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  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,618 Founders Club

    There are things to be optimistic about but it's a little disheartening to hire an assistant. I can't recall any former assistant getting a P-5 job and becoming great.

    That said I kind of figured UW would hire a younger, up and coming coach. Maybe we found our Billy Donovan.

    I was thinking the same thing in regards to assistants and P5 jobs. Usually there is a mid-major in there somewhere. Chris Collins is the only one I can think of. I believe he went straight from coach K to Northwestern. We could do worse if he ends up like Collins.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098

    There are things to be optimistic about but it's a little disheartening to hire an assistant. I can't recall any former assistant getting a P-5 job and becoming great.

    That said I kind of figured UW would hire a younger, up and coming coach. Maybe we found our Billy Donovan.

    Good to see that you don't pay much attention ...

    Let's start with Roy Williams ... North Carolina --> Kansas

    Let's start with Tom Izzo ... promoted from the bench at Michigan St

    Chris Collins is well on his way ...

    It's fair to say it's more common in football because the number of quality jobs differ significantly.

    In basketball, it typically doesn't happen this way given the number of conferences in place and the general acceptance that after paying your dues on a big staff you go to a smaller conference where you have a 2-4 year run where you dominate your smaller conference and prove that you're a big fish in a small pond.

    But to draw a conclusion that for a coach to be good they have to have paid their dues at some smaller school isn't accurate either.
  • NeGgaPlEaSe
    NeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,756
    edited March 2017

    Here we go with this "learning on the job" rhetoric. You guys really overestimate what these guys do. Learn what on the job? What exactly are you so scared a guy that's been an assistant for two decades won't know how to do?

    I don't know anything about the success rates of hiring assistants or proven head coaches in college basketball. It definitely seems like generally guys do work their way up more so than in college football. But this guy is either a good coach or not, he's not going to struggle because of this made up learning concern you all get stuck on.

    Oddly the last time "we" termed it was regarding Sark. And the last time I checked he was a pretty sought after assistant coach
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098

    Tequilla said:

    From what I've read the USC situation was hit or miss as he was interested in the job but Syracuse made a run to the Final Four and that pushed them to make the decision to take on Enfield versus the potential that Hopkins wasn't going to take the job ... apparently SC also didn't feel like he was ready to leave Syracuse.

    I've heard nothing on Oregon State other than what you're saying @Gladstone ...

    The USC/UW jobs would be more consistent with what he's publicly stated on the types of jobs that he'd be willing to take

    http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/05/montana_coach_wayne_tinkle_syr.html#incart_river_default

    Beat out by Tinkle, but let's Doog it up

    "Montana coach Wayne Tinkle, Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins finalists for Oregon State Beavers' head coaching job"
    Until we know what Hopkins is set to earn for his salary it's hard to determine whether Tinkle beat him out or if it was a budget decision as Tinkle signed a 6 year $6.6M contract upon taking the Oregon State job.

    If the $$$ is similar than you can conclude that Tinkle beat out Hopkins.
  • NeGgaPlEaSe
    NeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,756
    Tequilla said:

    Tequilla said:

    From what I've read the USC situation was hit or miss as he was interested in the job but Syracuse made a run to the Final Four and that pushed them to make the decision to take on Enfield versus the potential that Hopkins wasn't going to take the job ... apparently SC also didn't feel like he was ready to leave Syracuse.

    I've heard nothing on Oregon State other than what you're saying @Gladstone ...

    The USC/UW jobs would be more consistent with what he's publicly stated on the types of jobs that he'd be willing to take

    http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/05/montana_coach_wayne_tinkle_syr.html#incart_river_default

    Beat out by Tinkle, but let's Doog it up

    "Montana coach Wayne Tinkle, Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins finalists for Oregon State Beavers' head coaching job"
    Until we know what Hopkins is set to earn for his salary it's hard to determine whether Tinkle beat him out or if it was a budget decision as Tinkle signed a 6 year $6.6M contract upon taking the Oregon State job.

    If the $$$ is similar than you can conclude that Tinkle beat out Hopkins.
    That MBA logistics, I'm more on the digital side, O 1
    Yes he got the job, no he didn't get the job
  • AlCzervik
    AlCzervik Member Posts: 1,774

    Here we go with this "learning on the job" rhetoric. You guys really overestimate what these guys do. Learn what on the job? What exactly are you so scared a guy that's been an assistant for two decades won't know how to do?

    I don't know anything about the success rates of hiring assistants or proven head coaches in college basketball. It definitely seems like generally guys do work their way up more so than in college football. But this guy is either a good coach or not, he's not going to struggle because of this made up learning concern you all get stuck on.

