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Could Childress be HC someday?

I'd be willing to bet good money that Jeff Capel will be the next Coach at Duke when K finally calls is quits..whenever that is...

Strickland33 said:
I know he's dirty, but I really want Donnie Jones from UCF...

I've posted a few of these before, but I've re-conceptualized my coaching wishlist is as follows:

1) Jeff Battle, Assc. Wake Forest
2) Shaka Smart, HC, Virginia Commonwealth University
3) Donnie Jones, HC, Central Florida
4) Dan Hurley, HC, Wagner
5) Jeff Capel, Asst. Duke
6) Kevin Williard, HC, Seton Hall
7) Gregg Marshall, HC, Witchita State
8) Mick Cronin, HC, Cincinnati
9) Doug Wojcik, HC, Tulsa
10)John Pelphrey, Asst. Florida
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JKW385 said:
I'd be willing to bet good money that Jeff Capel will be the next Coach at Duke when K finally calls is quits..whenever that is...
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Well we know it's going to be one of their long tenured ACs or one of the HCs in the CB Diaspora... That's no secret.

Capel doesn't strike me as a frontrunner, though. There are two associate HC's who have been on the Duke bench longer: Wojo and Collins.

Looking at what they have outside of their ranks, most notably Amaker at Harvard and Dawkins at Stanford, and the fact that Capel struggled balancing recruiting/politicking/coaching at Oklahoma, kind of muddles that argument a bit. Amaker has to be the frontrunner of former players coaching elsewhere.
 
Smart is the most impressive on that list.

VCU has sold out every home game this year, fwiw. He has also recruited well for what VCU can typically get--even before the F4 run. His wife apparently doesn't want to leave Richmond, though. 6 cities in 10 years will do that. I doubt he'd want to leave for W-S. He'd leave for a Duke opening, but pretty much any coach would. I think Stevens is waiting for that one.
 
Strickland33 said:
Well we know it's going to be one of their long tenured ACs or one of the HCs in the CB Diaspora... That's no secret.

Capel doesn't strike me as a frontrunner, though. There are two associate HC's who have been on the Duke bench longer: Wojo and Collins.

Looking at what they have outside of their ranks, most notably Amaker at Harvard and Dawkins at Stanford, and the fact that Capel struggled balancing recruiting/politicking/coaching at Oklahoma, kind of muddles that argument a bit. Amaker has to be the frontrunner of former players coaching elsewhere.
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True, but Wojo and Collins have never been Head Coaches anywhere. It's a completely different animal, as we've seen with Dino. Pretty easy to look like a great coach when you've only been working for the best basketball coach of all time. Jeff Capel has been by far the most successful of K's former players. While Amaker might be doing well at Harvard, he has already struck out at several major jobs, Michigan and Seton Hall. In 10 seasons at both jobs, he only took one of his teams to the Dance (Seton Hall in 2000). Dawkins isn't exactly tearing it up at Stanford either. He's 64-52 in 3.5 seasons in a very similar school to Duke. Remember, Jeff Capel got VCU going. No one would have probably ever heard of Anthony Grant and Shaka Smart without Capel building that program. Yes he did strike out at OU, but he did get them to the Elite 8, we're we've only been a handful of times in our history. Let's just hope they don't get Mike Brey or Brad Stevens to follow K....
 
Mike Brey's a pretty damn good coach. ND fans that I know aren't smitten with him because of how they've under-performed in the tournament (sound familiar?) but everything Brey has done, he's done with sub-par talent. Impressive stuff.
 
So he's underperformed with subpar talent. Sounds like someone we should want at Duke.
 
Well, it's a tough evaluation to make. He's over-performed with the players he's recruited, but he's under-performed in the tournament given the regular seasons that he produced with those players.

Question is, is he limited recruiting-wise by Notre Dame, or would he struggle everywhere? It's basically the same recruiting question we have (had?) with [Redacted].
 
I'm glad that Rusty and Chill are back contributing to WFU, but just because we're all so fond of them as players doesn't mean we need to find a way to annoint them as the next HC/AD. Why can't they just be a part of the school and not the head guys?
 
