Let's take a look at where most of the contenders this year got their coaches from
Maryland - Seton Hall
Florida - San Francisco
Alabama - Buffalo
BYU - NBA assistant
Texas Tech - North Texas
Arizona - Gonzaga assistant
Duke - Duke assistant
Michigan - Florida Atlantic
Kentucky - BYU
A lot of moneywhipping the top coaches from top schools as you can see. Even when we go down the list there's a definite theme
Auburn - Pearl had a show-cause after being fired from Tennessee
Houston - Ditto for Sampson
Ole Miss - Disgraced loser
Arkansas - Coach pushed out by Kentucky
So as we can see, a lot of great programs here, and the one thing they have in common is they all took coaches from contending P4 programs to help push them to the next level. Oh wait, that doesn't actually happen in any of these cases, even the ones I omitted.
It's 37 pages in 3 years. If you want a new thread go ahead, I'll keep plugging away posting the relevant stuff I see but there's just not gonna be a ton of discussion besides this month long period so a title change is probably all we need.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/brandon-walker-2/
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/nick-davidson-2.html
Probably will be relevant
Doing some key-word searching from people whose opinions I trust and it is a relief seeing stuff like this. Having stepped on campus 14 years ago we have never run a modern/fun offense in that time so I'm going to believe. Also, I know people won't believe it but coaches can evolve. Gonna wait until I see what he's able to bring in roster-wise (which will be telling to see where we're at as far as NIL investment) especially given that we very well could have an entirely new roster to put actual expectations on him but it's nice to be actually optimistic.
Fair, feel like there was an overstated amount of love for Dickinson in his 8th year and Storr who ended up not starting for them which frankly seems similar to RT just accruing guys sorted by ppg
Could be a coincidence that he's had his least talented teams seemingly the last few years and it's not 100% on him that he just hasn't landed guys like McNeeley since he has been a finalist for those types of players. Does feel like it'd be similar to Cal getting out of Kentucky when he realizes he's not hitting that high anymore but Self is a way better x's and o's coach.
Prefer Miller to Lloyd if it comes down to it but both feel like they'd be around my baseline of acceptable. Lloyd has no track record of success in March yet and Sam Vecenie has been all over him this whole year for not starting his best players and lineups from an analytical perspective. I'm also scared of a coach that'd love a player archetype like Caleb Love so much they'd hand him the keys to the team for multiple years. Buyout matters to a degree I guess but it's not my money so whatever.
They literally just finalized the extension in the last month. They could give him a 2nd new contract but I'd imagine it's not something they'd be happy about. I do think that living in reality, May is probably not just going to leave Michigan after one year though.