Coach Search Options after Autry

[HyattsCuse]

I woke up feeling skeptical this morning.

I find myself wondering if there really is a mystery man as candidate #2? Or is it just a ruse so Dasher could plug his new baseball podcast / YouTube show?!

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[ezbeezy214]

Bring in Arteta. We can play haramball. I'm in.

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Best FT shooting team in the land at last!

 

[dasher]

Good lord, #6 is something.

On #6, I'm pretty sure Hopkins said during his first year that he never heard from JB.

 

[Cusefan0307]

Clearly an offensive mind. We’ll be fine as long as we avoid Dayton, George Mason and Rhode Island. All St. Louis losses down the stretch.

Good grief.

 

[Chip]

He’s at your place?

They are roommates now.

 

[dasher]

I woke up feeling skeptical this morning.

I find myself wondering if there really is a mystery man as candidate #2? Or is it just a ruse so Dasher could plug his new baseball podcast / YouTube show?!

Suspicious

LOL I love that. I wish I was that smart. I will say the first 50 to sign up and follow get......Chicklets?

 

[ezbeezy214]

Someone else pointed out earlier that 90% of the fanbase wants GMac and has no idea who Schertz is. I check this board several hours each day and had to Google to make sure I was spelling his name correctly. St. Louis is not a known commodity in college basketball. That shouldn't stop a potential hire, but there will need to be a good media plan in place if we can somehow get him here.

Check in at noon

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

As to Gerry: the people who bypassed him, all of them, are gone. That has to provide some vindication.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I don’t see why after he signed a huge extension peole are in dreamworld

It’s not signed. It was a verbal agreement.

 

[dollarbill44]

Swoosie?

That's digging deep. I like it.

 

[JOC44]

Best FT shooting team in the land at last!

Looking forward to our players trying to take two minutes to inbound the ball.

 

[jr4750]

Hence my use of the word "if".

Folks here are increasingly Gerry Uber Alles. To me, he's the consolation prize if all the much better candidates say no.

You nailed it. We have to try and find better than Gerry. He shouldn’t be the top choice.

 

[Bayside44]

Hard to believe . They are Texas. They print money.

If their money was that Miller stays at X.

 

[hoopsupstate]

My take is that Gerry has the job and AD (no more nickname policy in effect) is doing the perfunctory duty of interviewing others or checking on others even if they aren’t available. Dasher I’m sure is right but I think the die is cast.

If you want to start on the wrong foot don’t hire the hottest coach in the country who happens to be a local legend. Mac is the anathema for local malaise. He may not excite the nerds on here but we are a loud basement minority

School needs a national interest enema.

Get ready for Gerry

What if Shertz beats Michigan today? I think would designate him as the hottest coach in America. It’s always the flavor of the moment. We’ve experienced here too. Hodgson, then Gerry and now the mystery coach.

 

[Irishsecra1]

I wonder if Dion Waiters is one of the whales who came in with a NIL donation for Gerry only. Last I saw, he has a current net worth of $30 million. Supposedly, he was very close with Gerry his sophomore year and we all saw him at the MAAC tournament game cheering on Gerrys team.

 

[Cuse1055]

I am up. I don't expect I will hear any more than what I already did which wasn't all that much. As I said, I was told it was down to 2 coaches. One was Gerry. The other is the mystery man (isn't all that much mystery since his name has been out in this thread a whole bunch of times). Last night, a poster in this thread said he knew for a fact that the mystery man had already been interviewed last Weds. I had zero knowledge of that. That of course was before the Siena Duke game. And we also got Pete T's comments that back up that there are other discussions going on. That is all I know. And it was sort of fluky that I knew that because the info on the mystery man came from the other side. Not Syracuse. Hopefully we know more soon no matter who it turns out to be.

I was so focused on Hodgson and Gerry (and thought Schertz was out) that I forgot Saint Louis is playing in Buffalo too. Easy to have an interview here.

 

[Scooch]

The timing of an announcement doesn't matter. This isn't the old world of media where there were certain times of day, or days of week, that were better for exposure.

Some reporter is going to get wind of a done deal, log it with his editorial desk, and an alert will get blasted to millions of people. Could be 10am today, or 10pm on Wednesday night.

 

[cuseguy]

Someone else pointed out earlier that 90% of the fanbase wants GMac and has no idea who Schertz is. I check this board several hours each day and had to Google to make sure I was spelling his name correctly. St. Louis is not a known commodity in college basketball. That shouldn't stop a potential hire, but there will need to be a good media plan in place if we can somehow get him here.

Absolutely. While Schertz has been successful, he’s not a household name. He’s not Pitino or Hurley or some other notable coach. If it’s him, many people are going to shrug their shoulders. He’ll need to rebuild the Syracuse brand, and it may take 2-3 years.

 

[Trueblue25]

Someone else pointed out earlier that 90% of the fanbase wants GMac and has no idea who Schertz is. I check this board several hours each day and had to Google to make sure I was spelling his name correctly. St. Louis is not a known commodity in college basketball. That shouldn't stop a potential hire, but there will need to be a good media plan in place if we can somehow get him here.

90% of this fanbase has had no reason to stay up to date with college basketball for like 5 years

 

[Cuse House]

I woke up feeling skeptical this morning.

I find myself wondering if there really is a mystery man as candidate #2? Or is it just a ruse so Dasher could plug his new baseball podcast / YouTube show?!

Suspicious

He’s hiding the really good info in his podcast to boost those ratings. What’s the pod going to be called Dasher?

 

[RyanCuse44]

he's up and about. but he had some things to do.

What are you his PR man

 

[hoopsupstate]

yea but, that was a point in time. he may not have had any interest then. something may have changed his mind.

We’ve heard of chick magnets, maybe Brian Blair is a coach magnet?

 

[tptcuse]

90% of this fanbase has had no reason to stay up to date with college basketball for like 5 years

Sadly true

 

[Bayside44]

OK, so circling back to the Thamel report that multiple P5 coaches have reached out to 'Cuse. That's a lot trickier, because it could include people we wouldn't even entertain as candidates. But at the center of the Venn diagram of people who might feasibly reach out who we might be interested in, these are the names that make sense to me:

T.J. Otzelberger
Buzz Williams
Mick Cronin

There are plenty we'd be interested in who I don't think would reach out, and plenty who would reach out who I don't think we'd be interested in.

I'd be thrilled with either Otz or Schertz, and would take both over Gerry. I'd gamble on Gerry over Buzz or Mick.

Thamel also said the buyouts would make other P5 guys to be prohibitive. But it's worth asking.

 

[OburgOrange]

Juli chimes in