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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by stang » March 30th, 2021, 12:40 pm

nvspuds wrote:Here is another out of left field idea. Johnny Jones, Texas Southern. Former head coach at LSU, Was an assistant under Muss at NV so he knows the ins and outs of our weird conference. The notion that you can't coach because you got fired by a P5 school gets refuted every year..He is really smart and a true gentleman. Excellent recruiter with strong ties in Texas.
Put me down as a HELL NO on that one. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team underperform more than the team he had at LSU with Ben Simmons. I would be unbelievably disappointed.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by ViAggie » March 30th, 2021, 12:42 pm

Aglicious wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:39 pm
aggies22 wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:31 pm
ArizonaAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:18 pm
slcagg wrote:
ArizonaAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:07 pm
A guy named Sean Paul on Twitter named Ed Conroy from Minnesota as the leading candidate. I hope that isn't true. 141-179 total record

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Ed Conroy interviewed here in Logan yesterday. However, I would hesitate at calling him the "lead candidate". We was the first to interview though.

I told you no one was close. Haha!
That's not very far south @ViAggie Unless you're Canada.

I wish we had enough to lure Casey Alexander away from Belmont. Perhaps Eric Konkol at La Tech is on the list? I believe he currently makes around $400k? He seems like a JH kind of guy.
I guess I missed that Bullet Train to Iowa...

Also, you might be onto something.


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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by bpd » March 30th, 2021, 12:44 pm

Ed Conroy huh... that is who we are interviewing. Wow.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by stang » March 30th, 2021, 12:45 pm

Hearing that Conroy is actually being considered makes me very, very worried about the pool of interested candidates for the job. We’re talking about a guy who went 29-71 in conference games during six years at Tulane.

I understand throwing your old buddy a bone, but come on now. That interview isn’t even worth the plane ticket.
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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by ViAggie » March 30th, 2021, 12:47 pm

bpd wrote:
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Ed Conroy huh... that is who we are interviewing. Wow.
Heartwell and Conroy are old buddies. Courtesy interview? :noidea:

Patience Grasshopper :nono:


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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by ineptimusprime » March 30th, 2021, 12:49 pm

Ed Conroy. :puke:



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Post by 2004AG » March 30th, 2021, 12:50 pm

Yikes. JH can’t be that stupid, can he ?


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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aglicious » March 30th, 2021, 12:53 pm

ViAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:47 pm
bpd wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:44 pm
Ed Conroy huh... that is who we are interviewing. Wow.
Heartwell and Conroy are old buddies. Courtesy interview? :noidea:

Patience Grasshopper :nono:
Maybe dual purpose. Catch up as old friends and gauge interest in being an assistant on the new USU staff and bringing his nephew along....

or maybe JH just needs a trusted friend to be his new bag man. :anonymous: we have one of those right?



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by cval » March 30th, 2021, 12:54 pm

One little breadcrumb and we are.... :cry:



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by JonnyCienPesos » March 30th, 2021, 12:57 pm

Aglicious wrote:
aggies22 wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:31 pm
ArizonaAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:18 pm
slcagg wrote:
ArizonaAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:07 pm
A guy named Sean Paul on Twitter named Ed Conroy from Minnesota as the leading candidate. I hope that isn't true. 141-179 total record

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Ed Conroy interviewed here in Logan yesterday. However, I would hesitate at calling him the "lead candidate". We was the first to interview though.

I told you no one was close. Haha!
That's not very far south [mention]ViAggie[/mention] Unless you're Canada.

I wish we had enough to lure Casey Alexander away from Belmont. Perhaps Eric Konkol at La Tech is on the list? I believe he currently makes around $400k? He seems like a JH kind of guy.
Doesn’t Konkol coach in Conference USA?


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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by slcagg » March 30th, 2021, 12:59 pm

JonnyCienPesos wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:57 pm
Aglicious wrote:
aggies22 wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:31 pm
ArizonaAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:18 pm
slcagg wrote:
ArizonaAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:07 pm
A guy named Sean Paul on Twitter named Ed Conroy from Minnesota as the leading candidate. I hope that isn't true. 141-179 total record

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Link? That is an interesting name.


