Coaching Carousel (Basketball)

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FinallyMadeAnAccount
Indy Illini Fan said:
I definitely wouldn't consider him an elite recruiter ... But he's an elite X&O guy ... Especially defensively ...

It would definitely mean TA would be carrying the load recruiting wise ...

I also mentioned this earlier today ... But there is potential to lose 2 assistants ... That is still on the table from what I've gathered ...
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Okay guys we are getting Boynton, OA, and Yaklich to replace Chester, Geoff, and Hamer
 
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Luwdoo
mhuml32 said:
What I can find:

He goes 214-173 coaching high school basketball (.553)

Gets hired at Illinois State as an assistant (went to school with Muller)
His last year at ISU is their 28-7 season

He gets hired at Michigan, has great two year run with JB. Is lead recruiter for one guy (4*, transferred after one year). Isn't retained by Howard.

Hired at Texas for COVID season (Shaka's penultimate season), ends up a slightly disappointing year for Longhorns but likely would have made the tournament

Gets the UIC head job but they are really bad under his tenure. Is fired after this season and leaves with second worst winning percentage in program history.
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UIC is a tough job to begin with. Luke got there right when Covid hit and couldn’t leave campus to recruit. Then the portal went crazy which was a detriment to schools like UIC. Then NIL came into play which took UIC out of the game. And they moved to the MVC a tougher conference. And he lost Dee Brown to a head coaching job. Try succeeding at UIC through all of that.
 
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mhuml32
Putting a spin on Yaklich, while also continuing my recruiting theory....


mhuml32 said:
Possible hot take: Programs like Illinois should only be taking incoming freshman that are going to play in their first year or rare situations where the player's talent and commitment to the program makes them almost a lock as a long-term asset. Everything else should be filled by the portal/NIL.
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If the above is true, guys like Chester are expendable. You need 1-2 assistants that have the connections and make the connections on portal guys and give you chances at the elite HS guys. Chester might be the prototype of early 2010's recruiting because he has a great eye for HS talent about to blossom, but that is less valuable in the current landscape. You need the other 1-2 assistants to be excellent schemers. You need to find the next Mark Adams so you can scheme up at the maximum value.

I say that because at best you would say Yaklich is an unknown for recruiting because he's only been an assistant in P4 for two years at Michigan and one year at Texas, hardly time for recruiting. At worst, he's a bad recruiter based on his 247 history and performance at UIC even though he had the pedigree going into that job.
 
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mhuml32
Luwdoo said:
UIC is a tough job to begin with. Luke got there right when Covid hit and couldn’t leave campus to recruit. Then the portal went crazy which was a detriment to schools like UIC. Then NIL came into play which took UIC out of the game. And they moved to the MVC a tougher conference. And he lost Dee Brown to a head coaching job. Try succeeding at UIC through all of that.
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This is now the landscape of all non-P4 programs. Every competitor he faced had these challenges (or similar ones). And that's part of the issue, he did really poorly at UIC and his calling card (defense) only had one season where they weren't significantly worse than before his tenure and not one of the worst in the country.

Indy Illini Fan said:
For sure ... He didn't have enough success ...

But I think that he's proven when given the elite athletes at the P5 level ... He can produce elite defenses ... Top 25 every year at the P5 level ...
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This is the hook - you can look at his resume and decide this guy may be a bad HC but, as an assistant and at P4 programs, his team's defense was always really good. Plus, if recruiting is now less important (with the understanding that TA is here to stay and Underwood will stay heavily involved), then hiring someone like this makes more sense.
 
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Illini2010-11
Dragons89 said:
Elite 8 to this. We are an utter mess and IU and MI who were both in the dumpster have more momentum than us. WTH. This is on Brad!!! I will hold out hope but you just ran off an Illini favorite and his recruits. I’m sad regardless how this turns out.
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Breathe Schitts Creek GIF by CBC
 
#367      
AirNeazy
turnaround3 said:
If we’re poaching HC’s from irrelevant nothing type Chicago area programs how about the one with actual program ties that just went 25-5 as opposed to the one with a .402 win percentage in four seasons?
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I am not privy enough to know why, but it's been made clear by a lot of people on here in the know that as long as Whitman is our AD, Dee will never be back in any official capacity.
 
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mhuml32
Bigtex said:
As we are discussing Yaklich as head coach
Remind me how did OA do as a head coach?
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OA was an absolute train wreck as a head coach, multiple magnitudes worse than Yaklich at UIC. The difference is OA was a mega recruiter with many years of proven success getting top talent. That skill was still going to be extremely useful as an assistant when he imploded at USF. Yaklich requires more squinting because he was at Illinois State for a while before their defense popped and a two-year spurt at UM. Yaklich is likely a hotter coaching candidate if his UIC teams were <100 for defensive efficiency after he took over but still stunk.
 
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jacekpardol
FromTheLogo said:
My guess on Chester.... Throw your heart and soul into recruiting and the guys you form relationships with get portaled over and relegated down the bench while they wait their turn. In the big picture, the team is about Underwood's check, not anyone else's.
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Then recruit better player
FromTheLogo said:
My guess on Chester.... Throw your heart and soul into recruiting and the guys you form relationships with get portaled over and relegated down the bench while they wait their turn. In the big picture, the team is about Underwood's check, not anyone else's.
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Then Chester should have recruited better players. Out goal is to win a natty. Brad seems to be taking that very seriously. If we have better options in player, you take them.
 
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