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You're right, but he's also not a bad coach.

When he was at IPFW, they were only a couple of years removed from joining Division I. Despite his losing overall record, each season he was there the team won more games than it ever had before and his last two seasons were IPFW's first with a winning record. He was also one of the youngest head coaches in the country.

He's passed on mid-major jobs in the past. I think he's able to be a little picky. Detroit probably is a good fit.

 

He has two daughters, not sure how old they are. Maybe he wanted to spend a year watching them grow up, something a lot of coaches can't do, on Indiana's dime.

Maybe he didn't find a good fit, something better than making $500K a year for not coaching. Maybe he just needed to recharge his batteries.

Don't know the guy at all. Not saying you're wrong by any means. But deciding not to work doesn't mean no one wanted you.

Detroit would seem like a good fit.

 

William & Mary fires Dane Fischer after five seasons. That job is a coaching graveyard.

Great trivia question: Who is the last coach to take W&M to the NCAA tournament?

 

Ohio State keeps winning with the interim guy. This ain't what they had in mind when they whacked Holtmann so early in the game.

 

Ivy-caliber academics in a league with some schools whose academics...aren't, and yet Tony Shaver rose that program from 18 feet under and got them to three title games with his best team coming back before he was whacked by a fucking trainwreck of a ladder-climbing AD even though he'd just started a long-term extension (I read his contract is still going, which means they are paying him but not Fischer, whose contract expired this year). They lost three starters to power schools, but future NBAer Nathan Knight and some muscle memory got them to second place in 2020 before the bottom fell out. The AD was so bad she got fired months later, smack dab in the middle of the pandemic. They could do a lot worse than go back to Tony, hat in hand and begging him to try and fix it, even at 70.

 

The next one to take them to the tournament.

 

I believe that would be that great coach No Body. One of a handful of long-time D1 schools that haven't made the tournament. W&M did make 2 NIT appearances under Bruce Parkhill and Tony Shaver.

 

W&M, Army and The Citadel. Three damn impossible places to win. St. Francis (NY) was the fourth school on the list but they vaporized athletics last year. The Terriers had a 20-something point second-half lead in an NEC title game in 2001 or so and blew it.

 

Justin Hutson out at Fresno State.

 

Porter Moser seems to be the guy who's gonna jump on the grenade at DePaul.

 

I get that he's a Chicago guy and all, but unless he's being forced out, isn't this a step down? And will DePaul pony up more than the $2 million he's making now at OU?