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Ed Conroy interviewed here in Logan yesterday. However, I would hesitate at calling him the "lead candidate". We was the first to interview though.

I told you no one was close. Haha!
That's not very far south @ViAggie Unless you're Canada.

I wish we had enough to lure Casey Alexander away from Belmont. Perhaps Eric Konkol at La Tech is on the list? I believe he currently makes around $400k? He seems like a JH kind of guy.
Doesn’t Konkol coach in Conference USA?


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Correct. And has a young stud big guy on the roster.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Roy McAvoy » March 30th, 2021, 1:01 pm

There's a lot of similarities between the Blake Anderson hire & potentially hiring Erik Konkol.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by JonnyCienPesos » March 30th, 2021, 1:01 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote:There's a lot of similarities between the Blake Anderson hire & potentially hiring Erik Konkol.
Yep. My best guess is that will be the guy.


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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Real Life Aggie » March 30th, 2021, 1:02 pm

List of people I've never heard of (not unlike Craig Smith in '17) who have seen success:

Austin Claunch, Nicholls State
King Rice, Monmouth
Robert Jones, Norfolk
Bashir Mason, Wagner
Ray Harper, Jacksonville State
A.W. Hamilton, Eastern Kentucky
Kyle Keller, Stephen F Austin
Carmen Maciariello, Siena
Bill Coen, Northeastern
Ryan Odom, UMBC
Jeff Jones, Old Dominion
John Becker, Vermont
Rob Senderoff, Kent State
Russell Turner, UC Irvine
Dana Ford, Missouri State

I'm sorry if everyone else knows these guys... can't say I'm terribly familiar with HCs around the nation.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggiefan160 » March 30th, 2021, 1:04 pm

slcagg wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:27 pm
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March 30th, 2021, 12:26 pm
Hartwell and Conroy are both Citadel guys and likely were there together (Conroy is 54, Hartwell is 55).

There may be fire here.
Interesting connection.

He also is probably not at Minnesota with the coaching change. Maybe he is being looked at as an assistant as well.
You read both of their bios and Conroy played from 85-89, and Hartwell's senior year (1987) he was captian, so it looks like they were teammates for 2 years.
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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » March 30th, 2021, 1:04 pm

stang wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:40 pm
nvspuds wrote:Here is another out of left field idea. Johnny Jones, Texas Southern. Former head coach at LSU, Was an assistant under Muss at NV so he knows the ins and outs of our weird conference. The notion that you can't coach because you got fired by a P5 school gets refuted every year..He is really smart and a true gentleman. Excellent recruiter with strong ties in Texas.
Put me down as a HELL NO on that one. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team underperform more than the team he had at LSU with Ben Simmons. I would be unbelievably disappointed.
Yeah a big no on Johnny Jones. He wasn't that good at North Texas and other than one year with Eric Musselman as the Associate HC, flamed out at LSU.

I'm not against hiring guys who were fired from a P5 job, but we can do much better than Tim Miles or Johnny Jones.

As for Erik Konkol, he seems like he would be a solid hire. He took over a program that was rolling under Mike White, but has kept it rolling for 6 years. He also has experience on successful teams working for the great Jim Larranaga at George Mason and Miami.
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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggiefan160 » March 30th, 2021, 1:15 pm

Konkol is the head coach at LA Tech. His assistant, Duffy Conroy is brothers with Ed Conroy. Crazy connections.
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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggiealum13 » March 30th, 2021, 1:16 pm

Seems that JH is going with people he knows or connections in the southern part of the country just like in football. I kind of wish he'd do a search firm. It did him well last go around, but maybe the money or time is not there this time.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by NewUSUfan » March 30th, 2021, 1:28 pm

Haven't read through this whole thread so it could have been mentioned elsewhere. Keep an eye on former Minn. Asst. Ron Hunter.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by flying_scotsman2.0 » March 30th, 2021, 1:36 pm

Real Life Aggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:02 pm
List of people I've never heard of (not unlike Craig Smith in '17) who have seen success:

Austin Claunch, Nicholls State
King Rice, Monmouth
Robert Jones, Norfolk
Bashir Mason, Wagner
Ray Harper, Jacksonville State
A.W. Hamilton, Eastern Kentucky
Kyle Keller, Stephen F Austin
Carmen Maciariello, Siena
Bill Coen, Northeastern
Ryan Odom, UMBC
Jeff Jones, Old Dominion
John Becker, Vermont
Rob Senderoff, Kent State
Russell Turner, UC Irvine
Dana Ford, Missouri State

I'm sorry if everyone else knows these guys... can't say I'm terribly familiar with HCs around the nation.
Please please PLEASE let us hire King Rice from Monmouth and force him to hire King Wheat onto his staff...



