As Tony Kornheiser, quoting Don Ohlmeyer, says: "The answer to all your questions is: Money"

Because successful people want to be challenged and want to succeed at the pinnacle of their profession, competing against the best of the best.  College basketball coaches are hyper competitive people.  No way would they, or really should they, stick around to be top dog in a mediocre conference.  They would want to see if they could be top dog at a top conference.  Its called betting on your self.

This is why I'd never put Mark Few among the pantheon of top level coaches.  While he made Gonzaga into a high level program, they play in a garbage conference.  He's never had the challenge of playing top competition game after game like Tom Izzo, Coach K or Jim Boeheim did in the Big 10, ACC or Old Big East.  He'd play a moderately tough OOC schedule, coast through an easy conference play, then underachieve in the NCAA tournament.  What would he have done at a top level school like UCLA, or Indiana?  Maybe he would have had the same success there.  Maybe he would have won a National title. He never tried, so we'll never know.

Thad Matta
Sean Miller
Skip Prosser
Tom Penders
Al Skinner
Oliver Purnell
Jim O'Brien

I present the case of Steve Pikiell. He was making probably 400K at Stony Brook. A moribund Rutgers came calling and offered him $8 million over 5 years. People told him no way you can win at Rutgers, Had he stayed at Stony Brook, it might have taken him 15 years to make that kind of money (assuming raises). The advice then was if Rutgers doesn't work out then at worst you will have 8 million and you can go back to coaching at a lower level or take a high paying high major assistant job.

Most of these guys have families and they have to earn when they can. You never know like Gwmayhem says when he window will be slammed shut - it could be while leaving or staying. My advice if you have a chance for a payday grab it. The implicit point is you can earn at least 2x and maybe 3x what you are paid in the A-10 by moving to a Power 5 school. Those kind of increases don't present themselves everyday.

Stony Brook is not A-10 but there a few coaches not earning much more than that - La Salle, Duquesne, Fordham are examples. So from a financial perspective it is not tremendously different.

Ahh, yes, this is a thread for no other purpose than to troll by invoking Shaka's name.

I envision The Dude using a dart board to determine who his troll subject of the day will be.

Mike Jarvis would have made more $ staying at GW in the long run

Most of the coaches who left the A10 flopped. Shaka was on top of the world is he now?

$ while important isn't everything anyway. How about building something great. Legacy. Keeping your family in one place. Success.

Chaney did.  Brian Gregory could have but chose poorly IMO.

As for Few the goal is the national title. He's gotten to two of them.

How many of these guys even won a single tourney game after leaving? Purnell? Gregory? Shaka? Anthony Grant ?

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The Dude is not trolling by posting.

The Dude is trolling by taking 6-7 shots at Shaka on this thread alone.

It doesn't need to be said 6 or 7 times.  It doesn't even need to be said once since there isn't anyone here who doesn't know how The Dude feels about Shaka.  Or Tom Crean.  Or Mark Few.  Or Mike Lonergan.

Are you picking up at all, BrianPaul, on how trolling works?
 

BP, I honestly don't care what you do or do not like about me.  What I don't appreciate are disingenuous comments made at my expense.  There are plenty of posters here who I have differences of opinion with and I do not wish to drive any of them away from this board.   In fact, I have respect for most of these posters.

What I dislike are trolls.  People who are clearly here to sabotage this board for shits and giggles.  You bet I want The Dude gone from this board.  Because he's the classic definition of a troll.  If he would just stop trolling and act like a regular human being once and for all, then I would have no problem with him.

I don't have any "special friends" here nor do I post under any other name.  Other unique individuals are beginning to express their displeasure with the trolling.  If enough people do this, maybe some action will be taken.  One can only hope.

Go ahead and get your last word in because I know how vitally important that is to you.   

That post shows me just how confused you are Dude.  Do you think my reactions are to your opinions?  Some of your opinions I am in agreement with.  Do you really think that there is anyone out there who doesn't think that Mark Few is a good coach?

And where I am in disagreement with your opinions, my reactions have little if anything to do with your opinions.  I have no personal connection to Shaka whatsoever (actually, I do have one but it's pretty distant).

My reactions are due to your incessant and insufferable need to troll.  Let's not play dumb here because I realize you know exactly what you're doing.  You're seeking attention and the way you're doing it is by being purposefully annoying.  You repeat the same things over and over.  You're blatantly trying to elicit negative reactions (and yes, I realize I am helping you succeed).  Frankly, you mentioned Lonergan's abuse of his players so many times over the past week or so that I couldn't believe that no action was taken against you.  It's clear to me that you will be allowed to continue to troll unless enough people voice their displeasure with your trolling.  And even then, who knows?

By the way....I've driven away Rich Maier, Thinker, etc.?  Good one.