This is ridiculous. Collins will get another 2-3 year bump and get a salary that puts him in the top-5ish in the conference, and that will be that. He’s not leaving for another Big Ten job, he’s definitely not the kind of coach who would be a low-risk hire into the SEC, and he doesn’t fit the profile of your typical NBA target.
Northwestern is in the Big 2. Basically no chance that anyone outside the Big Ten or SEC can put together a financial package to lure him away from a comfortable position. Any discussion to the contrary is silly.
I don’t think the Big 2 applies to basketball. I’m sure the Big 12 and ACC have teams who would put together financial packages. Also, Vanderbilt may be a SEC team who would look at a coach like Collins.
The Big 2 schools already make millions more than the ACC, B12, BE, etc schools.
Under the proposed 14 game CFB propsal, the B1G and SEC would get
58% of the payout, which equals to another
$21 million for each B1G school (that's about double the payout for ACC/B12 svhools).
$ will not be a problem for NU.
Please stop it. Collins improved the teams he inherited from Day 1. Look at the build-up in his record. Do you think, after 100 years of ineptitude, a coach who finally makes great progress and achieves the ultimate goal is not likely to fall back? He did, and then he built it back up again, better than ever.
Please, making 4 straight NITs (would have been 5, but for injuries/suspension) is not ineptitude.
CC made progress by finally breaking through, but let's not rewrite history and make it seem like having
5 straight losing seasons is any sort of
progress (and that included a Tourney team minus just Sanjay and Tap - whom you didn't think were crucial to the Tourney run - and the follwing year, Pardon and Law at the height of their college careers).
In fact, that would be an example of
going back to the bad old days when the program was only capable of a winning season every
4/5 yrs with a Senior laden team.
Also, take away the program having started to win on a consistent basis (don't think CC would be here if that didn't happen) and the shiny new facilities and more $ for the coaching staff and chances are, CC's success here would be a lot more modest.
It’s fascinating to see how people view Collins has bad-mediocre coach at any point during his tenure. He showed promise early on by changing the identity of NU by playing strong defense resulting in the 2014 upset of a very good Wisconsin team. He got NU to their first ever tournament appearance and won. A bad-mediocre coach does not do something that historically significant. No other coach has ever done that before at NU. He didn’t suddenly forget how to coach inbetween tournament seasons. He did however learn how to become a great coach over these seasons. The margin between a winning and a losing team is not that much in the B1G. He then brought this NU team to back to back tournament appearances another brand new feat. Is also still getting wins despite the many significant injuries. The player development and in game coaching has been underrated by this board throughout his tenure. He is the greatest coach in NU history and most programs would be very happy to have him.
CC was mediocre in those
5 losing seasons because he inexplicably went away from the D-first philsophy and roster construction that had initially brought him success (being preoccupied with a string of stretch-4s); he also needed to revamp his coaching staff.
CC learned from those mistakes and is a better coach as a result of it.
It just boggles my mind how so many think CC did what he has accomplished in a vacuum, and that he hadn't built upon what BC had built (a consistently winning program - from one that had previously won only once every 4-5 yrs) and that CC also got what all the previous coaches didn't get - administration support as in not only new/state of the art everyday facilities, but basically a new arena and a larger budget for coaches.
Carmody was a descent coach but as you say, never put the effort into recruiting as if it was beneath him. Kaminsky came to campus and Carmody was nowhere to be be found
Maybe BC was out really recruiting another player that he liked better?
CC missed on Happ, who also had NU connections - are we supposed to hang that on him forever?
CC is the better recruiter, but the vast majority of his higher ranked recruits have not panned out.
Ironically, CC has been getting better results with less heralded recruits who are more willing to do the "dirty work" (the type of recruits that BC used to get; BC just never got enough of them to overcome injuries, suspensions, departures, etc).
