Schwartz Becomes Head Coach at ECU

[DuckInAPen]

I can’t name names but I had dinner with some big wigs @ the Mt. Juliet Olive Garden last night and Cutcliffe is all but a done deal.

If true, it'll be great to have him back. Barnes just hasn't had the same success with Sanders running the offense. For one thing, I bet Coach Cut will make Chandler practice his free throws.

By the way, next time you're at one of these power booster meetings at Olive Garden (or Fazoli's or Mr. Gatti's), please give my regards to MITBeaver.

 

[Volfan1000]

Maybe we play East Carolina at TBA next season.

 

[MAD]

 

[CNeagleVolFan]

Saw a familiar name tonight. Al pinkins. I wonder if Barnes would think about adding him to the coaching staff

 

[youcancallmeAl]

Maybe we play East Carolina at TBA next season.

I think you can book that. Barnes likes to reward those who have been good to him.

 

[VoltillweFall]

Gonna be some serious competition when CRB retires... All the assistants having some success. Lanier already in the dance English and Oliver will be fine in couple years and Schwartz will have ECU in the dance Soon too.. Give me Barnes 3 more years let the young guns come in

 

[youcancallmeAl]

Gonna be some serious competition when CRB retires... All the assistants having some success. Lanier already in the dance English and Oliver will be fine in couple years and Schwartz will have ECU in the dance Soon too.. Give me Barnes 3 more years let the young guns come in

In three years this program might be so valuable that we would not have to settle for a HC who hasn't proved himself in P-5 conference basketball. Our team is loaded for next year, and at the rate Barnes is recruiting, this thing could get real good in the near future. Hell, it's already looking real good right now. We might be a blue blood before you know it.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

In three years this program might be so valuable that we would not have to settle for a HC who hasn't proved himself in P-5 conference basketball. Our team is loaded for next year, and at the rate Barnes is recruiting, this thing could get real good in the near future. Hell, it's already looking real good right now. We might be a blue blood before you know it.

I think people misunderstand the term "blue blood." You can't really just become a "blue blood" with some sustained success.

It's a term that is pretty much exclusively reserved for Kansas, UCLA, North Carolina, Duke, Kentucky, etc. because they've been elite for decades, and are a long-standing, traditional heavyweight in the sport. They spend more money on basketball than anyone else, too. And, the color of their team is a shade of blue lol.

A lot of people would try and argue Villanova is also a "blue blood" but they're not. They're just a great program. They're they type of program we'd probably like to emulate. Tennessee will never be a "blue blood" but we can certainly be a Top-10 basketball program, we have potential for that.

 

[youcancallmeAl]

I think people misunderstand the term "blue blood." You can't really just become a "blue blood" with some sustained success.

It's a term that is pretty much exclusively reserved for Kansas, UCLA, North Carolina, Duke, Kentucky, etc. because they've been elite for decades, and are a long-standing, traditional heavyweight in the sport. They spend more money on basketball than anyone else, too. And, the color of their team is a shade of blue lol.

A lot of people would try and argue Villanova is also a "blue blood" but they're not. They're just a great program. They're they type of program we'd probably like to emulate. Tennessee will never be a "blue blood" but we can certainly be a Top-10 basketball program, we have potential for that.

True that. Ganzaga still isn't called a blue blood, but UCLA and UNC still are. Go figure.

 

[MAD]

 

[SGMVols]

We’re promoting Gregg Polinsky as the new assistant. Was a volunteer assistant this year.

Gainey gets promoted to Schwartz’s former associate HC position

 

[Chemvol]

I think people misunderstand the term "blue blood." You can't really just become a "blue blood" with some sustained success.

It's a term that is pretty much exclusively reserved for Kansas, UCLA, North Carolina, Duke, Kentucky, etc. because they've been elite for decades, and are a long-standing, traditional heavyweight in the sport. They spend more money on basketball than anyone else, too. And, the color of their team is a shade of blue lol.

A lot of people would try and argue Villanova is also a "blue blood" but they're not. They're just a great program. They're they type of program we'd probably like to emulate. Tennessee will never be a "blue blood" but we can certainly be a Top-10 basketball program, we have potential for that.

The sustained success part of becoming a blue blood is always over multiple eras of basketball and multiple generations of players. Most programs aren't capable of doing that, especially as the parity in the sport has increased.

I'd limit the "blue bloods" in MBB to six teams: Kansas, UCLA, UNC, Duke, Kentucky, and Indiana. Those schools have the wins, the trophy cases, and the iconic coaches and players to warrant that sort of prestige. I'd divide the rest of the better programs into two groups: traditional powers and good programs. I'd put teams like Villanova in the first group and us in the second.

I think Barnes is going to leave us in a good spot. If the next coach can take that and run with it, we could have a good chance at moving up.

True that. Ganzaga still isn't called a blue blood, but UCLA and UNC still are. Go figure.

I think "blue blood" status, once achieved, would be hard to revoke given what it took for teams to get there.

 

[Clad in Big Orange]

I'd rather be an orange blood than a blue blood any day of the week.

 

[EasternVol]

The sustained success part of becoming a blue blood is always over multiple eras of basketball and multiple generations of players. Most programs aren't capable of doing that, especially as the parity in the sport has increased.

I'd limit the "blue bloods" in MBB to six teams: Kansas, UCLA, UNC, Duke, Kentucky, and Indiana. Those schools have the wins, the trophy cases, and the iconic coaches and players to warrant that sort of prestige. I'd divide the rest of the better programs into two groups: traditional powers and good programs. I'd put teams like Villanova in the first group and us in the second.

I think Barnes is going to leave us in a good spot. If the next coach can take that and run with it, we could have a good chance at moving up.



I think "blue blood" status, once achieved, would be hard to revoke given what it took for teams to get there.

I guess Duke is the newest member of that club. How long did it take them to get in, something like 35 years of sustained high level success?

 

[Chemvol]

I guess Duke is the newest member of that club. How long did it take them to get in, something like 35 years of sustained high level success?

Duke had four FFs and two appearances in the championship game before K arrived. He just helped them jump that last hurdle, and they didn't look back.