Who should be Wichita State's Head Coach?

[rjl]

Reading the article, it appears that St. John's claim of "for cause" is pretty weak.

According to the termination letter obtained by ESPN, Anderson was fired for "failure to create and support an environment that strongly encourages student-athletes who are in the men's basketball program to meet all university academic requirements," "failure to perform your duties and responsibilities in a manner that reflected positively on St. John's University ... in actions [that] brought serious discredit" to the school and "failure to appropriately supervise and communicate with your assistant coaches."

That's pretty ambiguous. Did some students not make grades? What were student grades before and after Anderson took over? I don't recall seeing any St. Johns players in the news for breaking laws or anything (certainly nothing like NMSU). Unless they have some smoking details, ambiguities in contracts are generally weighed against the party that drafted the contract, which I am assuming was St. Johns.

[TrackSuitAndTie]

Did not see this one coming...

[Shock Top]

woah

[shockerfan]

Did not see this one coming...

Honestly, for South Florida, that is not a bad move at all.

[Kel Varnsen]

Perfect place for a mobster to go in his twilight years.

[Shock Top]

Perfect place for a mobster to go in his twilight years.

Could be worse, they could have sent him to Belize...

where the other Mike went....

[BostonWu]

That's a big time move. Good for the conference.

[SB Shock]

https://sports.yahoo.com/spradlin-si...104600886.html

So the Spradlin fears can be put to rest. He did use possible interest to get a raise.

[ShockTalk]

Perfect place for a mobster to go in his twilight years.

Care to fill me in? Honest question.

[TrackSuitAndTie]

Hopefully this is just because the South Florida AD wants to wait for the announcement and not because he is completely fumbling this situation (which would be on-brand).

[TrackSuitAndTie]

So the Spradlin fears can be put to rest. He did use possible interest to get a raise.

That extension is from March 2022.

[Horn28Clem30]

Per the UNI message board - Devries would be an idiot to come to Wichita because the conference is going to be trash.... umm apparently the Valley is great? Delusion at its finest.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

If they are just hoping to bump Richey to $500K, we should be able to double that at least, no?

No please God no. WSU is out of his league.

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Did not see this one coming...

USF going big if true! That's is an excellent hire.

[shockerfan]

No please God no. WSU is out of his league.

These kind of comments make me laugh. Just who IS in our league? As I see it, we are in the same league as mid-high level P5 jobs. And those are exactly who we are in competition with for these candidates.

Do I personally like other candidates better? Sure, but that is just a personal preference. Doesnt mean those other people we are necessarily out of their league.

I think a Kelsey, Richey, McCasland, DeVries is exactly who we should be targeting.