Dantonio. After all every
Which wouldn't be a big
Which wouldn't be a big stretch, since he always looks anyway like he's contemplating a toilet that badly needs to be plunged.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
- Mark Dantonio
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Bacari Alexander
Bacari Alexander
"I think Hoke has changed the tide on the rivalry. Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling Michigan jerseys is a good start."
HALOL
HALMAO
If you were able to take away
If you were able to take away my bias, Izzo in basketball although he's getting older but you can't argue with.his track record. For football, Meyer is really the only big time candidate. So I guess I'd put up with him and his creepy dreams about recruits as long as there weren't violations and the team arrest record wasn't like it was while he was at Florida.
Hoke and Beilein
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Hoke and Beilein
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903 wins most in college football
something tells me you
something tells me you wouldn't be any fun playing the "would you rather" game.
Since the thread clearly says
Since the thread clearly says "besides Beilein", I can only assume you are talking about Beilein's son
Crean is a great recruiter but a bad coach.
Crean is a great recruiter but a bad coach.
Yep, that's Simba made out of a pineapple.
And he just seems like a
And he just seems like a whiny jerk.
He is a jerk. Fired a
He is a jerk. Fired a equipment manager for not bringing enough extra socks to an away game. That equipment manager now works at Indiana State because of that.
Michigan FB, Michigan BB, Michigan HKY, 49ers, SF Giants, Sac Kings, Red Wings
Pat Fitzgerald, he has done
Pat Fitzgerald, he has done relatively well with not having much.
I dont think he'd be a great
I dont think he'd be a great basketball coach, though.
...sure he would.
...sure he would.
Tough Question
The B10 sure does have some personalities.
If I had to pick one I'd go with Bo Ryan. Tough guy, does more with less seems like every year.
"I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member" - Groucho Marx
Yeah, I wonder what Ryan
Yeah, I wonder what Ryan would do at a basketball school like Indiana where he could get a slightly higher level of recruits. He'd be my choice.
Gotta be Todd Lickliter.
Gotta be Todd Lickliter.
Yeah, he's gotta be great in the lockerroom
"...and my wife keeps calling out my name!"
Bo Ryan but not for the
Bo Ryan but not for the reasons you think
Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.
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Thad Matta. Under 50 years old with Two Final Fours and 5 B1G titles in 8 years is hard to argue.
"I tried to but a pencil in the light socket but it was too wide and didn't fit so I used a paperclip."-Terrelle Pryor, Future Rhodes Scholar
Man, he's under 50.
Years have not been kind.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
Matta has a great record, but
Matta has a great record, but I can't help thinking he's a little shady. When Jim O'Brien was there, they didn't recruit all that well, and then all of a sudden Matta got there and they landed Oden, Conley, Cook . . . I would not be shocked in the least if the NCAA eventually came calling.
OSU
Has first class facilities and a great coach. They've been a sleeping giant in basketball for longer than Michigan has.
Ohio built those facilities
Ohio built those facilities in the late 1990s. Jim O'Brien did not seem to reap the benefits in recruiting. He ended up turning to Eastern Europe for half his roster (people were calling them "Ohio Statavich"). Then Matta came in and presto, every other kid in the Rivals top 20 was giving them a look.
Given that we know basketball recruiting is pretty shady in general, if a guy comes in and instantly is reeling in superstars, it raises a few eyebrows.
You could say the same about
You could say the same about Beilein...I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin
No you couldn't. Beilein's
No you couldn't. Beilein's first recruiting class consisted of Zack Novak, Stu Douglass and Ben Cronin. Not exactly three McDonald's All Americans.
Beilein's recruiting has only gradually stepped up over time, and even recently, a lot of the star recruits he's landed were originally sleepers - like Burke, Hardaway and Robinson. All three of them were only 3-star guys when they committed to us. Beilein has a great eye for talent and continually finds guys that get overlooked by other schools, and then blow up in the rankings later. McGary is the only real blue-chipper he had to fight other elite programs for, and we had an "in" with him because he's from Novak's hometown.
He is also best friends with
He is also best friends with GR3 and played with him, so we really had a lot of ins with McGary.
Another in is that he is on record saying he wanted to attend a school that had a big time football program, and we were competing with Duke mainly for his services....not exactly a close competition there.
No, you couldn't
Beilein took several years to get his recruiting on the current track. Success follows success.
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I don't think anyone would
I don't think anyone would say that about Beilein. In fact, when we hired him, there was some worrying that he was too upstanding, and would be reluctant to "play the game" to get the stud recruits.