    Oddly the last time "we" termed it was regarding Sark. And the last time I checked he was a pretty sought after assistant coach
    Sark didn't have 20 years of experience.
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123
    edited March 2017
    Tequilla said:

    There are things to be optimistic about but it's a little disheartening to hire an assistant. I can't recall any former assistant getting a P-5 job and becoming great.

    That said I kind of figured UW would hire a younger, up and coming coach. Maybe we found our Billy Donovan.

    Good to see that you don't pay much attention ...

    Let's start with Roy Williams ... North Carolina --> Kansas

    Let's start with Tom Izzo ... promoted from the bench at Michigan St

    Chris Collins is well on his way ...

    It's fair to say it's more common in football because the number of quality jobs differ significantly.

    In basketball, it typically doesn't happen this way given the number of conferences in place and the general acceptance that after paying your dues on a big staff you go to a smaller conference where you have a 2-4 year run where you dominate your smaller conference and prove that you're a big fish in a small pond.

    But to draw a conclusion that for a coach to be good they have to have paid their dues at some smaller school isn't accurate either.
    Now you're just being a bitter bitch because of some light hearted ribbing over your dooginess. I was thinking more recent, but still. Collins has had one good season. I can think of many more assistants who failed. There are quite a few Dukies before Collins that failed. Like you kind of mentioned, most of the time they go to a mid major to earn their stripes and get an initial p-5 job.

    I didn't draw any conclusion. I just don't love hiring the assistant, even a highly respected one like Hopkins. I don't hate it either. Just commenting on a hoops message board about the new hire.
  • NeGgaPlEaSe
    NeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,756
    edited March 2017
    AlCzervik said:

    Here we go with this "learning on the job" rhetoric. You guys really overestimate what these guys do. Learn what on the job? What exactly are you so scared a guy that's been an assistant for two decades won't know how to do?

    I don't know anything about the success rates of hiring assistants or proven head coaches in college basketball. It definitely seems like generally guys do work their way up more so than in college football. But this guy is either a good coach or not, he's not going to struggle because of this made up learning concern you all get stuck on.

    Oddly the last time "we" termed it was regarding Sark. And the last time I checked he was a pretty sought after assistant coach
    Sark didn't have 20 years of experience.
    But still rolled out of bed drunk to coach for a National Championship contender in college and NFL Super Bowl Team in the same fucking year.
    I'm in the LIPO mode, but you guys seriously need to stop doogin so hard. UW hired and paid this coach to learn on the job. Obviously 20 years of experience didn't mean shit to USC and Oregon State.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098

    Tequilla said:

    There are things to be optimistic about but it's a little disheartening to hire an assistant. I can't recall any former assistant getting a P-5 job and becoming great.

    That said I kind of figured UW would hire a younger, up and coming coach. Maybe we found our Billy Donovan.

    Good to see that you don't pay much attention ...

    Let's start with Roy Williams ... North Carolina --> Kansas

    Let's start with Tom Izzo ... promoted from the bench at Michigan St

    Chris Collins is well on his way ...

    It's fair to say it's more common in football because the number of quality jobs differ significantly.

    In basketball, it typically doesn't happen this way given the number of conferences in place and the general acceptance that after paying your dues on a big staff you go to a smaller conference where you have a 2-4 year run where you dominate your smaller conference and prove that you're a big fish in a small pond.

    But to draw a conclusion that for a coach to be good they have to have paid their dues at some smaller school isn't accurate either.
    Now you're just being a bitter bitch because of some light hearted ribbing over your dooginess. I was thinking more recent, but still. Collins has had one good season. I can think of many more assistants who failed. There are quite a few Dukies before Collins that failed. Like you kind of mentioned, most of the time they go to a mid major to earn their stripes and get an initial p-5 job.

    I didn't draw any conclusion. I just don't love hiring the assistant, even a highly respected one like Hopkins. I don't hate it either. Just commenting on a hoops message board about the new hire.
    Not being a bitter bitch ... just pointing out that probably 2 of the top 5 to 10 college coaches went the major assistant to P5 job and have been highly successful.

    Give me a list of coaching candidates and I'll give my thoughts on them ... if Hopkins was on the list I probably would have listed him about middle of the road.

    This is the definite LIPO hire ...

    It's also not the kind of hire that will immediately get me to buy season tickets for hoops.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Tequilla said:

    From what I've read the USC situation was hit or miss as he was interested in the job but Syracuse made a run to the Final Four and that pushed them to make the decision to take on Enfield versus the potential that Hopkins wasn't going to take the job ... apparently SC also didn't feel like he was ready to leave Syracuse.

    I've heard nothing on Oregon State other than what you're saying @Gladstone ...

