Barta's top choices are still in the tournament
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Sirhouseman
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I'm getting more and more of a feeling that it's going to be Jacobson.
HAWKEY3
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It also means that Pearl isn't out yet
busabus114
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Forbes and Jacobson
switch351
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and Forbes
GhostofBTT
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Your premise does not match your conclusion. There are dozens of variables that could be holding up the hiring of a coach.
Your premise assumes that we either have a guarantee from a tournament coach, or that we are waiting for a coach to lose so we can guage his interest, interview, offer, and then have him accept.
It seems pretty far fetched to me.
HAWKEY3
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Why? Would you eliminate your best candidates because they are currently having success in the Tournament & you're eager to blow your wad?
PeoriaHWKI
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Reality is that Barta and the search team has contacted everyone that they want to contact. Now some of them have been directly and some have been indirectly because they( Asst or Head) are still in the tourney. If you have hired someone before you know this to be true. Are they waiting to talk to those after the tourney is over and or they are done in the tourney? Probably. But to think that nobody has even made some sort of contact because they are still in the tourney is laughable.
homes
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Of course there are multiple variables, never said there aren't. I'm saying his targets are still coaching. He can't/won't interview a coach who is still in the tournament. Gatens said we probably won't know until Final Four time. If Barta was convinced there was a guy he wanted as coach who was available right now, don't you think he'd make the announcement and get things rolling? Nothing far fetched about that.
FreddyBrown
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If we're interested in a coach or coaches who are still in the tournament, we would have made some attempt to determine interest by now. A coach could have said "yes" or "maybe," but if it's a head coach he probably wouldn't participate in an interview while his team is still alive. An assistant coach might, or might not, interview now.
Barta's comment to the players most likely was just a safe estimate of how long it would take. He may end up hiring someone before then.
Barta's comment to the players most likely was just a safe estimate of how long it would take. He may end up hiring someone before then.
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tweeterhawk
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+1 Wisest (and likely most accurate, although none of us know for sure) post in this thread.
homes
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thread killer. heck, forum killer. why not, message board killer. go for it, internet killer.
tiggerhawk
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The reason no one has bee hired is that the search committee wasn't even named until the weekend, and have barely had time to settle in. It is not a strong committee, and Barta should be able to influence it as he desires--except for two notable possible problems for him.
(1) The search committee, like the athletic board & the presidential committee on athletics are roughly half female, even more feminine gender among the key players (faculty advisor, chairman of the Prez committee, are late middle-age female senior faculty--out of the Bluder Bunch & tilted toward UIHC staff, including physical & occupational therapy & the "health-nut" crowd who view alcohol, fast-food, etc as moral issues).
Key possible major complication for Barta: much of the search committee, and the administration officials and activists with whom they are closely associated are Sally Mason loyalists, her views (IF she plans to play a role) will have vastly more weight to the committee than Barta himself. Of course, that is a huge IF, and she has yet to tip her hand.
(2) We don't know the full extent of the attitude that in replacing Alford Barta (post Skorton,pre-Mason & especially post-Ann Rhodes) was allowed the latitude of pretty much making his own search and choosing the new coach himself without much oversight from the administration or having to contend with active search committee members--and the result was not a great success. On the other hand, Bowlsby could not and did not control the search process in finding the successor to Hayden Fry; indeed his own choice was vetoed, and powerful administrators on the committee (Ann Rhodes, Phil Jones) prevailed and their guy, Ferentz, ended up being the guy that a reluctant Bowlsby named the new coach--"meddling" that resulted in the selection of an exceptional coach and a source of immense prestige to the university (as seen from Old Capitol).
We know this much: the selection of a search committee by President Mason, with her people in key roles, clearly suggests that she intends the search process to replace Lickliter to be more like that to replace Fry than the one to replace Alford.
Footnote: Probably pays to bear in mind the last, significant remarks of Barta at his press conference. After strangely listing Lickliter-like qualities that he would look for in the new coach, he ended with an emphasis on how the new guy would have to have Iowa & U of Iowa "values"--meaning that Mason has set one essential requirement: no one with a dubious background, no one associated with scandals or violations at other programs, make certain no more Alford-Pierce blackeyes are suffered by the University (we want to win; but even more we want to be respected as a university that does things the right way).
The chances of guys like Barbee, Drew, Stallings are less because of this mandate, whether it fair, whether it is undeserved. Barta could choose another guy who doens't win enough--and still survive; what he cannot afford is to pick a guy who fails the Mason mandate.
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