Re: Who should Drake hire?
Posted: March 23rd, 2017, 7:39 am
As far as I have read or heard Drake has made no announcement on a coaching hire. Just a lot of speculative tweets and opinions from "experts".
uniftw wrote:This whole thing has me wondering about a Tweet I saw last night. The tweet was football related but it said "You are a head football coach. Your only 2 options are Iowa State and Purdue. Which job do you take?"
I think Drake would definitely fit into a basketball version of that - "You are a head basketball coach. Your only 2 options are Drake and Evansville. Which job do you take?"
That's not even a fair question, for as much crap as I (Everyone) give Evansville I can see where that's the better job. The pay may not be as high, but the potential fan base is higher. The administration seems slightly less incompetent.
pafan wrote:uniftw wrote:This whole thing has me wondering about a Tweet I saw last night. The tweet was football related but it said "You are a head football coach. Your only 2 options are Iowa State and Purdue. Which job do you take?"
I'd argue Indiana football HC is even a worse job than Purdue football HC.I think Drake would definitely fit into a basketball version of that - "You are a head basketball coach. Your only 2 options are Drake and Evansville. Which job do you take?"
That's not even a fair question, for as much crap as I (Everyone) give Evansville I can see where that's the better job. The pay may not be as high, but the potential fan base is higher. The administration seems slightly less incompetent.
If Marty Simmons quit today to become Tim Jankovich's top assistant at SMU , I think I'd agree. A coach coming into Drake has a total rebuild. A coach coming into Evansville could avoid Thursday in year 1, with the players/commits Simmons has already recruited (plus a couple of open schollies)
Cdizzle wrote:pafan wrote:uniftw wrote:This whole thing has me wondering about a Tweet I saw last night. The tweet was football related but it said "You are a head football coach. Your only 2 options are Iowa State and Purdue. Which job do you take?"
I'd argue Indiana football HC is even a worse job than Purdue football HC.I think Drake would definitely fit into a basketball version of that - "You are a head basketball coach. Your only 2 options are Drake and Evansville. Which job do you take?"
That's not even a fair question, for as much crap as I (Everyone) give Evansville I can see where that's the better job. The pay may not be as high, but the potential fan base is higher. The administration seems slightly less incompetent.
If Marty Simmons quit today to become Tim Jankovich's top assistant at SMU , I think I'd agree. A coach coming into Drake has a total rebuild. A coach coming into Evansville could avoid Thursday in year 1, with the players/commits Simmons has already recruited (plus a couple of open schollies)
A coach coming in to Drake doesn't have to waste a year blowing everything up.
ACECARD wrote:I am tempted to say that the Evansville job would be way better because you would be guaranteed a job for ten years, no matter whether you win or lose. Marty's situation is different because of his past relationship to the program as a player, and asst. coach, plus he has great name recognition in this area. Now another person probably wouldn't be given that much time to produce a team of relevance in the MVC, I hope. I think most Aces fans know that Marty will be back next year, and that they have at least a 50-50 chance of not being a Thursday team, but short of a couple NCAA tournament wins, will want him gone. Time will tell, but I don't see that it's possible to go on the route we have been on for the last ten years.
Born2Shock wrote:ACECARD wrote:I am tempted to say that the Evansville job would be way better because you would be guaranteed a job for ten years, no matter whether you win or lose. Marty's situation is different because of his past relationship to the program as a player, and asst. coach, plus he has great name recognition in this area. Now another person probably wouldn't be given that much time to produce a team of relevance in the MVC, I hope. I think most Aces fans know that Marty will be back next year, and that they have at least a 50-50 chance of not being a Thursday team, but short of a couple NCAA tournament wins, will want him gone. Time will tell, but I don't see that it's possible to go on the route we have been on for the last ten years.
UE is going to beat out 4 other teams to avoid Thursday?
uniftw wrote:Born2Shock wrote:ACECARD wrote:I am tempted to say that the Evansville job would be way better because you would be guaranteed a job for ten years, no matter whether you win or lose. Marty's situation is different because of his past relationship to the program as a player, and asst. coach, plus he has great name recognition in this area. Now another person probably wouldn't be given that much time to produce a team of relevance in the MVC, I hope. I think most Aces fans know that Marty will be back next year, and that they have at least a 50-50 chance of not being a Thursday team, but short of a couple NCAA tournament wins, will want him gone. Time will tell, but I don't see that it's possible to go on the route we have been on for the last ten years.
UE is going to beat out 4 other teams to avoid Thursday?
Drake
Loyola
Indiana State
Yeah, probably Evansville.