Indiana State Announces Josh Schertz as Next Men's Basketball Coach

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Jason Svoboda said:
If we're being honest, statistically speaking it doesn't work out. I am hoping like hell we'll buck the trend. I think the most successful D2 to D1 guy in the last decade is Darner and he's winning at 53% which is where Lansing was in a lesser conference. Unless I'm missing out on a big one, most of the ones I found are sub .500. I gave up after about 20-30 minutes of digging.

That said, when I was reading on Schertz, Belmont's old man Byrd was a head coach at LMU before Belmont so I'm taking that as a sign. Maybe it's LMU that is the key.
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C'mon Jason... you're stretching it to believe Byrd's short stint at LMU was reason for his success at Belmont. Belmont MBB is what it is because of Ricky Byrd - period. HE built that program, when he left LMU for Belmont, he changed conferences, Belmont was still an NAIA program than, he spent 10 years building the Bruins into a better NAIA program, they moved to NCAA DI and struggled for 5-7 seasons as an independent, new Atlantic Sun member... Belmont MBB 1st season on a way to their current place was the 2005-06 season, Byrd's 1st (of 8) NCAA berth

Your example of Darner is far, FAR more legit; Darner had some really good years at St. Joseph's up in Rensselaer, he moved to FLA Southern for $$$ support from the school; great success, he jumps to GreenBay does OK, not enough to satisfy ISU fans and is canned b/c the AD wanted his own guy...

Maybe Schertz does what Byrd did... but his Bruins made the NCAA in his 20th year at Belmont, the NIT in his 18th

And Clinkscales spent a helluva lot of that presser yakking about having a guy here for the next 5-7, I don;t think Sherard OR Josh (if/when he gets it) will be here in 18, much less 20 seasons if the Sycamores haven't been to the NCAA, even the NIT in that time
 
From Semler

Crazy day in college hoops around the area.

My buddy Jeff Rabjohns is reporting IU has fired men’s basketball coach Archie Miller. I’m four year Archie couldn’t get the Hoosiers to NCAA tourney.

ISU men’s basketball is officially this week is suppose to hire D2 Lincoln Memorial coach Josh Shertz to be Sycamores next head coach. One positive that could potentially help the Sycamores. I’ve been told Shertz has asked ISU assistant Kareem Richardson to stay on staff at ISU. That’s could be big to bring back all the Sycamore players who are in transfer portal. Many are close with Richardson.


Also, Indiana State has fired women’s basketball head coach Vicki Hall. She was 21-59 in three years at ISU.
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4Q_iu said:
C'mon Jason... you're stretching it to believe Byrd's short stint at LMU was reason for his success at Belmont. Belmont MBB is what it is because of Ricky Byrd - period. HE built that program, when he left LMU for Belmont, he changed conferences, Belmont was still an NAIA program than, he spent 10 years building the Bruins into a better NAIA program, they moved to NCAA DI and struggled for 5-7 seasons as an independent, new Atlantic Sun member... Belmont MBB 1st season on a way to their current place was the 2005-06 season, Byrd's 1st (of 8) NCAA berth

Your example of Darner is far, FAR more legit; Darner had some really good years at St. Joseph's up in Rensselaer, he moved to FLA Southern for $$$ support from the school; great success, he jumps to GreenBay does OK, not enough to satisfy ISU fans and is canned b/c the AD wanted his own guy...

Maybe Schertz does what Byrd did... but his Bruins made the NCAA in his 20th year at Belmont, the NIT in his 18th
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It was tongue-in-cheek.
 
Doyel has a new article on the Schertz hire:

Schertz’s .833 winning percentage from 2008-21 at LMU is No. 3 all-time at any level of college basketball for coaches with at least 10 years’ experience, according to the latest NCAA records, behind only Jim Crutchfield of West Liberty and Nova Southeastern (.841), and Mark Few of Gonzaga (.834).
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www.indystar.com

Doyel: Indiana State chooses coach who built D-II powerhouse to replace Greg Lansing

The Sycamores have chosen four-time Division II coach of the year Josh Schertz, who built something from nothing at Lincoln Memorial University.
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This hire has a fair chance of being positive.Am I alone in thinking that salary is at least partially responsible for us going this route?
 
Great idea Kareen getting onboard, hopefully Jake as well, as long as it fits into our budget. Really wonder what Schertz salary is at LMU ? Just a side note, amazing how money talks, Archie bought out for 10 million, down the road, by boosters, and we at ISU had to wait for the 10 year contract with GL to expire.
 

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I am fascinated to see Schertz assessment of this roster and what holes he thinks he needs to fill immediately to fit the style of play he wants.

There should be a handful of high school and JUCO offers go out immediately for guys that didn't find a home on Signing Day.
 
