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Title: Ivy basketball headline...
Post by: CornellFan on April 13, 2007, 08:22:54 AM
Not sure if everyone got to see it... but Harvard hired high-profile Tommy Amaker as the new head coach for basketball.  Amaker was an All American and later an assistant coach at Duke under Coach K, then became head coach at Seton Hall and at Michigan.

So... the Ivy sidelines now have a genuine college hoops celebrity in the basketball coaching ranks.
Title: Re: Ivy basketball headline...
Post by: RichH on April 13, 2007, 12:20:14 PM
[quote CornellFan]Not sure if everyone got to see it... but Harvard hired high-profile Tommy Amaker as the new head coach for basketball.  Amaker was an All American and later an assistant coach at Duke under Coach K, then became head coach at Seton Hall and at Michigan.

So... the Ivy sidelines now have a genuine college hoops celebrity in the basketball coaching ranks.[/quote]

It was mentioned as the last tidbit of news during Statboy's corrections portion of an episode of PTI this week.  Had to clear my ears to make sure that there was a mention of Harvard basketball.
Title: Re: Ivy basketball headline...
Post by: Josh '99 on April 13, 2007, 12:59:06 PM
[quote CornellFan]Not sure if everyone got to see it... but Harvard hired high-profile Tommy Amaker as the new head coach for basketball.  Amaker was an All American and later an assistant coach at Duke under Coach K, then became head coach at Seton Hall and at Michigan.

So... the Ivy sidelines now have a genuine college hoops celebrity in the basketball coaching ranks.[/quote]Considering how he killed Michigan's program (thanks, by the way), I'm not sure "genuine college hoops celebrity" is really the right term.
Title: Re: Ivy basketball headline...
Post by: Jim Hyla on April 13, 2007, 03:54:16 PM
[quote Josh '99][quote CornellFan]Not sure if everyone got to see it... but Harvard hired high-profile Tommy Amaker as the new head coach for basketball.  Amaker was an All American and later an assistant coach at Duke under Coach K, then became head coach at Seton Hall and at Michigan.

So... the Ivy sidelines now have a genuine college hoops celebrity in the basketball coaching ranks.[/quote]Considering how he killed Michigan's program (thanks, by the way), I'm not sure "genuine college hoops celebrity" is really the right term.[/quote]Well, I think prior coach Fisher and his NCAA investigation killed it. A more correct term might be "Considering how he didn't bring Michigan's program back..."
Title: Re: Ivy basketball headline...
Post by: ugarte on April 20, 2007, 01:32:02 PM
Princeton has reportedly offerered (http://x.go.com/cgi/x.pl?goto=http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2843980&name=FPT-2843980-042013&srvc=sz) the job to former player Sydney Johnson. Johnson is currently an assistant coach at Georgetown under former Tigers head coach John Thompson III.
Title: Re: Ivy basketball headline...
Post by: CornellFan on April 20, 2007, 02:39:43 PM
Yup-- offer made 2 days ago.  That program is really spinning out of control.

Cornell has beaten the Tigers 5 of their last 6 meetings.  The one loss was in double overtime.