The second part is player development and is measured by the increase in productivity over each player’s career. The first part is how well the coach gets talented players into his program and is calculated based on the productivity of each player in their first season with the coach (including freshman and transfers). The first component in my coaching rankings is talent accumulation and is broken down into two parts. The question is, how do you know what coach can turn Northwestern around? To answer that question, I developed a coach ranking system based on two factors, talent accumulation and in-game coaching. Since I don’t see any power conference coaches willing to take a pay cut to lead the Wildcats, they will have to look at the mid-majors. If Northwestern truly does want to turn the program around, they should hire an established head coach. Phillips to think that any assistant coach can turn a program around with the type of budget. In fact, from 2003-2011, Northwestern has spent $11M less than the average Big 10 school and $40M less than Michigan State. In addition, according to data gathered from the Office of Postsecondary Education, Northwestern spends the least amount of money on its basketball operations in the Big 10. Table 1: Conference Win % from first time head coaches in a power conference In fact, on average they made the program worse by 18%. As you can see in Table 1 below, none of the coaches were able to improve the team three years after they took over. Since 2003 only four first time head coaches were hired into a power conference. Northwestern is again looking for a new coach and hopefully Athletic Director Jim Phillips is on the Stat Geek Idol judging panel, because I will tell him who he should hire.įirst things first, let’s dismiss what seems to be the popular choice of Duke assistant Chris Collins. Since, Coach K has led Duke to 29 NCAA Tournaments, while Northwestern is still looking for their first. Northwestern offered the position to a different coach and Coach K went back to Army only to be hired by Duke in 1980. In 1978, a then promising young coach at Army, Mike Krzyzewski, interviewed for the vacant Northwestern coaching job. It was conceived of and written by Ryan Silvis. This post is one of the five finalists in our second Stat Geek Idol contest. Finding Northwestern A New Coach (Stat Geek Idol 2 Finalist)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |