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Topic: Realistic Expectations for MAC Coaches in 2018 & Beyond

Topic: Realistic Expectations for MAC Coaches in 2018 & Beyond

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cbus cat fan
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Realistic Expectations for MAC Coaches in 2018 & Beyond

Posted: 1/29/2018 9:16:49 PM

For purposes of full disclosure; I view myself as an optimist which has helped m get through life's rough patches. However, I do not own a pair of rose colored glasses because like unbridled negative thinking, wishful thinking can also get you into trouble. The MAC, especially basketball has seemingly been at a crossroads for some time. We are a 1 bid NCAA conference amidst a slew of conferences and ever growing number of Division schools, the latest tally is 351. Thirty years ago when I was an undergrad, that number was almost half of what it is today.

In the 80s, we had coaches like Ohio's Danny Nee and Ball State's Rick Majerus. They both went on to do bigger and better things and both schools remember their years fondly, perhaps the Cardinals more so because of Majerus' recent passing and because they never made another run like the one they made when he or his successor Dick Hunsaker made the year following Majerus' exit. It seems we also don't have the cast of characters we once did a la Bobby Nichols or Charlie Coles.

Jim Larranaga, John Groce, Jim Christian and Keith Dambrot also moved on but the question is will the MAC ever get back to the level of success it once had? Is this because there are 351 Division I schools? Is this just the basketball world we live in today, or are we selling our programs short? Below are a couple of interesting links; one concerning Pitt's decline and Duquesne's rise in the city of Pittsburgh and the other about Boston College's best start in seven years. What are the MAC's realistic expectations about keeping quality coaches?

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/zeise-is-right/2018/01...

http://bcheights.com/2018/01/20/inside-boston-college-men... /

Last Edited: 1/29/2018 9:25:10 PM by cbus cat fan

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RE: Realistic Expectations for MAC Coaches in 2018 & Beyond

Posted: 1/29/2018 9:30:07 PM

EAST
Huger fired after this year
Senderoff gets to finish out his career at Kent winning 18 games a year with an NCAA trip every 8 years.
Groce uses Akron as another stepping stone to somewhere like St. Bonaventure
Saul is gone in 2 years either to another program or fired
Miami coach (I hate saying this) turns program around and moves on
Oats is gone if Beefs make NCAA this year..probably AAC or Atlantic 10

WEST
Keno is gone in two years
Rob Murphy is fired after this year
Whitmore moves on to greener pastures
Kowalczyk takes a job eerily similar to Toledo but only because he is always mediocre but not horrible
Montgomery gets one more year and is fired
Hawkins retires from Western

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