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>>All of the top college
>>coaches dream about coaching in the NBA.
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>K turned it down. Roy's never wanted it. Self doesn't want it.
>Dean never wanted it. Wright doesn't want it. Huggins never
>wanted it. Calhoun never wanted it. Wooden. Chaney. Crum.
>Tark. I could keep going.
Most of them entertained it but the right opportunity wasn't there. They're not going to leave their college empires to take on an NBA lottery team, especially at an advanced age, but the opportunity presented itself to coach a good team with All-Star caliber players they'd jump. They saw what happened with people like Pitino & Cal and are not going to put themselves in a bad situation just to say they're in the NBA.
>Cal and Pitino tried it, but they're a big reason why so many
>college coaches *don't* want it anymore. They see that what
>works at one level doesn't at another, necessarily. Brad
>Stevens and Larry Brown, the only successful coaches that I
>can recall at going from title-quality college coaching to
>title-quality NBA coaching, are basketball savants. Not
>everyone can do that-- in fact, most of them can't, because
>you have a very narrow window to succeed and impossibly fluid
>business shit going on around you. That's clear to everyone.
Right Cal and Pitino found themselves in bad situations. And you can't really count Larry Brown because he played and coached in the NBA/ABA before he went back and coached in college. But I bet none of those people you named above think they "can't" coach in the NBA.
Bringing up people like Dean, Wooden, Chaney, Crum, Tark etc is irrelevant because college basketball TODAY is a lot different than when those guys were doing their thing.
>And they may not have to recruit one-and-dones in the NBA, but
>there's still *so much* bullshit NBA coaches have to deal
>with, on top of the lack of job security. Look at Hoiberg's
>situation with his front office. Look at Donovan losing Durant
>and now crossing his fingers that Westbrook doesn't feel like
>leaving himself.
You act like college coaches don't get fired. They get a little longer lease but not much. And once you get kicked off the mountain top at one of the "elite" programs its usually a pretty far fall to the next job. NBA coaches get fired and walk right into another head coaching gigs the next season.
>Donovan could draw elite prospects to Indiana simply with his
>presence. Star free agents in the NBA don't give a fuck about
>Donovan. In the NBA, unless you're Pop, coaches don't get the
>credit for the wins but they get the blame for the losses. The
>same simply isn't true in college, where the coach is king.
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>Is there more pressure at IU to win than at other schools?
>Sure. But if he brought in elite recruits right away (he
>would) and started getting results right away (he would), then
>he'd be there til the day he retires, paid out the ass to do
>so. I think it's far more likely Donovan would leave than
>Stevens, and if I'm Indiana, I make him my first offer.
Donovan was a college head coach for 20+ years, you won't even entertain the idea that maybe he wants to do something different? He almost left UF for Orlando he's been eyeing the NBA for a while. I don't think he'd be ready to run back to college after 2 seasons.
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