Just shows Cignetti was a fluke hire.
Joke of a hire
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.713 career winning % probably could have done worse and hired a washed up NBA coach 🤷🏼♂️
I suppose that DeVries is similar to Cignetti in that he turned around programs he coached. We shall see.
Lol What a stat. What about just stating his teams actual average rank?
If Woodson can be lazy sit on a$$ and still be a bubble team, surely devries who everyone claims works his a$$ off will be amazing with the resources that IU as.
I’m sure Cignetti had his critics before IU fans saw what he could do on the field.
We shall see next year. DeVries will have his All-American son and $7M+ to spend in the portal (CBS reports), so he’s got the resources to turn this around in year one.
Everyone loved him but one moron. . I should know as I actually have been a die hard football fan for almost 40 years. We all lost our shit when he got the job. Only person who called him a loser, and I kid you not, was Dan jockitch Dackich. The king of the morons.
Nobody knew who Cig was until his press conference.
If he does turn things around, all the idiots on this board who are saying this is a horrible hire will change their tune to “it was a great hire!”
Mark Pope had his roster put together in 3 weeks and they are good this season. We have more NIL than Kentucky or equal. I expect the same from DeVries. No baby steps. The right coach builds a winner immediately. Kelsey at Louisville, Pope at Kentucky, Golden at Florida. We better be good next season
Google Cig and DD and tell me the difference. IU football is not the same as WV basketball: tell me which coach actually won big.
Dolson fired 19-13, 10-10 in the Big Ten and hired 19-13, 10-10 in a watered down Big 12. Woody arguably had a better year than DD!
I think DD had a strong turnaround year for WVU. Especially considering the injuries. I’m putting some trust in Dolson that he got the right guy.
Huggy made a FF there and is a hall of famer but he had some very average years there.
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Huggy made a FF there and is a hall of famer but he had some very average years there.
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| 2012-13 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 32 | 13 | 19 | .406 | 4.61 | 6.55 | |||||
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| 2013-14 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 33 | 17 | 16 | .515 | 11.78 | 8.02 | |||||
| 2014-15 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 35 | 25 | 10 | .714 | 15.12 | 9.29 | 14 | 20 | NCAA Tournament | ||
| 2015-16 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 35 | 26 | 9 | .743 | 21.61 | 9.78 | 6 | 8 | NCAA Tournament | ||
| 2016-17 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 37 | 28 | 9 | .757 | 24.45 | 9.67 | 20 | 7 | 13 | NCAA Tournament | |
| 2017-18 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 37 | 26 | 11 | .703 | 19.89 | 9.38 | 11 | 2 | 15 | NCAA Tournament | |
| 2018-19 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 36 | 15 | 21 | .417 | 6.94 | 10.57 | 13 | 13 | |||
| 2019-20 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 31 | 21 | 10 | .677 | 18.51 | 10.64 | 12 | 24 | |||
| 2020-21 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 29 | 19 | 10 | .655 | 15.36 | 10.05 | 15 | 6 | 13 | NCAA Tournament | |
| 2021-22 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 33 | 16 | 17 | .485 | 10.23 | 10.74 | |||||
| 2022-23 | West Virginia | Big 12 | 34 | 19 | 15 | .559 | 15.95 | 1 |
Get a lot of Cig feel with him, coached a long time, program builder, culture builder and he appears to be able to make adjustments on the fly
Watered down BIG 12? How so?
Houston 1 seed
Iowa st 3 seed
Texas tech 3 seed
Arizona 4 seed
bYU 6 seed
Kansas 7 see
Baylor 9 seed
Going by his 'stats' I didn't like the hire... Going by the kudos you can find, many from other coaches, I like the hire!
We'll see. I think we got a good one. Maybe not 'elite' , yet, but he can win here solidly.
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We'll see. I think we got a good one. Maybe not 'elite' , yet, but he can win here solidly.
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His resume is similar to Underwood’s. He coached under two terrific HC’s as a longtime assistant, had great success as a mid major (Undie won two NCAA games at SFA) and then spent a year at Okie State. OSU had a terrible record in the year prior to his arrival, and then turned them into a tourney team that narrowly lost to a Michigan team that went to the FF. WVU was a deserving team and the snub may have convinced him to leave. Will he, and this would be really ironic, bring Chester Frazier (WVU Assoc. HC) and Goode’s former teammates (Hansberry and Harris) with him? How would the Gordon’s react?
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So we traded up from the 2d out coach to the 1st out coach. Outstanding, wake me when the DeVries regime is over
Oh, so now we’re going to start arguing with facts, huh?
He will get 7 million in nil. He needs to win right away with that kind of coin. Not in three years
That’s the odd thing about this portal/NIL era. It’s such a risk at knowing what you are getting.
TCU, Kansas St., Utah, Cinci, UCF, Arizona St., Colorado, Ok. St.
Wtf? You're an actual idiot. In my post on the foorballboard had him in my top 5. His JMU team was huge that year. Just admit you don't watch football.
I’m beginnin* to think they are right. Our fans are toxic. And not very smart. I love all the knee jerk reactions here from people who likely know absolutely nothing about the guy. But are certain it’s a bad hire.
That’s ridiculous. Why are people just spouting off without doing any research. What was their record last year? What was their talent level compared to us? You know they list their best player, his son, early in the year? You know they beat Gonzaga ( how’d we do against them) , beat Kansas at Kansas, beat Arizona. They were screwed horribly out of a bid. He’s known as an X and O guy, good defense and shoots lots of threes. West Va fans were not happy he left. Some of the responses here are just out of left field. We used to know basketball.
A joke of a hire before he’s played one damn game.
What the hell has happened to this fanbase?
Why any coach would want to be associated with fan base is beyond me.
Red Auerbach is not walking through the door,nor is Brad Stevens
What the hell has happened to this fanbase?
Why any coach would want to be associated with fan base is beyond me.
Red Auerbach is not walking through the door,nor is Brad Stevens
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What conference doesn’t have a lower half?
Exactly. I’ve been upset with the media talking about toxic fans, but if any coach or player was reading this board right now, that’s absolutely what they would think. And I’d be willing to bet half of these guys know nothing about him.
Different time, but some of us remember there was some pretty vocal bitching when we hired an unkown guy from Army in 1971. Said his style didn't fit the league, or the school. Bunch of other crap in a feature article in Sports Illustrated about the hire.
That turned out ok.
Let the man coach a year or 2 before the pitchforks come out...
That turned out ok.
Let the man coach a year or 2 before the pitchforks come out...
Yeah it’s like almost every single coach, with a few exceptions is a bit of a gamble. Coach K, almost every big name now started small. I have no idea if he’s going to be successful enough here. No one really does. But he’s known for a great work ethic, so that’s certainly a good start and I’m going to give him a chance. Why wouldn’t I?
Our fans and this message board are two different animals.
DD finished in the middle of it: mediocre. The programs at the bottom aren't exactly basketball powerhouses.
