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Very strange. Steve Prohm is just 50 years old. I wonder if he's fed up with all the NIL stuff and transferring players that many coaches hate dealing with.
 
yoda said:
(just a question out of left field- what if they offer the position to one of the Bradley assistants??)
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They'd be stupid to take this job instead of waiting for a much better one. Whoever accepts the head coaching job at Chicago State is committing suicide with his career.

Just my opinion.
 
Da Coach said:
Very strange. Steve Prohm is just 50 years old. I wonder if he's fed up with all the NIL stuff and transferring players that many coaches hate dealing with.
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He was a good evaluator of talent but not a good coach IMO. His last team at Iowa State won 2 games all year but none in conference.
 
I don’t disagree but I also think Murray is struggling to adjust to the Valley. The fan base etc is used to the OVC and only wondering if they would beat Belmont or have a disappointing 2nd place finish. The
Valley is a different beast with every night a fight. You just don’t win every year.
 
NC State fires Kevin Keats
Here’s the interesting part- less than a year ago in 2024, he led NC State to the FINAL FOUR!!
It’s almost as if they consulted Joanne Glasser on this one.
Ben McCollum already being mentioned..

Campbell fires Kevin McGeehan after 12 years
 
yoda said:
NC State fires Kevin Keats
Here’s the interesting part- less than a year ago in 2024, he led NC State to the FINAL FOUR!!
It’s almost as if they consulted Joanne Glasser on this one.
Ben McCollum already being mentioned..

Campbell fires Kevin McGeehan after 12 years
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I would guess McCollum wont be at Drake next year
 
yoda said:
NC State fires Kevin Keats
Here’s the interesting part- less than a year ago in 2024, he led NC State to the FINAL FOUR!!
It’s almost as if they consulted Joanne Glasser on this one.
Ben McCollum already being mentioned..

Campbell fires Kevin McGeehan after 12 years
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He was getting fired last year until that improbable run through conf tourney to final 4.
 
There are about to be a lot of new coaching vacancies over the next couple weeks.

Here is an interesting list of the Top 3 Coaches on the Hot Seat - https://www.sportskeeda.com/college...asketball-coaches-hot-seat-feat-steve-pikiell

There are a lot of other articles speculating on what coaches will be getting fired, so don't put too much weight on one guy's opinion.
But note that his #1 coach on the "hot seat" is Steve Pikiell at Rutgers. Rutgers started the season ranked # 25 in the AP Top 25, and rose to # 24, before their season started downhill. He has two of the top 3 freshmen in the class of 2024 (Dylan Harper & Ace Bailey), and they were expected to be much better than they have turned out to be. They were picked to finish 7th in the 18-team Big Ten this year. That preseason poll placed Rutgers ahead of teams like Wisconsin, Maryland, and Michigan, all of which are now at the top of the Big Ten, while Rutgers (8-12) is in 11th place going into the final weekend, and they are just 1 game away from finishing as low as 16th.
To make matters worse, Pikiell's two top players, Harper and Bailey, are expected to declare for this year's NBA Draft, and they are favorites to be picked in the top-3 lottery selections.
2025 NBA Mock Drafts-
>> https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/st...intel-all-59-first-second-round-picks-players
>> https://www.nbadraft.net/nba-mock-drafts/
>> https://www.nba.com/news/bleacher-report-new-2025-mock-draft-eyes-upcoming-bevy-of-talent

So if Rutgers decides to go with a new coaching staff, what might that mean for the other players on the roster? As we know, one of the players has Peoria connections, and chose Rutgers because of the coaching staff. - https://rutgerswire.usatoday.com/20...ommerville-pick-rutgers-basketball-this-week/
 
Da Coach said:
There are about to be a lot of new coaching vacancies over the next couple weeks.

Here is an interesting list of the Top 3 Coaches on the Hot Seat - https://www.sportskeeda.com/college...asketball-coaches-hot-seat-feat-steve-pikiell

There are a lot of other articles speculating on what coaches will be getting fired, so don't put too much weight on one guy's opinion.
But note that his #1 coach on the "hot seat" is Steve Pikiell at Rutgers. Rutgers started the season ranked # 25 in the AP Top 25, and rose to # 24, before their season started downhill. He has two of the top 3 freshmen in the class of 2024 (Dylan Harper & Ace Bailey), and they were expected to be much better than they have turned out to be. They were picked to finish 7th in the 18-team Big Ten this year. That preseason poll placed Rutgers ahead of teams like Wisconsin, Maryland, and Michigan, all of which are now at the top of the Big Ten, while Rutgers (8-12) is in 11th place going into the final weekend, and they are just 1 game away from finishing as low as 16th.
To make matters worse, Pikiell's two top players, Harper and Bailey, are expected to declare for this year's NBA Draft, and they are favorites to be picked in the top-3 lottery selections.
2025 NBA Mock Drafts-
>> https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/st...intel-all-59-first-second-round-picks-players
>> https://www.nbadraft.net/nba-mock-drafts/
>> https://www.nba.com/news/bleacher-report-new-2025-mock-draft-eyes-upcoming-bevy-of-talent

So if Rutgers decides to go with a new coaching staff, what might that mean for the other players on the roster? As we know, one of the players has Peoria connections, and chose Rutgers because of the coaching staff. - https://rutgerswire.usatoday.com/20...ommerville-pick-rutgers-basketball-this-week/
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That would be tremendous if he followed in his dad's footsteps.
 
ESPN article that mentions Iowa possibly moving on from Fran McCaffery. The two potential candidates they mention are Darian DeVries of West Virginia (formerly of Drake) and Ben McCollum (currently of Drake) - https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...5#:~:text=Iowa Hawkeyes,be obvious candidates.


By the way, Marcellus Sommerville was inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame this past weekend in St. Louis.
Congratulations to Cellus, one of Bradley's all-time greats! - https://x.com/BradleyUMBB/status/1898101533113282944

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If Rutgers does part ways with their coach, wonder if Lathan Sommerville would consider entering the portal and maybe commit to BU. Know the BU coaches were on him hard to come to Bradley. So maybe just maybe it might happen. If that were to happen he would be an immediate starter with everybody we are losing on this year's team. We shall see what happens.:p
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