Why don't we hire a winner!!!

[ponyexpressthethird]

I usually just read and don't post but I have to comment on this one.
It seems like everyone you guys are talking about as the next coach has just recently gotten fired from a bigger school or is out of coaching. Why don't we look at a guy who has one as a head coach in TEXAS!!! The answer is BOB MARLIN. Last year alone his team beat Missouri, UCF, Southern Miss., and New Mexico State in non-conference. They finished second in their league to a Northwestern St. team that beat Iowa in The Dance and Sam Houston took Northwestern down to the wire in the Conference Championship game. In his eight seasons, Sam Houston State has won more games than any other Southland Conference member.
Check out is bio: http://www.gobearkats.com/basketball/me ... coach.html

[CalallenStang]

Ronnie Arrow

http://www.goislanders.com/coach_bio.cf ... 19&sp=BSKM

Note that that bio is two years old and in the two seasons since, he has compiled a 40-16 record with wins over Florida State, Baylor, and TCU, to name a few.

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

I usually just read and don't post but I have to comment on this one.
It seems like everyone you guys are talking about as the next coach has just recently gotten fired from a bigger school or is out of coaching. Why don't we look at a guy who has one as a head coach in TEXAS!!! The answer is BOB MARLIN. Last year alone his team beat Missouri, UCF, Southern Miss., and New Mexico State in non-conference. They finished second in their league to a Northwestern St. team that beat Iowa in The Dance and Sam Houston took Northwestern down to the wire in the Conference Championship game. In his eight seasons, Sam Houston State has won more games than any other Southland Conference member.
Check out is bio: http://www.gobearkats.com/basketball/me ... coach.html

You can come out now, MM65.

[Dwan]

Paul Westpaul or Quin Snyder

[abezontar]

We need to find a a coach, that is in a similar situation, similar facilities, history, academic requirements and restrictions and has won. Anybody know a guy that fits those requirements? Me neither.

[abezontar]

I know, let's hire John Wooden, he just got out of the hospital and I bet he is looking to get back into the game to show that he isn't too old.

or failing that....

why don't we go the route that Mark Cuban went right after he bought the Mavericks and hired Dennis Rodman to play in order to get fans into the stands. In fact, why don't we hire Dennis Rodman, then it would be ok when we fired him a year later and hired a real coach.

[dcpony]

We need to find a a coach, that is in a similar situation, similar facilities, history, academic requirements and restrictions and has won. Anybody know a guy that fits those requirements? Me neither.

The guy below, Fran Dunphy at Penn, Joe Scott at Princeton, or Tom Pecora at Hofstra

Pat Flannery
Hometown:
Pottsville, Pa.
Last College:
Bucknell '80
Position:Head Coach
Experience:
11th Season
Career Record:
244-179 overall; 149-136 at BU

Phone: 570-577-1267
Email: [email protected]

Now in his 12th year as head coach at his alma mater, Pat Flannery took his Bucknell team to heights never before seen in the 110-year history of Bison Basketball a year ago, and he is committed to maintaining the program's status as one of the elite teams in the Patriot League, both on and off the floor.

A staple in the Lewisburg and surrounding communities, Flannery last season became the second-longest tenured head coach in program history, trailing only his own former coach, Charlie Woollum.

With 172 coaching wins at Bucknell, Flannery ranks second to the Hall of Famer Woollum (318) on the school's all-time list. He also lists No. 2 in victories among all Patriot League coaches, behind only Army's Jim Crews (308).

Flannery, who received a new four-year contract in June 2005, presides over a proud program that is well-armed for college basketball's future with a new home arena and a fourth year of recruiting with merit scholarships upcoming.

"With the leadership, excitement and respect that the Patriot League has developed since I have been the head coach at Bucknell, I believe this is a wonderful time to be in charge of this program," Flannery said. "I have a deep history and love for Bucknell University, and I feel like that feeling comes through to our student-athletes.

"The support from the university and the administration makes me feel proud of the job we have done here," Flannery added.

Those exciting changes paid dividends last season, when Bucknell finished 23-10, captured the Patriot League championship and defeated third-seeded Kansas 64-63 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

"The victory was almost surreal," said Flannery after taking the Bison to the first NCAA Tournament victory in program and league history. "It is proof that good things happen to those who work hard for it. The players in this program truly earned that victory, and it's a memory that they will carry forever."

Flannery made a mark on the Bucknell men's basketball program long before returning to Lewisburg in 1994-95 as the team's head coach. As a player, he captained the 1979-80 Bison team that finished 20-7 and ushered in an era of unprecedented success at Bucknell.

Flannery remains the only player ever to lead the Bison in assists for four straight years, and he finished his career with a total of 505 assists, which was a school record at the time and still ranks third in Bucknell history. He also tallied 779 career points and boasted a career free-throw percentage of .787. BU posted a 38-16 record over Flannery's final two seasons, and he captained the team each of those years.

An emotional, competitive point guard out of Pottsville High School, Flannery was actually the first recruit signed by then-rookie Bucknell coach Charlie Woollum in 1976. It was indeed fitting, then, that when Woollum left in April 1994 to return to his alma mater, William and Mary, after a marvelous 19-year career, Flannery was selected as his successor.

After serving as an assistant coach at Bucknell, Drexel and William & Mary in the 1980s, Flannery had been the head coach at Lebanon Valley College for five years, leading that team to its first-ever national championship in 1994. The Dutchmen won the Division III title in thrilling fashion, with overtime victories in both the semifinals (93-83 over Wittenberg) and the championship game (66-59 over New York University). The title game win by the Dutchmen capped a 28-4 season in Flannery's fifth year as head coach at the Eastern Pennsylvania school, which recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of that national crown.

