Good question ElDuque.

http://triblive.com/sports/college/duquesne/10404604-74/nash-basketball-coach?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
 

The likelihood that Brian would get another D-1 head coaching opportunity (previously head coach at St. Francis NY) was probably unlikely based on the Dukes' performance. Job security as an assistant is tenuous at best; if Ferry goes after next year, so would Brian's job. If he had the opportunity for a D-2 or D-3 head coaching job, he might only have 3 or 4 years under guaranteed contract with a decent, but not great salary. Moving into another D-1 assistant coaching position, perhaps as the #2 or #3 assistant, probably dead ends out too unless he has connections to an upper echelon, stable head coach.

IMG probably provides Brian and his family with some significant stability; and settling in Bradenton, FL wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

Good luck to Brian.  BTW, John Mahoney, a former Dukes assistant with Danny Nee, is the head coach of IMG's post graduate basketball team.  https://www.imgacademy.com/latest-headlines/2015-07-24/pittsburgh-post-gazette-pittsburgh-men-making-mark-img-academy

 

Last edited by PhoenixRising2 (5/02/2016 12:43 pm)

Like Phildog, I haven't posted for months, (after the end of the year failings), and won't be renewing my season tickets until Ferry is gone (which I posted a few months ago).  Reading that Nash is gone makes me wonder if folks are starting to jump ship?  Desperate times for ???
-The transfer that we are getting, the one from Drake.  We will be his 3rd school!!  What is the common factor here?
-Many have said, we now have lost our TOP 3 scorers from last year.
-Ferry needs to bring someone in (coach) who can bring in a top recruit.
-Colleagues, and I hope all of you know we all want the Dukes to win - every off season the same information is written and read - how we MIGHT be next year.  It didn't happen this past year with two of the best guards we have had together in a while, I can't see it happening next year.
-I hope that our AD is just "being politically correct when he says he believes Ferry is the coach that should be there.  Just looking at the cupcake OOC schedule and X's and 0's from this last season is a no-brainer.  I don't care what changes he wants to make to the "atmosphere".  If we don't win it won't matter.
-Anyhow, good luck to Coach Nash - hopefully he will be with a winning program...I am not sold on this team for next year...I will still be reading what all of you write...and I hope that at some point either a very good coach is brought in after next year, OR the Dukes make the NCAA's next year and I can say I am going to get season tickets in two years and change what I said and I will say I was wrong because I would be wrong.  But I doubt that we will make the NCAA's next year.  Good Luck to all.
FAM

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This spot likely viewed as a one and done gig by potential candidates so would be surprised to get a strong up and comer or coaching veteran.  Look for Ferry to promote Glesmann and bring in a young grad ast., say a Jeremiah Jones for example.

Well. This is all discouraging.

Nash recruited Isaiah Mike

I see it as a quality of life move for Nash.  It is a change in scenery and in the nature of work.  He won't have the travel, or recruiting trips, more time at home with the family, more teaching and player development without the pressure to win.  I'm sure the grind can get to a guy after years in the business.
I expect Ferry to promote from within and add a lower level assistant coach.

I think if this were our women's program in this position, which has won 20 games a bunch of years in a row under two coaches, been to the NCAAs once and to the NIT a bunch of times, then promoting from within makes sense, and bringing a former player into the fold makes sense. But not for a program that hasn't had a winning season in four years. Former players don't know what a winning program is all about, and no one in my opinion has earned a next step up. Plus, we have some clear deficiencies and would benefit from someone with different experience, a different perspective, and hopefully some NCAA T background. So I'm with you, Current Student.

Who would come here? Anyone with a job will know that Ferry is on thin ice. You'd have to be crazy, or unemployed to consider joining this staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDJ7L1mP3CA

We should take a look at this guy. Unorthodox methods but a proven winner.

Well, I'm not wearing any glasses so think what you like. The replacement for Nash, should tell all of you junior detectives what you need to know about THE REST OF THE STORY!! 
GOOD DAY!!

Maybe Ferry is more upset about him leaving than he is putting out there. You'r number 2 leaves (for a great opportunity, their facilities are better than Duquesne and IMG is known globally by world class athletes for training and rehab in addition to the high school age kids that play there) in a time where your career as a Division 1 head coach is heavily in question and basically contingent upon next year's results. My opinion, good for him, that is honestly probably a better job than being the head coach at DU. One thing I'm curious to see is if Ferry gets exposed because of this departure. One positive most of us can agree on in regards to Ferry was the fact he is a pretty solid recruiter. Well, like I mentioned before Nash was credited with finding and locking up Isaiah Mike and that was the case for many other recruits during Ferry's tenure, so well see what happens going forward.

I agree we should be looking outside the program for a replacement, I also think it would be great to get a guy who can teach some defense, considering the fact that if we weren't just utterly pathetic game in and game out defensively last year, I would venture to guess 3 or 4 more games could have gone our way. That being said, in college sports, talent almost always wins out over schemes and strategies. If we could just find a super ambitious young guy at a big program towards the end of the bench coaching staff wise, and offer him a position he probably wouldn't otherwise get for a few more years, we may be able to get in some living rooms we previously couldn't and maybe sign a couple more Isaiah Mike type guys.