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Jason Svoboda said:
Looks like Thad Matta came out of medical retirement to coach Butler.
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Butler succession moves in the past worked well until Jordan. However the landscape has changed dramatically since Matta last coached at Butler. If it doesn't work out he & Collier will both likely be out of a job rather than Collier retiring & him sliding to the AD chair in a short while.
 

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Bluethunder said:
Interesting hire.

Didn’t exactly set the world on fire at either of his previous stops.
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I was actually surprised, his career record is 226-133 for a .630 win percentage. I assumed the end of his St. John’s tenure was bad, but he won 20 games each year. Better than I thought.

He’s really only had one bad season, his last at UCLA. Other than that, pretty consistent 20 game winner.
 
It’s not too hard to win 20 games at UCLA when you can play 10-11 out of conference games at home against sub 200 RPI teams.

then you add in the lack of strength in the pac 12 (see Oregon state, Washington state, Arizona State, Utah) and you have 15-18 or so wins right there.

Lavins problem was he could never do much in the tourney with any of his teams.
 
IndyTreeFan said:
I was actually surprised, his career record is 226-133 for a .630 win percentage. I assumed the end of his St. John’s tenure was bad, but he won 20 games each year. Better than I thought.

He’s really only had one bad season, his last at UCLA. Other than that, pretty consistent 20 game winner.
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He's also rumored to be very loose with the freebies. We'll see if he can recruit to USD without the budget to "allegedly" buy them cars.
 
IndyTreeFan said:
I was actually surprised, his career record is 226-133 for a .630 win percentage. I assumed the end of his St. John’s tenure was bad, but he won 20 games each year. Better than I thought.

He’s really only had one bad season, his last at UCLA. Other than that, pretty consistent 20 game winner.
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He was effectively run out of NYC b/c a couple of high-donor/alumni wanted chris mullin in the job... Mullin of the career .447 win %
 

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Jason Svoboda said:
He's also rumored to be very loose with the freebies. We'll see if he can recruit to USD without the budget to "allegedly" buy them cars.
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ain't no freebies anymore... recruiting to USD w/ Qualcomm, Nokia, General Atomics NILs to lavish on 13 kids

what's "illegal" in the NIL era?... NOT paying the players enough?:unsure::unsure:
 
Bluethunder said:
It’s not too hard to win 20 games at UCLA when you can play 10-11 out of conference games at home against sub 200 RPI teams.

then you add in the lack of strength in the pac 12 (see Oregon state, Washington state, Arizona State, Utah) and you have 15-18 or so wins right there.

Lavins problem was he could never do much in the tourney with any of his teams.
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he was coaching in the Pac-10, not the pac-12... avg RPI for the Pac-10 during his tenure was #4 in the country...

https://www.collegerpi.com/subs/histssn.html

agree on playing more home games out of conference but that's indicative of being at a program like UCLA (or Kansas, unc, dook, etc) -- none of those programs play a 50/50 split of home/away in non-conf and all play 1-3 'marquee' games and a bunch of also-rans

his post-season success wasn't up to the John Wooden-era standard for ucla... 7 seasons at UCLA, 6 post-seasons, 5 Sweet 16s, 1 Elite 8... ISU fans would walk over fire for a post-season record like that one
 
4Q_iu said:
he was coaching in the Pac-10, not the pac-12... avg RPI for the Pac-10 during his tenure was #4 in the country...

https://www.collegerpi.com/subs/histssn.html

agree on playing more home games out of conference but that's indicative of being at a program like UCLA (or Kansas, unc, dook, etc) -- none of those programs play a 50/50 split of home/away in non-conf and all play 1-3 'marquee' games and a bunch of also-rans

his post-season success wasn't up to the John Wooden-era standard for ucla... 7 seasons at UCLA, 6 post-seasons, 5 Sweet 16s, 1 Elite 8... ISU fans would walk over fire for a post-season record like that one
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Sure would!!
 

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