Tony Bennett Retiring

[madguy30]

Because they are all legendary coaches who have won a national championship and then all decided to hang it up coincidentally when NIL came around.

My post has nothing to do with their ages.

Didn't Coach K make the Final 4 his last year? They could have coached longer but like you said, NIL was probably their final straw.

Coach K got to the FF in '22 and looked haggard all season including missing games because of health reasons.

Look up other legendary coaches and their ages for retirement...it wasn't mid-late 70s.

NIL may have been the final nail but it was likely just time to be done either way.

 

[cycloneML]

Gard hasn't made the second round since 16-17.
If Sconnie moves on Bennett is easily offered the job in 3 seconds. He'll always have that as an option if he just needs a reset.

Both he and Gard are out of answers (ie gas) in current environment

 

[BryceC]

Not sure if Bennett falls in this category, I don't know/care about UVA basketball, but color me unsympathetic for all these old-guard coaches who miss the good old days when only the top 10-15 teams could pay players and consistently get away with it.

Or the good old days when they were getting paid 8 million a year and the players just got scholarships.

 

[ricochet]

Let’s spice up the thread.

I appreciate the people that believe everything that’s in the media, but I’m still not buying it. There’s no way that he just got tired of coaching a week or two before the season starts and retires like that and bails on his guys unless it’s something big. All he had to do was coach through March and make another 6 mill or whatever his salary is and then retire.

How do you know he hasn’t been thinking about retiring for months? Your “all he had to do” comment is a little insulting to the effort required to coach at the highest levels. If he doesn’t think he can put in the work needed to do the job for the next 6 months he probably should get out. Just going through the motions for a paycheck is doing a disservice to both his players and the school.

 

[mynameisjonas]

How do you know he hasn’t been thinking about retiring for months? Your “all he had to do” comment is a little insulting to the effort required to coach at the highest levels. If he doesn’t think he can put in the work needed to do the job for the next 6 months he probably should get out. Just going through the motions for a paycheck is doing a disservice to both his players and the school.

Fair enough. But It’s just tough to think of any other example of a high profile coach like that resigning right before the season starts.

 

[cycloneML]

Fair enough. But It’s just tough to think of any other example of a high profile coach like that resigning right before the season starts.

His dad, **** Bennett and Bo Ryan both quit mid season at UW

 

[cycloneML]

Or the good old days when they were getting paid 8 million a year and the players just got scholarships.

I’ll get torched for this but here goes. The administrators at places like ISU got caught flat footed and lost this battle before they even got started.

The good guys should have been lobbying for a livable wage for all athletes, which would have been fair and equitable and manageable.

This could have kept NIL at bay. Now the Genie is out of the bottle and ISU loses.

 

[CYphyllis]

I’ll get torched for this but here goes. The administrators at places like ISU got caught flat footed and lost this battle before they even got started.

The good guys should have been lobbying for a livable wage for all athletes, which would have been fair and equitable and manageable.

This could have kept NIL at bay. Now the Genie is out of the bottle and ISU loses.

When does this losing part happen?

 

[cycloneML]

When does this losing part happen?

Ha! We win 6 games in a row and we’re a traditional power!

 

[madguy30]

Or the good old days when they were getting paid 8 million a year and the players just got scholarships.

Player 'benefits' outside the scholarship have unofficially been around a long, long time.

 

[inCyteful]

When does this losing part happen?

Exactly.

If this is losing, color me a loser.

 

[inCyteful]

Ha! We win 6 games in a row and we’re a traditional power!

Ha, your first statement says ISU loses and your next statement starts with 'we win 6 games in a row'.

But just wait until MBB..... oh, never mind, just wait for WBB, uh- scratch that. Just wait for Wrestling, NIL even more difficult there - ah, on second thought.

I get it, you were referring the Hockey Club

 

[CycloneBamaFan]

Coach K, Roy Williams, Boheim, Jay Wright, and now Bennett have all retired since this NIL crap became prevalent. I doubt it was a coincidence.

Add Coach Saban to your list also.

 

[cycloneML]

Ha, your first statement says ISU loses and your next statement starts with 'we win 6 games in a row'.

But just wait until MBB..... oh, never mind, just wait for WBB, uh- scratch that. Just wait for Wrestling, NIL even more difficult there - ah, on second thought.

I get it, you were referring the Hockey Club

Or we scrap plans for wrestling facility in a teary announcement about how tough things are.

 

[inCyteful]

Or we scrap plans for wrestling facility in a teary announcement about how tough things are.

Not sure the point here. What did ISU lose? JP is better than just about anybody in college sports in reacting to market forces. Did NIL change how resources are managed? Absolutely. Did ISU lose a result of that. Returns are absolutely not and in fact they probably gained on the competition.

 

[CYphyllis]

Ha! We win 6 games in a row and we’re a traditional power!

Who's talking about six football games? ISU has one of the healthier overall ADs in the country and has for quite awhile - NIL has changed nothing in those regards.

This chicken little nonsense over NIL is not only wrong, but tired as **** at this point. It's the college sports equivalent to fingernails on a damn chalkboard.

 

[madguy30]

Ha! We win 6 games in a row and we’re a traditional power!

Are you not OK with the eecent success of ISU sportsball?

 

[CyCrazy]

Are you not OK with the eecent success of ISU sportsball?

He isnt playing with a full deck.

 

[utahrangerone]

I Looked at this topic title and had to do a triple take. Given that I was aware of the not-so-long-ago passing of Tony Bennett the singer... it sort of caused a slight mental discombobulation!

Best wishes to this dude on his future.

 

[AllInForISU]

Because they are all legendary coaches who have won a national championship and then all decided to hang it up coincidentally when NIL came around.

My post has nothing to do with their ages.

Didn't Coach K make the Final 4 his last year? They could have coached longer but like you said, NIL was probably their final straw.

So any coach that retires from this point forward is due to NIL?

I think it may have played a part Bennett and Wright retiring, but the others were way past their time in retiring. Coach K couldn’t even make it through the season his last year due to his health.