I think Brey would be the odds on favorite for the Duke job. He's far and away the most accomplished coach with Duke ties (other than Quin Snyder but that isn't happening), and Notre Dame isn't a particularly good job so I'm sure he'd take the job if offered. He's no Coach K though.
 
TBR said:
I think Brey would be the odds on favorite for the Duke job. He's far and away the most accomplished coach with Duke ties (other than Quin Snyder but that isn't happening), and Notre Dame isn't a particularly good job so I'm sure he'd take the job if offered. He's no Coach K though.
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If Johnny Dawkins has a couple of good years at Stanford, I think he's the choice. He's been a lot closer to K than Brey.

They could freak the world out by <ducking quicker than my old legs want to go> and pick wither Chrissie Collins or Wojo and hope for another coach would be there for the next thirty years not just the next 10-15.

Don't sleep on Brad Stevens now that IU has Crean for the next decade.
 
RJKarl said:
If Johnny Dawkins has a couple of good years at Stanford, I think he's the choice. He's been a lot closer to K than Brey.

They could freak the world out by <ducking quicker than my old legs want to go> and pick wither Chrissie Collins or Wojo and hope for another coach would be there for the next thirty years not just the next 10-15.

Don't sleep on Brad Stevens now that IU has Crean for the next decade.
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Yep, if they go out of the family it will probably be Stevens. Have to believe he would take it if offered. He's much more of a Duke-type then a UNC/Kansas/Kentucky-type.

I am with you on Dawkins; his record at Stanford just hasn't been very good. Capel is also pretty unlikely. He did squat at OU without Griffin with a NCAA investigation to boot.
 
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I'll say it and let you laugh at me. Childress could be a hell of a coach. He knows the game, and he could recruit like a som-bitch.

You get an old vet to help him for a couple of years, as an assistant head coach, like the dude at Virginia did with his father at his previous coaching gigs.

Hell, Dave Odom might come out of retirement to be Chill's assistant head coach.
 
TBR said:
Yep, if they go out of the family it will probably be Stevens. Have to believe he would take it if offered. He's much more of a Duke-type then a UNC/Kansas/Kentucky-type.

I am with you on Dawkins; his record at Stanford just hasn't been very good. Capel is also pretty unlikely. He did squat at OU without Griffin with a NCAA investigation to boot.
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Dawkins is having a good year this year and has two Top 100 big guys coming in. Rosco Allen was offered by basically everyone (including UCLA, AZ and UNC).

capel has no shot.

The question is how long does K stay. If he keeps the job five years or more all of this may be out the window.
 
1) I don't think Jeff Battle wants to be a head coach anywhere. I can't say this with 100% certainty, but he is a very private man who does not like the spotlight. When is the last time you have ever heard Jeff Battle speak at any WF engagement, fill in on the radio show, give an interview? He doesn't. If there is an event he has to attend as part of his job as Assoc. Head Coach, he makes an appearance and sneaks out. He excels at scouting the opponent, game day coaching, recruiting and maintaining a great relationship with the players but I just don't see him as a head coach. Of course, I don't live in his head and could be way off base and if something happened and Battle became the HC of WFU, he would do a good job.

2)RJ- I assume you know Rusty personally and know his personality? Because saying he does not have the personality to be a head coach is nonsense. He speaks well to the media, represents the university with integrity and, along with Coach Battle, has an ability to connect with and maintain good coach/player relationships. He has a low BS tolerance and VERY high expectations for current and potential WFU student athletes. He is a good recruiter who does not sugar coat how difficult, demanding and overwhelming WFU and ACC basketball can be- which, in light of recent events and resulting transfers, is something every recruit needs to be advised of. I don't know what kind of personality is your idea of head-coach worthy, but I hope our next coach is more like Coach B and Rusty and less like a mascot (a la Roy Williams).

That being said....I don't think Coach Larue is ready to be the head coach of an ACC basketball team right now. Maybe someday, but not in the near future. I would imagine he has learned a lot over the course of the past 3 seasons...winning with Gaudio (which Larue was used to) and the extreme losing of last season with Bz.

All of the coaches are very excited about the 2012 recruiting class. I hope they all stay.
 
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