Mark Turgeon to Maryland

[Doug Collins]

WTH? Liucci (texags.com) is apparently reporting that Jeff Van Gundy is a potential candidate for the job.

I don't know if he's drunk or what, but I wish this whole search was over already. I've wasted too much time over the course of just a few days trying to follow it.

Van Gundy would be ing terrible.

[Thompson]

Van Gundy would be ing terrible.

Hypothetically (since it won't happen) you don't think his ability to recruit (which I assume would be huge, considering every kid in the U.S. knows who he is and that he coached in the NBA) would outweigh whatever coaching deficiencies he has? Is he that bad of a coach?

The reported possibilities are all over the place now. Two more potential candidates are Johnny Jones and Bob Marlin.

[Doug Collins]

Hypothetically (since it won't happen) you don't think his ability to recruit (which I assume would be huge, considering every kid in the U.S. knows who he is and that he coached in the NBA) would outweigh whatever coaching deficiencies he has? Is he that bad of a coach?

The reported possibilities are all over the place now. Two more potential candidates are Johnny Jones and Bob Marlin.

I honestly dont think he has the patience to deal with college kids nor the charisma to be a very good recruiter. Name recognition is huge, but I think he'd get burned out pretty quick from the year round grind of college coaching. I really don't feel his personality or style is a good fit for the college game.

I think he's a very good coach just not one necessarily suited for the college game. I'd rather Byrne promote Spinelli or hire a mid-major guy.

[florige]

As a Terps fan is this guy Turgeon a good recruiter? That was our gripe here with Gary Williams. He was a heck of a X's and O's coach, but he was reluctant to ever go after blue chip talent. Especially after we won the Nat'l Championship in 02. Durant, Gay, Melo, and a few other area talent chose to go elsewhere.

[Blake]

Van Gundy would be ing terrible.

Initially, it would be great to get a well known guy like VG in there, but in the long run, I'd agree.

Van Gundy has no college head coaching experience and really hasn't accomplished in the NBA.

[coyotes_geek]

As a Terps fan is this guy Turgeon a good recruiter? That was our gripe here with Gary Williams. He was a heck of a X's and O's coach, but he was reluctant to ever go after blue chip talent. Especially after we won the Nat'l Championship in 02. Durant, Gay, Melo, and a few other area talent chose to go elsewhere.

He was a decent recruiter for A&M, considering who A&M is in the college basketball world, but that's a much lower bar than what expectations at Maryland will be. No one at A&M seriously expected Turgeon to get kids away from Kansas or Texas, but I'd think Maryland fans will be expecting him to get some kids away from Duke & UNC. I'm not sure he's up to that task.

[florige]

He was a decent recruiter for A&M, considering who A&M is in the college basketball world, but that's a much lower bar than what expectations at Maryland will be. No one at A&M seriously expected Turgeon to get kids away from Kansas or Texas, but I'd think Maryland fans will be expecting him to get some kids away from Duke & UNC. I'm not sure he's up to that task.

Its not just that, all we ask for here is to be able to keep some of our local kids here. Like I said Durant, Gay, Carmelo, Jeff Green, Michael Beasley, and a few others I know I am forgetting didn't even consider MD as a school because they said that GW didn't bother to recruit them. None of those guys went to UNC or Duke.

[Thompson]

Liucci is reporting Van Gundy wants to stay with the NBA (shocking, I know), so I guess we'll go with one of the other guys. That narrows it down to about 8 we know about, and probably some we don't.

Hopefully now that we've moved past that 'option' things will accelerate and we'll have someone in the next day or so.

According to Liucci, Ben Jacobson from Northern Iowa might be the next top target.

[Doug Collins]

Liucci is reporting Van Gundy wants to stay with the NBA (shocking, I know), so I guess we'll go with one of the other guys. That narrows it down to about 8 we know about, and probably some we don't.

Hopefully now that we've moved past that 'option' things will accelerate and we'll have someone in the next day or so.

According to Liucci, Ben Jacobson from Northern Iowa might be the next top target.

Now that all the unrealistic candidates have said no, I think we'll have someone by the end of the weekend. I don't know how I feel about Jacobson, I'd rather we go after someone with more Texas ties or just stick with Spinelli.

[Thompson]

Now that all the unrealistic candidates have said no, I think we'll have someone by the end of the weekend. I don't know how I feel about Jacobson, I'd rather we go after someone with more Texas ties or just stick with Spinelli.

I might actually prefer we try someone other than Spinelli. He was an assistant coach when our ball movement was horrible and our primary offensive set seemed to be Dash Harris dribbling out the shot clock and firing 3's at a 9% clip. Even if that was primarily Turgeon's fault, I'd rather not have anyone involved take over. Hopefully a new coach will not have any reservations benching Harris in favor of Branch.

I also don't know that Spinelli is that great of a recruiter. Branch and Green are good, but they've been committed for a while and we haven't made any headway in future classes. The only annoying thing about the current crop of candidates is that for all the positive information I can find for them, there's at least one person who insists that particular coach would kill the program, and I don't know enough about any of them to make a determination.

[Thompson]

Billy Kennedy is heading to an interview with A&M.

http://www.midmajormadness.com/2011/...with-texas-a-m