2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

[MaximumSam]

Pope did play there, so that's the connection.

In today's landscape, who wants that job?

Quite honestly, who wants any CFB or CBB job? You have to be a little crazy to want to work in that environment.

$27.5 million over five years to coach basketball? Hey, say all the mean things about me you want

[FearlessF]

amen brother

[847badgerfan]

[FearlessF]

you can ask for anything

start high and let the negotiations begin

[bayareabadger]

Gillis could absolutely contribute at ND.  Figured Morton would transfer down a level.

I don't totally know what to make of Gillis because he seemed most optimized at a place like Purdue. 

He's best as a connector/tough defense floor spacer on a good team. And paradoxically, that has less value on a bad P5. So unless he drops to a lower level where he's a scorer, he's probably best off just moving to somewhere that can surround him better but needs his to fill a gap. 

(He'd be really useful at UW, but would need at least one other specific kind of transfer, and would probably be made redundant by the right two transfers)

[bayareabadger]

Pope did play there, so that's the connection.

In today's landscape, who wants that job?

Quite honestly, who wants any CFB or CBB job? You have to be a little crazy to want to work in that environment.

Thousands of people want those jobs. Many thousands. 

People are motivated by oh so many things.

[MaximumSam]

you can ask for anything

start high and let the negotiations begin

[ELA]

Minnesota has a kid who was just granted an 8th year

[Benthere2]

Minnesota has a kid who was just granted an 8th year

and when he is done we are not going to be able to call him Dr.

[CatsbyAZ]

Kentucky going from Calipari to Mark Pope. All right

Kentucky hiring Pope feels a lot like Kentucky hiring Billy Gillispie from Texas A&M back in 2007. Except with less excitement and less potential upside. Lexington will chew up Mark Pope and spit him out. A placeholder, like Gillispie, until their right guy becomes available. Then, like Gillispie, preemptively chased out of the building. Literally and figuratively.

With that said, Kentucky fans deserve somebody set up for failure because their lunatic expectations absolutely set their coaches up for failure. 

Billy Gillispie lasted two seasons in Lexington:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wFlnRhl_-8

[MaximumSam]

Buckeyes get Aaron Bradshaw from the portal, formerly of Kentucky. 7'2'' center who was a top five recruit a year ago. He pretty much sucked last year, but definitely a big departure from the Holtmann era in the type of guys they are targeting. 

[847badgerfan]

Weird. I thought only Purdue got big guys.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Weird. I thought only Purdue got big guys.

(Actually counting the incoming freshman, we've already got two.)

[bayareabadger]

Buckeyes get Aaron Bradshaw from the portal, formerly of Kentucky. 7'2'' center who was a top five recruit a year ago. He pretty much sucked last year, but definitely a big departure from the Holtmann era in the type of guys they are targeting.

Smart gamble by them.