New coaching search thread

[RJKarl]

HUH? Do you really think O$U would use not applying at Wake to avoid his last two payments? Last year, you would have had a point, but the combination of no bball, basically one job opening and having only payments left, I seriously doubt this would be an issue.

Quite simply, $300,000 in a budget of over $109M is likely not worth the negative press and hassle they would get for stopping the payments.

 

[Biff Tannen]

Ferry/Bilas 2020

 

[Biff Tannen]

HUH? Do you really think O$U would use not applying at Wake to avoid his last two payments? Last year, you would have had a point, but the combination of no bball, basically one job opening and having only payments left, I seriously doubt this would be an issue.

Quite simply, $300,000 in a budget of over $109M is likely not worth the negative press and hassle they would get for stopping the payments.

Nevermind the budget just got cut in half.

 

[WakeForest Fan]

time flies. had no clue amaker has coached 23 years.

 

[RedSoxFaithful]

Amaker is a clear step up from Manning, and several steps up from Bz. His Michigan years are troubling, but he was better at Seton Hall than he's getting credit for-- that program is historically sort of a dumpster fire and he was fine. I also think it's silly to discount what he's done for Harvard basketball. They hadn't been to a tournament in 60+ years before Amaker got there, and he took them to 4 straight. That's not nothing.

He'd also be a pretty uninspiring hire, though, and the upside is super limited (unless you think he's become a better recruiter/coach at Harvard, which I guess is possible?)

I'd much rather have Matta (obviously) and Forbes, and probably Turner/Miller too.

 

[Biff Tannen]

Sounds like we need to get some drones in the air on The Quad and on Wellman Way.

 

[netflixnchildres]

How many entrances are there these days? Bring a friend or two. And some walkie talkies.

I guarantee State fans would do it.

LOWF

3 that I can think of. There may be a 4th but definitely no more than that.

 

[Biff Tannen]

Amaker is a clear step up from Manning, and several steps up from Bz. His Michigan years are troubling, but he was better at Seton Hall than he's getting credit for-- that program is historically sort of a dumpster fire and he was fine. I also think it's silly to discount what he's done for Harvard basketball. They hadn't been to a tournament in 60+ years before Amaker got there, and he took them to 4 straight. That's not nothing.

He'd also be a pretty uninspiring hire, though, and the upside is super limited (unless you think he's become a better recruiter/coach at Harvard, which I guess is possible?)

I'd much rather have Matta (obviously) and Forbes, and probably Turner/Miller too.

But hasn't Willard been better at Seton Hall than Amaker ?

 

[Buttermaker]

We have $ to pay the next coach. Manning’s buyout was negotiated down to 7.5 mill.

Source tier?

 

[bigboy8]

Settling for Amaker is sooo LOWF.

 

[ipitytheblue]

I wonder if Currie is interviewing a swath of candidates, gauging mutual interest, and wants to make an offer soon. I imagine it would look bad if the process is drawn out, as if we'd gone after one candidate at a time, top down, and struck out a few times before settling. If 5+ people are interviewed at once, he can always claim that our hire just presented the best case and we've found our guy. Gotta feel like Currie is sensitive to optics here.

 

[liveanddiedeac]

Sounds like we need to get some drones in the air on The Quad and on Wellman Way and drop bombs (on Wellman Way, not the Quad).

 

[Buttermaker]

They're probably still interviewing, y'all. Doesn't mean Amaker has accepted the job.

Nor offered

 

[RedSoxFaithful]

HUH? Do you really think O$U would use not applying at Wake to avoid his last two payments? Last year, you would have had a point, but the combination of no bball, basically one job opening and having only payments left, I seriously doubt this would be an issue.

Quite simply, $300,000 in a budget of over $109M is likely not worth the negative press and hassle they would get for stopping the payments.

it's literally a requirement of the OSU buyout, which also specifies that they can require repayment of past payouts

who knows matta's true motives, but the buyout terms are pretty clear

 

[91dke]

There’s a wake connected (owner mba wife undergrad) plane based out of Roanoke flying into Smith Reynolds today from Naples. Any candidates hang out in Florida?

 

[RedSoxFaithful]

But hasn't Willard been better at Seton Hall than Amaker ?

yeah. maybe we should interview Willard !

 

[ChrisL68]

Amaker > Kelsey/Miller/Odom
Amaker < Belien/Matta/Forbes

I would tend to agree with this. If Kelsey is a high reward type of guy, then I would hope he would have gone to the NCAA tournament more than 2 times in 8 years out of the big south taking over Greg Marshall's program.

 

[DeacsATS]

But hasn't Willard been better at Seton Hall than Amaker ?

I'd say so, but it took Willard until his 6th year to have a winning conference record.

 

[netflixnchildres]

Amaker is a clear step up from Manning, and several steps up from Bz. His Michigan years are troubling, but he was better at Seton Hall than he's getting credit for-- that program is historically sort of a dumpster fire and he was fine. I also think it's silly to discount what he's done for Harvard basketball. They hadn't been to a tournament in 60+ years before Amaker got there, and he took them to 4 straight. That's not nothing.

He'd also be a pretty uninspiring hire, though, and the upside is super limited (unless you think he's become a better recruiter/coach at Harvard, which I guess is possible?)

I'd much rather have Matta (obviously) and Forbes, and probably Turner/Miller too.

PJ Carlisemo and Kevin Willard win big at Seton Hall. Amaker was just shitty.

 

[deacon22]

Settling for Amaker is sooo LOWF.

A Winthrop coach that has never had a top 100 KP team is one of the top choices because he jumps in the air on the sideline. We could do a lot worse than Amaker.