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggie84025 » March 30th, 2021, 1:37 pm

Roy McAvoy wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:31 pm
Aggie in Boise wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:28 pm
rAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:26 pm
Hartwell and Conroy are both Citadel guys and likely were there together (Conroy is 54, Hartwell is 55).

There may be fire here.
Does this mean that Hartwell is planning on leaving soon too? Is he just helping out an old buddy before he leaves?
Man. If Hartwell has another job lined up & did this on his way out town, that would be just brutal.
It would be equal to or worse than what Barnes did with the Duryea hire. This would really set us back. I am hopeful that John has more common sense than this.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by nvspuds » March 30th, 2021, 1:46 pm

Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:04 pm
stang wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:40 pm
nvspuds wrote:Here is another out of left field idea. Johnny Jones, Texas Southern. Former head coach at LSU, Was an assistant under Muss at NV so he knows the ins and outs of our weird conference. The notion that you can't coach because you got fired by a P5 school gets refuted every year..He is really smart and a true gentleman. Excellent recruiter with strong ties in Texas.
Put me down as a HELL NO on that one. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team underperform more than the team he had at LSU with Ben Simmons. I would be unbelievably disappointed.
Yeah a big no on Johnny Jones. He wasn't that good at North Texas and other than one year with Eric Musselman as the Associate HC, flamed out at LSU.

I'm not against hiring guys who were fired from a P5 job, but we can do much better than Tim Miles or Johnny Jones.

As for Erik Konkol, he seems like he would be a solid hire. He took over a program that was rolling under Mike White, but has kept it rolling for 6 years. He also has experience on successful teams working for the great Jim Larranaga at George Mason and Miami.
Fair criticism. If Alford were to jump ship I would be fine with Jones at Nevada.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » March 30th, 2021, 1:48 pm

Aggie84025 wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:37 pm
Roy McAvoy wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:31 pm
Aggie in Boise wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:28 pm
rAggie wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:26 pm
Hartwell and Conroy are both Citadel guys and likely were there together (Conroy is 54, Hartwell is 55).

There may be fire here.
Does this mean that Hartwell is planning on leaving soon too? Is he just helping out an old buddy before he leaves?
Man. If Hartwell has another job lined up & did this on his way out town, that would be just brutal.
It would be equal to or worse than what Barnes did with the Duryea hire. This would really set us back. I am hopeful that John has more common sense than this.
That would be the only reason he would hire someone like Conroy. Barnes was one foot out the door and didn't have to deal with the consequences of his poor hire. I'm 100% certain Hartwell won't hire Conroy unless he has an AD job lined up. Even then, I hope he is someone that is still taking this very seriously even if he is close to leaving.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » March 30th, 2021, 1:50 pm

nvspuds wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:46 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:04 pm
stang wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:40 pm
nvspuds wrote:Here is another out of left field idea. Johnny Jones, Texas Southern. Former head coach at LSU, Was an assistant under Muss at NV so he knows the ins and outs of our weird conference. The notion that you can't coach because you got fired by a P5 school gets refuted every year..He is really smart and a true gentleman. Excellent recruiter with strong ties in Texas.
Put me down as a HELL NO on that one. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team underperform more than the team he had at LSU with Ben Simmons. I would be unbelievably disappointed.
Yeah a big no on Johnny Jones. He wasn't that good at North Texas and other than one year with Eric Musselman as the Associate HC, flamed out at LSU.

I'm not against hiring guys who were fired from a P5 job, but we can do much better than Tim Miles or Johnny Jones.

