Coaching Changes

[WuDrWu]

Turgeon v Wichita State next year, I hope.

This has to happen. Actually, looking at the teams, very easily it could be the 1-8 or 2-7 matchup.

[pinstripers]

I would be very surprised if HCGM took the TA&M job. I would be somewhat surprised if he was offered the TA&M job. I would be shocked if his name was not mentioned a lot.

[Kung Wu]

What was Turg's salary there? That and the conference are the only draws. They are big draws, but every single thing else about the move is a step backwards.

I'm not sure it's the upgrade that Larry had convinced Turg it was.

Well actually I am only assuming everything else is a step backwards, but I don't really know -- I'd defer to RDR -- what else other than money and conference is clearly a step up from WSU?

[Good News]

He got bumped to $2 Mil after last season if memory serves.

I would have to imagine that the problem was mostly the fan base - combine Turge choking up in a press conference when talking about the fans in Wichita with some of the comments he made during this season, and you have a recipe for discontentment.

This was a topic of discussion during the season with Aggie friends of mine; we went to a game in College Station on a Saturday as we do every year and the arena wasn't even full. Turge made a couple of pretty harsh comments in another postgame interview - after a win - about how the fan support wasn't what it should be. The announcers commented on it in other games.

For a school with 45K students that prides themselves on not being t-shirt fans (the UT fan base tends to triple during good seasons and halve during bad - football OR basketball) and supporting every Aggie endeavor, they came up short in their support of a nationally ranked basketball program that had made 6 straight tournament appearances.

Turge wants to be at a basketball first school, and now he is. I wish him luck and thank him for what he did at Wichita State.

Now all I need to do is email Dollar Bill and explain that if he wants Marshall I'm going to run him off the road before he gets to the Red River...

[rjl]

What was Turg's salary there? That and the conference are the only draws. They are big draws, but every single thing else about the move is a step backwards.

I'm not sure it's the upgrade that Larry had convinced Turg it was.

Well actually I am only assuming everything else is a step backwards, but I don't really know -- I'd defer to RDR -- what else other than money and conference is clearly a step up from WSU?

If Turge was as frustrated and "held back" by the culture at aTm as he says he was, he still made the NCAA Tournament every year he was there.

He was "free to be" at WSU and only made the Tournament once.

You can probably file that in the "conference affiliation" benefit you mentioned, but it probably deserves a benefit category of its own.

[SubGod22]

He held himself back here.

[rjl]

He held himself back here.

:roll:


Even if he did, the fact remains that you have to be an excellent team to make the Tournament from the Valley but you can be a mid-pack Big XII team and make it.

[RoyalShock]

Southern Miss replaced Heiar with Ross Hodge from Midland College. That means Matt Braeuer may be looking for work.

http://southernmiss.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1220331

[Ta town]

Southern Miss replaced Heiar with Ross Hodge from Midland College. That means Matt Braeuer may be looking for work.

http://southernmiss.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1220331

Or maybe he gets the HC got at midland.

[wu_shizzle]

Tubby to A&M, Ben Jacobson to Minnesota?

[wusphlash]

Tubby to A&M, Ben Jacobson to Minnesota?

Tubby's on the downward slide to retirement. It would be Spinelli before Tubby.

[SubGod22]

Tubby to A&M, Ben Jacobson to Minnesota?

Tubby's on the downward slide to retirement. It would be Spinelli before Tubby.

That would be a huge mistake by aTm.

[Shox21]

FROM ESPN RUMORS:


With Williams and Pastner out of the picture, Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle reports that Colorado's Tad Boyle, Wichita State's Gregg Marshall and Nebraska's Doc Sadler could be top candidates for the Aggies' job.

Boyle has roots in Colorado and is good friends with Mark Turgeon, and it's unclear whether that could play a role in his interest for the job, but he may be looking for a raise to his reported $590,000 salary in 2010-11. Sadler signed a two-year extension at Nebraska in mid-March, and made $800,000 last season with the Cornhuskers. He is an Arkansas native familiar with the Texas landscape. Marshall already turned down the NC State job and is set to make a reported $750,000 through the 2013-14 season.

[Ricardo del Rio]

FROM ESPN RUMORS:


With Williams and Pastner out of the picture, Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle reports that Colorado's Tad Boyle, Wichita State's Gregg Marshall and Nebraska's Doc Sadler could be top candidates for the Aggies' job.

Boyle has roots in Colorado and is good friends with Mark Turgeon, and it's unclear whether that could play a role in his interest for the job, but he may be looking for a raise to his reported $590,000 salary in 2010-11. Sadler signed a two-year extension at Nebraska in mid-March, and made $800,000 last season with the Cornhuskers. He is an Arkansas native familiar with the Texas landscape. Marshall already turned down the NC State job and is set to make a reported $750,000 through the 2013-14 season.

Sometimes one has to wonder how writers dream up this stuff. What they don't know, they make up.

[ISASO]

Why is an Arkansas native automatically an expert in the State of Texas? Is everyone in Kansas an expert in the State of Colorado?

You nailed it, RDR. That's a big steaming pile. There's no more than 30 seconds worth of research behind all of that.