Now we know why we opted out of the NIT
- Thread starter ThePunish-EER
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Iowa story was obviously a smoke screen by Indiana. Don't you remember the Rod story of losing on purpose so he move on to Michigan.
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Not me. I wish him well. I don’t like how he left us after only 1 year, but he left for what he and many others consider a better job. It’s nothing personal. It’s business. WVU will be fine. He didn’t build anything here and his loss is simply based off potential. He had some great wins in the first year, but we didn’t even make the NCAA tournament. And our star player was also a stop gap player transfer who won’t be back because he’s a senior. I wish he had stayed, but I’m not losing any sleep over it.
The only reason not to hire Huggs is if you don't think he can coach well anymore, Wren in particular of course. The bullshit about his radio comment is lame and the dui was overblown. The dude did more for WVU than any other coach in any sport ever, and he's the only legit Hall Of Fame coach who can represent the WVU brand in any sport, so he should be considered fairly, imo.
I knew when we hired Devries this wouldn't be his last stop. I wished he would have been here longer, but I never expected it to be more than 4-5 years. Wren is a basketball guy, and I have faith that he will hire who he feels has the best chance to get the job done.
So why did Baker go with DeVries in the first place? If he is a "basketball guy" then he would have also known that DeVries was a short-term stay guy. He had other candidates out there that could have been here longer. Now we will have to go through an entire roster rebuild AGAIN this summer for the third year in a row.
Baker hired Devries because he felt he had potential. The Wvu basketball job is not the top of the food chain. Anyone who has success here going forward will probably not be here more than 4-5 years and that's just the business reality. You just hope you can land on someone who can elevate your program and ride that pony as long as you can.
Beilein wants no part of coming back here. We were a stepping stone in his coaching story, it was a mutually beneficial relationship at the time but he has never said anything good about us after leaving.
A lot of it is luck. A school like WVU has to find an elite level coach who loves this culture and has no desire to coach at a blueblood that expects winning at the highest levels. . And while it seems normal to us, most outside WV don’t understand it. WV is a special place to us. Not so much to outsiders.
Well, as I guess DeVries taught us, if a coach has a few guys that come with him as a package deal, it’s not that hard to do an entire roster rebuild in one year in this era. For any of the lower seeded teams this weekend it will be interesting to see how many of the players can actually and consistently “play up” to Big XII and higher levels, because those coaches should be our target if we can get a pair of experienced players that can set the tone. I’m not talking about a backup short slow mustached PG for St. Peter’s that starts chucking in a bunch of 3s out of nowhere, I mean guys that genuinely look like they belong when playing higher seeded teams.
We made it to tournament but some UNC AD did this huge conflict of interest maneuver that got him a huge bonus.
But yeah that indiana jobwould be a tough job to turn down. 5 million and all the help you need to recruit players. It's an open account.
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