Coaching Search: Place your bets
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I like Utah State's bench energy.
Also if we could hire Smith can #23 come along?
Also if we could hire Smith can #23 come along?
USU definitely has better players - may be a function of Smith being there one year longer or maybe USU was in better shape as a program than UNLV.
I still think Dennis Gates should be Pollard's No. 1 target.
They’ve always been able to hire great coaches. Hiring has never been a perfect science. Those schools aren’t hiring better coaches at a higher rate. Iowa St out-paid Michigan in the 80’s. That would never happen now. That gap has only grown in favor of the rich.
Please review recruiting classes and get back to me about anything having changed in that regard.
That’s the great thing about sports. What should happen, doesn’t always happen. It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t or don’t have advantages. Hiring the right coach is a guess even if you can select nearly anyone you want, or at least have many more options than a lesser program.
Those boosters should expect more. In reality, all fans should naturally always seek more, that’s how competition works.
Your arguments are failing as we speak. TJ came up short during the season and now during the conference tournament.
Utah State is a much better team. Nobody is arguing differently.
Bad coaches can have good teams and good coaches can have bad teams.
Craig Smith is a good coach with a good team. TJ is a good coach. Who we should hire depends on the interview process. What is their plan and how are they going to accomplish it.
As I’ve said repeatedly if you want Craig Smith great. If you want Darian DeVries great. If you like that Cleveland State coach great. Having a preferred candidate is great. There is no obvious choice.
Acting like good coaches are awful is moronic. Lots of people are doing this instead of preferring their candidate
From what I've seen of Utah State, UNLV, and the Mountain West (not much other than these two on a limited basis), Id put Gates #1, Tang or Grant #2-3, then Smith, DeVries, Medved (any order) #4-6. Other good candidates also.
Not a fan of TJ. He may turn out to be very successful. But I think you let UNLV keep him, give him more time to develope. Don't pay his buyout, especially with his underwhelming performance as head coach past 2 years.
Wonder how good USU would be without 23? He is a huge difference maker and could be a once in a career type player for a coach. Has 23 been there all 3 years with Smith, if so he makes Smith or any coach look good.
I feel defensive as for some reason TJ seems to be mentioned, many times before as the odds on favorite for the ISU position. I don't believe he has earned the position to be considered the #1 choice. I think there are better candidates.
I would root for him him if he were to be hired, of course, but I as many others have already said, would be disappointed if he were just annointed next coach without a thorough search by JP and good reasons.
How can this thought process be considered dumb?
Edit: And I never said TJ is awful, or terrible. Please don't put words in my mouth. I have said that I think he underperforms, his record is not good enough. I and others have alluded to not prefering his coaching style. Many have equated him to Prohm 2.0, not me. But I guess that could be construed as awful, so. Can you blame us?
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He has been there all three years. I don't think Smith or TJ will succeed here to be honest.
Why is it that TJ is a good head coach with a bad team when maybe it was he was a bad coach that inherited good teams at SDSU?
I don’t think he’s bad, but as you said, bad coaches can have good teams, particularly when inheriting a good situation. So a coach somewhere between bad and good can certainly have good teams.
Gotta give Smith credit for signing him late. This isn’t a inherit Daum situation. What a late find by Smith
