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Why
didn’t you give a list of potential Suckeye coaching candidates for the hoops
job?
Well, frankly, I had written the last post over the period
of about a week and I had been meaning to post it and the Thad Motta story broke
and I just sort of threw it in there.
However, since you asked, I’ve been listening to and reading quite a bit
about who the ideal candidates are.
What I was going to originally post last week:
Either of the Millers: Sean has the Number 1 team coming back to
Arizona. Archie literally just started
at Indiana. The odds on either of those
guys leaving their current or new position is 500 to 1,000 to 1. In MMPG’s words: Not gonna’ happen…
Marshall
(Witchy State): Another extremely long
shot that gets the Kansas and K-State dregs which is pretty nice dregs. He believes with a little luck he can take
Witchy State to the promised land. MMPG
odds: 400-1.
Holtmann
(Butler HC): Butler has been a stepping
stone for many successful coaches, but Holtmann is another long shot for this position
due to his background and the fact that the ole MMPG believes he’s been at
Butler TOO Long…Meaning: why hasn’t
anyone else at a large power grabbed him?
MMPG odds: 250-1
McDermott
(Creighton): This is
getting a lot of buzz and it sort of makes sense. McDermott and Gene Smith have a history when
they worked together at Iowa State.
Rumors are the offer has been extended and a new coach will be on OSU
campus on TODAY. Something of a MSM favorite, the MMPG will go
along with this and give him 1-1 odds…
The
Field: The MMPG will give
anyone that’s currently a head coach in a mid-major or major program pretty
good odds, figure around 15-1 for the field.
If you pick somebody and want to lay money…let the FMQ know!!!
OBVIOUS
CHOICE: This is
why you read the MMPG. There’s a
coach available RIGHTNOW that was once considered a huge up and comer
who took a major job at a Blue Blood Basketball school and inherited a mess. He recruited well enough to get fired (HT:
Dan Dakich) and also had some success but bad luck with injury. Gene Smith will more than likely talk to this
guy and like what he hears. Tom
Crean. Odds: 5-1
What
Happened: Offered
McDermott and depending on what you believe, spoke with the Millers. Finally
offered and settled on Holtmann, which is kind of surprising to the
MMPG, but not that much. Just had him at
longer odds than some of the other guys…
E-mails…
Michigan
Baseball really tanked at the end of the season, losing 4 straight.
Yep. Not to mention the Women’s Softball team also lost in
ugly fashion… College Baseball and Softball are screwy. Usually the best teams throughout the season
have a hard time surviving the College World Series. Bracket play in these sports is difficult
because no one knows when other teams (or your team for that matter) bats are going
to heat up. Michigan went into a hitting
slump at the wrong time and paid the price.
Softball was a little different as RHP Betsa simply tanked at the end of
the season. I blame Hutch for that as
she rode
Betsa HARD all season thinking she was a work horse and it turns out
she was throwing her best stuff mid-season.
Hutch needs to think about her pitchers and not assume every kid is the
same…
Bob
Stoops OUT! Is the MMQ going to comment?
Well, yeah. Of
Course…It’s a legend who everyone thought was probably going to coach for
another 10-15 years it comes as a bit of a surprise. But once you learned that the 56 year old HC’s Dad died on the
Football field from a Heart Attack at 54, well, its that kind of shit that
puts things into perspective. I’ve
always felt that Stoops would be great as a color guy in the booth or even in
the home studio doing analysis. What I’d
really like to see? Something with
College Football Final that gets us back to the Mark May and Lou Holtz days….Never
thought I’d ever type that. But
ESPN lost a lot of audience with the 3 boobs they have doing it now, even
though two of them have been fired in the last round of ESPN lay-offs. Bob should be scooped up by ESPN and do
something just like Gruden is doing now, but have it focus on all
players and teams at the collegiate level.
Give him freedom to explore college football and all its quirks and
idiosyncrasies and you’ll have something people will watch. Maybe something like the BTN’s “The Journey”.
