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Jason Svoboda

Jason Svoboda

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Arkansas-Little Rock - Wes Flanigan (Story)
Arkansas State - Grant McCasland (Story)
Army - Jimmy Allen (Story)
Central Connecticut State - Donyell Marshall (Story)
Columbia - Jim Engles (Story)
Cornell -
Dartmouth -
Delaware -
Denver - Rodney Billups (Story)
Detroit -
Drexel - Zack Spiker (Story)
Georgia Tech - Josh Pastner (Story)
Jacksonville State - Ray Harper (Story)
James Madison - Louis Rowe (Story)
Memphis - Tubby Smith (Story)
Milwaukee - LaVall Jordan (Story)
Nicholls State -
NJIT - Brian Kennedy (Story)
Oklahoma State - Brad Underwood (Story)
Pacific - Damon Stoudamire (Story)
Pitt - Kevin Stallings (Story)
Portland - Terry Porter (Story)
Prairie View A&M - Byron Smith (Story)
Rutgers - Steve Pikiell (Story)
Saint Louis - Travis Ford (Story)
San Fransisco - Kyle Smith (Story)
Santa Clara - Herb Sendek (Story)
South Dakota State - TJ Otzelberger (Story)
Southern Utah - Todd Simon (Story)
Stanford - Jerod Haase (Story)
Stephen F. Austin - Kyle Keller (Story)
Stony Brook - Jeff Boals (Story)
TCU - Jamie Dixon (Story)
Texas Tech - Chris Beard (Story)
Tulane - Mike Dunleavy (Story)
UAB - Robert Eshan (Story)
UCF - Johnny Dawkins (Story)
UMBC - Ryan Odom (Story)
UNLV -
UTRGV - Lew Hill (Story)
UTSA - Steve Henson (Story)
Valpo - Matt Lottich (Story)
Vanderbilt - Bryce Drew (Story)
Western Kentucky - Rick Stansbury (Story)
Wisconsin - Greg Gard (Story)
Wright State - Scott Nagy (Story)
Wyoming - Allen Edwards (Story)
 
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The Wisconsin opening is just a formality. Gard will get the job but because it is a state school, and state laws say there has to be a posting and interviews. Basically they have to go find a few people who are willing to get interviewed for a job they have no chance of getting.
 
Bluethunder said:
The Wisconsin opening is just a formality. Gard will get the job but because it is a state school, and state laws say there has to be a posting and interviews. Basically they have to go find a few people who are willing to get interviewed for a job they have no chance of getting.
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Apparently their board is finalizing his deal tonight or within the next few days.
 
Bruiser Flint spent 15 seasons, 15 SEASONS, at Drexel and not one NCAA Bid. I feel old now. I remember when he was an up and coming coach at UMASS after Camby and Calipari left.
 

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Jason Svoboda said:
Southern Utah shit canned their coach as well.

Looks like Oklahoma State may be opening up as well.
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wow --- never a huge fan of ford but are they nudging him out because of this season alone? seems like he's been (relatively) successful there... course i think okla state is STILL looking for the next Iba... and it certainly doesn't help that Pickens hovers over that school like a vulture...


Doesn't look like the SUU coach (robinson) was getting the job done... 5-21 this season, 28-87 over the past 4 years --- and people think WE have a problem...
 
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4Q_iu said:
wow --- never a huge fan of ford but are they nudging him out because of this season alone? seems like he's been (relatively) successful there... course i think okla state is STILL looking for the next Iba... and it certainly doesn't help that Pickens hovers over that school like a vulture...


Doesn't look like the SUU coach (robinson) was getting the job done... 5-21 this season, 28-87 over the past 4 years --- and people think WE have a problem...
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Ford's teams have wildly underperformed based on expectations, which is only partially his fault since the expectations are outside of his control. He is a decent recruiter, but his teams never had any success. Watching the K-State/OSU game last night, it was also clear that his team had long given up on the season. They didn't care at all.

What might actually keep Ford around is that he's still in the early parts of a 10-year contract. Pickens, from what I've heard, actually doesn't care much about basketball and wants no part in Ford's buyout. Pickens is all about football.
 

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BlueSycamore said:
His record at powerful San Francisco Dons eerie similar to Lansing. San Fran pulled the trigger.
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Similar how so? Are you talking if Lansing has two really bad years? Looks like Rex went 127-127 overall and 63-65 in WCC conference play.

Right now through 6 seasons Lansing is 109-88 overall and 60-48 in conference play. If Lansing went 16-16 the next two years and 9-9 in conference, he'd be at 141-120 overall and 78-66 in the Valley. He would need to go 10-20 (6-12) in the next two seasons to hit Rex's numbers -- would put him at 129-128 and 72-72 overall.
 
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Similar how so? Are you talking if Lansing has two really bad years? Looks like Rex went 127-127 overall and 63-65 in WCC conference play.

Right now through 6 seasons Lansing is 109-88 overall and 60-48 in conference play. If Lansing went 16-16 the next two years and 9-9 in conference, he'd be at 141-120 overall and 78-66 in the Valley. He would need to go 10-20 (6-12) in the next two seasons to hit Rex's numbers -- would put him at 129-128 and 72-72 overall.
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I love Fact Checking, thank you Jason!
 
Quabachi said:
I love Fact Checking, thank you Jason!
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LOL! Right.

So much of this going on this time of year with a lot of programs. Fans are passionate, but often times passion gets in the way. Was talking with a guy yesterday at work that adamantly wanted to fire Lansing, in fact he wanted to fire him so bad he wanted me to just say we should fire him - in fact, had I just agreed with him we could have ended a conversation that sounded much like an argument but I wasn't going to do that. If you are wondering if the guy was a season ticket holder or a big ISU donor - you already know the answer, of course not. People want Indiana State to be something it is not but they don't want to do anything to try and make it better - they assume bitching and complaing will make it better but in the end the same fundamental problems still exist! Without money and without resources you can't do anything - thus to have a conversation about ISU athletics and keeping or firing a coach you have to have some sort of perspective. If not, it aint even worth having a conversation about it.

I think I saw this on here some place before but a reminder never hurts. Lansing has been here what 6 years? In those 6 years the Sycamores have made the semifinals in the Mo Val Conference Tournament 4 times. Only two other teams in the Valley can say that and both are coached by the two best coaches IMO in the Valley, Wichita State and UNI. So either Greg Lansing is damn lucky and or he has continued to raise the bar - likely some of both. But before you go comparing him to X and saying he should be fired you ought to have a better case than, "well I just don't like him as a person".
 
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