Coach Search Options after Autry

[BomberOrange]

Nothing you said makes Hop a proven loser.
I’m old, dumb, and slow. All the big brains like JW and Lally and others will figure this out. But if Hop is selected, which it sounds like he is a serious candidate based on the financial pipeline he brings, then it won’t be the end of the world. If anything, hiring the young mid major coach with 1 big donor sugar daddy seems like the riskier higher long term and vulnerable to changing winds and attitudes. But what do I know. Like I said, I’m old dumb and slow .

Please stop Mike.

 

[orangepassion]

No. A applicant has applied for the job. He is making his case. That is all this is. You think they should tell Hop don't bother making your case because Red sucked?

Is that awkward for him and Red when Red is still the coach?

 

[dasher]

Is that awkward for him and Red when Red is still the coach?

Has to be.

 

[crales44]

The only rational way to figure out who deserves to be the next coach is to have a trial of seven.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Power struggles like this happen in corporate America all the time. I’ve witnessed a few and won a couple myself. It’s incredibly nerve-racking day to day until everything is official and comes out how you would like. This will be the same. Feels like the basketball alums final pitch to keep it within their own house.

 

[pearl31]

Is there bad blood between Melo/Lally?

edit: well maybe someone can dm me

 

[RedtheGOB]

Is there bad blood between Melo/Lally?

Yea not sure how they’ll carry on after this

 

[rocklloyd]

We don’t have very many 3 point makers. Therein lays the problem.

Or free throw shooters.

 

[orangepassion]

Honestly, the rational part of me says whoever brings the biggest financial backing to the program should have heavy influence over the next HC. It’s a new world and the financial machine matters, maybe even more than coaching, assuming the coach has some level of ability to run a program (Red did not).

I wish we didn’t have rich alums divided over who should coach the team. United resources go a lot further than divided.

Does anyone have insight if Lally and Melo are aligned? I have a feeling they most likely are not.

I wonder if this was a factor in Wildhack retiring-i.e not wanting to deal w/ this?

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Also, one more thing. Those trustees who know absolutely nothing about collegiate athletics get wiped shut during these trustee discussions. They talk big until it’s time to actually discuss.

Here is the list of trustees. A lot of big time names. Like others have said, the timing with Wildhack leaving could affect how the selection process for a new coach will transpire. Has a secret committee been set up that will be responsible or is it the same trustees who will be selecting the next Athletic Director.

It wouldn't surprise me that the trustees are fast tracking the AD selection, knowing that there is some other unfinished business to attend to.

Trustees

The Trustees on the Syracuse University Board of Trustees are comprised of voting, life, and honorary Trustees.

www.syracuse.edu

 

[AZOrange]

You guys are melting down for nothing. Jesus let it play out

 

[Bulldog04]

You guys are melting down for nothing. Jesus let it play out

lol you know us better than that

 

[rrlbees]

Here is the list of trustees. A lot of big time names. Like others have said, the timing with Wildhack leaving could affect how the selection process for a new coach will transpire. Has a secret committee been set up that will be responsible or is it the same trustees who will be selecting the next Athletic Director.

It wouldn't surprise me that the trustees are fast tracking the AD selection, knowing that there is some other unfinished business to attend to.

Trustees

The Trustees on the Syracuse University Board of Trustees are comprised of voting, life, and honorary Trustees.

www.syracuse.edu

someone posted that elsewhere but also posted the bot athletic committee.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

someone posted that elsewhere but also posted the bot athletic committee.

Yes, it's Lally, Tirico, Roxie McNabb and a few oth we ts.

Who is on the 7-person committee that will help replace Syracuse AD John Wildhack?

The group includes two former Syracuse athletes and an acclaimed sports broadcaster.

www.syracuse.com

 

[phil77]

You guys are melting down for nothing. Jesus let it play out

That is not fun

 

[djorange1989]

You guys are melting down for nothing. Jesus let it play out

20,745 posts by you and you STILL don’t know how deranged we all are??

 

[CU44SE]

After the Dan Mullen thread. I said I would never get excited and worked up about someone again until it gets announced. I wasted 5 days being on this forum looking for every detail I could gobble up.

Here I am again on every twist and turn checking this thread at every moment to see updates. I’m still extremely concerned about the timelines of chancellor, AD, Basketball hires. But honestly, nothing I say or do is going to change the outcome. I can only hope and pray SU does the right things.

 

[LAorange44]

8 years as an assistant under Oates > 22 years as an assistant under JB. Ya get it yet????

 

[Gotothehole]

Power struggles like this happen in corporate America all the time. I’ve witnessed a few and won a couple myself. It’s incredibly nerve-racking day to day until everything is official and comes out how you would like. This will be the same. Feels like the basketball alums final pitch to keep it within their own house.

I can relate. I have been in couple of power struggles lost some ,won some. It will be contentious, but the program will benefit.

 

[dasher]

That is not fun

Never ever put a down payment on worry. About just about anything. If something bad happens, you can always worry about it then. If it doesn't happen, you would have worried for nothing.

 

[35kcuse]

8 years as an assistant under Oates > 22 years as an assistant under JB. Ya get it yet????

Successful head coaching job @ Arkansas State and USF + experience with NIL > Trash job @ Washington with all of his precious top recruits (who are still in the NBA) and no experience significantly navigating NIL

 

[qdawgg]

I wonder if this was a factor in Wildhack retiring-i.e not wanting to deal w/ this?

This stuff happens at every university. Not like this is some unique power struggle that only happens at SU.

 

[FireballPhil]

It's a bad idea because he was an abject failure the last 3 years of his tenure at the University of Washington.

I'm very happy that he landed on his feet in an assisting coaching capacity in the NBA, but let's be real. No other college team is angling to land Mike Hopkins right now. When he was at Washington, his schemes on both sides of the ball were subpar. We saw the same in terms of subpar systems on both sides of the ball with Red, here.

Who would win a sign up for that?

Hop shouldn't be in play at all. The only reason he is is that he has ties to the program. Scooch said it above, we shouldn't have to qualify candidates by saying,"...but he's a great guy..."

Given the precarious position our program is in, there shouldn't be any "buts" involved.

Board members and donors screwed up the last hire, I don't want to see them screw up this higher and get the program even further beached.

Boosters in school administrators ought to pay attention to the fan apathy, the massively declined attendance, and the disgruntled malaise that the program is mired in. If they want to risk it by not bringing in a proven commodity, then the financial hits and fan disengagement could continue to worsen.

I think things would be different if we were a program that was going to the NCAA tournament and winning 22 games a year, as a role of the dice. That's not the status quo, we are floundering and we need a coach who has proven chops to right the ship.

Agreed which begs the question, who would he bring in as assistants?

 

[rrlbees]

Yes, it's Lally, Tirico, Roxie McNabb and a few oth we ts.

Who is on the 7-person committee that will help replace Syracuse AD John Wildhack?

The group includes two former Syracuse athletes and an acclaimed sports broadcaster.

www.syracuse.com

i meant the bot athletics committee. that link is for the ad search. you were talking about the coach search.

 

[GoCuse14]

I poked my source at SLU on Schertz interest in Syracuse and he didn’t think he was interested

Hey, another Iowa poster...that might make 3 of us now!