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by meganeck
Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:22 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: New Head Coach
Replies: 120
Views: 65309

Re: New Head Coach

I'd be thrilled if we land him. I don't know what to think, wasn't real familiar with him. doesn't seem to have too bad of a resume. If he is a candidate leads me to be they must be willing to spend some money. i doubt he is taking a discount to come to WIU, unless he wants to be a head coach again...
by meganeck
Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:05 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: New Head Coach
Replies: 120
Views: 65309

Re: New Head Coach

LeatherCy wrote: Sun Mar 22, 2020 9:25 pm Found out this weekend Matt Woodley is mentioned for the Northern Colorado job. Their coach took the Wyoming job after Wyoming fired their coach.
Northern Colorado promoted an assistant coach to the head coach I saw, unless something happened and they changed their mind.
by meganeck
Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:49 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: New Head Coach
Replies: 120
Views: 65309

Re: New Head Coach

Bball Fan wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:10 am Here's hoping our new coach is close to being selected, but sure during these uncertain times other things are more important. Stay safe everyone.
Agree, would be nice if we get an announcement this week, but who knows with the current situation.
by meganeck
Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:24 pm
Forum: Football
Topic: 2020 Coaching Staff
Replies: 26
Views: 22478

Re: 2020 Coaching Staff

oh awesome, thanks for letting me know. Scott (or anybody else I guess). Any idea where we stand on assistant coaches. I'm assuming we still have some more to hire. We might be done, depending on how duties were shifted around internally. Open positions (based on what the previous coach was listed ...
by meganeck
Mon Mar 16, 2020 12:21 pm
Forum: Football
Topic: 2020 Coaching Staff
Replies: 26
Views: 22478

Re: 2020 Coaching Staff

Doug Patterson is an O-Line coach who has started retweeting WIU football stuff and is followed by a few of the people on/connect with our staff, just fyi: https://twitter.com/CoachDP78 His bio says: "on dec 10 2019; SCSU dropped their football program. so now I am an Oline coach with 27 years...
by meganeck
Sat Mar 14, 2020 11:21 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: New Head Coach
Replies: 120
Views: 65309

Re: New Head Coach

Couple things...Micheal Jones is "splitting" calling prospective coaches or calling coaches to measure if they have interest in the job with the AD. Matt Woodley, Asst at Drake is very interested in the job. Comes from an athletic and coaching family. Dad was long time college FB coach at...
by meganeck
Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:00 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: New Head Coach
Replies: 120
Views: 65309

Re: New Head Coach

Well Rick Pitino is off the market. Iona College hires Rick Pitino as head basketball coach in a stunning move. Pitino, who grew up on Long Island, has close ties to multiple influential voices at Iona, including top booster Robert LaPenta, who formerly partnered with Pitino in ownership of racehor...
by meganeck
Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:35 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: 2020 Roster Changes
Replies: 87
Views: 58054

Re: 2020 Roster Changes

For roster changes between the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. Starting with...Kobe Webster will be doing a grad transfer: Kobe is going to Nebraska: https://fremonttribune.com/sports/huskers/mens-basketball/grad-transfer-guard-webster-commits-to-husker-basketball/article_ac6aae3d-2005-557e-a99f-57eb3...
by meganeck
Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:28 am
Forum: Western News
Topic: Campus situation w/ COVID-19
Replies: 171
Views: 93434

Re: Campus situation w/ COVID-19

leatherneckcountry wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:00 pm I wonder if this will delay the coaching search
I wouldn't think so, they can probably do Skype or Face-time interviews.
by meganeck
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:27 pm
Forum: Non-Western Sports
Topic: Summit League coaching/player news
Replies: 17
Views: 13576

Re: Summit League coaching/player news

North Dakota has fired their women's coach. More info about that, for anyone interested (click on the tweet to go read the thread with additional info): https://twitter.com/AHeinertMidcoSN/status/1237738054397431809 In the tweet, they mentioned who the interim coach is. I mentioned that for the men...