Build a program that might not win NCAA championships, but is respected enough and good enough to be competitive enough where you're not sweating out Selection Sunday every single year. Brey had to start over. Bryant Youngs son, four-star defensive end Bryce Young commits to A former three-star signee in 2019 out of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Md., where he was a classmate of Notre Dame cornerback Cam Hart. joe from the south side: Tom,I would like to comment on your hiring timeline. Let's take Gonzaga and Villanova for their previous sustained successes and Marquette and Xavier right now. In a statement,. For PR Pros Overview; Media Database; Monitoring and Alerts; . Craig in NJ: Sorry Tom. joe from the south side: Tom,I don't see Brey coaching college ball again. That's what made Brey so unique - he accepted all of it and said, yeah, fine, I'm going to win anyway. Jack Swarbrick had advance notice. Incomparable! I know he's Spo's top assistant and likely wants to stay in NBA but think he could be convinced to come back? Replacing Brian Kelly will not require the same sales job of Notre Dame director of athletics Jack Swarbrick that replacing Charlie Weis did. In spring practices, fifth-year Andrew Kristofic, sophomore Billy Schrauth and junior Rocco Spindler seemed to lead the way among the possible guards. Tom Noie: They're both too little to withstand the ACC. joe from the south side: Tom,sincere question. Tom Noie: Wade: A lot of defense is want to. Looked bad. Last week's decision that this is it was a combination of factors. Most of it was wrong. Not happening. I hate to say it, but I might sit the 5 star recruit more in lieu of extra minutes for Lubin. I don't get how that would work. He encourages readers to become a member of the schools Rockne Athletics Fund annual membership levels run from $100 to $50,000 so that Notre Dame can have the resources it needs to compete effectively with the most successful athletic programs in the country.. Had he still been at Loyola, maybe the frontrunner. Know. Like, it had to get better. It's a sense of spirituality, and Williams would definitely fit. Foskey joined former Irish tight end Michael Mayer in the second round, Mayer going five picks earlier, fitting as both were consensus All-Americans last season. OK, you better win. To paraphrase the late John Thompson, I don't care if Micah Shrewsberry is black or white or yellow or whatever color, I think he's a heck of a coach. Two Elite Eights? What a crock as you have considerably more grief about being the opposite. It looked like it had found an offensive coordinator. Tom: Tom can you please provide a public service announcement to all of the delusional Irish fans that Mark Few, Brad Stevens, Monty Williams, and all these other pipe dream candidates are not walking through that door. Notre Dame won the Maui Invitational and was ranked as. Why is there not information from 2023? Off limits. We'll see. In a statement, Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick indicated Brey would remain on staff in an as-yet undefined capacity. Also, a lot of the names mentioned are likely taking their teams to the Big Dance. Patterson and Lugg combined to make 79 career starts at multiple spots along the Irish line. Tom Noie: Little different deal there, my man. Somebody has to choose him. To the point where the league didn't believe it needed anyone selling its product to the nation. He's a class act and it would be great to keep him on campus in some capacity, when he's ready. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Slot to Notre Dame Fighting Irish Newsletter. Jack B. Swarbrick is a vice president and the director of athletics at Notre Dame. Averaging 36 points a game, BEFORE the three point shot, for his last two years. Two Elite Eights? I assume they have some of the same issues as ND but they seem to overcome. Comparing it is beyond silly. The way he integrates what hes teaching is really impressive. His role there often requires him to read the play before committing in a direction, something that should help his diagnostic abilities at the next level. Or if it is, it's so understated that it's barely noticeable. Somewhat remarkably, everybody signs on for it. Tom Noie: Wade: Nobody's saying it was a Dumpster fire when Mike Brey walked in the door, but it was a Dumpster fire of a decade. He can't afford to be like, ah, it's never going to happen here, so I'm out, when it MIGHT happen here. Good luck. What coach fits that criteria? One program competes, another doesn't overanalyze. Those were the things that stood out for me with Link. Guest: Any word of Bobby Hurley or Chris Collins being considered? You'd have been laughed out of Rocco's if you said the new guy was going to go to a couple Elite Eights. Dunlap probably won't be the only guy who decides to seek something else besides Notre Dame. We sung the praises of Anthony Solomon last season in what he was able to do (and the wonders he worked) defensively. Right on all accounts, except the coaching wish list. As much as he sees himself as a teacher, and I think he is, I just don't think he is willing to put up with all of the "distractions" that prevent him from teaching. Your family is telling you to do college for a one year and then you're going to the NBA. Tom Noie: Chris: All depends on the next coach. Watch. Bonkers in Yonkers: Tom, any early indication of who will be coming back for Brey's final home game? I know mens bball will never be the driver of nds conference alignment and I think the acc move was great at the time, but do you think there are any administrators in the athletic department that regret that move? Guest: I would also love to see the mens basketball program get the talent and also support from local fans as the womens program has. It beat Villanova and Marquette. Chris, DC: Tom,How big of a difference would Basile at VTech have made ? Tom Noie: Hire a head coach first. Tom Noie: Doesn't answer the question. Open mike 02/05/2023 The Standard I expect him to nail this one as well. Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick says NCAA could break apart without Notre Dame led the nation in fielding percentage this season. Sign up for the Fighting Irish Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning, The Irish get another commitment in the 2024 class. Fans of their favorite basketball programs tend to have higher opinions of who should take that job when it opens. Tom Noie: Don't agree. We had a strong candidate pool, said Swarbrick in an interview with Irish Illustrated Wednesday. He made zero final fours and lost as a favorite to the following teams - Mississippi, Winthrop, Washington State, Xavier, Old Dominion, Florida State, Old Dominion, and Iowa State. I'll go, in no particular order, with Darian DeVries (Drake), Micah Shrewsberry (Penn State) and Pat Kelsey (Charleston) with wild cards being Chris Quinn and Sean Sweeney. Some people get it, some don't. This one's not. EM: Echoing Muffet McGraws comments in the immediate aftermath of Breys announcement, how can any N.D. mens b-ball coach hope to compete and win in todays environment - including, e.g., the transfer portal, NIL rules, and the general sense that every sport at N.D. takes a back seat to football? Like Coach isn't doing this or doing that, let's just do it ourselves. Beyond silly. Why not play Lubin and Starling and heck, Dom Campbell and Tony Sanders and Matt Zona more moving forward? Mike - NC: Any chance Chris Quinn comes back? Have they, yes they havebut Brey has failed them some. Spend enough of it that the optics place too much of an emphasis on Saturday afternoons? Im his 26th. Notre Dame men's basketball is about players/prospects choosing Notre Dame for more than just basketball. Why would I go to Notre Dame? Going division? He gets here and learns how it works and thinks, yeah, Waco ain't that bad. Maybe a change will be good for some of these guys as they might get a coach that goes more than 6 deep? [2][3] His appointment was announced in July 2008, replacing Kevin White, who resigned in June 2008 to take the same position at Duke University. [2], "Jack Swarbrick appointed director of athletics at Notre Dame", "Sources: Swarbrick to replace White as athletics director in South Bend", "Notre Dame opts for attorney John "Jack" Swarbrick as next athletic director", "Lawyering up? Drew Valentine went from 25-8 in the Missouri Valley Conference to 6-12 in the Atlantic-10. Does he stay for a new coach? I'd say, why, yes, you need to do whatever's needed to hire Monty Williams. Even more so now that you have a lame-duck coach and a lame-duck roster in a lame-duck season. When you watch how other teams run offense, with different actions and sets you're struck by how Notre Dame doesn't nothing like that. Don't. I am an experienced systems developer and network engineer with broad, multi-vendor, multi-protocol background. What we've seen from Starling this season is a lot of what we saw from him last season at LaLu. Yeah, Notre Dame's a player or two short in the big picture, but where's the pride? Brad Stevens lead assistant at Butler and then Celtics and then went to learn under Painter and now at PSU. Tom Noie: Do you like Purcell Pavilion hot dogs, bad basketball and short rotations? Its no secret that Florida head coach Kevin OSullivan is the prime candidate to replace Mainieri, who announced his retirement upon conclusion of the 2021 season. Theres something misguided about that. These are old guys who don't need hand holding to figure out. I was sure he was a great baseball mind, and frankly, we talked to a lot of good baseball people. We have to do it whether the team we cover is 15-5 in the ACC or headed toward 5-15. Jack Swarbrick says Notre Dame football looking to add general manager, praises Freeman, Small-town 'chip' and family's faith drive Gerad Parker all the way to Notre Dame, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Not really sure. pic.twitter.com/nd8EQXF7Zh, Rev. Robert from Mishawaka: Ill keep listening my man! Then expansion, how many times? College athletics is a bigger business today than any school president or administrator couldve imagined with collectives with Name, Image and Likeness, with immediate eligibility transfers and athletes legally allowed to make hundreds of thousands of dollars any way they see fit. If no Wisconsin at Lambeau Field, if no trip to Los Angeles, if no visit from the Cardinal, then what? If you can get off the boat now and get to dry land, do it. A lot of critics seem to forget these players have to not only want to over-winter in South Bend, but get into Notre Dame first, and then do enough to stay in