Odds that Donahue stays?

[phillysportsfan]

Siena's coach McCaffery is off to Iowa, I could see Donahue going to Siena

[scoop85]

Siena's coach McCaffery is off to Iowa, I could see Donahue going to Siena

Don't see it.  If he goes anywhere, it's to a team in a power conference

[ugarte]

Siena's coach McCaffery is off to Iowa, I could see Donahue going to Siena

Don't see it.  If he goes anywhere, it's to a team in a power conference

If he goes anywhere it will be because a boatload of cash has been thrown at him by a school in a city his family wouldn't mind living in. Let's not complicate this. It is entirely possible that Siena has throwing-around money because they've been very good at bringing in good coaches on their way to helming schools in the power conferences.

[phillysportsfan]

It is unlikely Donahue can jump right to a Big East school, Dunphy was at Penn for all those years with all that success and the best he could do was the A10 with Temple. It is hard for Ivy league coaches to jump to a Power 6 conference school, the exceptions such as John Thompson 3rd got the Georgetown job because of his father and Craig Robinson at Oregon St because of his relation to Obama. Donahue would have to go to Siena, a good mid major and have success in order to jump to a Power 6 school as Siena's former coach just did

But your right at the end of the day it is all about money, if someone offers to more than double your current salary most likely you take the job

[ugarte]

... Craig Robinson at Oregon St because of his relation to Obama...

You're sticking with this, eh?

[Luke 05]

One difference between Dunphy and Donahue: Dunphy only one 1 post-season game (even losing the one game playoff with P-ton in 1995) in 17 seasons at Penn. He never proved he could coach with the big six conferences. Donahue has a better post-season record and has been by far more visible than Dunphy ever was thus making him a better target for a BCS conference.

[phillysportsfan]

... Craig Robinson at Oregon St because of his relation to Obama...

You're sticking with this, eh?

Yeah because he turned Brown around in 2 years to get 19 wins and make the CBI, never made an NCAA tournament and yet still got a job at a PAC10 school. Oregon St is not a good program but they are still in he PAC10. Donahue coached here 8 years, made 2 NCAA tournaments and the best offer he got last year was from BU. Dunphy coached at Penn for 17 years, made all those NCAA tournaments, and the best offer he got was Temple, an A10 school.

[phillysportsfan]

Seton Hall hires Iona coach Kevin Willard

[ugarte]

... Craig Robinson at Oregon St because of his relation to Obama...

You're sticking with this, eh?

Yeah because he turned Brown around in 2 years to get 19 wins and make the CBI, never made an NCAA tournament and yet still got a job at a PAC10 school. Oregon St is not a good program but they are still in he PAC10. Donahue coached here 8 years, made 2 NCAA tournaments and the best offer he got last year was from BU. Dunphy coached at Penn for 17 years, made all those NCAA tournaments, and the best offer he got was Temple, an A10 school.

The best offer he got or the best offer he took? Dunphy is a Philly guy. He grew up in Malverne and played at LaSalle. Temple - the top coaching position in Pennsylvania (yeah, much better than the Big 10's Penn State) - was probably his dream job. Why would he go anyplace else? Not everyone is constantly trying to climb the ladder. Do you think nobody ever offered Pete Carrill a more lucrative gig than Princeton?

[billhoward]

"Helming"? Are you sure you weren't a sportswriter in a previous life?

[phillysportsfan]

Alright so Dunphy probably is not the best example because your right he is a Philly guy but you would agree that as of last year Donahue accomplished more than Robinson and the best offer he got was BU which is definitely less of an offer than Oregon St. And honestly getting Brown to a 2nd place Ivy finish was not that big of a deal anyway, Miller had gotten Brown to a 2nd place Ivy finish 3 times in his 7 years there an a NIT appearance. I just dont see how one good year out of two years with a CBI appearance gets a coach a PAC10 job coming from an Ivy league school unless the coach happens to be related to the president or there is some other connection

[semsox]

I just dont see how one good year out of two years with a CBI appearance gets a coach a PAC10 job coming from an Ivy league school unless the coach happens to be related to the president or there is some other connection

Perhaps some other connection you should be referring to is his 6 years as an assistant at Northwestern.  Certainly assistants have a very large hand in recruiting.  That gives him recruiting in a major conference as well as head coaching experience prior to the OSU job.  But who knows, Obama has gotten blamed/credited for worse....

[CUontheslopes]

I just dont see how one good year out of two years with a CBI appearance gets a coach a PAC10 job coming from an Ivy league school unless the coach happens to be related to the president or there is some other connection

Perhaps some other connection you should be referring to is his 6 years as an assistant at Northwestern.  Certainly assistants have a very large hand in recruiting.  That gives him recruiting in a major conference as well as head coaching experience prior to the OSU job.  But who knows, Obama has gotten blamed/credited for worse....

HAHA if you honestly believe that he got that job because he was an assistant at Northwestern (traditionally, one of the worst basketball programs in the country and one of a handful to NEVER have made the NCAA Tournament) then I have some swamp land in Florida to sell you that you can build on when the tide goes out...

[phillysportsfan]

Exactly experience at Northwestern is not something to list on your resume

[semsox]

All I'm saying is it's big conference experience, even if it is Northwestern.  OSU wasn't exactly a great job either.  3 other coaches turned it down before Robinson.  So yea, being Michelle's brother probably helped, but it's not as if he's completely unqualified.