Potential Coaching Canidates???

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:35 pm

Is Pooch's contract up? (Not to mix threads). Who says he's going anywhere?

Tricky_Falcon · Post by **Tricky_Falcon** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:57 pm

Does your mom work in the athletic department?

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:59 pm

Tricky_Falcon wrote:Does your mom work in the athletic department?

I think she's just an athletic supporter.

BGFalconfromCincy · Post by **BGFalconfromCincy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:35 am

BGorDeath wrote:
BGFalconfromCincy wrote:
BGorDeath wrote:My mom, who watches a lot of college basketball, so she is knowledgable, says Dakich is safe this year and next. AD Christopher cannot come in and can the football, basketball and hockey coaches at the same time
your mom is right the AD isn't go to fire Dakich, but he is not going to resign him
Just got off the phone with mom. She said they would still re-sign the coach. She still doesn't see Christopher filling two major coaching vacancies.

is your mom someone who can see the future, because I think, along with many others think he is only back if we win the MAC

BGorDeath · Post by **BGorDeath** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:47 am

My mom once talked to the athletic director at my high school, plus she owns a Magic 8 Ball. These two facts make he more than qualified to make these assessments about BG sports.

BGFalconfromCincy · Post by **BGFalconfromCincy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:01 pm

BGorDeath wrote:My mom once talked to the athletic director at my high school, plus she owns a Magic 8 Ball. These two facts make he more than qualified to make these assessments about BG sports.

Ok then I have a question, I have talked to high school's AD and used to own a Magic 8 ball, does that make me qualified?

BGorDeath · Post by **BGorDeath** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:54 pm

BGFalconfromCincy wrote:
BGorDeath wrote:My mom once talked to the athletic director at my high school, plus she owns a Magic 8 Ball. These two facts make he more than qualified to make these assessments about BG sports.

Ok then I have a question, I have talked to high school's AD and used to own a Magic 8 ball, does that make me qualified?[/quote)

Sorry, it doesn't. My mom talked to MY high school athletic director. Now, if you had talked to Ron Thill, then you would be qualified. You are almost there.

Jham · Post by **Jham** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:06 pm

Someone mentioned a name that wasn't really repeated. ... Tim Buckley.

Buckley was a helluva coach who got really good players to Ball State. ... And got a raw deal when he was fired, I think.

I think it's be tougher to get kids without Worthen Arena, but that guy was good. ... Also a friend of Dakich's, though, so I'm not sure what factor that would play into it.

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:42 pm

Jham wrote:Someone mentioned a name that wasn't really repeated. ... Tim Buckley.

Buckley was a helluva coach who got really good players to Ball State. ... And got a raw deal when he was fired, I think.

I think it's be tougher to get kids without Worthen Arena, but that guy was good. ... Also a friend of Dakich's, though, so I'm not sure what factor that would play into it.

Didn't he die from a heroin overdose back in the 70s?

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:16 pm

bump, nevermind the previous post.

I like Preston, Montgomery and Martin.

Martin may be the guy. He is from Christophers stomping grounds, is a young african american and noted emotional leader when he played. Seems to be similar to Urbie. He has a cool first name too. We could change our student section to the Cuonzone....or the Cuonzo zone or Cuonzo's corner.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:18 pm

I'd like to see William F Buckley or Shemp Howard. Emmmmm....maybe we could add Bobby Heenan and Tina Louise to the list for balance.

jacojdm · Post by **jacojdm** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:35 pm

Flipper wrote:....maybe we could add Bobby Heenan....

You think folks complain about our out of conference schedule now? Heenan would no doubt only put hamandeggers on our schedule.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:21 pm

OptionQB wrote:I had some extra time in the last few weeks and have been saving my list for a time just like this, so here we go:

-BG Ties
David Greer, Wayne State, as mentioned, my biggest complaint is that he doesn't necessarily "recruit" his athletes, they kinda show up and they are somewhat recruited, could he make the switch to D-1?

Greg Kampe, Oakland, has given Dakich his headaches over the years and actually has a NCAA Tournament win to his credit albeit in a play-in game, but hey it counts. Biggest complaint, he gave John Floyd a D-1 scholarship, but so did Dan, so he can't be all bad. A lot of people in BG have an unfavorable taste in their mouth regarding Kampe's personality from what I'm told. Not exactly the first guy that you would invite over for a beer, beyond that I know very little about him, but that's what I hear.

Steve Merfeld, Evansville, also a head coach and absolutely got jobbed when the Morgantown Experiement fell through. He too has a NCAA Tournament win and has since struggled to find the athletes in Southern Indiana that he had at Hampton. Coached under Larranaga and could be looking to get out of Evansville quickly.

David Hoover, Retired Teacher and Coach at Canton McKinley High School. Before you jump all over me, he won 3 state championships at two different schools and if you coach at Canton McKinley, you know how to recruit. He had something like 8-10 kids go D-1 his last two years. Namely Raymar Morgan, who now starts for Tom Izzo at Michigan State as a freshman. Mr. Hoover has a tremendous winning percentage, is a winner and a BG Alum.

Non-BG guys
John Grobe, Top OSU Assistant, he's probably out of our price range
Geno Ford, Head Coach Muskingum, bald guy from Kent State's staff 2-3 years ago and one of the all-time leading prep scorers in Ohio.

Mark Montgomery, Top Michigan State Assistant
Cuonzo Martin, Top Purdue Assistant, Mr. Christopher knows him well.
Keyna Hunter, Top Xavier Assistant
Reggie Rankin, Dayton Assistant
Patrick Sandle, Pittsburgh Assistant
Jason Rabedeaux, Marquette Assistant
Jay Price, Illinois Assistant
Melvin Watkins, Missouri Assistant and has Head Coaching experience
Pooh Williamson, Wichita State Assistant

Lewis Preston, Assistant at Florida, formerly ND Assistant and reportedly offered the job during the "visit" to Morgantown.

Others that you've never heard of:
Mike Leaf, Winona (Minnesota) State Head Coach, will probably win back to back D-2 titles this year with top ranked club.

Rick Herdes, Southern Indiana, solid coach built perennial D-2 power in Hoosier state.

Ron Hunter, Head Coach at IUPUI, coaches Austin Montgomery, what a joy that must be!

And if we can dig back into the memory bank for two more, some of my personal favorites:

-Larry Hunter, Western Carolina, is absolutely rebuilding horrible program after wrongly being ousted at OU(MAC experience) by recruiting Ohio kids (Got two from D-4 state champion South Webster and one from Canton McKinley last year alone).

-Pete Gillen, currently working for CSTV, (thank you Insight Cable) and was fired at Virgina after building a solid program that was never going to fully compete in the ridiculous ACC and winning at Xavier before anyone won there.

Damn Option...da boy is doing research. That's quite a list.

Zip Watcher · Post by **Zip Watcher** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:08 am

I think you guys are overlooking maybe the best candidate of all. Did you know that the top assistant @ an SEC school, one with head coaching experience, is a BGSU alumn?

Might want to move quickly on this guy, since he's sure to get snapped up one of these days.

ROLL ALONG, you mighty Falcons, at least until 24 Feb.

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:46 am

Zip Watcher wrote:I think you guys are overlooking maybe the best candidate of all. Did you know that the top assistant @ an SEC school, one with head coaching experience, is a BGSU alumn?

Might want to move quickly on this guy, since he's sure to get snapped up one of these days.

ROLL ALONG, you mighty Falcons, at least until 24 Feb.

http://www.hogwired.com/ViewArticle.dbm ... EASON=2006

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