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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: ILLINICHIEF on March 18, 2025, 01:15:18 PM
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Current Main Openings/Vacancies:
Indiana Hoosiers: Mike Woodson / Devries from West Virginia?
West Virginia Devries/
Iowa Hawkeyes: Fran McCaffery /Ben McCollum
Minnesota Golden Gophers: Ben Johnson /Nico Medved
NC State Wolfpack: Kevin Keatts /Wade has agreed, pretty surprised here actually.
UNLV Rebels: Kevin Kruger /Craig Smith
Villanova Wildcats: Kyle Neptune /Kevin Williard
Virginia Cavaliers: Tony Bennett /Odum officially hired from VCU
Texas Longhorns: Terry/Miller from Xavier.
Xavier Miller/Pitino
New Mexico Pitino/??
Maryland Williard/Williams?
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Devries to the Hoosiers. The Squawks couldn't deliver on the NIL front.
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Devries to the Hoosiers. The Squawks couldn't deliver on the NIL front.
They never can, and by the way they will finish last next year for sure!!!
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Indiana hires a coach that went 19-13 right after firing a coach that went 19-13 😂 can’t make this shit up…
Also Luke Goode petitioning for an extra year…
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I would be very surprised if Chris Mack got another high major job right now.
There is apparently interest from Mick Cronin in getting out of UCLA. He would be a candidate for Nova and a few others.
UVA is not hiring Steve Prohm.
Wade is a very good candidate for the NC St job. I don't think the people who run Virginia would touch him.
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If I was Indiana AD, I would’ve hired Will Wade in a heartbeat…
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If I was Indiana AD, I would’ve hired Will Wade in a heartbeat…
Dumb fucks should have hired Dusty May when they had the chance. Dusty banners notwithstanding, they’re currently a middle of the road B1G program in just about anyone’s minds who is under 45-50 years old.
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I would be very surprised if Chris Mack got another high major job right now.
There is apparently interest from Mick Cronin in getting out of UCLA. He would be a candidate for Nova and a few others.
UVA is not hiring Steve Prohm.
Wade is a very good candidate for the NC St job. I don't think the people who run Virginia would touch him.
Cronin is supposedly not so secretly petitioning to get the Nova job. Fits from certain angles, not sure he is the best they can get though.
I think Wade can and will do better than NC State. That job is not that attractive overall imo. Prohm agreed to step away, so he will be in demand, not too long ago his name was bandied about for a lot of possible jobs, we will see.
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Would love to see Chester Frazier get an opportunity to be HC at West Virginia…
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Would love to see Chester Frazier get an opportunity to be HC at West Virginia…
I don't see that happening unless all other options are exhausted. I think he would be a great fit, not sure he has the coaching chops/experience thought quite yet to be considered.
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Will Wade to NC State
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Texas coach fired. Maybe they are looking at Underachiever?
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Texas coach fired. Maybe they are looking at Underachiever?
Why? He sucks, right?!
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Texas coach fired. Maybe they are looking at Underachiever?
Nope. It'll likely be Sean Miller.
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Sean Miller done deal, Hooked Him!!
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Why? He sucks, right?!
Another way to extort another raise.
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Lol
(https://i.postimg.cc/J7xR8829/IMG-1108.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/jCDp6pKX)
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McCollum to Iowa.
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Looks like Fran found another gig. The Penn Quakers.
Xavier hiring Richard Pitino. Should make for a lovely scumbag family reunion in the Big East when he gets to coach against his dad.
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The gofers made a move up in the published conference salary pay scale, moving from last place with Ben Johnson's $1.95 million salary all the way up to possibly last place with Niko Medved's $3 million per year.
The ball is in your court tOSU.
I had read that gofer combined NIL for Pharrell Payne (TAM) and Elijah Hawkins ( Tx Tech) was $1.4 million.
Payne averaged 10.4 points with 5.1 boards this year for the Aggies.
Hawkins averaged 9.4 points with 6.5 turnovers a game. Strike that. 6.5 assists per game with 1.9 turnovers per game for the Red Raiders.
KJ (the injury hurt him) had 156 assists with 123 turnovers. Hawkins had 214 assists with 63 turnovers.
No point being made. They're different players on different teams in different conferences, but just tossing out numbers.
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Mack surprisingly is said to be returning to Charleston.
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Williard to Nova, seems like a done deal?
Williams to Maryland, he has interest, recently reported. (8 seniors this year so, jump ship)? Buyout is only 1 mil as of Tuesday.
Underwood to Texas A/M to take over Aggies, huge buyout...Aggies would have deep pockets?
MAKE HUGE OFFER to Chris Beard to come to ILLINOIS!
Offer Chris Collins as a backup, or go all in on Will Wade who just signed with NC State, Whitman can poach him for sure.
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Williard to Nova, seems like a done deal?
Williams to Maryland, he has interest, recently reported. (8 seniors this year so, jump ship)? Buyout is only 1 mil as of Tuesday.
Underwood to Texas A/M to take over Aggies, huge buyout...Aggies would have deep pockets?
MAKE HUGE OFFER to Chris Beard to come to ILLINOIS!
Offer Chris Collins as a backup, or go all in on Will Wade who just signed with NC State, Whitman can poach him for sure.
Maybe Whitman could text Phil Jackson ala Lovie. Wouldn't hurt. He could be flattered.
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Maybe Whitman could text Phil Jackson ala Lovie. Wouldn't hurt. He could be flattered.
