I think you may be surprised. Our fans perception of our job & the actual perception of our job are totally different. Totally
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I don't know if Richey can do better or not. I just don't think we're gonna get top targets, so I see us ending up with a guy like richey that may or may not be better.
The guy I think we might could get that could actually be an improvement is mccasland. He probably won't be an option though bc he doesn't play up tempo/exciting
I will give you the answer that most people will say, his teams shoot 3s and somehow that is going to make us automatically win more games. The truth of the matter is that maybe it will and maybe it will not. I lean more towards will not, but that is me. College Basketball coaching hires are an absolute crapshoot. Archie Miller looked like a slam dunk at Indiana and was canned in 4 years. Nate Oats was one of the biggest WTF hires of the 2019 coaching cycles and has Bama in back to back NCAA tourneys with a conference regular season and tourney title on his resume.
Novak had coached women for 7 months. There go MSU fans developing an emotional attachment to coaches again just because they seem to want to be here. Hire the best coach possible. That’s not Doug Novak.
From an x and o standpoint Novak is qualified, he showed that this season, but that doesn't always equal success because you have to recruit well, manage ego's, manage assistant coaches (which became an issue this year), so to be honest it's hard to truly tell how good of a fit he is.... but from everything I saw this season I would definitely give him a shot at it. We get Jessika Carter and Danae Carter back, Jerkaila Jordan will be back, the Michigan State transfer, maybe Myah Taylor, so he will have some pieces to work with. Our biggest loss by far will be Anastasia Hayes, I don't think people understand how good she is
The thing is this isn’t a next year hire. This is a next 5 years hire. The guy has never recruited in the womens game before. He doesn’t have a relationship with any of the female AAU organizations & he has no contacts in the womens game to hire that lights out recruiter who could do that. I just think people are taking this feel good story of this season & trying to make him into something that he’s not.
You may be 100% correct. But I watched most of the games this year and clearly saw he can coach, he was able to keep 4 star Powe committed and brought in the really good Michigan State transfer so it seems he can recruit some.. unless you have a strong replacement with a great history I wouldn't bet against Novak. And even then I still may not... Just my opinion though
Novak is Richard Williams.
Hire him and get him a John Brady or a Stands
Exactly, this isn't rocket surgery. I'd rather have a guy that can coach who can hire some recruiters than us keep hiring the Cohen specials we've been getting that cant seem to coach at all. Whether you hire Novak or some G5 coach it's a gamble either way. A lot of the roster is going to leave if Novak doesn't get the job so whoever we do hire sure better be able to recruit.