Harry the Greek states Shrewsberry very interested
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Would be the worst possible hire IMO. No college resume to speak of. How could he even be considered to resurrect this disaster? It would be an absolute joke.
Worst possible? Give me a former Stevens assistant over mark freakin' Schmidt any day of the week.
Seriously, I'd rather take a guy who coached under Stevens than a mediocre option like Schmidt.
-Mark Schmidt has been in college basketball for 30 years assistant or coach and had 2 NCAA Tournament appearances. This might be the worst hire of all time, surpassing Stallings.
It absolutely would be. With stallings there was maybe, maybe the slightest bit of hope he could get the recruits he had at vandy and underachieved with.... and then not underachieved. Schmidt literally has absolutely nothing appealing on his resume. He's a career mediocre mid-major coach.
-Mediocre? You are so kind. Mark Schmidt is a career bust outside of this 1 miracle season he just had
I don't disagree entirely, but still going with mediocre. Below .500 at RMU, definitely did nothing impressive there. He has been steadily improving the past few years at st. Bona though.... problem is he's been there since 2007, only took them to the tourney once before this year. Add to that 1 CBI, 1 NIT and absolutely 0 postseason games at RMU.
Regardless, steady improvement these past 3 years does not make him a candidate for an ACC job. We can both agree that is just laughable.
Schmidt or Knight would be worse, but I agree it would be far too risky. He likely would lose all the transfers and have no recruiting base.
Schmidt is worse than Toole and has had worse results than him. If we're considering him we should just hire Toole or Dambrot*
*I am not actually proposing this, just making a point.
*I am not actually proposing this, just making a point.
No college resume?
He coached at Butler and Purdue.
He’s 41, what kind of “resume” besides coaching at two good colleges do you want?
Not advocating for Shrewsberry, but one could argue Jamie Dixon wasn't ready to take over a top Big East program either, and that turned out pretty good. Now granted, there is more of a ginormous rebuild here, but he did assist at 2 pretty darn good programs and knows what it takes to get to the NBA.
But I do concur on the Schmidt thing.
But I do concur on the Schmidt thing.
Personally, I'm moderately pro Shrewsberry but I wonder how much patience the fan base would give a guy who had to dig out of such a hole and wasn't considered a "big" hire. His interest might be one sided.
How about some success as a head coach at the college level, before taking on a raging dumpster fire rebuild in the toughest D1 basketball league in the country.
The admin cannot afford to hire any coach who will produce the same level and degree of negative reaction Stallings did when announced. A Schmidt hiring might be close to getting the same reaction.
A young up and comer with a minimal track record to heavily criticize would at least put the disgruntled fan base in a more grudging wait and see mode. The latter is probably the way things will shake out.
This guy would indeed be a slam dunk hire. Hasn't been a HC in a while but he is young and has coached under a coaching genius in Stevens. Sure it's a risk but at this point we might as well aim for a guy with huge upside even if there is some risk involved.
I'd hire Tim McConnell before I'd hire Schmidt.
There is only one other candidate that I have heard so far that I think is worse than Schmidt and I am not even sure he is worse but that would be Jent. Those two are by far the worse two candidates I have heard mentioned.
He's a "slam dunk hire" but "sure it's a risk"?
As for his "hasn't been a head coach in a while", how does 15-48-2 at the D2 level strike you? Does it fill you with confidence?
As for the "coached under a genius" proposition, if that translated to becoming a good head coach, every former assistant of Coach K, Izzo, Bill Self, Beilein, Bill Belichik, Bill Walsh, etc. would be highly successful.
How can you say it is a "slam dunk hire" if you then acknowledge the clear risk? A slam dunk has almost no risk. This would be like a 3 from halfcourt, but instead of just a game on the line, it is the entire program.
Sorry, but I gotta defend the guy. He is anything but a career bust. His last three
years were 20+ wins. He's recruiting in one of the worst places for college
Bball....Olean N.Y. (ever been there?...I have). He's won with transfers, JUCO's and,
2 star recruits that he's known for coaching up. He's ethically one the better ones out
there and is loved by his players, and highly respected by the press(compare that to Stallings).
Now with all that said, my big question is could he recruit ACC level players? Nothing
in his resume says he could. I also question his X's and O's at times. I don't want him
to be hired at Pitt....but he is a far cry from being a "bust" as you put it.
Ok, maybe slam dunk is too strong. Perhaps he would be more of a lightly contested layup. I just think he would be a very good hire considering where we are at.
Yes, Schmidt is certainly no bust. He probably has the job in Olean for life considering what he has done there. I don't think he is a good fit but far from a bust.
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