In his first year at Lebanon Valley, Flannery guided the Dutchmen to a 17-9 mark, the program's first winning season in 18 years, and proceeded to record five consecutive winning seasons. His 1992-93 team reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament, before his 1993-94 team won the title. In five years at Lebanon Valley, Flannery compiled an overall record of 95-44 (.683) and earned the 1994 Division III Coach-of-the-Year Award from the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

In October 2005 Flannery was inducted into the Lebanon Valley Athletics Hall of Fame, and coincidentally he went in alongside Mike Rhoades, the team captain of the national championship team and currently the head coach at Randolph-Macon College.

Flannery's appointment as Bucknell's 19th men's basketball head coach in 1994 capped a tumultuous two-month stretch. His wife, Patti, gave birth to the couple's first son, Ryan, in between the national championship and Flannery's hiring at Bucknell. The couple had their second child, Jesse, nine years ago.

"At the time of my hiring, I was coming off two of the biggest things in my life," Flannery said. "If it wasn't my alma mater, and wasn't a school with this kind of philosophy, I wouldn't have moved. The philosophy of the Patriot League is the philosophy of my coaching. I always wanted a place that was academically oriented. I was very happy (at Lebanon Valley), but the people here got me excited.

In his 11 seasons as coach at his alma mater, Flannery and the Bison program have lived up to those high expectations. He has created an atmosphere in which his players have been successful and he is again giving back to the school that gave him an opportunity in 1976. After last season's 23-10 mark (10-4 Patriot League), his career record now stands at 267-189 (.586) overall and 172-146 (.541) at Bucknell.

Flannery's Bison squads have won nearly two-thirds of their Patriot League contests (91-51) over the last 11 seasons.

Flannery began his coaching career at Bucknell in 1994-95 by guiding the Bison to an 11-3 final league mark and earning Patriot League Coach of the Year honors. He was the first Patriot League coach to earn such honors in his opening season with a program. The award was especially sweet for Flannery, considering the Bison had opened the year 0-8, before winning 13 of their final 19 games to collect a share of the regular season title. In 1995-96, Bucknell was again solid in league play, going 8-4 in Patriot games, and finishing the season with an overall record of 17-11. Included in those 17 wins was one of the school's biggest victories of all time, when the Bison knocked off Alabama, 72-64, at the Cessna Holiday Classic at Wichita State.

Flannery earned Patriot League Coach of the Year honors for the second time in 1996-97, after directing his squad to an 18-11 overall record, a 9-3 league mark and a berth in the league championship game. Non-league victories at Princeton and Air Force, plus a pair of wins over defending PL champ Colgate were but a few of the highlights from that magnificent campaign. Bucknell was one of just four schools (joining California, Indiana and North Carolina) to knock off Princeton in 1996-97. In 1997-98, Bucknell slipped to 13-15 overall, due in large part to a grueling non-league schedule that included games against Iowa, Penn State, Princeton and Pittsburgh. Within the league, the Bison were again solid at 8-4.

His 1998-99 team started slowly, but turned it on down the stretch, winning 13 of its last 16 games before falling to Lafayette in the Patriot League championship game, 67-63. The Bison were 9-3 in the conference during the regular season.

The 2003-04 squad featured one of the youngest lineups in school history with three freshmen and two sophomores starting, but the Bison steadily improved throughout the course of the season and finished with a 9-5 league record. Bucknell eliminated three-time defending PL champion Holy Cross in the opening round of the conference tournament and advanced as far as the semifinals for the 11th time in 14 seasons.

Last year they made it 12 out of 15 after knocking out Lafayette and American in the first two rounds of the tournament at Sojka Pavilion, then the Bison won 61-57 at Holy Cross for their first league title of any kind since 1989.

In addition to his outstanding teams, Flannery has tutored many standout individuals. He has coached a First Team All-Patriot League player in 10 of his first 11 years at Bucknell, and he helped stars J.R. Holden, Bryan Bailey and Boakai Lalugba land professional playing opportunities overseas.

Flannery is very well respected by both his players and his peers in the coaching profession. He was selected to speak at the National Association of Basketball Coaches annual convention in Seattle, Wash., in 1995, held in conjunction with the NCAA Division I Final Four festivities.

His teams have been actively involved in Coaches Versus Cancer, a program sponsored by the NABC and the American Cancer Society which raises money for cancer research, education, and patient services. The Bison, in fact, played in the CVC Classic for the first time last season at Syracuse's Carrier Dome.

Under Flannery, the Bison have played a very active role in the community. The team has volunteered its time to Central Pennsylvania youth basketball organizations, the Donald Heiter Community Center in Lewisburg and the Janet Weis Children's Hospital at Geisinger Medical Center.

In January 2003, Flannery for the second time took his team to his hometown of Pottsville to play at historic Martz Hall. The Bison played Penn there in 1997, and in 2003 hosted Niagara on the floor where Flannery played his prep ball. Dubbed the Kids Classic, the game raised funds for youth basketball in the Pottsville area. Flannery has also taken three Bucknell teams on summer overseas tours. In 2000 the team visited Italy and Croatia, in 1996 Bucknell went to Denmark and Sweden, and in 2005 the squad toured Ireland and England.

[abezontar]

nah....I'd rather we hire Dennis Rodman, that would be awesome to see him stalking the sidelines in a wedding dress.