Pompeani said Driscoll on top of the list or something like that.

Please please do not consider Brian Gregory.This guy could recruit and he had talent but he sucked as a
X and O guy,his teams were pathetic on the road.I  live in Ohio and I follow UD ,please ask the Flyer fans
as he was awful.He had teams that had 12 A10 quality players and still lost to Duquesne during the RE
years when Duquesne was playing 2 walk ons and that 10- 40 garbage.Brian Gregory is the last coach
I would hire.I remember Duquesne beat them and asked Amodio how a team as deep in talent could lose
to Duquesne and he didnt understand it either.Go to the UD message boards and ask them about Brian
Gregory. POISON ,POISON,Why even bring his name up after 5 years of Ferry.Very similar coaches.
 Never bring his name up again. TERRIBLE,AWFUL, COACH ,DECENT GUY. ASK ANYONE WHO
KNOWS UD AND THEY WILL TELL YOU HE SUCKED AS A COACH. The reason Duquesne has sucked is stupid ADs hiring coaches who suck.Everhart and Satalin were theonly decent coaches hire in last 30 years.Edgar sucked, worst coach Duquesne ever hired.Had good talent Pipkins,JAMES,the kid from Duquesne PA.who is in federal prison and NICK  Bosnic.He sucked,it was pathetic,Kevin Price from DHS
and terrible coaching. John Caroll sucked as everyone on the team hated his guts,arrogent SOB.
Carroll  recruited hard but hed go after players that were Top 100 playerrs who were not coming to DUQUESNE . Satalin was a  good coach but the president was a jaggoff in Nesti. Goofy Nesti nearly
destroyed Duquesne and Satalin got caught up in the rape trial of the 4 players and he just lost his
spirit and gave up.He would have been very successful had that incident not happened. Emmett Sellers
was a very good player but he got fat after the trial and was not the sames.I think of Scott Edgar and
cringe when I think of the damage he created at Duquesne..He is probalbly a used car salesman in
Middle of knowwhere Kansas.There have been terrible coaches come through Duquesne.
 

Just heard Brian Gregory hired somewhere else on 93.7

Dukes2012 wrote:

lilpav30 wrote:

Just heard Brian Gregory hired somewhere else on 93.7

South Florida. Thank god. Not an inspiring choice at all.

USF is not a bad spot for him. Modest expectations that he should be able to meet. I saw Anthony Grant mentioned somewhere, and after looking at his record, I'm really warming up to him, almost to the point where he'd be my top target. I don't know what he's making at Oklahoma City, as i don't know what they pay assistants in the NBA, but I'd approach him. His resume blows away most of the guys we've been talking about. One losing season in 9 years as a coach. Here are his win totals between VCU, and Alabama: 28, 25, 24, 24, 23, 21, 18, 17, 13. Sign me up right now. It's also a plus that those wins came at VCU, and Alabama, as opposed to Podunk St. You know he can coach at this level.
 

PrepScouting (NCAA)‏   MoreEarly names I'm hearing for Duquesne: (The AD is a Ohio guy) John Groce
King Rice
Matt Driscoll
Pat Kelsey
Anthony Stewart
Baker Dunleavy

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duq81 wrote:

Dukes2012 wrote:

lilpav30 wrote:

Just heard Brian Gregory hired somewhere else on 93.7

South Florida. Thank god. Not an inspiring choice at all.

USF is not a bad spot for him. Modest expectations that he should be able to meet. I saw Anthony Grant mentioned somewhere, and after looking at his record, I'm really warming up to him, almost to the point where he'd be my top target. I don't know what he's making at Oklahoma City, as i don't know what they pay assistants in the NBA, but I'd approach him. His resume blows away most of the guys we've been talking about. One losing season in 9 years as a coach. Here are his win totals between VCU, and Alabama: 28, 25, 24, 24, 23, 21, 18, 17, 13. Sign me up right now. It's also a plus that those wins came at VCU, and Alabama, as opposed to Podunk St. You know he can coach at this level.
 

Anthony Grant is an interesting candidate. Played at Dayton, too, although his career there happened when Mr. Harper was probably in high school.

LeVelle Moton will have his team in action Wednesday in the early First Four game. It will be a chance to watch him in action.

How many games did Mr. Crowley see? Not too many would be my best guess!

"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's"

Let the Zeise's & Crowley's of the world rant away.
They have no vested interest in the program outside of selling click stream ad revenue on their blogs.
Their recent articles are Click bait ... and have no basis of knowledge of the program other than peripheral observations & emotional imprints based on a one way weekly interview.
After reading Zeise's piece, I'd have thought DU just fired John Wooden.
And Crowley's lacked any evidence based stats on Game-day tactical coaching ability and how to develop players over a 3-4 year timeline.
Very happy Coach Ferry was successful at Plymouth State & Adelphi.  And it only took 8 years at LIU Brooklyn to reach the NCAA's via an automatic berth in the powerhouse NEC.
He has $1.2 million reasons to move on.

Duques102 wrote:

Mulder wrote:

currentstudent wrote:

That article pisses me off so much.

Yep - you are supposed to do nothing because Duquesne hasn't shown a commitment but letting a failing coach go along with an indication that DU may finally be taking the program seriously isn't enough.

It's insane to me that there is this directed attack by the media at the university for firing one of the worst coaches it has ever had numbers wise. It's like they are so lazy they are just recycling the same narrative from when Ron was fired. The firing of Ferry passes the eye test and makes sense on paper when you look at the numbers.

Shocking that the school fires a lame duck coach, is probably putting a ton of money down to renovate its facilities, and is reportedly raising the next coaches salary to be nationally competitive in trying to get one of the bigger coaching names and the media's response is to slam the administration and say that this job is impossible. With those three things I mentioned plus the talented core that is here at least for now, I would argue the exact opposite, the university is finally taking steps and making commitments to actually be competitive.

I just don't understand why things are being portrayed this way.

Because they are hacks.
And make their money & living on ignorant, fact-less statements that placate to the sensational.
Our own blog out-scooped them ...on two big announcements (Potential Palumbo renovations & Coach Ferry's dismissal)
Enough said

D102 I think your comment very succinctly summarizes what most of us are thinking and frankly cut and paste it in a response to Zeise and send it to any other hack who is criticizing this needed move, which has thus far been handled very professionally and seamlessly.  We just have to make the next decision the correct one - a quality Coach - and I for one am starting to believe our University is unified and desirous of finally making DU hoops relevant again.  I will be buying season tickets again to show support and may even assist the AD Department in other revenue raising ventures!  GO DUKES

The Cincinnati  Assoc Head Coach would be interesting.  They play with the kind of aggression needed in the A-10.  We haven't seen that in a long time.  Cincy seems to play with a chip on their shoulder; I like that!

http://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2017/03/13/duquesne-fires-jim-ferry/