COACH TALK

[admin]

Between Dunlap and Jeter - I would have to go with Jeter.

[dylanrocks]

First off, I'm going to support Bud regardless of whom he chooses (After all, he's done pretty well with the last two hires). My personal preference among the "serious" candidates mentioned by the J-S would be Jeter.

[uwmfan]

...can't jump on board with Jeter myself....has he been a head coach anywhere? I like him personally, but has no proven track record as a leader yet. We are at a juncture in the program where that is a MUST in a hire.

Don't know much about the other guy(s).

[dunzz]

first of all dohert is my number one choice.

but chosing the lesser of two evils. i would choose to take jeter. im more worried about getting recruits in two years than i am of changing our style of play which wont be that big of change. This team is set up to win the horizon league and im hoping/guessing that Jeter will recognize that.

but in the end, we need a guy who has been in WI to grab recruits from the mid west.

[bigjim98]

dunlap is a proven winner....why alter the criteria that worked for the last 2 hires....

[mqtgoldenchickens]

I would have thought we'd had named a coach by today. Damn it, if Jeter is their first choice over Dunlap and/or Doherty I will have to be very disappointed with our AD. Let's lose the "local connection" crap. I have never lived in a city that is so hung up on that mentality.

Pay Doherty the money and let's start talking next year.

[mcdadenets50]

MQTGoldenChickens said:

Pay Doherty the money and let's start talking next year.

Anyone with info on why we are not hearing Doherty's name anymore?

Is he not interested in us?

Are we not willing to pay him?

Did we drop the ball on this one?

[CreamCity]

Is it a "mentality" -- or a reality that knowing the area well will help in maintaining momentum in recruiting?

Nothin' funnier to a M'wokeean than someone who doesn't know how to pronounce local names -- place names like Wauwatosa (I'll never forget, Marquette, when the pronunciation of that hometown of one of your great players was massacred) or surnames (it also makes us laugh to hear how some Polish names without vowels are mispronounced) -- or someone who doesn't know that a water fountain is a bubbler.

I just don't know -- so I ask others who know more about recruiting and how much it counts to already know a lot about Milwaukee, its high schools, its high school coaches, etc.?

[BBFran]

Jeter is going to be a great head coach somewhere. Why not here?

As for Doherty, he would be a very bad choice. He's a so-so coach who alienated his players, and there's no way he's interested in UWM as more than a stepping-stone.

I think either Jeter or Dunlap would be excellent hires.

[mqtgoldenchickens]

CreamCity said:

Is it a "mentality" -- or a reality that knowing the area well will help in maintaining momentum in recruiting?

Nothin' funnier to a M'wokeean than someone who doesn't know how to pronounce local names -- place names like Wauwatosa (I'll never forget, Marquette, when the pronunciation of that hometown of one of your great players was massacred) or surnames (it also makes us laugh to hear how some Polish names without vowels are mispronounced) -- or someone who doesn't know that a water fountain is a bubbler.

I just don't know -- so I ask others who know more about recruiting and how much it counts to already know a lot about Milwaukee, its high schools, its high school coaches, etc.?

Here's my take on it. This is a basketball team that plays in a league across the Great Lakes and plays teams across the country. Well over half of the players will most likely be Juco's or from somewhere else, the rest may come from within the state. Kids will want to play for winners and programs that are on top, regardless if you pronounce WisCONsin like you have a cloth's pin on your nose or not.

As far as recruiting locally, the cream 1 or 2 will more often than not go to Madison, So it's not like there will ever be more than 3-4 kids in the metro Milwaukee area that can play at the level the program is at right now. There are only 12 on scholarship. Recruiting locally is only somewhat important, but it goes far beyond that right now.

[NeedMoreFans]

mcdadenets50 said:

Anyone with info on why we are not hearing Doherty's name anymore?

Is he not interested in us?

Are we not willing to pay him?

Did we drop the ball on this one?

I think the Athletic Department and university officials have done their homework on Doherty. They have probably talked to people at Notre Dame and UNC and asked them what kind of coach/person he was. There has to be a reason he hasn't been offered a job in the last 2 years. Remember, this isn't Bud's decision alone. The Chancellor's office wants to hire someone that will represent the university well, and maybe Doherty did something somewhere else that hasn't sat too well with university officials. I think he wants the job though, but right now, the feeling doesn't appear to be mutual.

[CreamCity]

Word from a good source is that Larry Eustachy wants the UWM job. AP Coach of the Year in 2000, Big 12 Coach of the Year twice with conference titles in 2000 and 2001, really likes an "uptempo" game. But left Iowa State two years ago after "pictures of him drinking with college students at a party and kissing and being kissed on the cheek by young women" were published in the Des Moines paper. "Then came his admission of alcoholism, the divorce from his wife with whom he had two sons and a 28-day stay in a 12-step rehabilitation center in Minnesota." He says he's been sober for two years, coaching well at Southern Miss.

[nohopspanther]

The home of beer is probably the absolute last place he needs to be. At least the pics were him at a house party in Mizzou with a couple of smokin' hot girls.

[PointSpecial]

If you've ever met Jeter then you'll know that he comes across as being very arrogant. Whether he is or not is difficult to judge. Fact is, the first impression he gives people is that he's not interested in talking with them. That would not be very good for UWM on the heels of having Mr. Personalility Pearl on the bench and in homes recruiting for the Panthers.