Fred spends another 5-7 years grooming Charlie Henry to be the next head coach at Michigan after Beilein retires to hold up our end of the deal we struck with the Devil to get Johnny Orr and make all of this possible.
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Fred spends another 5-7 years grooming Charlie Henry to be the next head coach at Michigan after Beilein retires to hold up our end of the deal we struck with the Devil to get Johnny Orr and make all of this possible.
No one seems to be in a hurry to hire him as a head coach.
Maybe he's potentially great, maybe not, but nobody seems very eager to hire him for a head coaching job.
All I know is this: Don't expect any guys whose better days are behind them. Names like Tubby Smith, etc. Based off of my observations, Pollard is all about finding the next big thing.
His short list includes: Begging Fred to stay, begging on one knee for him to stay, begging with a bag of cash and a rose for him to stay, ........................................................................................................................................................................................Hold mirror up to Fred in the hopes Fred would get lost in his own dreaminess and forget to leave......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................TJ
Phil Jackson
Tom Tibedeau
Izzo
Coach K
Pitino
Billy Donovan
Guessing Bill Self would not move inter conference.
so Phil Jackson is out?
Whoever it is... Recruiter 1st, coach 2nd. Josh Pastner wins 75% of his games. That tells me all I need to know.
Whoever it is... Recruiter 1st, coach 2nd. Josh Pastner wins 75% of his games. That tells me all I need to know.
Like?
Every coach is a risk. McDermott and Chizik had all the cred in the world coming in.
I think some are overstating our position here, given our recent success. Does ANYONE believe Fred would be here at all, or certainly still be sitting over in Sukup today, if he weren't a hometown product? We hit the freaking lottery there boys and girls.
I just find it funny, that somehow we are now above TJ in many minds. A guy, I'll remind, we COULD NOT POSSIBLY LOSE 4 years ago. Seriously, eveyone's first words when Fred was hired was "what'll happen to TJ?"
All that said - again, I have zero idea if TJ is worthy. But wow.....:embarrassed:
Fred was a huge gamble. A gamble that happened to work out really well. I think Otz could make a great head coach, but he would be another big gamble that may not work out as well. I think many would probably agree that we could attract a more experienced coach at this point in the program.
Two of those are on the downstretch of their careers, and will end where they are. Two I don't know much about. Three are coaches that either have real baggage or far too many rumors following them wherever they go. Surely JP can come up with better fits for ISU...
No doubt we will be able to attract a much better group of coaching candidates if and when Fred leaves than when Fred came. The program was in such a mess at that time that even a no name coach that was an up and comer would likely have looked for better options, so imo Fred was by far our best option under the circumstances. We couldn't even get any good candidates to take the job when LE got canned, and the program was in better shape than when GMac left. Obviously our best option by far is to pray that Fred wants to coach here until he retires, then make him the A.D. if he wants it.
All I know is this: Don't expect any guys whose better days are behind them. Names like Tubby Smith, etc. Based off of my observations, Pollard is all about finding the next big thing.
Eh - the program was in better shape, but the boss was less than desirable, IMO.