MSU keeping Anastos
Baffling hire continues to baffle.
When they hired him I was like "lol. Gonna be fun beating MSU a lot" and it definitely has been fun, but it's embarassing for them at this point.
Maybe this is their version of retaining Brady Hoke?
Thank you, Staee!
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This guy must have some juicy pictures of Hollis. Nothing else explains why he would still be employed!
March 31st, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^
What does a guy have to do to get fired around here?
March 31st, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^
I think that was Darryl Rogers, not Wayne Fontes.
March 31st, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^
+1 to you for the catch.
I am little more than surprised they kept him.
Mark Hollis does not care about hockey.
They are just admitting they just don't care about hockey. I can't think of another coach that deserved to get fired more than Anastos and didn't, in any major sport.
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commenting on MSU.
That must be why they like him so much.
RCMB must be going like....
Can't think of a better comparison.
Hollis obviously isn't a total buffoon, because the two big pillars of the department are fine. But, as I write elsewhere, this is totally insane.
It's more like he has a William Clay Ford Lions-sized blindspot when it comes to hockey.
Unless he reached out to any and all coaches that would be potential replacements and they all shot him down, so he was forced to stand pat. My, how that program has cratered.
It's a little disingenuous to call both major sports "fine." They're both arguably at their absolute peak in MSU history. Which makes me angry, especially since their coaches are so insufferable.
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That may be giving him too much credit. Hollis inherited both Izzo and Dantonio, so all he's had to do in the big two sports is stay out of their way. The one time he's had to make a significant hire (hockey), he botched it.
He's sold as a marketing genius but can't sell out Spartan stadium for a top 10 program. He's letting hockey flounder and I believe he's made a few PR gaffes as well. And as noted above, he inheirited Izzo and Dantonio. He really had next to nothing to do with their successes
Hollis was on the committee that hired Dantonio. It was Izzo, Simon, Hollis and former MSU FB player and Alan Haller.
Mason's name was attached for ceremonial reasons but he was out of running the department by that time after the mess of the JLS era.
Well he inherited basketball and could have gotten lucky with football or it was Ron Mason.
Definitely wasn't Mason... He was left at home and off any committee for hiring a new coach
An AD sets up a search committee to identify candidtates. He is amost never a member of that comittee at any school.
This thread should be deleted. Guys, if people are doing stupid things that benefit you, let said stupid things go unnoticed. Shhhhh...
It's gotten to the point that Michigan fans are annoyed because Hollis let one of the greatest rivalries in college hockey (and probably college sports) errode into a laugher. I want Anastos fired. It's ruined the rivalry and they've become deadweight on the Big Ten
If things get bad enough, maybe MSU will cancel hockey, causing a series of events that ultimately results in their expulsion from the B1G in all sports and academics...
With what they're losing from a team that only won 10 games I'd be surprised if they make it to 10 this year.
How can you continue to support a coach who has guided the program through its worst stretch in team history?
Woo hoo! That is good news!
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L4MSU
Well, first I wanted to point out this beaut from Mark Hollis:
"Unfortunately you can't do that in five years. Penn State had a great advantage in having no roster (when it started its program) and being able to build from ground zero."
Okay.
Anyway, my question is regarding Pairwise. I'm definitely no expert, but I thought it had been decided that playing teams in the ass-end of the rankings were high-risk/low-reward. Meaning wins did nothing for you and losses murdered your PWR. I recall everyone here freaking out last fall about this year's UM schedule because there was no quality in the out of conference and it was going to take a sterling record to get an at-large bid. No?
Quoting the article:
"Hollis does want to see smarter scheduling from Anastos and other Big Ten programs, which need higher win totals more than brutal non-conference competition to improve their standing in the Pairwise rankins, which determine NCAA tournament bids."
This Hollis-ism seems false.
It's all based on RPI, and it's a double-edged sword. A tough schedule doesn't do you any good if you don't win (and MSU rarely ever wins anymore). The thing about the PWR is that a conference basically floats or sinks based on a handful of non-conference swing games, since teams are going to beat themselves up regardless.
A conference that does well in the non-conference schedule winds up seeing mid-tier programs with so-so records record great RPIs. A conference that has a bad run struggles to get even one team in the tournament, as the B1G has.
MSU's losses to North Dakota did nobody any good. You need some strength, but also results.
It's not like Anastos inherited a dumpster fire of a program. Sure, a couple of down years, but that doesn't require a complete anihalation of a still-decent program! Anastos has destroyed what Mason built, and Comely left (pretty much) intact. Comely was never going to succeed in the same manner that a new football coach can never succeed when replacing a legend, but he did an admirable job considering his circumstance following Mason. Even if Hollis doesn't care about hockey, there is no basis for retaining Anastos...
The end of the Comley years were a disaster recruiting. He packed it in after they won the title.
Why do think no one wanted the job?
George Gwozdecky wanted it, and he has two national titles under his belt.
If you are building a schedule, the absolute best thing that you can do is schedule the best team in the worst conference. The reason? That team will end the season with a record along the lines of 20-10-5, even though they are nowhere near as good as a middle-of-the-pack team from a great conference, that might have a record of 18-18-2.
The way the RPI is weighted so heavily to measure "opponents' winning percentage" as the primary element of strength of schedule tilts the incentive structure heavily toward scheduling teams like Robert Morris & Michigan Tech (both teams Michigan played this year) and away from scheduling teams like New Hampshire and Nebraska-Omaha.
If they used a better rating system, it would be different, but a good scheduler finds good teams in bad conferences. Note that playing American International doesn't help--they are a bad team in a bad conference.
Of course for Mr. Hollis, none of this applies if you can't beat those teams on your schedule. If you lose to Michigan Tech, you are better off losing to North Dakota. So I don't see what he is saying here, unless he really is talking about scheduling Bentley for a 2-game set.
So incredibly dumb. We need State to be good again. I enjoy beating their heads in on a regular basis, but having them be this bad is not good for the conference of Michigans SOS.
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And I'm sure Sparty football fans were pleased with the Harbaugh hire so we could be good again???? Come on ....
He's right. Hockey is different because the pairwise rankings matter. Playing a terrible MSU 4 to 6 times a season is not good for UM.
Sort of. We don't need MSU to be better, we need the B1G as a whole to be better. Wisconsin hiring a great staff and the addition of ND should allow our schedule strength to be where it needs to be and MSU to keep on keeping on. Who says you can't have it all?
The OP complains a lot about the amount of MSU threads, but then creates his own.
That's funny I didn't even think about that
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Don't be stupid. This is very important news.
got decent traction on Twitter from Brian, which warranted this post.
If this wasn't big news that does concern us 4-6 times a year, I wouldn't have posted it.
Their program is in the toilet and going down further at 100 mph. They lose almost virtually every decent player they had this year
From the comments you post about Michigan Hockey I would think they were going down a toilet
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Sorry I'm not shooting rainbows and unicorns out of my nose when we get decked by OSU, giving up 13 goals in two days.
If you've noticed recently, I've been nothing but positive since the team turned it around and responded after that series.
It's like my comments are based on what is happening.
hahahaha!