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RE: Did you see those year-by-year Kenpom rankings? The man
Posted on: February 3, 2017 at 15:29:40 CT
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"Gregg Marshall however, is EXACTLY the type of hire you make leveraging the move to the SEC. For the first time in my MU fandom, if MU wants to spend money to acquire the best it is in the position to do so. Nobody is more desired nationally. If you want to make the college basketball world say ‘Wow’, you hire Gregg Marshall. I think the biggest thing we have working in our advantage is that the NCAA just essentially dropped the first blow in saying that if you aren’t in one of the major conferences (or the Big 12 in the short term), your playing field in the long term is going to be a different one. He would win big at MU, and more importantly to me he would win consistently big. He would win by excelling in the things that MU fans would love for their program to excel at. The questions about his difficulty to deal with are a new age way of saying he is nearly Norm Stewart. He knows the right way to do things to be successful, and he isn’t going to bend and he isn’t going to take oversight. Which is nearly exactly what Norm and Alden clashed over 15 years ago. MU fans would love Gregg Marshall, but Mike Alden would butt heads with him almost inevitably and it wouldn’t be long before Alden infuriated him by blocking someone he wanted to recruit or intervening on one of his players. But my biggest worry about hiring Marshall would be his impending relationship with our fanbase. As bad as the Kim Anderson example has been, it pales in comparison to how bad MU fans in general have been the last 3 years during Haith’s tenure. Gregg Marshall is not the kind of coach that job hops, if he lands in the right place he stays there. He is also accustomed to being supported and loved. I could certainly see our fanbase being the driving factor in pushing him out. I would love for MU to hire Gregg Marshall for the statement it would make, because it would ensure MU would be a serious player to compete year in and year out for SEC titles, and because I would love for MU to play the way Gregg Marshall team’s play. If salary is actually the driving factor, we should spend recklessly. If that unbalances Pinkel, up Pinkel too. We are getting ready to enter a period in our history where we have an influx of resources and our AD is a non-profit organization. You have to invest that money into something, and there is no better investment than your head coach. Your program is who your coach is. If Alden wants to knock this out of the park and make a statement, landing Gregg Marshall is the way to do it."
Edited by FIJItiger at 15:30:28 on 02/03/17
"Gregg Marshall however, is EXACTLY the type of hire you make leveraging the move to the SEC. For the first time in my MU fandom, if MU wants to spend money to acquire the best it is in the position to do so. Nobody is more desired nationally. If you want to make the college basketball world say ‘Wow’, you hire Gregg Marshall. I think the biggest thing we have working in our advantage is that the NCAA just essentially dropped the first blow in saying that if you aren’t in one of the major conferences (or the Big 12 in the short term), your playing field in the long term is going to be a different one. He would win big at MU, and more importantly to me he would win consistently big. He would win by excelling in the things that MU fans would love for their program to excel at. The questions about his difficulty to deal with are a new age way of saying he is nearly Norm Stewart. He knows the right way to do things to be successful, and he isn’t going to bend and he isn’t going to take oversight. Which is nearly exactly what Norm and Alden clashed over 15 years ago. MU fans would love Gregg Marshall, but Mike Alden would butt heads with him almost inevitably and it wouldn’t be long before Alden infuriated him by blocking someone he wanted to recruit or intervening on one of his players. But my biggest worry about hiring Marshall would be his impending relationship with our fanbase. As bad as the Kim Anderson example has been, it pales in comparison to how bad MU fans in general have been the last 3 years during Haith’s tenure. Gregg Marshall is not the kind of coach that job hops, if he lands in the right place he stays there. He is also accustomed to being supported and loved. I could certainly see our fanbase being the driving factor in pushing him out. I would love for MU to hire Gregg Marshall for the statement it would make, because it would ensure MU would be a serious player to compete year in and year out for SEC titles, and because I would love for MU to play the way Gregg Marshall team’s play. If salary is actually the driving factor, we should spend recklessly. If that unbalances Pinkel, up Pinkel too. We are getting ready to enter a period in our history where we have an influx of resources and our AD is a non-profit organization. You have to invest that money into something, and there is no better investment than your head coach. Your program is who your coach is. If Alden wants to knock this out of the park and make a statement, landing Gregg Marshall is the way to do it."
Edited by FIJItiger at 15:30:28 on 02/03/17
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