If we make a hire just to keep current players why did we change coaches in the first place?
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Wish List - Our Next Coach
- Thread starter PTownHawkeye
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If we make a hire just to keep current players why did we change coaches in the first place?
my real question was why would he be such a bad hire?
Todd Lickliter would be an interesting hire. He doesn't need the BIG bucks because The University of Iowa will still be paying him for a few more years. Lickliter was 131-61 in his six years as head coach at Butler. His teams advanced to the NCAA Sweet sixteen TWICE and also made two NIT appearances. His Butler team also finished first in the Horizon Conference in three of his six years as head coach. He may be a bit older (56) than the ideal hire, but I think he would be a good choice.
I would LOVE to get Todd Lickliter. Seriously, if we got him I would eat every ounce of crow you could put in front of me. Best suggestion I've seen.
The only reason anyone is a bad hire - because others are better.
Agreed, excellent suggestion.
ancona flash
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Amen! Lickliter would be a proven winner at this level, hungry to redeem himself, Midwest roots, experienced.
As for Wayne McClain, the time came and went. Could he work out? Maybe. Just doesn't feel right.
Jerrance? No way. Not yet.
Lickliter is the type of guy I'd like to see.
SaintLouBrave22
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Braves4Life
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Ummm, he was a proven winner at Butler, recruited successfully at the mid-major level, handed off a successful program to an assistant that he groomed, and that program is still successful. I think he'd make a pretty good hire..... though I doubt we could afford him.
ancona flash
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Proven success at a small private Midwestern university in a mid major conference. A school with eerie similarities to Bradley. Head coaching experience 3 hrs to the west of PIA and 3 hrs to the east of PIA, so he's familiar with the area when it comes to recruiting, relationships, ect. He's succeeded, and he's failed, so one has to assume the man knows what works and what doesn't.
We've all coveted Butler's success from afar, why not get a guy who's seen it first hand and see if he can duplicate it here?
No you're fine. I think he brings a history of winning at the mid-major level, has an eye for talent equivalent to that of JL's and is a better X's and O's guy. And he does a better job recruiting to a system, rather than the best player available. He did not succeed at Iowa but I think that is a tough job actually, how do you recruit to Iowa with the like of MSU, U of I, OSU, Wisky, in the same conference and no in-state recruiting to speak of?
If we made a hire like Lickliter I think it would render my number one reason for wanting JL to stay which is fear of a worse hire.
Bradleyguy10
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From the Parker Executive Search website:
http://www.parkersearch.com/search-process_athletics.html
"The Parker Executive Search Athletic Search Process demands confidentiality and we complete most coach searches within 10-14 days..."
http://www.parkersearch.com/search-process_athletics.html
"The Parker Executive Search Athletic Search Process demands confidentiality and we complete most coach searches within 10-14 days..."
My exact thoughts!!!:-D
PTownHawkeye
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As an Iowa (Bradley first, then Iowa...you all know this) alum/fan, I have spent the better part of the past 2 seasons hoping Lickliter would be gone. My wish finally came true last March. Hearing his name brings up a lot of bad memories. True, he looks like a great coach on paper and was very successful at Butler.
However, after watching 50+ games he has coached over the past 3 years, I am steadfastly against hiring him, and believe there are better candidates out there. I think any Iowa fans on this board (jeffsu, care to weigh in?) would agree.
I have many, many reasons for feeling this way...but I am working through them in my head to try to discern whether my opinions about his coaching (in)ability stem from him being a terrible fit for Iowa, or from him simply being inept.
I'll need to sleep on this one...
However, after watching 50+ games he has coached over the past 3 years, I am steadfastly against hiring him, and believe there are better candidates out there. I think any Iowa fans on this board (jeffsu, care to weigh in?) would agree.
I have many, many reasons for feeling this way...but I am working through them in my head to try to discern whether my opinions about his coaching (in)ability stem from him being a terrible fit for Iowa, or from him simply being inept.
I'll need to sleep on this one...
That guy is synonymous with what is wrong with college basketball, I cringed every time somebody mentioned he was in town.
I was thinking the same thing with Sloan and you may as well throw in Larry Brown. :lol:
Well, at least one of the "wish list" guys is fairly closely tied to WWW.
My opinion is Bradley needs to look for a new coach that has been either an asst. coach or very successful head coach that has been recruiting and coaching in the mid-west over the last several seasons, anybody that has not been in this area will not have strong enough recruiting ties to get the players out of Chicago, St.Louis, Indy or any of the other mid-west cities.