2023-24 Around the League and Other Games of Interest

[Username]

Drake doing their best to blow a 17 point second half lead

actually pretty good game, Bradley is playing pretty well in the second half

[nadf]

Another win for the trees. Up to 36 in kenpom

Schertz is going to be the coach at Michigan. Locking that prediction in now. Their fan base is more analytically-driven than most - they will buy in quickly and he will win big there. They are ready to move on from Juwan, I think.

[BCPanther]

I think it could be a big year for coaching turnover in the league.

Schertz is gone. Yaklich is dead man walking. Wardle's obviously looking because his name keeps popping up (I think he gets the DePaul job). Mullins has popped up a few times. Darian all dependent on what the plan is with Tucker.

Jake, Alexander, Prohm, Ragland and Powell are all locks to be back.

I think Dana gets another year. I think Pedon gets one more because they don't have an AD right now but they've actually regressed in year two and I don't think he lasts very long (quit hiring off the Butler tree, folks).

[Blue42]

Another win for the trees. Up to 36 in kenpom

Schertz is going to be the coach at Michigan. Locking that prediction in now. Their fan base is more analytically-driven than most - they will buy in quickly and he will win big there. They are ready to move on from Juwan, I think.

That situation and Michigan with JH has gotten pretty ugly.

They need to make a move.

[clenz]

I think it could be a big year for coaching turnover in the league.

Schertz is gone. Yaklich is dead man walking. Wardle's obviously looking because his name keeps popping up (I think he gets the DePaul job). Mullins has popped up a few times. Darian all dependent on what the plan is with Tucker.

Jake, Alexander, Prohm, Ragland and Powell are all locks to be back.

I think Dana gets another year. I think Pedon gets one more because they don't have an AD right now but they've actually regressed in year two and I don't think he lasts very long (quit hiring off the Butler tree, folks).

With OSU being open, and Mc$ being floated there and ND heavily the last few years, I don't think it's crazy Mc$ ends up there and Darian gets his call back to Creighton because he's 100% ready and can "friend hat" Tucker for a year like, Mc$ did with Doug, to make the initial transition easier.

[BCPanther]

I'm sure there will be a surprise opening somewhere but I just don't see a great spot for Schertz at this point. I think he's too smart to take DePaul unless the money is insane and the name isn't going to be big enough at Louisville even though he'd win like crazy there.

[Wxcpanther]

Are we sure that Jake is a lock to be back next year? If that Minnesota job opens up again, and it's certainly possible it does...maybe he's cooled off to the point they'd no longer be interested, but it sounded like it was very close to happening last time around...

[BCPanther]

Are we sure that Jake is a lock to be back next year? If that Minnesota job opens up again, and it's certainly possible it does...maybe he's cooled off to the point they'd no longer be interested, but it sounded like it was very close to happening last time around...

Minnesota isn't opening. He's going to win 19 or 20 games.

[achrist70]

I was going to say overall Ben Johnson has done a decent job at Minnesota, I think the fact that the program was such a mess before he got there and the fact that he is a former player, he is going to get a fair chance to turn it into a winner.

[06panther10]

Are we sure that Jake is a lock to be back next year? If that Minnesota job opens up again, and it's certainly possible it does...maybe he's cooled off to the point they'd no longer be interested, but it sounded like it was very close to happening last time around...

What major P5 is Jake going to get at this moment? I mean thats honestly laughable right now, he hasn't had a tourney team in 8 years and has several losing seasons since then in a very winnable mid-major league.

[Wxcpanther]

What major P5 is Jake going to get at this moment? I mean thats honestly laughable right now, he hasn't had a tourney team in 8 years and has several losing seasons since then in a very winnable mid-major league.

They were very close to hiring Jake before they decided on Johnson because as a first time head coach he was significantly cheaper.

[06panther10]

They were very close to hiring Jake before they decided on Johnson because as a first time head coach he was significantly cheaper.

Yes, and even then, he was at least coming off of a regular season title. He’s had two more bad seasons since then. It is what it is now.

[QCPanther05]

What major P5 is Jake going to get at this moment? I mean thats honestly laughable right now, he hasn't had a tourney team in 8 years and has several losing seasons since then in a very winnable mid-major league.

And he knows he can just sit here and collect a mil every year without any accountability. Why would he go somewhere that would actually fire him if he didn’t meet expectations?

[06panther10]

And he knows he can just sit here and collect a mil every year without any accountability. Why would he go somewhere that would actually fire him if he didn’t meet expectations?

I mean, yeah, pretty much.

And I’m not a hater, at all. I absolutely love Coach Jake and what he has built
here. But facts are facts. Talking about him getting a Big 10 job right now is so asinine.

Antiquated defense, antiquated recruiting, and .500 records is not going to get you paid $4M/year to coach a Big 10 program. So laughable. Lets focus on not getting run out of our own gym by Indiana State and Murray State before we talk about our coach leveling up.

[PantherAlum09]

I think for all the good Tuttle and Coach G have brought to recruiting, I do have some concerns about how Green and Crawford have gone to ISU and helped turn them into one of the more dominant defensive teams. I still find their offense to be pretty miserable to watch, but defensively they are a juggernaut. Were Green and Crawford that crucial to the defense we were playing?

Oh and also, Coach Jake is still extremely well regarded across college basketball. I think there are actually several bigger programs that would potentially have interest were they to make changes. They would be very specific schools, though. Upper midwest, or a school not as enamored with the NIL portion of college basketball i.e. Stanford or that type. Sometimes coaches need a change of scenery just to get things going again.

I know I have been critical of the regression and ineffectiveness I have seen this year, but UNI isn't necessarily an easy place to win. We have talked a ton about the lack of resources and support to this point, and those big moments we have had were what looks like a completely different era of college basketball. We need our coaches to find a couple more dudes and find a way to bring them here. Which, again, is not an easy thing to sell kids on.