Colorado State hires Drake head coach Milo Medved

[Da Coach]

Tough break for Drake. Niko Medved, who did a nice job in his one season at Drake is reported to have accepted the head coaching position at Colorado State. He was an assistant coach at Colorado State for 6 years before becoming head coach at Furman.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/22/niko-medved-colorado-state-mens-basketball-coach/

 

[pfcmsh]

Tough Loss

Tough Loss

Yeah I think that hurts. With the players at Drake unchanged much from last year, they really did well. It has to be his coaching. I wonder if there will be mass exodus there as happened when Coach Wardle came in. In our case, it was good riddance I think because those players were picked by Coach Ford.

 

[houstonbrave]

I do worry that Drake and Evansville look like they will be pretty weak next year.

 

[BUBraves 33]

Chicago Simeon forward Messiah Jones has decommitted from Drake and reopened his recruiting with this news breaking today. Pretty nice player.

 

[tornado]

it is being stated that Drake assistant and familiar ex-UNI Panther Ali Farokhmanesh and assistant JR Blount are both leaving Drake to go to Colorado State with Medved
the remaining assistant left behind, Dave Thorson, remains a candidate for the open head coaching spot...and currently is listed as Interim Head Coach.

 

[tornado]

as soon as the new coach takes over at Drake - they have a departure...

both backup centers, Kory Kuentsling and Casey Schlatter have announced they are transferring
This means they will return only one player taller than 6-3 who has spent more than 7 minutes total on the floor
There's also talk that couple of their incoming recruits may reopen as well