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Notre Dame’s Mike Bret stepping down after 23 years. Jeff Goodman has thrown out Ed Cooley as a possible replacement.

Omaha1 wrote:Notre Dame’s Mike Bret stepping down after 23 years. Jeff Goodman has thrown out Ed Cooley as a possible replacement.

As Goodman seems to do with every single major job opening.

I suspect early candidates at ND will be Chris Quinn, Ryan Humphrey, Martin Inglesby, Dusty May and Pat Kelsey.

GoldenWarrior11 wrote:I suspect early candidates at ND will be Chris Quinn, Ryan Humphrey, Martin Inglesby, Dusty May and Pat Kelsey.

This is a great list of candidates. How did you put this together?

billyjack wrote:

GoldenWarrior11 wrote:I suspect early candidates at ND will be Chris Quinn, Ryan Humphrey, Martin Inglesby, Dusty May and Pat Kelsey.

This is a great list of candidates. How did you put this together?

How typical coaching lists are normally created. Alums, former assistants, current hot names and any connections to current administration. I don't think Quinn will leave the NBA for ND (he is in line to become an NBA Head Coach soon). Inglesby's resume is very Brey-esque (which may help or hurt his chances). Kelsey, from Twitter accounts, has his higher-than-usual share of negative fans from his days at Winthrop (doubt that affects his candidacy one way or the other, but it is interesting nevertheless). May doesn't have any Catholic school background, which will probably not strengthen his candidacy.

I would guess, today, that Swarbrick and ND influencers would likely have Humphrey near the top of the list, given his status as a current assistant coach, alumnus and professional playing experience. He would also likely be able to keep some of these higher profile recruits to stay on.

Something to monitor from a BE perspective would be if/when Georgetown fires Ewing, whether Brey is interested in continuing coaching and whether or not he'd want to coach at Georgetown. Brey is from Maryland, went to George Washington, coached at DeMatha and remains a proven winner/name that could help get the Hoyas back on track to their winning ways. He is enough of a name by himself where it could (finally) be a clean cut from the Thompson Family, and he could probably get things turned around in short order.

GoldenWarrior11 wrote:

billyjack wrote:

GoldenWarrior11 wrote:I suspect early candidates at ND will be Chris Quinn, Ryan Humphrey, Martin Inglesby, Dusty May and Pat Kelsey.

This is a great list of candidates. How did you put this together?

How typical coaching lists are normally created. Alums, former assistants, current hot names and any connections to current administration. I don't think Quinn will leave the NBA for ND (he is in line to become an NBA Head Coach soon). Inglesby's resume is very Brey-esque (which may help or hurt his chances). Kelsey, from Twitter accounts, has his higher-than-usual share of negative fans from his days at Winthrop (doubt that affects his candidacy one way or the other, but it is interesting nevertheless). May doesn't have any Catholic school background, which will probably not strengthen his candidacy.

I would guess, today, that Swarbrick and ND influencers would likely have Humphrey near the top of the list, given his status as a current assistant coach, alumnus and professional playing experience. He would also likely be able to keep some of these higher profile recruits to stay on.

Something to monitor from a BE perspective would be if/when Georgetown fires Ewing, whether Brey is interested in continuing coaching and whether or not he'd want to coach at Georgetown. Brey is from Maryland, went to George Washington, coached at DeMatha and remains a proven winner/name that could help get the Hoyas back on track to their winning ways. He is enough of a name by himself where it could (finally) be a clean cut from the Thompson Family, and he could probably get things turned around in short order.

Thanks GW11

Hadn't thought about the Brey thing with Georgetown with his local ties. It would make some sense. My guess is though that Brey is done coaching. I could see him doing TV pretty easily.

How much is Georgetown going to spend on a buyout? TJ Otzelberger is one of the lowest paid coaches in the Big 12 ($2 mil per year) and can be bought out for $6 mil. Has to be a few other underpaid coaches out there that could be options for Georgetown. Will be interesting to see what type of effort, in a legitimate search and money, Georgetown makes here.

Chris Holtmann got tossed tonight after a complete meltdown. Folks in Columbus don’t sound too happy with him right now. Wonder how long his leash is.

Per Twitter:

We are told Porter Moser is doing everything he can to get the Notre Dame job and that ND is equally interested.