Monetarily I would guess that they are below the bottom of the B10, but they have a rabid fanbase. They just need a coach that can get them winning again.
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With Buchanan joining, was hoping Rhode was a “lock”……No announcement yet makes we think he is going somewhere else.
I thought he was transferring to Ball State.
It’s a firmly top 20 job, at worst top 4 in the Big 10. Maryland just lost Willard to a Creighton adjacent top 10 job in Nova. UMD is smack in the middle of the single greatest recruiting region in America and flush with Big 10 money and resources. It’s absolutely a place you can win a natty
No way on top 4. Off the top of my head(in no order): Indiana, Mich state, Mich, UCLA. Those 4 are minimum are better. Wisc, Oregon would at least be a push as well
Thank you. It sounds like you do have inside sources.
I think you’re viewing this through the lense of “who’s been the most successful” rather than “who has the most natural advantages”. My top 4 would be Michigan State, UCLA, Indiana, Maryland, and I’m maybe being too generous to Indiana. LA is really the only place that can compete with the DMV’s crazy historical talent level. Paul VI alone has produced like a dozen Duke kids just in the last decade. The only issue is that you’re competing directly with Duke
You obviously weren't listening to their former coach complain about how his job stunk because their Assistant AD wouldn't let he & the team spend Christmas in NY because lack of money. Instead his damn AD was giving all that Big10 money to the football program.
Maryland's a good job. But not sure how it can be a top 4 Big10 job when they haven't won much since joining the Big 10. Think I'd rather have: OSU, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan State, Michigan, Illinois and UCLA jobs over MD based on tradition alone. And from a resource/recent success standpoint, I'd put Oregon & Wisky above MD.
IMO Buzz knew he was 5th best in Texas behind: Houston, UT, Baylor and TT. With SMU & TCU snapping at his heels. He moves to MD and he's got the best program in MD, PA (watch out for Fran), DC, NJ, DE and VA. King of an ant hill.
I like Buzz, but for some reason his teams have a ceiling.
but why? they've been irrelevant for a decade or more
The BigTen isn't a better conference than the SEC. that's an odd move to me, unless the argument is that the SEC is too focused on football to properly support bball.
Or the team of the coach they take, it'll be a p5 program more than likely. Then that team will sign a good g5 type of coach and those players will all be available, then they get replaced by a lower level g5 coach and the cycle never really ends. Portal season doesn't really even start until the season is over and all coaching vacancies are filled.
I would be bummed if we missed our top 2 guys but the portal is still open for over 3 weeks. I'd much rather know they weren't coming now than then. There are still going to be a bunch more players enter the portal after the NIT and The Crown end and after these coaching moves shake out. There is a reason we haven't seen the KU's and Kentucky's signing kids, it's still really yearly. Having an open spot or two on April 1st isnt a terrible thing.
We missed on Hadley last year and ended up with Jefferson…maybe the same thing happens this year.
You keep citing Maryland having a ton of money. As recent as the 2022/23 fiscal year, the MD athletic department was last in the Big10 and behind Iowa State in revenue.
I am sure they got a nice bump starting in 2023, but would think they are still last in the Big10 in revenue.
A&M has top 10 revenues among all athletic departments, so its more about a willingness to fund sports at crazy levels vs. trying to find the money like at MD.
