Who do you want as the next Head coach?

[muskieman]

take the poll.

[thecoach]

Here's a little reference material for those on the fence.

https://www.bannersontheparkway.com/201 ... basketball

I can't believe this guy thinks Gregg Marshall who has turned down mucho dinero big jobs would leave the $ bread basket that is the Koch Inc. for a small Jesuit school in Cincy.

[basket]

Dan Hurley. I know, i know he just signed at UConn.

[olsingledigit]

After surveying the list of potentials it seems to me that Travis is the safest and most logical choice.

[Shucker]

Travis Steele!!

[edgecliff hall]

I checked out his background, and his twitter posts going back two years. Looks like he is an Indiana guy loyal to Xavier. And, most important, he loves our players. I just voted for Mr. Steele.

Edgecliff Hall

[sweet67]

Steele is a Butler Bulldog.....out.

Oats
Kelsey
Dr. John Giannini
John Brady

[X-lucidity]

Just voted for Oats myself. Why, because that dude can coach and brings that "edge" players need to compete at levels slightly above their natural ability. A rare commodity. I realize he may not be interested and that it is a longshot. Therefore, a close 2nd for me is Travis Steele. (for all the positive reasons others have mentioned) This process should be expedited as much as it can be. One thing I can predict with certainty - it will not be Kelsey...............
But why not throw a "feeler' out towards Coach Oats???

[Duke]

I chose Steele. However, the timing of Mack's leaving is good. The final four is this weekend, which gives GC a chance to talk to coaches and administrators about the opening. Additonally, no one seems to talk about Div 2 coaches. Does anyone know of an up and coming coach. Last a talk show host stated that X's last 6 coaches had a grand total of 41 wins before taking over at X. As small as the number is - it seems high to me?

[Musketeer1]

Could someone who is supportive of Steele allay my concern that his hiring would only maintain the vicious cycle of promising assistants who experience an amount of success at X sufficient to permit them to leave? I do not post much, but read often and value the opinions of many posters. I am not posting to challenge or argue - life's too short, especially with like minded fans. The problem with Steele, it seems to me, is that incremental improvements achieved by promoted assistants have been just enticing enough to render a relationship that is flawed from the start, appear worthy of repetition. Some toxic long-term relationships become so in part because they yield an enticing amount of good along with bad. I do not dislike Coach Steele. I do however, believe we know the following: (1) This would be Steele's first HC job; (2) Successful, driven folks are loathe to believe that their first job is their last or ideal job; (3) Steele studied at the feet of CM who just left his hometown and Alma mater for a perceived bigger and better deal; and (4) with all of the obvious x's and o's issues we saw from NYC onward, why are some so confident that the Assistant HC also presiding over those events with CM knows what he is doing?