Notre Dame. Here we are in late January, a time when we should be talking/plotting/dreaming about what Notre Dame needs to do the rest of the way to get back to the NCAA tournament. Get it that you don't like the coach, but you've got to be better than that. Dave: Does the football team have the same admission requirement as the basketball team? Not even close. Do they meet the next coach and think immediately, yeah, I can play for this guy. Think Notre Dame can do better. Like with the courting of Ludwig, there may be buyout hurdles to clear. We did play a little bit of a role in trying to say, we dont have to thats not a signal that we need to do something tomorrow, Swarbrick said. Center that houses student-athlete programs. But the top three, in any order, would be Darian DeVries from Drake, Micah Shrewsberry from Penn State and Pat Kelsey from Charleston. If yes, who should it be? Bryant Youngs son, Bryce projects to the edge of the defensive line, rather than tackle like his father, though how Bryce holds weight could lead to a future at tackle. A Notre Dame men's basketball recruit chooses Notre Dame for the overall experience. And it's Jan. 25. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick and university president John I. Jenkins certainly have some thoughts on NIL and college athlete compensation. From John, Leonardtown, MD. Also a 1500 point scorer in Graves and a verbal from Chris Thomas. You pulled no punches. New Orleans Saints draft Notre Dame defensive end Isaiah Foskey, validating Bryant Young was a first-team All-American in 1993 at Notre Dame before being the No. Tom Noie: Why? I know what to do. He never closed down his locker room after even the toughest nights. That includes Mike K.They need 40ish like Brey was when he was hired. But it's suddenly Final Four or bust? You can not tell me that none of the teams that do compete every year don't have some standards also. No throwing NIL money at recruits. Instead, the Irish season has gone off the rails, the head coach has decided (likely with a nudge) that this season will be his last, and the program is staring at a future that is, at best, uncertain. Why would he start now? Thanks for all you do. It wasnt about money. Tom D.: My biggest fear is ND hiring "Mike Lite." The 12th commitment in Notre Dames class of 2024, Young is the third defensive lineman, joining, Replacing Foskey will obviously be a stiff challenge for Notre Dame. Does Tom Izzo worry about getting to March? Notre Dame won seven games away from home last year, and was 6-4 on the road in league play. Mike Brey can offer his opinion to Jack Swarbrick, but this is Jack Swarbrick's hire based on who he best fits for his vision of the program and for the university. Tom Noie: Mike: Again, the later we get, the more voices of reasons that surface. I believe Notre Dame missed its chance when it started 0-2. It holds 15,000. Brian: Real question, who is in the starting lineup next year? Tom Noie: Mike: Given my current hairline, I admire the flex, but given how it ended with Chris Mack at Louisville, with him secretly taping a conversation with Dino Gaudio to save his own backside, that's too much to look past. Let's let this play out and put some faith in his track record. Matt: Tom, what do you think the time line will be on getting a new coach. It's hard to see that sentiment changing. But rewind back to July 2000 when Mike Brey walked in the door of the Joyce Center. Tom Noie: Tom: Better late to the party than never. FWIW I can come with at least 4 that ND recruited who are buried at better programs and will be recruited over. Tom Noie: Dan: Somewhere beyond the bottom, and even then it might be too generous. They called for Swarbrick to be fired. Ask yourself why, then remember P-Hubb. Wesley raised the bar so high, a bar that Starling hasn't been able to reach. Don't like your one year? I was particularly struck by Pat Fordes column about the success of other catholic schools in college basketball and how strange that ND doesnt match their consistent success. Does Notre Dame want to pay north of $3 million for an elite coach? Look at the men's game as the men's game. All the theories on why Ludwig isnt preparing a move from Salt Lake City to South Bend? Lets take our time and think about it.. Just answer the question - why sign with Notre Dame if your options are so many other established basketball schools. Pitt looked like a 12th-15th place team coming into this season and they have been very solid despite their best returning guy (Hughey) missing several acc games. In 23 years he made the second weekend of the tournament only three times. Tom Noie: Donny: Be scared. In the flow of play this year, they too often get beaten by better players (who are better coached) to be pinned with beating themselves. Nobody is expecting final fours. Heck, even in the fourth paragraph of his Thursday letter, Swarbrick makes it about money. He went 0-18 in the SEC. John Jenkins, tweeted a photo of the arrangement at the Grotto along with a message for those in East Lansing: The senseless gun violence that continues to plague our nation has again shattered a university campus. Soon thereafter came the Notre Dame role that has either been embellished in narrative or possibly undersold, a distinction that likely depends on the perspective of the telling and one that