UCLA did not want to pay TCU's buyout. Maybe the same for these two. I guess Archie needs a raise after today... 8 mil for Cronin? WTF...
It “kinda seems” like Purdue did it that way with Painter being named a whole year ahead of time before Keady’s announced departure. Let him sit on the bench for a year learning from his guru while schmoozing his way around with the players and recruits during the transition.
It happened only because Wooden was a cheater, turning a blind eye on Sam Gilbert creating an unfair advantage in landing recruits. It probably cost us a national championship in ‘73.
The thing about it is, he always projected himself as some kind of wise old religious sage for the Age. He’ll always have a chapter in my book, The Book Of Phony’s In My Life.
According to this thread, at least three current D-1 coaches "can't coach", aren't "good coaches" or are just barely adequate (using some other vague language).
It's not 8 mil for Cronin. He signed a 6 year 24 mil. Has any of you on here actually watched Cronin coach? He's a good defensive coach and if he can get the top recruits to come to UCLA will do a great job there.
I think PU did it right. Painter got to figure out the coaching landscape there and so the transition was very smooth. It's the way you do it when a coach has been there a lot of years. How much better would IU have turned out of we had been able to set up a better exit for Coach Knight and to bring in his successor ahead of time?
According to this thread, at least three current D-1 coaches "can't coach", aren't "good coaches" or are just barely adequate (using some other vague language).
Regardless whether the poster is really a coach or former coach as he/she/it claims, it's interesting that virtually all of these vague criticisms fail to identify even one specific coaching decision that they consider bad or that everybody in the whole world agrees is bad.
The faults with this approach are well known.
The thing of it is, this didn’t become mainstream knowledge until after the fact of 10 championships. Knight knew- he hated the sonofabitch. People today still turn a blind eye to it because everyone loves a feel-good story. Mild mannered coaching genius publishing books on motivation. The SOB motivated his players to sign with UCLA by offering cash and car incentives secretly via alumnus Gilbert. Wooden always had a barn load of studs at his disposal. A lot of coaches could have won with the glamor boys he got year in and year out. You think Purdue doesn’t continue to worship the man, too? Even the refs loved Wooden and his studs, as Downing found out.
Still .. we see year after year highly talented teams underachieving. (Hasn’t that been the lesson of the past few Marchs?) At least Wooden kept them together and motivated, and, as Letterman used to say, it’s something.
A few differences between them and now. Freshmen couldn't play then so every player basically had a redshirt year to learn, develop, and get acclimated to the college game. Players also rarely left school early so it was often experienced talent. This is in contrast to talented but young Duke and UK teams. I think they also had 15 scholarships so teams could stockpile more talent resulting in less parity than today.
He was able to keep them together and motivated with cash incentives. How hard can that be in the 1970’s?
RMK would have only supported his son as his successor in that fashion. Firing RMK did avoid that disaster.
Bennett and Beard are both outstanding coaches but they aren't good
