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

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I will wait and see before I call this a great hire, but on paper it makes sense.

If I'll give Clink any praise, it's that this was quick. It had to be done fast so the new coach can spend time rebuilding the staff and most importantly the roster. Lansing was officially not retained on 3/7 and we officially have our new coach on 3/17. Kudos to Clink for targeting his guy and getting it done.
 
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GoSycamores said:
Four-time national coach of the year Josh Schertz has been named Indiana State University's 26th head men's basketball coach, ISU Director of Athletics Sherard Clinkscales announced today.
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I liked reading those quotes from around the country.
 
GoSycamores said:
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Four-time national coach of the year Josh Schertz has been named Indiana State University's 26th head men's basketball coach, ISU Director of Athletics Sherard Clinkscales announced today.

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I’d really like to know the details of his contract — tired of low-balling and hoping for “value” as the strategy. Can anyone explain why we’re so underfunded as compared to other schools at our level? Is it a decision we’re making, or is there a specific reason we don’t have more funding?
 
That is some high praise from the "industry." I hope they're true!

But, I probably would have left the Bruce Pearl comments out.
 
Blue2U said:
I’d really like to know the details of his contract — tired of low-balling and hoping for “value” as the strategy. Can anyone explain why we’re so underfunded as compared to other schools at our level? Is it a decision we’re making, or is there a specific reason we don’t have more funding?
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Ummm...

If you're tired of the "Value" play perhaps this isn't the program you want to support... I don't mean that as a negative towards you - just that we will likely always be the "Value" play. We don't have a lot of donors and we don't have many (like count on two hands) big donors. Like the kind of donors that IU have that can literally buy out a coach over the phone. Even if we did have donors who were capable of that (I am sure we have a few) not of them are passionate enough about our college basketball program that they ever would. Why? Well a lot of it starts while they are students here and unless that fire is ignited while they are here then it's tough to get once they leave.

Indiana State also doesn't have the greatest history of alumni/fan/donor relations. I don't want to get into the weeds on this and trash them. It's part of the reason that we have the budget/funding issues that we have.

It's not as simple as - philosophically we've just decided were only going to allocate XX toward Hoops. The only real debate when it comes to athletics is the level at which we fund football or at all for that matter vs. basketball. What we spend on football is clearly coming at a cost to our basketball budget - at least to me from the outside looking in. Because most other things remain constant - the donor base isn't growing. Especially for the basketball program - it will take them several years to regain the support of some of the people they've potentially lost in this whole ordeal. Someone can sit on here and explain to me how that isn't important and I will simply say then don't talk to me about the worst budget in the Mo Val if that isn't important...

As for this hire - because we've talked about budgets quite a bit. In fact if you search the word "Budget" in the upper right hand corner you can find years worth of content on here about that very topic. I am going to wait to pass judgement on this guy. He's got his work cut out for him... He's going to have to be a recruiter first and recruit his ass off just to get a full roster. Then he's going to have to be an alumni director and try and get some relationships and community support behind him. Then he's going to have to be a coach - which everyone seems to think he will be good at so let's just assume he handles that part of the job fine. Then he's going to have to work for the Foundation and try and get some donors, golf outings, fundraising, community outreach etc.

In other words - this isn't just a head coaching job at Indiana State. It's much much much bigger than that. So we will see how he navigates all of that - should be interesting to say the least.
 

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I thought it was very telling that part of the press release was Clinkscales praising Schertz for his "business" acumen.

That says a lot about what the job at ISU entails.
 
BrokerZ said:
That is some high praise from the "industry." I hope they're true!

But, I probably would have left the Bruce Pearl comments out.
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Absolutely! Pearl is a bottom feeder; why ISU chose to include his name, remarks is beyond the pale
 
Endorsed by Holtmann, 2 bloggers, an assistant coach on the worst NBA team in the East, one of the most reputed cheaters in the modern D1 era to still have a job, and a retired coach who's team was part of the most infamous brawl in ISU basketball history. OK!

Snark aside, I wish him well and hope he does here what he's done at LM.
 

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Ya, Bruce is a real "bottom feeder," ranked #8 in coaching salary @ just under $4m/yr. ;)

Some of you "economic analysts" need to return to Wharton...
 
tennessee said:
I grew up with Bruce's kids when he worked at Tennessee. He's a very good man.

Just a slimeball on the recruiting trail - which, well, ain't the worst thing in the world.
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Remind me of his involvement/non-involvement in the Boston College point-shaving scandal of the 80s?

I recall the Waltmans having some choice words about Pearl; doubt they were made public
 

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4Q_iu said:
Remind me of his involvement/non-involvement in the Boston College point-shaving scandal of the 80s?

I recall the Waltmans having some choice words about Pearl; doubt they were made public
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Ah, I did forget about that. That's definitely a point against him.

If I remember correctly, and I don't know all the details, he snitched on the other guys and it blacklisted him in the industry for a long time. I don't know if he was personally involved or not.
 
tennessee said:
Ah, I did forget about that. That's definitely a point against him.

If I remember correctly, and I don't know all the details, he snitched on the other guys and it blacklisted him in the industry for a long time. I don't know if he was personally involved or not.
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I think he dodged it was much as his mentor Dr. Tom Davis did; the axe fell on two players; the ring leader (Rick Kuhn) who went to prison and another, I believe Ernie Cobb, (falsely accused) who WAS blacklisted in the NBA-sphere and a third (Jim Sweeney) who was as guilty as Kuhn (per Kuhn's account) but dodged any punishment.
 
Blue2U said:
I’d really like to know the details of his contract — tired of low-balling and hoping for “value” as the strategy. Can anyone explain why we’re so underfunded as compared to other schools at our level? Is it a decision we’re making, or is there a specific reason we don’t have more funding?
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Because we have sucked more often than not for the last 40 years. Most people are too lazy to get out of bed and go to the games.
 
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