understand that for guys like Harbaugh, Hart, Elston, etc
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:09 PM ^
It also says something that ND, who weren't going to pay the buyout for the Utah OC because it was a couple million dollars, apparently outbid PSU for Shrewsbury.
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:32 PM ^
How do you not pay enough to hold on to him?
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:43 PM ^
I don't think this was about money. ND has a lot more upside as a program. He's also an Indiana native.
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:20 AM ^
I'm being honest, I'm not sure there's a big upside at ND compared to other jobs that Shrewsberry would, I assume, also be in the running for. Maybe compared to PSU (though even that feels somewhat questionable) but he's got a lot of buzz around him and so he parlayed that into a program that, even in a depressed ACC, is probably the 6th/7th best spot and may be worse depending on how you feel about the futures for teams like Louisville, Clemson, FSU, etc. ND football makes a ton of money but otherwise the rest of the school is tied into the ACC revenue deals and those aren't great anyway and I believe are locked for about a decade, meaning they're going to be further behind resource-wise compared to teams they'll be recruiting against.
I know he's an Indiana guy and maybe he's eyeing the situations are Purdue and Indiana and hoping to make a jump if either of those programs have coaching changes in the coming years but just off the top of my head feels like places like Georgetown, Providence, even Georgia Tech feel like places where you could have just as much success, if not more, and not have to play second fiddle to football.
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:38 AM ^
Penn State was a senior-heavy team that was due to take a big step back next year. Notre Dame has nowhere to go but up. They were 3-17 in a weak ACC and they only have, at most, six scholarship players on the roster next year. So the roster situations of the schools aren't that different, but ND will be happy with a .500 season next year, while the same season at Penn State would look like a disappointment. Meanwhile, according to this article, he should have way more NIL resources to use in both recruiting and the portal.
Sources: Micah Shrewsberry and Notre Dame are finalizing a seven-year deal to make him the school’s next basketball coach.
— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) March 22, 2023
Good time to move - Penn State is losing it's top 5 scorers
He should've waited until Purdue canned Painter
Berry Shrewd move.
Groan . . . just heard there was a study praising the value of dad jokes when spending time with the family.
Dad jokes help your kids develop.
How else are they supposed to get fully groan?
In that case....
What did the buffalo say to his son at the school drop off line?
Bison!
It's actually his second stop in South Bend. He was at IU-South Bend when I went there in 2005-2007. I spent a lot of time around him playing pickup games and lifting weights. He's definitely a player's coach. Fun guy to shoot the shit with. He's got a lot of Indiana basketball connections too, so I'm guessing Michigan will cross paths with him a lot on the recruiting trail.
TIL theres an IU South Bend. I thought that was just a cheeky way of referring to ND for a sec
I like the guy.
Wow. Good for him.
PSU had a ceiling season. Good move for him.
He's from Indiana, isn't he? Or maybe he just worked at a couple of schools in the state.
Of note, ND will have a black head MBB, WBB and FB coach. Yeah, someone will get triggered by that comment, but representation matters and one day we'll be at a place where that isn't something anyone would ever notice. One day.
He's been all over Indiana as a player and coach ... Purdue, Butler, South Bend, Indy. Pro experience with the Celtics (got there with the Brad Stevens / Butler connection). I bet he'll dip into the Indiana talent that would usually go to IU/PU/UM/MSU/OSU (moreso than Brey did).
Yeah, this seems like a move to get back home to Indiana, at a prestigious school in a good basketball conference. Probably a higher ceiling for success at ND than PSU.
He was also rumored for Georgetown but this makes more sense.
"All over" Indiana is right: played HS ball in Indy, went to Hanover, then coached at (deep breath) Wabash, DePauw, IU-South Bend, Butler, and Purdue, heck, everywhere except St. Mary of the Woods.
Holy h--- wait, can't say that...he's at Notre Dame now.
Can't wait until he's fired in 5 years and winds up at IUPUI...or "oou-e poo-e!"
March 23rd, 2023 at 11:15 AM ^
He also attended Indiana St. He's still got a few D1 schools to get to in Indiana. Ball St., PFW, Evansville, IU, IUPUI (mentioned above), Valparaiso, probably a few more I'm forgetting. This might be his ultimate plan.
Good hire for the domers. Good move for Shrewsberry. A setback for PSU. I wish him as well as I can wish a head coach for ND.
This is just a weird move to me. I feel like he could've waited a few years and gotten a better job. Then again, he is losing a lot of talent from this year's team
He’s from Indiana, and Notre Dame will be the 6th school he’s coached for in that state, so it makes sense to me. The Purdue job isn’t opening up any time soon, and succeeding at Notre Dame would make him a prime contender for Indiana the next time that position comes around, moreso than staying at Penn State would have.
Tough break for PSU, he seems like a good coach, got them to the tourney in only year 2. Expectations will be a bit higher at ND, will be interesting to see if he can deliver. At the very least, hopefully PSU can go back to being a near auto-win in basketball now.
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:42 AM ^
What expectations should there be? They just went 3-17 in the ACC and have 6 scholarship players on the roster if they can keep their one remaining signee and their 5th year guy. Anything better than last in the ACC next season would be a pretty fair achievement.