He got screwed at Louisville and thrown under the bus. That said, he DID make some poor decisions there and I can't help but think that he wouldn't be the right guy for the SU job. Louisville is its own nightmare of competing interests, but so is SU. Also, I'd prefer someone a bit younger so we're not going through this situation again in 5-10 years.
I'm not saying he's the right guy for the job. Just that there's enough connection there that JW is probably kicking the tires. Hopefully he's doing that with dozens of prospects, and hopefully we get the best coach possible.
The talent part is just not true of why we can’t do off ball movement and screens and they can, Hofstra was doing it all night. It is slightly deeper than our roster. UConn roster would produce offensively like ours if it wasn’t for there constant off ball movement and screens. They implement and practice it over and over again. They have an identity offensively.
If it's true that he's the mastermind behind uconn's offense, this is a good gamble to make. He could end up being elite. A power program will take him soon, probably this Spring.
Because of the lack of HC experience, he's more of a boom or bust candidate. Schertz screams Bob Chesney to me.
If you really compare players, their front line puts ours to shame. All their guards can attack the rim and shoot. They have bigs on the bench better than ours. Five star Mullins doesn’t even start. Our talent is tons better than the past few years, but to say it’s equivalent to UCONN, I would really have to question that.
It’s not equivalent to UConn, but more so to say we should be a lot closer to where they are as a team this season. The main difference is there backup in Reibe is much better than our backup center in Souare offensively. Coaching is where they really outclass us and contributes to the thinking that they just have much better players. They have better players due to coaching.
Interesting. I hadn’t heard that he turned down Louisville. That’s wild considering the amount of resources they have among their basketball boosters. Maybe he didn’t want to backtrack after having just taken the Saint Louis job. Here’s an Athletic story on Schertz from a couple of years ago (I wish I could share a gift article with the board, but they may allow a certain amount of free views). I’m gonna write a longer post on him at some point. Also, his name is simply pronounced “shirts” for those wondering. Lol.
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Their system maximizes talent and doesn't rely on individual players beating their own man nearly as much.
They are beat their own man as a last resort. We are looking to beat our own man first. Complete opposite approach to offense and we see who is having more success.
I agree I would love to see our team with their offense. I think it would unlock a lot of possibilities. We can only dream what it might look like. I’m always shocked when a team has so much success doing something, other teams don’t try to replicate it. Football does it all the time.
Mack has been on my radar as well and could be a contender. He has a real track record of winning at historic basketball schools. I just never liked his personality. He came across as a bit smarmy and kind of a meathead. He had Louisville as a national title contender in year 2 but then the tourney was canceled due to Covid, and then he flamed out after all the Dino Gaudio extortion drama.
Yeah, I always liked the idea of Luke Murray. He’s the one who convinced Hurley and his top assistant Kimani Young to finally give more attention to the offensive side of the ball and adopt a modern basketball offense based on analytics, which took them to a whole other level (of course having great players helps!). Hurley has given Murray credit for it. But I’m nervous about hiring another career assistant, even if his upside could be big. On the other hand, his dad Bill Murray would be attending many Cuse games so that would be cool! That said, I feel Schertz has a great, established offensive system, and has the years of head coaching experience (and success) at different levels—even though he’s only 50.
I completely agree. Everyone will be saying we can only afford or attract a mid major coach but we shouldn't eliminate asking coaches at bigger schools if they have interest.
I was under the impression that Creighton had a rather good budget for NIL.
Fun story I worked security at Loyola games when Dino Gaudio was the head coach. I was right behind the bench many times. Dude is a scumbag and a terrible coach.
Sorry his coaching shows he’s a genius.
I wouldn’t get hung up on the fallacy that we can’t hire a “mid major” coach and that we need to hire a big established name that everyone is familiar with. Read Jncuse’s post a page or two back to see who’s coaching many of the top 25 KenPom teams right now—former mid-major coaches like Hurley, Todd Golden, Dusty May, Pat Kelsey, Nate Oats, TJ Otzelberger, Ben McCollum, Darian Devries, Grant McCasland, Mark Byington, and on and on. And most of them were at the mid major level just a few years ago.
If Luke Murray was SU’s coach this whole season, you wouldn’t be last in FTs in D1. What would SU’s record be if the team hit 70%.
You can criticize his coaching all you want. But to call him a name that is different. I mean, would you have the stones to walk up to him and call him that? If the answer is no. Then you are a coward behind a keyboard.
By that measure half of the content on this board is cowardly. And I agree.
Never heard of this guy until this time yesterday but to me he's the blueprint of what we should be looking for if we go the mid-major head coach route. Very interesting name.Interesting. I hadn’t heard that he turned down Louisville. That’s wild considering the amount of resources they have among their basketball boosters. Maybe he didn’t want to backtrack after having just taken the Saint Louis job. Here’s an Athletic story on Schertz from a couple of years ago (I wish I could share a gift article with the board, but they may allow a certain amount of free views). I’m gonna write a longer post on him at some point. Also, his name is simply pronounced “shirts” for those wondering. Lol.
How Indiana State basketball’s Josh Schertz rose from ‘anonymity’ to coaching star
Josh Schertz has Indiana State headed toward its best season since Larry Bird was a Sycamore. He took a unique path to this moment.
Yeah, I think it's German.