Anyway, Seems like the Laters have their guy in Lincoln
Riley and the MMQ loves the alliteration…
Lincoln’s
Laters - Expect to see it often.
Twitter: Spartan Spiral
Continues…..
(HT: www.mgoblog.com)
What is even going on in East Lansing. Another gent who won't be playing for MSU this
year:
Former Michigan State lineman Cassius Peat says
he felt "blindsided" earlier this week when coaches told him he
didn't have a spot on the team less than a week from when he was supposed to
report to East Lansing.
Peat told the Detroit Free Press that Michigan
State coaches informed him Wednesday that he shouldn't return to campus for
summer workouts.
"I have respect for them, and I
understand it's a business," Peat told the Free Press. "But morally,
man, as a 20-year-old kid with a family, for them to do that is -- I can't even
put it into words, to be honest."
Peat was the ultra-rare JUCO guy who was set
to return to his original school. Since he is an ambulatory person large enough
to play DL and Michigan State looks set to have two walk-ons on their DE depth
chart, this could not have been voluntary on MSU's part. Peat must have failed
to get by the Clearinghouse.
The number of players MSU has lost to
offseason attrition is truly prodigious:
·
OL Thiyo Lukusa: quits team, says he's giving up football, ends
up at JUCO.
·
S Drake Martinez: probably a playing time transfer
·
DE Donovan Winter: dropped after armed burglary charge
·
LB Jon Reshcke: dropped N-bomb on teammate
·
WR Donnie Corley: charged with criminal sexual conduct
·
DE Josh King: charged with criminal sexual conduct
·
S Demetric Vance: charged with criminal sexual conduct
·
DE Auston Robertson, charged with criminal sexual conduct
·
DT Cassius Peat: probably not qualified?
·
CB Kaleel Gaines: JUCO transfer, academics related?
·
S Kenney Lyke: another JUCO transfer, academics related?
That might not be it, either. MSU's Scout site
reported that CB Vayante Copeland and DE Robert Bowers were gone as well;
Dantonio directly refuted that report but when insider sites report negative
news there's almost always something to it. If those guys do end up gone MSU
will be down almost an entire recruiting class of guys they expected to be on
the team this fall. Add in the dismal finish to MSU's 2017 class and they're
going to go into this season with a roster as depleted as a sanctioned PSU
program was a few years back.
So,
MGoBlog.com has more or less summarized pretty nicely what a
train wreck the Sparty Football program has become. I’m still not sure why everyone is handing
Marc Anthony a “Vote of confidence” as this, in my opinion, is all on him.
In
fact, if I was an “uber” sparty fan, I think I’d be asking the question: What the Foxtrot is going on in East
Lansing?
If the buck doesn’t stop with Marcus Aurelius, where does
it stop? Hollis? I mean, they dismissed an assistant coach who
allegedly organized the sex romp for the three dismissed players that are
claiming it was consensual and that the video of the event will exonerate them. But the three still violated what’s becoming
a morally shaky ground with respect to Title IX and schools stating that while
the sex might have been consensual, multi-partner sex is against the
rules.
I’m not questioning the sexual practices of any individuals
and if you’re a chick who’s looking to or into hooking up for a three or four
way at a party with 3 football players, so be it. Again, The question is: Why are so many players in today’s day and
age eagerly willing to jump into this type of situation after Louisville, Baylor,
Minnesota and other reports have only shown that it can’t possibly end well…even
if it’s consensual?
On top of that, what’s with the other issues, burglary,
name calling, race issues, etc? What in
Muddy Waters green heaven is going on and are things that bad in spartyland? And fergodsakes, when and how did this
begin? Usually stuff like this doesn’t “happen
overnight” and it’s a symptom of something much bigger and much more sinister….
Whatever. I’m still asking the same question: Why is D’angelo getting a free pass?
Another question is, where’s the men behind the kids that are
trying to make these individuals better people by teaching them the “right
thing to do?”
Its simple common sense.
And I also understand that eventually individuals need to
be responsible for their own actions.
But how can this be a recurring thing over and over and over?
And nobody is being called out on it.
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