(06-21-2019 03:01 AM)MUther Wrote: 1 Cam Henderson All your guys do **** this guy invented. Winner. From Wikipedia:
"Eli Camden Henderson (February 5, 1890 – May 3, 1956) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Muskingum College (1920–1922), Davis & Elkins College (1923–1934), and Marshall University (1935–1949), compiling a career college football record of 161–91–13. Henderson was also the head basketball coach at Muskingum (1920–1923), Davis & Elkins (1923–1935), and Marshall (1935–1955), tallying a career college basketball mark of 621–234. As a coach in basketball, he originated the fast break and the 2–3 zone defense, hallmarks of the modern game."
2 D'antoni furthest run in the tourney, conference championship, Many final and semi final appearances, many winning seasons in few short years.
3 Rick Huckabay from Wiki: "In 1983 he was hired at Marshall, where he compiled a 129–59 record, including three appearances in the NCAA tournament and one in the NIT before resigning in 1989 amid an investigation into recruiting."
4 Billy Donavon famed Florida coach wasn't here long enough to really set the place on fire, and stole Jason Williams from us when he left.
5 Dana Altman another short-timer that I feel could have gone far with the Herd had he stuck around.
Honorable Mention: Ron Jirsa. MFer didn't do a GD thing except beat WVU every time we played them. That was enough.
As of right now Huck has to go above D'Antoni. Huck had 3 NCAAs and an NIT appearance in 6 years.
And you left off Carl Tracy.
My top 5 right now would be:
1. Cam Henderson- Innovator of the Zone Defense and the Fast Break, coached 20 seasons (1935-1955), won the NAIB (NAIA now) National Title in 1947. arena at Marshall named after him
2. Rick Huckabay- Here 6 years, 3 NCAAs, 1 NIT
3. Carl Tracy- Only here 1 year but was 23-4 and finished #12 in the nation, went on to coach 13 seasons at Wake Forest
4. Dan D'Antoni- 1 NCAA, 1 CIT Championship, Dan was laughed at by almost everyone when hired. All he has done is have winning seasons after his 1st season
5 No one really- It gets muddled here big time. We had Billy Donovan but he was here only 2 years, even though the style of play was exciting he was only 18-9, 17-11, Dana Altman, another short timer of 1 year and was only 15-13, Ellis T Johnson- Longtime HC of Morehead State and Marshall, was Dan D'Antoni's HC at Marshall and the arena is named after him in Morehead, Donnie Jones- Even after he was gone and looking back on how he built his wins here (14 DII/NAIA games in the reg season in 3 years) he did bring an exciting style and recruited some great players, Greg White- Marshall great on the court (He held Marshall's asst record at 701 since 1981 until Elmore broke it last year), lead the Herd for 7 seasons, never had a losing record but could never get us over the hump. His 01-02 squad should have been one of Marshall's best teams if not for a few injuries.
If I had to give the #5 spot to anyone it would probably go to Greg White, just for his longevity at the school. And he had some exciting teams.