Nothing at all to go on, but I just think if we were after a coach whose team was done playing this would be getting close to being wrapped up, at least to the point where the leaks would be coming in hot and heavy.
Gut feeling that its Bryce Drew
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Because Drew has been a big winner for four years at the same school.
Wade has had one year at vcu living off of smart's players, and two decent years at Chattanooga.
I don't want pitt to touch keates with the Louisville issue ongoing.
He could wait for IU or Purdue but who knows when they come open. Maybe if Illinois fires Groce after next season?
Pitt is not a bad fit. He can recruit Midwestern kids to a drivable school and also get a couple NE/Mid-Atlantic recruiters. I though his brother was a very odd fit at Baylor but that worked out.
If you are Drew, if not IU, Purdue, or a blueblood (which he is nowhere close to at this point), Pitt is as good as any other job. I guess it depends how happy he is making $500K or whatever Valpo is paying him while he waits. Is it worth $1.5 million a year to wait for the perfect opportunity?
-Drew interviewed with Depaul last year. He only makes like 300K per year.
Hes making $258,000.............he'd get 10 times that to sign at Pitt if offered and he refuses...hes nuts
Bryce drew isn't, and better not get 2.58 million at pitt.
Weird fit comes down to him being deeply and devoutly religious, to the point that it's interfered with him getting jobs before.
I actually think Scott Drew is a perfect fit at Baylor. He can do his religious thing where he makes chapel mandatory on game days and has a ton of prayer circles and preachy interviews, plus constantly pushing religion plays a bit better in Texas than it would up north.
Add in his brother's reputation on the recruiting trail and Pitt just seems a little awkward.
I wouldn't mind him, but either Pitt or Drew would probably need to change their current stance on the presence of religion as it relates to basketball.
I had mentioned the prospect of Drew in a thread on the premium board several days ago. I think he has great credentials, great player, played in the NBA, and has been super successful, and would be a home run hire. But, some responses in that thread led me to believe it would be a long shot, because he is such a religious person. To the point that his players go to chapel before every game according to a poster. If true, it may be a reason he's not left Valpo. I really think he is a great candidate, but I don't know if he is a 'fit' at Pitt. We shall see, but he is an exciting option.
Chattanooga - 24-40 before he got there, and 40-25 with him there. "Decent" success is undervaluing his coaching effort. It was "decent" enough to get him voted Coach of the Year in the conference.
nothing wrong with a visit to heinz chapel before games. may turn off a few atheists, but i heard they don't shoot well.
Why wouldn't he? Is Valpo a better job than Pitt? I still don't get how Dayton is a better job? Maby we should go after W&J's coach, he probably wouldn't take it either, lol
There's certainly nothing wrong with that, the issues have been Drew injecting religion heavily into the basketball program. Public universities have balked at allowing him to do that, and Drew previously hasn't been willing to scale back on it.
I don't think that him being religious is the issue, it's that public universities didn't really see a need to make chapel and prayer groups mandatory for players and people around the program.
Baylor? Of course that plays. Pitt? My guess is Drew will need to scale back on things if he comes here.
VT hired a Big East coach from a better program that had a recent Elite 8.
NC State hired a SEC coach from a similar program that had been to an Elite 8.
Miami hired a coach that went to the Final Four and had recent NCAA wins on his resume.
Virginia hired a Pac 10 coach that was from a similar (at the time) program.
Georgia Tech hired an Atlantic Ten guy.
Pitt is looking at the Horizon, Colonial, and Sun Belt conferences reportedly.
Given recent ACC hires, you'd think Gregg Marshall, Cuonzo Martin, Billy Kennedy, or Chris Mack would be the shortlist, with Pitt picking whichever of them they liked best, not hoping that one would pick them. That these kibd of guys aren't even in the discussion should tell you a ton about how the program is viewed.
Donors/boosters drawing the line in the sand with the best coach in program history, and fans celebrating on jis way out the door, contributes to this. John Miller might be an egotistical jerk, but he was right in that Trib article.
I was going to say, I know for fact Dayton isn't.And Valpo surely isn't.What is it we don't have that these supposed better jobs have? I mean,wouldn't you think Chirs Mack would be interested? Yeah,he's maintained the program at Xavier, but it's a watered down big east.Why not take the challenge of a real big time conference? Oh yes,his "dream job" awaits somewhere supposedly better than Pitt.Sometimes your "Dream Job" isn't the end all be all.Ask Ben Howland...
LOL high school national championships.
You know who else has a national championship as an assistant? Orlando Antigua. That doesn't mean all that much. Jerod Haase had a couple. Jeff Capel has one. Wojo has one. There's not much more meaningless than national championship as assistant, though high school national championship is one if them.
You know who else has a national championship as an assistant? Orlando Antigua. That doesn't mean all that much. Jerod Haase had a couple. Jeff Capel has one. Wojo has one. There's not much more meaningless than national championship as assistant, though high school national championship is one if them.
-At Kentucky. And when keatts was at Louisville they outperformed Kentucky. Jamie Dixon wouldn't win a national title in high school, I guarantee that. He can't recruit.