You could say the same about Beilein
On what possible grounds? Evidence, please.
Some people have just lost their shit around here today. FIrst we get somebody making fun of Leroy Hoard's serious concussion-related health issues, and now we have somebody making completely unsupported assertions that the coach who was selected to head the NCAA ethics committee for D1 basketball is somehow shady in his recruiting.
I think the Oden/Cook
I think the Oden/Cook recruitment also coincided with the mess at Indiana Univ. That may (may) have played a part in them ending up in Columbus instead of Bloomington.
Oden/Conley are from
Oden/Conley are from Indianapolis, mere miles away from Butler where Matta played/coached. Cook was from Dayton, Ohio...
"So put 2 on, put 10 on, WHAT DO YOU CARE IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE PAYIN' FOR 'EM!!!!?"
-Doug Heffernan, in regards to Arthur and his stamp needs
Don't you try and use logic
Don't you try and use logic to rationalize this!
2011 Nebraska State Champ "We're Michigan." @tannerwooten not that funny, though.
I'd hire a two sport coach
I'd hire a two sport coach with a one purpose mustache. I'd hire Danny Hope.
All in for some manball.
Will coach for food.
Will coach for food.
Biz hundert azoi ve tsvantsik
mbb matta, izzo have best track records
they are rivals but you can not argue with their results. i believe they operate within the rules--if a little in the gray areas.
would stick with beilien, i like his style of operating much better.
pbmd
Not Big Ten, but Midwestern
Brad Stevens. It's only a matter of time before he's at IU, Ohio, UM, MSU, Purdue right?
I'm not saying that it's going to be anytime soon, but he's only 36. I'd love nothing more than for us to give him whatever he wants in 6 or 7 years when Coach Beilein hangs them up.
Duke
I'll bet he ends up at Duke after Coach K. It's one of the best jobs in CBB and it will open before any comparable job in the Big Ten.
I would pee my pants in
I would pee my pants in happiness if this happens.
No Way
Coack K says that he'll let the AD pick, but I doubt that he doesn't lobby for one of his assistants.My guess is Jeff Capel.
Chris Collins is my guess.
Chris Collins is my guess.
It would be Johnny Dawkins if
It would be Johnny Dawkins if it was an ex-player of K's. He's out at Stanford doing a decent job. I don't expect any of the current assistants to be the next HC, no point when you can pick almost any coach in the game. If it was going to be Wojo or Collins, they'd have had to leave to get HC experience somewhere. Additionally, Mike Brey at ND is a former K assistant, and he's having some success there without top 5* talent.
The one thing Duke doesn't want to do is the UNC post Dean Smith experiment, where they go assistant to former assistant disaster to real coach.
A long time before. I hate
A long time before. I hate to say it, but there honestly isn't any comperable program in the B1G.
"I just hope Tressel doesn't fire me"
-Gordon Gee
I agree that Stevens is a
I agree that Stevens is a great coach, but he won't be available in 6-7 years. He will still be young but a job like Duke/Kentucky/UNC/Kansas is going to open up by 2020 and he would be crazy not to accept that offer (this would be while Beilein is still our coach so Michigan wouldn't even be in the picture). While I think we could pull him from Butler I doubt he is coming to Michigan from a Duke/UK/UNC/Kansas job.
It won't be Kentucky or Kansas before us
UNC or Duke are likely. I expect Coach K to name a successor from his staff. UNC definitely a possibility, my guess is that they'd go after Smart, style of play matches UNC a little better.
If he goes to any non-Big Ten team my guess is Louisville.
Self is 50 and he's not going anywhere. Calipari is 53.
Izzo
Just to watch the Sparty meltdown.
"[The University of Michigan] was, in short, the testing ground for all my prejudices, my beliefs and my ignorance, and it helped to lay out the boundaries of my life."--Arthur Miller
Zook. And yes, I know you
Zook. And yes, I know you said basketball. The man can just straight coach
"What" ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in What?
Izzo if he were younger... but now
How about a former B1G coach? Steve Alford, former IU player under Knight, had success at Iowa before doing good things out at New Mexico.
If I were coaching a rival
If I were coaching a rival Big Ten program? Brian Ellerbe, come on down!
Harbaugh
Learned today that Crean's wife is Harbaugh's sister. Does being married to a Michigan Woman make him a Michigan Man?
...just one man's opinion.
Dantonio. After all every program needs someone to clean the toilets.
"Shiny. Let's be bad guys."