(03-15-2020 12:33 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote:  

(03-13-2020 05:19 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  

(03-13-2020 04:56 PM)Dukester Wrote:  

(03-13-2020 02:52 PM)jmudukes001 Wrote:  UNCW hires Takayo Siddle, an assistant at NC State. Siddle was an assistant at UNCW a few years ago.

Better UNCW, than us.

They can have him.

33 years old. No previous head coaching experience. They had how many weeks to come up with this?

Siddle has been in the running from the start, with Burke being the other top option. Keatts didn’t have HC experience before taking the UNCW job either, btw.

I think a lot of you guys assume a hire is only a good one if it’s “big game hunting”. Not so at the mid-major level. You need a diamond in the rough. The “big name” guys are mostly just looking to use programs at this level, not build up a coaching tree.

Good luck.

JMU has tried (and failed) at the discount-bin “diamond in the rough” approach many times. Hopefully JMU’s administration has learned from these past hiring mistakes and is going to employ an established HC who has proven he can consistently win and develop a clean program with the potential to make the dance every year. No other “option” is viable at this point in time...especially with the crown-jewel of CAA arenas coming online for the start of the Fall 2020 season.