Rhody15 wrote: ↑2 years ago
I’m also in the camp of worrying about Buter, NC State, Pitt, and Clemson all probably opening up the next year or two.
I love that we're doing this 1 week into the Archie Miller era.
I'll go down the list.
Butler -
Jordan makes $1.7M - less than Archie does here. Large buyout.
Big East
- not sure he wants to recruit/coach against his brother twice a year.
- harder conference to win in
- Butler will never be Nova, UConn, or the brand name of the Big East
- not sure he wants to go back to Indiana and deal with everything there.
- would be stepping into another rebuild in a harder conference to get built up in.
- I'm sure he wants to get winning, not keep rebuilding programs
- basketball school - sure - but one of several within driving distance of that campus. IU, Purdue, ND, etc
NC State -
Keatts makes $2.7M - less than Archie these first two years with IU offset. Close to what Archie will make the last few years here.
ACC
- harder conference to win in
- NC state will never be Duke or UNC, or Virginia, or the brand name of the ACC
- if he really wanted to go lead his alma mater, he could've in 2017 when he was their #1 target. He didn't. There's plenty of articles out there that talk about how it was never even on his radar.
- Recruiting against major schools in his own backyard - Wake, Duke, UNC, Clemson
- again, would be a rebuild
- football school
Clemson -
Brownell nowhere near the hotseat. $2.7M - less than Archie first two years with the offset.
ACC
- harder conference to win in
- NC state will never be Duke or UNC, or Virginia, or the brand name of the ACC
- Recruiting against major schools in his own backyard - Wake, Duke, UNC, NC State
- football school
Pitt -
Jeff Capel makes a ton. $3.5M. 4-5 years left with a massive buyout.
ACC
- harder conference to win in
- Pitt will never be Duke or UNC, or Virginia, or the brand name of the ACC
- football school-ish. They left a great basketball conference for a football conference.
- rebuild
Pitt is probably the only one with the "pro" of him "going home" but really - he went to school at NC State. I'm sure he was on Pitt's radar in 2016 when they lowered their buyout to let Dixon walk to TCU. Their fans have way out-of-whack expectations and were fine letting Dixon walk because he didn't go far enough in the tournament - ONLY getting to the elite 8 once. And two other sweet 16s. Even though he made the NCAA 11/13 years, won at least one game in 8/11 years. In his rebuilding years he made the NIT and won the CBI.
This isn't the Hurley situation. Archie's contract is right in line compensation wise with those jobs mentioned. We have the assistant coaching budget to allow Arch to hire whoever he wants. We have a practice facility. We have charter flights. I imagine as the years go on - with Marc Parlange supporting athletics, we will provide everything Arch thinks he needs to win.
Again, we are in the A-10. A conference Archie can over-recruit for, can win in, and can be dominant in. Both Archie and URI have shown extended periods of dominance in the conference very recently. Finally URI is investing like Dayton to keep us there.
Our expectations are low. We will be patient. And we are a basketball school. It drives the bus. He is king dick. We won't make a rash decision to leave the conference for football benefit. Something basketball needs will not be put on hold for anything else.
Can we stop chicken littling for once?? Everyone is pumped that we're finally operating like a big time basketball program, but for some reason people want to revert to thinking we're small time.
The investments we made now prevent us from being a stepping-stone school. And if Archie does leave, it'll be because he turned us around and made us dominant. And we'll move these investments to the next Archie Miller and continue to be competitive like Dayton and VCU.
Archie already jumped. He went to the biggest program in college basketball not named Duke, UNC, Kentucky, UCLA, or Kansas. He had a miserable experience and wasn't given the patience or understanding to a) let his system take shape, b) realize that he would've made the dance in 2020, c) had half his starting lineup injured the year he was fired.
Does it really sound like a guy who took a year to self-reflect from basketball for the first time in 30 years wants to risk going into that situation again?
Just be happy, ye of little faith. Enjoy this.