2023 Coaching Carousel

[Jasper67]

Goodman:

Penn State’s Micah Shrewsberry has emerged as one of the leading candidates for the Georgetown opening, source told @Stadium.

I’m told Rick Pitino is currently not under consideration.

Just curious. Why would Shrewsberry want to leave Penn State? Too much of a football school?

[Jasper67]

https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1634579011417374720

Hearing strong indications that PC has run out of patience with Cooley having his hand out every year for his "dream job"

So what are they going to do? Fire him? Doesn’t he have 6 years left on his contract?

[billyjack]

https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1634579011417374720

Hearing strong indications that PC has run out of patience with Cooley having his hand out every year for his "dream job"

Translation: "EMT is running out of patience with something."

[GoldenWarrior11]

If you can win at Penn State, you can certainly win at Georgetown.

[Jasper67]

If you can win at Penn State, you can certainly win at Georgetown.

Yes, but why would you leave Penn State in the first place? Great facilities. Big Ten. Financial security and program that comes with being in the Big Ten. Great resources to deal with NIL challenges.

[billyjack]

Great look for the Big East when the coach of a Big Ten Tourney finalist leaves to coach our last place 2-36 school.

[GoldenWarrior11]

If you can win at Penn State, you can certainly win at Georgetown.

Yes, but why would you leave Penn State in the first place? Great facilities. Big Ten. Financial security and program that comes with being in the Big Ten. Great resources to deal with NIL challenges.

I can't tell if this is a joke or not, but I'll treat it as a serious response.

Historically, Penn State is a bottom-3 B1G job (w/ Northwestern and Rutgers). There are football-first athletic departments, non-football athletic departments and football-only athletic departments; Penn State values football to the point where it's basketball facilities are very below average and the support of the program was non-existent forever.

The quality of life in University Park also was ranked in the bottom half of the B1G (even before UCLA and USC additions) by conference administrators and coaches. This will only be the program's tenth NCAAT appearance in history (as the school very much ignored basketball for many decades). There was a story years back where Paterno kicked out a men's basketball game that was scheduled so the football team could have a walkthrough.

Now, they have invested in Shrewsberry in recent years to their credit. However, Georgetown, despite the dumpster fire admin created with Ewing, still has the better facilities, brand, location and financial support behind the scenes. Georgetown remains a top-25 job in the country (whereas Penn State is probably somewhere between 40 and 60 with recent investments, IMO). For instance, Penn State is barely within the top-50 in men's basketball revenues annually; Georgetown (again, despite the Ewing era) is still in the top-35.

[Wizard of Westroads]

A question: Can't Georgetown do better than Shrewsberry? He's been 2 years at PSU, with one winning season. How does he rate so hight? Just based on what he's doing in the Big Ten tournament? His team was 14-11 a month ago and not in the NCAA, now he's good enough for a top 25 job?

[GoldenWarrior11]

A question: Can't Georgetown do better than Shrewsberry? He's been 2 years at PSU, with one winning season. How does he rate so hight? Just based on what he's doing in the Big Ten tournament? His team was 14-11 a month ago and not in the NCAA, now he's good enough for a top 25 job?

Look at Penn State's basketball program historically and look at this year. It's an incredible coaching performance.

[Wizard of Westroads]

A question: Can't Georgetown do better than Shrewsberry? He's been 2 years at PSU, with one winning season. How does he rate so hight? Just based on what he's doing in the Big Ten tournament? His team was 14-11 a month ago and not in the NCAA, now he's good enough for a top 25 job?

Look at Penn State's basketball program historically and look at this year. It's an incredible coaching performance.

He inherited a team that went 21-10 the year before. Maybe the guy's a coaching messiah, but I don't know if you can say that based on one good month. And to the point of whether this is a resume for a top 25 coaching job, no.