Coach Marshall

[Bluzrover]

Here’s a really cool article about Coach Marshall, as long as you ignore the Trey Wade to Georgia visit mistake. CJ Moore wrote a great piece about Teddy last year while we were all waiting for the waiver announcement. It requires a subscription but suffice to say, Gregg ain’t going anywhere.

Gregg Marshall has found contentment at Wichita State — and another gear with his rebuilt roster

https://theathletic.com/938932/2019/04/23/gregg-marshall-has-found-contentment-at-wichita-state-and-another-gear-with-his-rebuilt-roster/

[shocker43]

I hope those Arkansas fans that kept saying it was a done deal read this.

[Stickboy46]

"Coach where you are loved ..... And where they can fly you on a private jet to play golf. You can't do that anywhere"

[RoyalShock]

Marshall was still shaving during the Sherfield and Wade recruitment, cancelling two recruiting visits he had scheduled for this past Monday.

[Bluzrover]

I’m not surprised but I would be interested to know who he was recruiting at that point.

[pinstripers]

My wildazz guess is that it was the 2 grad transfers that we already know about.

[ShockingButTrue]

Yeboah would have been a good addition. 235 lbs. with a 3 pt. jumper. GGG was looking for shooters apparently...

He found 'em!

[wichshock65]

I'm thinking Wichita needs to be sending Coach Kresse the keys to the city.

[WuShock16]

Think back to mid-January 2009. The Shockers started 0-6 in the Valley, losing horribly at Missouri State. It was bound to be 0-8 when league leaders Creighton and Illinois State came to town (except it obviously didn't turn out like that). What was happening? Did we hire the wrong coach?

At that moment in time, if I told you that over the next decade that the Shockers would go to the Final Four, get a 1 seed with a 34-0 record, beat the tar out of the Beakers in the NCAA Tournament, and have 3G turn down (at least) two offers from SEC schools that offered a number that begins with a 4, what insane asylum would have admitted me?

Special times at 21st and Hillside...

[im4wsu]

First mention I remember saying one transfer was due to academics. :confusion:

[pinstripers]

We had heard that before and I believe it was CJ.

[WichitaStateGuy]

Who wants to be the hero & copy the article?

[Shock Top]

I'd love some mail in my inbox as well ;)

[WuShock16]

Shock Top, fine...but you probably will owe me a beverage at TBT games this summer, okay? Haha.

[ShockingButTrue]

Apple core...

[FlyingWheat]

Interesting to hear that 3G would have been more tempted to offers last year, but that year of all years, no one called.

[ShockBand]

While the full article is behind a paywall, I took the 1 year for $29.99 special a couple months ago. I keep the app on my phone so I can read articles in idle time. The writing they have is really good and in depth. At $30 a year it is worth it. I will have to decide next February if it is still worth it at $60 a year. Quality costs money, and quality is worth paying for.

[Bluzrover]

I did the same as I really enjoy the in-depth analysis Seth Keysor provides about the Chiefs. Top notch writing and analysis like that is worth paying for.

[ShockerEngr]

They also allow a couple free articles a month through their phone app

[Shockadaisical]

This article gives a lot of insight into how we have been able to hang onto Marshall. I think it shows the true wisdom of the man, that the almighty dollar and perceived prestige is not everything. He has a good thing going and it is not going to be the same somewhere else. Thankful he sees it that way.

[1979Shocker]

Whenever someone else on here posted an article from theathletic.com a while back, I subscribed in order to read the article. After that, I started getting emails frpm them every so often. I didn't think that would be a problem beause I would just unsubscribe from the emails. I went ahead and unsubscribed, but that didn't help. I guess they ignore your unsubscribe requests because they are still sending me emails. So I won't be subscribing to this.

[Bluzrover]

That’s interesting . The only email I get from them are links to articles that I care about, the Shockers and Chiefs. But I get a butt ton of email from a lot of other spammers I never signed up for so I take it all with a grain of salt.

[FlyingWheat]

Unfortunately they don’t bother to extend a similar courtesy to renewal notices. I forgot about my subscription until I saw the charges a few days after. No email warnings (it’s a whole year between charges) and when I contacted them to cancel and ask for a refund or prorate, they refused, and stuck me with the entire year subscription at full price. The service response was particularly poor. They have high quality content, but I would not do business with them again.

[WuShock Reaper]

I'm not sure about the validity of the article. If Marshall was so content about being here at Wichita State, why did he interview at Arkansas?

[WuShock16]

Who said he “interviewed?” Arkansas contacted his agent. Agent passed along info. 3G thought about it (who wouldn’t at least give it a thought?) but said “No thanks.”

[ShockingButTrue]

I would imagine all coaches "listen" to offers.

Coach K probably "listens" to offers from the Knicks, but makes the right decision.

[WuShock Reaper]

News reports said he was on the campus at the arena interviewing for the head coaching job.

[WstateU]

Many moons ago (probably during the dreadful 90's) WSU basketball was referred to as a "sleeping giant". I even recall a study that showed we had the money/support in the community to support a big-time program. I might be losing it, but an ex KU athletic director (Monty Fredrickson?) worked for a consulting company and they did research for the athletic director at that time. Monty (if I'm thinking of the right guy?) was the spokesperson for the company and might have started the "sleeping giant" reference.

P.S. Monte Johnson (1982-1987) or Bob Frederick (1987-2001) ... it's the $hits getting old.

[Topshock]

Those "internet" reports seemed pretty credible at the time and this story make it very likely they were true.

Most on this board said back there was no way GM would take an Arkansas job offer seriously. It seems likely that he did now.

[WstateU]

I’m sure his agent is serious about all inquiries/offers; that’s his job and potentially more cha-ching for him too. I don’t care what has been reported; HCGM wasn’t going to Arkansas... it’s wise to trust old WstateU.

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