Mark Turgeon Confirmed New A&M Coach

[patrick_o'brian]

Wow...take your team from 8th in the country to not even an NIT invite with all sorts of team turmoil and parlay THAT into doubling your salary at a bsc school.

His body of work justifies it. Good luck to him at A & M. Hopefully after a couple of good seasons he'll succeed Dollar Bill at KU, and give his old Valley cohorts a shot at the Jayhawks.

Agreed but isn't last season (the one most usually remember) part of that body of work. He lost that team.......

I completely understand A&M is in the Big 12 and is BCS but is it really a better overall job the at WSU? Before Gillespie they were average at best. Even this year, they played at Colorado and not one newspaper reporter accompied the team on its trip. People in College Station dont care about Basketball and around the state the program is a blip. Same as it is in vertually every other city in Texas. Atleast at WSU people care and he was the only thing it town.

He is getting a great raise but Im just not sure he is getting into a better job.

Also, I thought his hiring had to do with his familarity with recruiting in Texas, Southwest area, probably a reason why Lowery might have been talked about but his connections possibly are not very strong in this area of the states.

Yes it is.

[wingrider81]

Never Liked Turgeon

I never cared for Turgeon as a MVC coach. I have strong feelings but not good reasons for that. Still I think that a coach with a strong Texas or California backround could do well at WSU. What's Dan Monson doing? I used to watch him on the sidelines when I had Gonzaga season tickets. Kansas, Dorothy, is a heck of a lot closer to California than Minnesota... At Minnesota, you can't tell a Cali recruit that it's 65 degrees every day.
WSU has the dollars and a little bit of history to lure a strong coach, What's Randy Smithson doing?
WING

[wingrider81]

OOPS I MUFFED

Turgeon is a Jayhawk..

[tornado]

Re: Never Liked Turgeon

I never cared for Turgeon as a MVC coach. I have strong feelings but not good reasons for that. Still I think that a coach with a strong Texas or California backround could do well at WSU. What's Dan Monson doing? I used to watch him on the sidelines when I had Gonzaga season tickets. Kansas, Dorothy, is a heck of a lot closer to California than Minnesota... At Minnesota, you can't tell a Cali recruit that it's 65 degrees every day.
WSU has the dollars and a little bit of history to lure a strong coach, What's Randy Smithson doing?
WING

Wingrider, Dan Monson was just hired as head coach at Long Beach State.

http://www.bradleyfans.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=49461#49461

http://www.bradleyfans.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=7133

Randy Smithson went into coaching at the junior college ranks.
He has been the head coach at Butler County Community College (in Kansas) and just finished his 13th season there (he also coached at Cowley Co.), retiring after a March 8 NJCAA Tournament loss to Coffeyville.

http://grizzlies.butlercc.edu/basketball/mens/

[Da Coach]

It sounds like the players at Wichita State would like to have some say in who the next coach is.
Is anyone else slightly surprised to hear that--
"Junior forward P.J. Couisnard said he has been considering testing the NBA Draft for weeks -- even before Turgeon's situation changed."?

http://www.kansas.com/240/story/40599.html

[Murph]

Good luck Turgeon.

I think he mighta realized it is now or never as the wheels are coming off in Wichita.

Yes just like a rat jumping off a sinking ship.

[OrangeandBlack74]

It sounds like the players at Wichita State would like to have some say in who the next coach is.
Is anyone else slightly surprised to hear that--
"Junior forward P.J. Couisnard said he has been considering testing the NBA Draft for weeks -- even before Turgeon's situation changed."?

http://www.kansas.com/240/story/40599.html

My guess is PJ wanted out of a bad situation at WSU, and since he's a junior, the NBA draft is one of his options. Hard to transfer when you only have one year left to play.