Chris Datres

Maybe this is the impetus we finally need to change the offense and get away from that plodding throw it to the post, back em down game. Nah, who am I kidding. That ain't changing.

Luke Murray would be a really good get for any school with an opening. Hurley calls him the offensive coordinator of those efficient sets and he had the scout for the Purdue game.

So clockball isn't only for the basketball team?

And now we're getting sloppy.

I just hope you're not sitting near the speaker with the goal horn, Mat.

I love that we have all this offense now. We had a number of lean years in the last few in that department.

Treating Hofstra like a baby treats a diaper.

I was looking forward to him in a Louisville uniform.

So if the conference season is spring training, do we call the non-con season the Hot Stove League?

Having the NIL all-stars won’t mean anything if they’re not developed correctly or toss up dud efforts. Supposed ‘meh’ players can be turned into all-conference players with the right development. We’ve failed with that.

That's the sign you're a great mid-major program -- have a guy get you to the promised land and then they get hired by a basketball desert and they flame out in 3 years while you reload with another young up-and-comer and do it again a couple years later. Not many successful mid-majors outside of Gonzaga keep their coaches around longer than 1-2 years after they go to the Tournament since everyone likes to snap up the hot name. Few realized what he had in Spokane and wasn't swayed by crap programs in major conferences throwing big money figures at him. You can't blame these guys from a bank account perspective but some of the decisions from a basketball perspective didn't pan out.

The best parallel example to Skerry is Tod Kowalczyk at Toledo. I outlined this a couple weeks ago -- He's been there as long as Skerry has been here and Toledo has been the 1 seed in each of the last 4 MAC Tournaments. They've lost every time. Their tournament drought is longer than ours. And I read today that Kowalczyk is being talked about for the job at Utah State.

Citing James Jones in that list might be pushing it a little bit because it's the Ivy League. They'll fire a scientist for not producing a Nobel winner faster than they'll fire a basketball coach. Here's the last time each Ivy League school fired their basketball coach for on-court performance: Penn -- 2009 (Jerome Allen had some shady stuff going on and ended up getting a 15-year show cause from the NCAA) Princeton -- at least 1945 Columbia -- 2003 Cornell -- 2016 (contract not renewed) Yale -- at least 1947 Harvard -- 2007 Brown -- 2012 Dartmouth -- 2016

1991 was their last time too. Here's their roster -- https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/louisiana-tech/men/1991.html

That would be correct. Columbia & Dartmouth have only had 8 years of Ivy League Tournaments in order to get to the championship round. All the others have had plenty of time.