As for Erik Konkol, he seems like he would be a solid hire. He took over a program that was rolling under Mike White, but has kept it rolling for 6 years. He also has experience on successful teams working for the great Jim Larranaga at George Mason and Miami.
Fair criticism. If Alford were to jump ship I would be fine with Jones at Nevada.
Hey and I'm sure he would take the job. It would be a big step up from the SWAC. There are a lot of guys that get fired from various jobs that are good coaches. Alford had success at Iowa before his last year and had success at ucla before his last year there. Alford also took a mid major to the Sweet Sixteen before going to Iowa. I just haven't seen that type of success from Jones.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by aggies22 » March 30th, 2021, 2:02 pm

JonnyCienPesos wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:01 pm
Roy McAvoy wrote:There's a lot of similarities between the Blake Anderson hire & potentially hiring Erik Konkol.
Yep. My best guess is that will be the guy.


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Eric Konkol is the second of the three names I've heard. He is very much a possibility. In fact, he's the first name I heard. I still have not seen the third name mentioned in 11 pages now.
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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggiealum13 » March 30th, 2021, 2:10 pm

aggies22 wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 2:02 pm
JonnyCienPesos wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:01 pm
Roy McAvoy wrote:There's a lot of similarities between the Blake Anderson hire & potentially hiring Erik Konkol.
Yep. My best guess is that will be the guy.


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Eric Konkol is the second of the three names I've heard. He is very much a possibility. In fact, he's the first name I heard. I still have not seen the third name mentioned in 11 pages now.
I'd like that hire. Seems very diamond in the rough-ish which is very Utah State. The guy has done pretty well with LA Tech. Seems like a much better option than Conroy.
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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by OGaggie23 » March 30th, 2021, 2:11 pm

What’s this about?



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggie19 » March 30th, 2021, 2:14 pm

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What’s this about?
His win/loss record leaves something to be desired. I hope there is a reason beyond the record to suggest he would improve here, otherwise, yikes!

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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by OGaggie23 » March 30th, 2021, 2:15 pm

I have faith in JH but he can do better than that



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by nvspuds » March 30th, 2021, 2:16 pm

Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:50 pm
nvspuds wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:46 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:04 pm
stang wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:40 pm
nvspuds wrote:Here is another out of left field idea. Johnny Jones, Texas Southern. Former head coach at LSU, Was an assistant under Muss at NV so he knows the ins and outs of our weird conference. The notion that you can't coach because you got fired by a P5 school gets refuted every year..He is really smart and a true gentleman. Excellent recruiter with strong ties in Texas.
Put me down as a HELL NO on that one. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team underperform more than the team he had at LSU with Ben Simmons. I would be unbelievably disappointed.
Yeah a big no on Johnny Jones. He wasn't that good at North Texas and other than one year with Eric Musselman as the Associate HC, flamed out at LSU.

I'm not against hiring guys who were fired from a P5 job, but we can do much better than Tim Miles or Johnny Jones.

As for Erik Konkol, he seems like he would be a solid hire. He took over a program that was rolling under Mike White, but has kept it rolling for 6 years. He also has experience on successful teams working for the great Jim Larranaga at George Mason and Miami.
Fair criticism. If Alford were to jump ship I would be fine with Jones at Nevada.
Hey and I'm sure he would take the job. It would be a big step up from the SWAC. There are a lot of guys that get fired from various jobs that are good coaches. Alford had success at Iowa before his last year and had success at ucla before his last year there. Alford also took a mid major to the Sweet Sixteen before going to Iowa. I just haven't seen that type of success from Jones.
Every situation is different..I think a good fit between an AD and a coach is critical. Not that many mid majors have a sweet 18 run though it was fun to see this year. North Texas is a band school that to whatever extent they support sports leans hard towards football.

Easier to recruit to LSU but a conference chockfull of good programs make the competition much harder.

