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Post by cardfan on Apr 5, 2024 12:00:31 GMT -6
Well, UMASS will drive the rest of the MAC to recruit better (and hopefully invest better) if we want to keep up. Or, UMASS will just dominate for 3 years and move on to yet another conference... There's a long way to go with the portal. The amount of players entering each day is ridiculous, and we haven't even had the Final Four and National Championship yet. Even those teams are going to lose/add some via the portal. The problem is, do you play the long game and wait for the right kids, or strike as early as you can and hope for the best? BG has already snagged a PG from Arizona. Buffalo got a kid from Maryland. Don't know if the other MAC schools have scored anyone yet. (besides us getting Sparks back) Akron convinced 6'5" VonCameron Smith to return to to Akron. They also have picked up: - 6'8" Anthony Morales (Boston University) - 6'5" Morgan Safford (Miami, OH) Pretty much makes them favored again. Is Groce just content to stay there now? (and to think that years back, Groce was at one time mentioned as a candidate at BSU. Obviously our AD/search committee did a helluva good job not hiring him.) Of course, some of us remember when Clemson's current coach (Brownell) was going to take our job. There was an insider on this board telling us it was a done deal and the announcement was forthcoming. Until Gora totally botched it, didn't offer him an appropriate dollar amount or guarantee support and let him leave Muncie without a contract. A few days later he's Wright State's coach and goes on to earn himself the Clemson job. Who did we have fall into our lap just beautifully that year after failing with Brownell? He Who Shall Not Be Named. Well played BSU, well played.
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 5, 2024 14:16:30 GMT -6
Akron convinced 6'5" VonCameron Smith to return to to Akron. They also have picked up: - 6'8" Anthony Morales (Boston University) - 6'5" Morgan Safford (Miami, OH) Of course, some of us remember when Clemson's current coach (Brownell) was going to take our job. There was an insider on this board telling us it was a done deal and the announcement was forthcoming. Until Gora totally botched it, didn't offer him an appropriate dollar amount or guarantee support and let him leave Muncie without a contract. That really hurt...in other searches including the one for Buckner and Whitford, budgeted salary for HC and assistants cost us good candidates. We have quite a history with HC compensation.
We paid a fair price for Majerus and Hunsaker benefited from that amount which was budgeted based on keeping Rick a little longer. With Ray we took on an assistant on the cheap and got away with it. Set a bad precedent , but in the end Ray was not happy.
For Billy, we were luck to find a Black coach willing to take the job, and because it was a real death trap we paid him his asking price which was cheap.
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