could come with a bit more clarity a decade from now. And they are hear to stay. Kentucky wants me. Two Mens Capital One Cup wins in 2014 & 2022 which prize includes a $250,000 donation to the Universitys student-athlete scholarship fund. 45 years old. Know. It's just kind of stepped back into the shadows, where everybody else talks up those other leagues, and rarely talks about the ACC. So you need a little of everything from someone who's got endless energy, someone who's going to sell his program, and the sell the fans the product is worth watchingTom Noie: As for the second part of your question, I'd be surprised (stunned) if this was a quick hire. I had to trim it somewhere, so I went with 15. Exactly 12 years to the day that Swarbrick fired Weis, he again starts a coaching search. Maybe they'd have been better, but still, too many guards and not enough dudes. He may be more talented in a raw sense than Wesley, but Wesley was, for a lack of a better term, a killer. Notre Dame reported. Just get in and then you go from there. ND needs to make a bigger commitment to basketball. We don't get any bells and whistles but you know what, we're still going to win. Others saw it. But as been mentioned probably hundreds of times over the last seven-plus hours, Brey has owned it. I wanted to finish this thing off the right way and play my last game as a Notre Dame football player.. His father has big time ACC roots and Ryan was the head coach for a 16 seed that beat Virginia by 20 points. Oh, you can try and do and say all the right things, but even then, it's only going to get you to the occasional Sweet 16 or Elite Eight. The Big Ten. I believe Burton can be a solid point guard, but he needs to be a back up for one season behind a veteran. ; Texas). Tom Noie: Pat: Many thanks. Don't. Is it simply Bennett is that good? Unfortunately, too many Irish football fans took the tweet as an opportunity to bash Jenkins, athletic director Jack Swarbrick and the university as a whole for not paying up to get Utah offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig. Wave the cape and let the bull go by. The first recruits are the underclass men, 2023 class and then he can hit the portal. Notre Dame men's basketball faces a crossroads, so there's plenty to say At least, not anytime soon. No way he's coming back. The other frosh bigCooper was not even a top 500 player. Everybody wrote it. Brey left Delaware in July 2000 after taking the Blue Hens to two NCAA Tournaments in three seasons something that seemed little more than an afterthought in South Bend, considering that in the nine seasons following Digger Phelps retirement in 1991, Notre Dames once blue-chip program had been shut out of the NCAA tourney and had earned only three NIT bids. Young chose the Irish over finalists Michigan, USC and Tennessee. That wouldn't be unique to Notre Dame. There may have been two or three, OK, maybe four coaches in the country who would've enjoyed similar success. This is a long haul process. Tom Noie: As for a future role for Mike Brey at Notre Dame, that was more feel-good/wishful thinking than anything. Imo it's 50/50 because of the experience on the roster. When Mike Brey arrived, he had Troy Murphy and David Graves and a young Matt Carroll and an old Martin Ingelsby and Ryan Humphrey in a sit-out season. Tom Noie: I'd look hard at him. Mark from Rochester, NY: Tom, I know there are games left in this lost season, but what are your thoughts on Starling? National keeps making shit up. If that's the case, the university needs to do everything in its power to make it great. He viewed his job as more than just a coach, more about just winning and losing. That's the job of Jack Swarbrick. Some programs you have parents contacting you about stuff. Both are football schools but the difference is Michigan seems to actually care about pouring money and resources into bball program to be good, while Jack is fine with just sniffing the NCAA tournament, Tom Noie: James: You answered your own question. Treated them like he wanted to be treated. In your opinion, where do they stand with Burton? A freaking ACC tournament championship after beating Duke and North Carolina? Yeah, next year is going to brutal unless Jack Swarbrick nails this hire. Fans are hard to figure out. Have versatile wings who can shoot it and rebound. Look at some of the end-of-game/close-game decisions they've made. Or that another super senior can't make a critical WIDE OPEN 3-pointer in that game? My gosh if Brey judges everything by players he trusts in practice and it doesn't translate to the games, how competive was it in practice? Two years later, Notre Dame is cutting down nets in Greensboro. Tom Noie: Joe: Win, but even that's hard and not the only answer. Berlin Airport Strikes Disrupt Air Travel From German Capital Launching of Fighting Irish Media a major enterprise that delivers better information about and access to Notre Dame and its athletic programs via expanded production and distribution of programming. We can't sit here on Jan. 25 as the snow falls outside and say we have ANY idea what Notre Dame's roster will look like next season. Membership for Notre Dames athletic teams (other than football and hockey) in the Atlantic Coast Conference that began with the 2013-14 athletic seasons.
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