Moser to OU

[Blers]

I think most fans kind of felt this was a logical choice, much like Mullins to SIU, I just expected we'd have one more year with Moser and Valentine as an associate level head coach. But once the Moser news broke most media members immediately pegged Valentine as the smart choice. He's been the top assistant the last two years, and should maintain a lot of what's been built here. While there were a ton of other coaches out there, you're likely looking at a ground up rebuild at that point. And the "culture" thing is real around the program and worth maintaining.

There's been a lot of talk around Loyola being a potential Gonzaga of the midwest, and part of that story is Dan Monson taking the zags to the elite 8 and leaving town for Minnesota and his top assistant Mark Few taking over. I'm by no means calling Valentine Mark Few, but it does fit the blueprints they've been building toward.

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I think most fans kind of felt this was a logical choice, much like Mullins to SIU, I just expected we'd have one more year with Moser and Valentine as an associate level head coach. But once the Moser news broke most media members immediately pegged Valentine as the smart choice. He's been the top assistant the last two years, and should maintain a lot of what's been built here. While there were a ton of other coaches out there, you're likely looking at a ground up rebuild at that point. And the "culture" thing is real around the program and worth maintaining.

There's been a lot of talk around Loyola being a potential Gonzaga of the midwest, and part of that story is Dan Monson taking the zags to the elite 8 and leaving town for Minnesota and his top assistant Mark Few taking over. I'm by no means calling Valentine Mark Few, but it does fit the blueprints they've been building toward.

Butler did this thing as well where they kept promoting guys from in house.

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Keno Davis would have been one to consider.

[Action10]

I think most fans kind of felt this was a logical choice, much like Mullins to SIU, I just expected we'd have one more year with Moser and Valentine as an associate level head coach. But once the Moser news broke most media members immediately pegged Valentine as the smart choice. He's been the top assistant the last two years, and should maintain a lot of what's been built here. While there were a ton of other coaches out there, you're likely looking at a ground up rebuild at that point. And the "culture" thing is real around the program and worth maintaining.

There's been a lot of talk around Loyola being a potential Gonzaga of the midwest, and part of that story is Dan Monson taking the zags to the elite 8 and leaving town for Minnesota and his top assistant Mark Few taking over. I'm by no means calling Valentine Mark Few, but it does fit the blueprints they've been building toward.

Butler did this thing as well where they kept promoting guys from in house.

Valentine is probably the right choice and will keep them on the same course. My fear comes from being an SIU fan and seeing how quickly Chris Lowery went from being the inside the program hire that was so successful early to the program hitting historic lows VERY quickly after the Weber/Painter recruiting classes graduated.

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I think most fans kind of felt this was a logical choice, much like Mullins to SIU, I just expected we'd have one more year with Moser and Valentine as an associate level head coach. But once the Moser news broke most media members immediately pegged Valentine as the smart choice. He's been the top assistant the last two years, and should maintain a lot of what's been built here. While there were a ton of other coaches out there, you're likely looking at a ground up rebuild at that point. And the "culture" thing is real around the program and worth maintaining.

There's been a lot of talk around Loyola being a potential Gonzaga of the midwest, and part of that story is Dan Monson taking the zags to the elite 8 and leaving town for Minnesota and his top assistant Mark Few taking over. I'm by no means calling Valentine Mark Few, but it does fit the blueprints they've been building toward.

Butler did this thing as well where they kept promoting guys from in house.

Valentine is probably the right choice and will keep them on the same course. My fear comes from being an SIU fan and seeing how quickly Chris Lowery went from being the inside the program hire that was so successful early to the program hitting historic lows VERY quickly after the Weber/Painter recruiting classes graduated.

Yeah. When Jim Crews took over for Majerus at SLU, they made the tournament twice (4 seed, 5 seed), then they went 11-21 in back to back years and Crews was gone.

[Bearvision]

Once a mid-major establishes that culture and continuity within the program it is pretty common to promote from within and keep the train moving forward.

I like that Loyola has a coach versed in their system and culture and also had a hand in game planning. I'd suspect they'll be pretty good still. Not as good as simply keeping the HC, probably, but sometimes the understudy even turns out better.

My hope is that Missouri State continues on an upward trend, Coach Ford finds a job elsewhere due to success at MSU and they promote Coach Gipson to the head job as well.

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Sometimes the success of the head coach is because of the talents of the assistant. Lets hope this is the case here.

[Old School MVC]

Sometimes the success of the head coach is because of the talents of the assistant. Lets hope this is the case here.

The Redbirds/Dan Muller are proof of this!

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and in 2 for 2 for Valley steals, OU gets Drake's Women's Basketball Coach Jennie Baranczyk today.