I tend to look at overall wins and losses and winning percentages. It is a measure about how you do against your peer schools.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by aggieguy13 » March 30th, 2021, 2:17 pm

Scott Nagy? Dan D'Antoni? Kyle Keller?
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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » March 30th, 2021, 2:20 pm

nvspuds wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 2:16 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:50 pm
nvspuds wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:46 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:04 pm
stang wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 12:40 pm
nvspuds wrote:Here is another out of left field idea. Johnny Jones, Texas Southern. Former head coach at LSU, Was an assistant under Muss at NV so he knows the ins and outs of our weird conference. The notion that you can't coach because you got fired by a P5 school gets refuted every year..He is really smart and a true gentleman. Excellent recruiter with strong ties in Texas.
Put me down as a HELL NO on that one. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a team underperform more than the team he had at LSU with Ben Simmons. I would be unbelievably disappointed.
Yeah a big no on Johnny Jones. He wasn't that good at North Texas and other than one year with Eric Musselman as the Associate HC, flamed out at LSU.

I'm not against hiring guys who were fired from a P5 job, but we can do much better than Tim Miles or Johnny Jones.

As for Erik Konkol, he seems like he would be a solid hire. He took over a program that was rolling under Mike White, but has kept it rolling for 6 years. He also has experience on successful teams working for the great Jim Larranaga at George Mason and Miami.
Fair criticism. If Alford were to jump ship I would be fine with Jones at Nevada.
Hey and I'm sure he would take the job. It would be a big step up from the SWAC. There are a lot of guys that get fired from various jobs that are good coaches. Alford had success at Iowa before his last year and had success at ucla before his last year there. Alford also took a mid major to the Sweet Sixteen before going to Iowa. I just haven't seen that type of success from Jones.
Every situation is different..I think a good fit between an AD and a coach is critical. Not that many mid majors have a sweet 18 run though it was fun to see this year. North Texas is a band school that to whatever extent they support sports leans hard towards football.

Easier to recruit to LSU but a conference chockfull of good programs make the competition much harder.

I tend to look at overall wins and losses and winning percentages. It is a measure about how you do against your peer schools.
Sure, we all look at overall wins and losses and winning percentage. That is why many of us are nervous about the Conroy possibility as we would be with Jones. Conroy getting the job would make me feel even worse about things than when Duryea got it.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by apo » March 30th, 2021, 2:21 pm

Matt Langel has been at Colgate forever. It took him a while to build a contender but I feel like he's done awesome with what he's got there. I don't know if I've seen his name mentioned here.



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by Aglicious » March 30th, 2021, 2:29 pm

aggies22 wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 2:02 pm
JonnyCienPesos wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:01 pm
Roy McAvoy wrote:There's a lot of similarities between the Blake Anderson hire & potentially hiring Erik Konkol.
Yep. My best guess is that will be the guy.


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Eric Konkol is the second of the three names I've heard. He is very much a possibility. In fact, he's the first name I heard. I still have not seen the third name mentioned in 11 pages now.
Yes!! I finally guessed one correct. It only took me like 15 names...haha.

I actually dont mind the Konkol possibility. He was CUSA coach of the year and has consistently produced a good team, even when his team was not predicted to do so well and after losing quite a few players. He seems to be able to reload which is nice.

Bring along both Conroy brothers as assistants (and thus Lofton + Robbins as transfers). We will be huge! :pirate:



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Re: Coaching candidates

Post by slcagg » March 30th, 2021, 2:31 pm

Aglicious wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 2:29 pm
aggies22 wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 2:02 pm
JonnyCienPesos wrote:
March 30th, 2021, 1:01 pm
Roy McAvoy wrote:There's a lot of similarities between the Blake Anderson hire & potentially hiring Erik Konkol.
Yep. My best guess is that will be the guy.


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Eric Konkol is the second of the three names I've heard. He is very much a possibility. In fact, he's the first name I heard. I still have not seen the third name mentioned in 11 pages now.
Yes!! I finally guessed one correct. It only took me like 15 names...haha.

I actually dont mind the Konkol possibility. He was CUSA coach of the year and has consistently produced a good team, even when his team was not predicted to do so well and after losing quite a few players. He seems to be able to reload which is nice.

Bring along both Conroy brothers as assistants (and thus Lofton + Robbins as transfers). We will be huge! :pirate:
Either lofton or Robbins would be a nice addition. There is a sophomore wing at la tech I like as well 😁.

Lofton is only a freshman.



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