GW Hoops / GW Next Head Coach Candidates Thread

**Posted by The Dude** 3/14/2022 12:14 pm

Thoughts on the next Coach candidates?

Preferences?

Grasso? A top assistant?

**Posted by GW0509** 3/14/2022 12:19 pm

It brings me no pleasure to say this, I thought he was a good candidate in 2019 too, but

… JT3

Runs a structured offense like everyone wants and he was a winner.

Ok I’ll go excuse myself now.

**Posted by BM** 3/14/2022 12:24 pm

Not sure if he's interested now that he's with the Knicks' organization, but Mike Hall should be on the staff.

**Posted by The Dude** 3/14/2022 12:26 pm

That would certainly be interesting!

Just same names of guys who have to be looking to move back up from current position

Karl Hobbs
Rick Pitino

And on the risers...

Shaheen Holloway
Grasso
Dennis Gates
Richie Riley
Pasternak
Matt Langel

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**Posted by BM** 3/14/2022 12:27 pm

Names from a UMass coach speculation article

**Posted by Mentzinger** 3/14/2022 12:33 pm

URI likely has dibs on Grasso.
Would Todd Golden (USF) come here?
Juan Dixon (Coppin St)
Joe Dooley (ECU)
Griff Aldrich (Longwood)
Mike Brey (Notre Dame)
Pat Skerry (Towson)
Mitch Henderson (Princeton)
Ed DeChellis (Navy)
Joe Jones (BU)
James Jones (Yale)
Jon Crispin (Penn State/ESPN)
Martin Inglesby (Delaware)
Greg Paulus (Duke/Niagara)
John Groce (Akron)
Brad Brownell (Clemson)
Tommy Amaker (Harvard)
Kenny Blakeney (Howard)
King Rice (Monmouth)
Matt McMahon (Murray State)
Chris Jans (New Mexico St.)
Grant McCasland (North Texas)
Shantay Legans (Portland)
Shaheen Holloway (Saint Peter's)
Johnny Dawkins (Central Florida)
Jim Ferry (UMBC)

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**Posted by The Dude** 3/14/2022 12:35 pm

I see Carm on that list

Andrew Toole to the mix

Whats next for Karl Hobbs??

**Posted by The Dude** 3/14/2022 12:44 pm

Bashir Mason intriguing

Not intriguing...just like 4 years ago...Joe Dooley

Also, can we get a Coach that has tied to international recruiting? What better way to win at GW

4 international players on the Richmond rotation stood out yesterday

**Posted by Mentzinger** 3/14/2022 12:50 pm

The Dude wrote:
Just same names of guys who have to be looking to move back up from current position
Karl Hobbs
Rick Pitino

I seem to remember a post from you lamenting coaches who got fired then come back to the schools that fired them.

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Yesterday 12:53 pm
The Dude
Re: Joe Dooley Fired
Question I have, why re-hire a guy who didn't work out the first time?
Has any other Coach,been hired and fired, and then hired and fired again by the same school??

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**Posted by The Dude** 3/14/2022 12:58 pm

GW0509 wrote:
It brings me no pleasure to say this, I thought he was a good candidate in 2019 too, but

… JT3

Runs a structured offense like everyone wants and he was a winner.

Ok I’ll go excuse myself now.

I'm a fan, how's Georgetown done without him??

Would never happen but worth a name mention...like Pitino and Hobbs

**Posted by Deleo** 3/14/2022 1:15 pm

Could GW get Cuonzo Martin? He just got fired from Missouri. A lot of people thought it was unjustified. He is a midwest/west coast guy. So not sure he would come to DC. But i don't know if another BCS program will hire him as a head coach at this moment.

**Posted by GW Alum Abroad** 3/14/2022 1:16 pm

GW0509 wrote:
It brings me no pleasure to say this, I thought he was a good candidate in 2019 too, but

… JT3

Runs a structured offense like everyone wants and he was a winner.

Ok I’ll go excuse myself now.

Not only are you excused, but you can go sit in your room while the rest of us eat dessert, young man.

It would be interesting to see how people here reacted if GW hired the Fruit of Satan´s Loins while That School Down the Street hired a certain former GW coach with an NIT title to his name. Many heads would explode, I suspect.

**Posted by Free Quebec** 3/14/2022 1:19 pm

St Bonnie cupboard is completely bare - all 5 starters were seniors, and their bench played, literally, the fewest minutes in the country.

Mark Schmidt.

And if they hired JTIII, it might be the end of my season tickets. Hiring the spawn of Georgetown would be a slap in the face to all the loyal fans.

Last edited by Free Quebec (3/14/2022 1:26 pm)

**Posted by Mentzinger** 3/14/2022 1:23 pm

Deleo wrote:
Could GW get Cuonzo Martin? He just got fired from Missouri. A lot of people thought it was unjustified. He is a midwest/west coast guy. So not sure he would come to DC. But i don't know if another BCS program will hire him as a head coach at this moment.

Dunno about that, but I could see Mizzou hiring Kim English, which would hurt us by putting us in competition with GMU.

**Posted by Mentzinger** 3/14/2022 1:24 pm

Free Quebec wrote:
St Bonnie cupboard is completely bare - all 5 starters were seniors, and their bench played, literally, the fewest minutes in the country.

Mark Schmidt.

Connected to umASS in the article BM posted.

**Posted by BM** 3/14/2022 1:30 pm

Mike Hall thread

https://twitter.com/_Michaelinho/status/1503423261933191178

**Posted by GW Alum Abroad** 3/14/2022 1:40 pm

Deleo wrote:
Could GW get Cuonzo Martin? He just got fired from Missouri. A lot of people thought it was unjustified. He is a midwest/west coast guy. So not sure he would come to DC. But i don't know if another BCS program will hire him as a head coach at this moment.

Folks at both Cal and Mizzu are not sorry to have let him go. College Park CC might be an option for him, but I don´t see GW´s environment (like having zero budget and actually expecting players to attend academically challenging classes, and pass them) as being one he would succeed at. Actually, that environment rules out many of the names being impusively tossed out right now.

**Posted by The Dude** 3/14/2022 1:50 pm

3 Archetypes:

1. The Young Coach who has won big at a very small school (this was the Jarvis background from Boston University)

2. The top assistant from a winning program (this was the Karl Hobbs background)

3. A veteran Coach who is available (This is the Tom Penders background)

I'd rank those in order...1-2-3.

Someone like Pitino is going to win anywhere but how many veteran Coaches have moved down a level and had success? (this includes even the great Jarvis who went to Florida Atlantic and went 76–112 46–57

and also guys like Paul Hewitt at Mason and a host of other examples.

My own preference would almost always be from Category #1.

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**Posted by Poog** 3/14/2022 1:51 pm

GW - Premium beer taste. Domestic beer money.

GW Fans - Champagne taste. Alligator arms reaching for wallet.

And the beat goes on.

**Posted by The Dude** 3/14/2022 2:13 pm

Here's another name for the mix:

Jeff Boals

replaced Pikiell at Stony Brook, now at Ohio.