Yea but then he would have to go through how phil-osphical avenue the whole culture would have to go too. Daily Zen meetings, at least 1 reading a month as a group of say Nietzsche, to have a full understanding of the main and suffering that goes with being an ILLINI or a fan. I mean Phil would have to make it meaningful in order to come aboard. LOL
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Yea but then he would have to go through how phil-osphical avenue the whole culture would have to go too. Daily Zen meetings, at least 1 reading a month as a group of say Nietzsche, to have a full understanding of the main and suffering that goes with being an ILLINI or a fan. I mean Phil would have to make it meaningful in order to come aboard. LOL
We definitely need to bring in Nichi also to do the guided meditations.
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Williard to Nova, the least kept secret out there...done deal. Maryland now gets.....Buzzed?
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Frazier is on the move. Good Luck to him, something tells me in the future he is going to be one hell of a head coach.
https://westvirginia.rivals.com/news/west-virginia-assistant-frazier-issues-statement
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We couldn't send Tyler and a player or 2 to be named later to Va Tech in exchange for Chester ?
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Don’t see Chester coming back here while Underwood is coach, and not sure he was that much of a rock star anyways. Wasn’t he a defensive coach on the squad that just tried to outscore everyone last year? Need to for sure jettison Hamer and get a proven defensive guy like a Yaklich. Not sure Tyler can withstand the shit storm that’s unfolding on socials right now, but it may only strengthen Brad’s resolve. 🤣
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Don’t see Chester coming back here while Underwood is coach, and not sure he was that much of a rock star anyways. Wasn’t he a defensive coach on the squad that just tried to outscore everyone last year? Need to for sure jettison Hamer and get a proven defensive guy like a Yaklich. Not sure Tyler can withstand the shit storm that’s unfolding on socials right now, but it may only strengthen Brad’s resolve. 🤣
I was joking. Well maybe half joking, but if there's trouble on the practice floor then BU strengthening his "resolve" may not be the best approach.
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I was joking. Well maybe half joking, but if there's trouble on the practice floor then BU strengthening his "resolve" may not be the best approach.
Underachiever will be glad to meet you in the Pizza Hut parking lot to settle it.
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Underachiever will be glad to meet you in the Pizza Hut parking lot to settle it.
Big dick energy…
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Don’t see Chester coming back here while Underwood is coach, and not sure he was that much of a rock star anyways. Wasn’t he a defensive coach on the squad that just tried to outscore everyone last year? Need to for sure jettison Hamer and get a proven defensive guy like a Yaklich. Not sure Tyler can withstand the shit storm that’s unfolding on socials right now, but it may only strengthen Brad’s resolve. 🤣
Agree. Frazier was a total nothingburger and was useless during the trainwreck season of Mayer/Epps/Clark. Was supposed to be a culture and toughness guy.
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UW moving his kid into a central role on staff was a mistake.
Tyler needed to pay his dues and had no real credibility as a player either to bring to the table.
When he started sitting on the bench next to UW a couple years ago it was a a very bad look IMO.
Tyler is most well known for having a buddy back in middle of 2019/20 season who showed UW the analytics on his shitty foul machine pressure D system that only works at lower levels or with extreme elite long athletic tough defenders.
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We didn't want Chester Frazier anyway?
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In first with the bigger news.
Who do you think we should hire with Underwood resigning today?
Maybe we can get someone who can convince Morez to stay?
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We didn't want Chester Frazier anyway?
LOL. I think he didn't have the impact we hoped for, but honestly we are not recruiting really tough kids across the board.
I still say our toughest UW team that bought in was the Feliz group in 19/20.
We have had a few tough individual kids but we are a pretty soft program overall.
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UW moving his kid into a central role on staff was a mistake.
Tyler needed to pay his dues and had no real credibility as a player either to bring to the table.
When he started sitting on the bench next to UW a couple years ago it was a a very bad look IMO.
Tyler is most well known for having a buddy back in middle of 2019/20 season who showed UW the analytics on his shitty foul machine pressure D system that only works at lower levels or with extreme elite long athletic tough defenders.
Brad's wife probably told Brad he needed to get Tyler a job so he would move out of the basement.
I mean, nepotism always works, right?
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Underachiever will be glad to meet you in the Pizza Hut parking lot to settle it.
Underachiever will be glad to meet you in the Pizza Hut parking lot to settle it.
Ahem. It's Pops for pizza or no place at all.
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Ahem. It's Pops for pizza or no place at all.
Went there last year. It's really gone downhill. Sad.
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Buzz Williams to Maryland so he can kick Underachiever's ass.....
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Buzz Williams to Maryland so he can kick Underachiever's ass.....
One of the least kept secrets...right along with the Williard mary go round LOL
Great hire for them, and yes they will probably kick our ass now, oh wait...
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https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/texas-a-m-coaching-candidates-chris-beard-brad-underwood-among-options-to-replace-buzz-williams/
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https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/texas-a-m-coaching-candidates-chris-beard-brad-underwood-among-options-to-replace-buzz-williams/
Oh boy.....Robb is busy drafting a rewrite for the latest chapter of The Chris Beard Story.
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Oh boy.....Robb is busy drafting a rewrite for the latest chapter of The Chris Beard Story.
No, Robb is busy getting pegged…
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No, Robb is busy getting pegged…
Didn't foresee that....
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Beard staying at Ole Miss
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Beard staying at Ole Miss
So, no real need to update the Chris Beard story.
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So, no real need to update the Chris Beard story.
Not unless it involves Dix....Whaaaa
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https://fightingillini.com/news/2025/5/15/mens-basketball-crocker-joins-illini-staff-as-assistant-coach.aspx
Very good hire, so long Arm and Hamer?
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Perhaps Crocker can draw up some OOB plays.