Except in the 1993 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament final, when an experienced UNC team knocked off a Michigan team with an insane amount of talent.
Matt Abdelmassih a new assistant?
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Except in the 1993 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament final, when an experienced UNC team knocked off a Michigan team with an insane amount of talent.
Good point, however I was talking in coaching terms and it's not like UNC was hard up for talent.
Yeah, we could, then what's your plan for the other coach. We could go grab two mediocre guys with the money available or we could grab a guy with little experience who perhaps opens up a pipeline to the east for a dozen donuts and a cup of coffee and then spend our wad on your experience you so desperately want. This experience won't be cheap.
Just clarifying that McRoy didn't bring in Phillips. Phillips was an Otzelberger recruit.
McRoy didn't bring any players to Iowa State during his time in Ames to my knowledge.
I'm hearing the same thing, that Matt will be one of the new assistants.
I'm hearing that Cornell Mann will likely fill the other spot. I'll write a column with my thoughts on the two when it becomes official, but I'll be surprised if it shapes up any other way.
I'm hearing that Cornell Mann will likely fill the other spot. I'll write a column with my thoughts on the two when it becomes official, but I'll be surprised if it shapes up any other way.
You may be right, but this would seem to fit the mold that Hoiberg had last year. He seems to want 2 hungry, ruthless recruiters. Obviously, Matt doesn't have the recruiting experience, but he is young and I could see him being good at it.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that Brad Stevens would never have gotten his assistant's job at Butler - first as a volunteer and then on the paid staff - without being an all-conference player in college. Just a hunch...
Same plan we had for getting Lutz and a proven 3rd assistant?
Unless you are saying we are paying this guy less than 50k and we hire Larry Brown, I doubt the extra cash he frees translates into what you are suggesting. We could pay him a dollar, but he still takes the spot away from someone better.
It is not about me wanting experience, it is about getting the best value.
I like this move. If we didn't promote Abdelmassih, someone else would have hired him away from us. Think of this as the second coming of Otzelberger.
Recruit NY anyone?!? Yes Please! Let me Okoro, Dingle, Niang commit!
Its easy to see the next hire will be the gray-hair X & O guy.
Recruit NY anyone?!? Yes Please! Let me Okoro, Dingle, Niang commit!
Its easy to see the next hire will be the gray-hair X & O guy.
You ring up a good point about TJ. He's been doing this recruiting thing for a long time. As I understand it, these recruiters tend to put in terrible hours and are never home. I could see him wanting to do more coaching and maybe shifting a bit away from being the only recruiter. He probably has hope of being a head coach someday and having more actual coaching expirence would be useful for that.
Sure, that's how he got his job, but that doesn't take away the success he had. Besides that if there is a direct correlation between playing ability and coaching ability, which there's not, then Hoiberg shouldn't need someone else with experience.
Who's better that you are still going to save money with to hire a guy like Boylen?
All conference Division 3, for god's sake. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the selling point for Stevens. Brad Stevens got hired because he was good at his job. Hoiberg thinks Abdelmassiah is good at his job. Thus Hoiberg has hired him.
Can he really recruit that well? Or are people assuming that since he's from NY that he has something to do with the NY recruits?
Just curious so don't bite my head off...
Just curious so don't bite my head off...
Exactly. Mann has a lot of experience (x & o's), and can apparently recruit as well. Love both hires.
Almost an endless list.
McRoy got how much? 150K? Are we going to pay him 50K?
It would take transferring 100K or more to the other position before your candidates improve enough that it compensates imo.
Hoiberg has said that he acted as a regular assistant last spring/summer before McRoy and Lutz were hired and that he was the one who basically got us Sledge.
I suspect that he is being hired for those NY connections and is probably going to try and close the deal with 1 or 2 of them.
And let's all remember that Hoiberg doesn't seem to be afraid to make a move. He's tough. It would have been easy for him to name Grayer a regular assistant last year, but he didn't feel that was the right move and he let him leave. He let McRoy leave. I think one thing that you can be sure about is that Hoiberg has a laser focus on winning and he makes every move with only that in mind. Will he make mistakes? Obviously (hopefully not too many), but he wants to win.