    The USC/UW jobs would be more consistent with what he's publicly stated on the types of jobs that he'd be willing to take

    http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/05/montana_coach_wayne_tinkle_syr.html#incart_river_default

    Beat out by Tinkle, but let's Doog it up

    "Montana coach Wayne Tinkle, Syracuse assistant Mike Hopkins finalists for Oregon State Beavers' head coaching job"
    Is that like judging recruits by their offers rather then their actual body of work?
  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419

    Here we go with this "learning on the job" rhetoric. You guys really overestimate what these guys do. Learn what on the job? What exactly are you so scared a guy that's been an assistant for two decades won't know how to do?

    I don't know anything about the success rates of hiring assistants or proven head coaches in college basketball. It definitely seems like generally guys do work their way up more so than in college football. But this guy is either a good coach or not, he's not going to struggle because of this made up learning concern you all get stuck on.

    Yeah no.

    There is a significant difference between being an individual contributor who, say, focuses on the frontcourt vs the responsibilities of a head coach. This post got a ton of chins. Am I taking crazy pills?
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Gladstone said:

    Here we go with this "learning on the job" rhetoric. You guys really overestimate what these guys do. Learn what on the job? What exactly are you so scared a guy that's been an assistant for two decades won't know how to do?

    I don't know anything about the success rates of hiring assistants or proven head coaches in college basketball. It definitely seems like generally guys do work their way up more so than in college football. But this guy is either a good coach or not, he's not going to struggle because of this made up learning concern you all get stuck on.

    Yeah no.

    There is a significant difference between being an individual contributor who, say, focuses on the frontcourt vs the responsibilities of a head coach. This post got a ton of chins. Am I taking crazy pills?
    The chins are because the "learning on the job" thing is mostly bullshit. If he sucks, he's not going to be better for somebody else 5 years from now because he "learned on the job" at UW. He's still going to suck.

    The list of coaches who made any massive development in their skills from their first job to the end of their career is short. The people who do are usually the ones who are great from the beginning (i.e. year 3 or before), then the world catches up to them and they have to adjust to become great again.

    It's very rare that a coach goes from bad to good. Ergo they don't "learn on the job". They either have it or they don't.

    Hopkins might have it. He might not. But there's not a lot he's going to be learning on the job. He either knows it or he doesn't.
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,007

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    Bob Hopkins would have been a more exciting selection.

    And he dead.

    image
  • whuggy
    whuggy Member Posts: 2,088

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    And yet again you don't get it.
    Least you are consistent. I don't love
    it or hate it. Only saying LIPO. Saying
    the hire sucks before a ball has even
    been rolled out is just echo chamber
    thinking.
  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    Congratulations on being the 81st poster to compare Hopkins to Sark.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    Congratulations on being the 81st poster to compare Hopkins to Sark.
    To UW fans every single coach is either Don James, Sark, Ty, or Neu.
    Or Ernie Kent
  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    whuggy said:

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    And yet again you don't get it.
    Least you are consistent. I don't love
    it or hate it. Only saying LIPO. Saying
    the hire sucks before a ball has even
    been rolled out is just echo chamber
    thinking.
    We can LIPO while still saying the hire sucks.
  • NeGgaPlEaSe
    NeGgaPlEaSe Member Posts: 5,756
    edited March 2017
    Gladstone said:

    whuggy said:

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    And yet again you don't get it.
    Least you are consistent. I don't love
    it or hate it. Only saying LIPO. Saying
    the hire sucks before a ball has even
    been rolled out is just echo chamber
    thinking.
    We can LIPO while still saying the hire sucks.
    Doogs don't get it. He sucks until he doesn't, 22 wins and Tournament apprearance or GTFO, and LIPO. Has he offered Porter co assistant HC job and pics of Jens Tits yet?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,699 Founders Club

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    Bob Hopkins would have been a more exciting selection.

    And he dead.

    image
    Bob Hopkins brought Slick Watts to Seattle and then did so bad as coach that he got fired and Lenny Wilkens came in and went to two straight Finals
  • Saracen
    Saracen Member Posts: 270

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    Bob Hopkins would have been a more exciting selection.

    And he dead.

    image
    Bob Hopkins brought Slick Watts to Seattle and then did so bad as coach that he got fired and Lenny Wilkens came in and went to two straight Finals
    Yeah but how is that a less exciting hire than Hopkins?
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325

    Doogs already love the hire, even though they had never heard of the guy before the announcement. CHRIST.

    Who does this describe...?

    No prior head coaching experience

    Former boss and media raves about him being a great coach

    Rumored to be a great recruiter

    Assistant to a legendary coach at a powerhouse program

    ???

    Congratulations on being the 81st poster to compare Hopkins to Sark.
    Naw, I was FIRST!!1!