Pendleton_alum said:
Talk about missed opportunities from way back. Never realized Thad Matta was an assistant coach for ISU during the 1990-1991 season.
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Guessing you think we could still have Sean Payton on the football staff?

Think of the baseball program had Paul Wolf inked Tommy John to a baseball "scholie" 1961.... or had Donnie Baseball (Mattingly) signed his NLI w/ Bob Warn
 
Wow, sounds like a done deal, maybe with Kareen coming back into the fold as an assistant, maybe Jake and Williams will reconsider.
Personally , in a way I am excited for ISU, we get new blood into the system, sure we will be playing in more of an up tempo pace, and finally just hope we get some really decent recruits, , and as our AD said couple of days ago, different voice in the room.
 

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tennessee said:
I am fascinated to see Schertz assessment of this roster and what holes he thinks he needs to fill immediately to fit the style of play he wants.

There should be a handful of high school and JUCO offers go out immediately for guys that didn't find a home on Signing Day.
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Of what's left? He's really only got Cam, Larry, Ndaw and Hittle, right? Everyone else is a walk-on so not much evaluating to be done. LOL

Seriously though, in watching his team play this weekend, we don't have the shooters his style needs to open up the space. His LMU team has 4 guys that shot over 40% from 3 (3 with qualifiable attempts) and our best, Neese, would have sat 5th on their team at just under 40%. Bacote did shoot 50% but he only had 18 attempts but I think he is one that could do well in his system.

Of the guys that entered the portal, Jake would be well served in his system as would Hankins and Neese. Jake would essentially operate as their Guest kid, did. He is going to need to find at least two shooters and would be better served with 3 knowing how Drake trended this year with them having DeVries coming in next year. If Jake does go, he needs to find a stretch 4 like Jake/Guest.

If I'm being honest, Larry and Ndaw don't fit. I have no idea what we've got in Hittle so I'm not going to speak on him until I can see live action. If he does anything this upcoming offseason, it should be working on his shooting. Specifically, he would be well served to go back and watch Jake Kitchell highlights and develop that baseline jumper Kitch had because if he does, that would also lend well to floor spacing -- give slashers lanes and him being the kick option.

He also has two 6-5, 6-6 lanky types that slash/attacked in the game I watched the other night. We don't have any of those on the roster so scouring the transfer portal and finding at least one of those would be huge.
 
4Q_iu said:
No problems with recruiting bigs, wings and points; not a fan of prioritizing the 3
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Sounds like the current NBA trend, which is where players want to be, no matter how realistic that might be. It will be interesting to see how it translates.
 
From what I saw, Larry will be our most important player. Not sure about Hittle's speed but he was reputed to be one of the best shooting bigs in the state in HS.

Looked it up. He shot 46% on 3's his SR year.
 
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Jason Svoboda said:
Of what's left? He's really only got Cam, Larry, Ndaw and Hittle, right? Everyone else is a walk-on so not much evaluating to be done. LOL

Seriously though, in watching his team play this weekend, we don't have the shooters his style needs to open up the space. His LMU team has 4 guys that shot over 40% from 3 (3 with qualifiable attempts) and our best, Neese, would have sat 5th on their team at just under 40%. Bacote did shoot 50% but he only had 18 attempts but I think he is one that could do well in his system.

Of the guys that entered the portal, Jake would be well served in his system as would Hankins and Neese. Jake would essentially operate as their Guest kid, did. He is going to need to find at least two shooters and would be better served with 3 knowing how Drake trended this year with them having DeVries coming in next year. If Jake does go, he needs to find a stretch 4 like Jake/Guest.

If I'm being honest, Larry and Ndaw don't fit. I have no idea what we've got in Hittle so I'm not going to speak on him until I can see live action. If he does anything this upcoming offseason, it should be working on his shooting. Specifically, he would be well served to go back and watch Jake Kitchell highlights and develop that baseline jumper Kitch had because if he does, that would also lend well to floor spacing -- give slashers lanes and him being the kick option.

He also has two 6-5, 6-6 lanky types that slash/attacked in the game I watched the other night. We don't have any of those on the roster so scouring the transfer portal and finding at least one of those would be huge.
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I think a lot of our current players could fit the system provided they are given the opportunity to play that style. I would love to see Neese with more freedom. Not that he didn’t have it before, but he was much more hesitant to fire away under Lansing’s system (or so it seemed).

Even Tre has a nice stroke from outside (game winner against SIU rings a significant bell...at least I’m pretty sure it was SIU). LaRavia would also be very well served to play in Schertz’s style with what I assume to be his aspirations to play at the next level. Much better to Jake to play in a NBA system and get a head start on becoming a Doug McDermott-light than to try and convince NBA scouts he can be a square peg in a round hole.

Larry is the odd ball of the current returnees though...I agree with that. Floor spacing is not his offensive game, but the kid can defend.
 
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