Jim Molinari - Summit Coach of the Year?

[tornado]

They were picked 9-10th and yet they are only a couple games behind the frontrunners and playing better than anyone expected..
One of the local beat writers thinks Mo ought to get serious consideration for Coach of the Year...

http://www3.thehawkeye.com/bohnenkamp_blog/

[wily coyote]

They were picked 9-10th and yet they are only a couple games behind the frontrunners and playing better than anyone expected..
One of the local beat writers thinks Mo ought to get serious consideration for Coach of the Year...
http://www3.thehawkeye.com/bohnenkamp_blog/

I hope he gets COY . I think it would be well deserved. Good luck Coach Mo I'm pulling for ya.

[lefty]

I hope he gets COY . I think it would be well deserved. Good luck Coach Mo I'm pulling for ya.

It's a long shot but if Mo could win one of the road games and both remaining home games he might have a chance at it

[it's boogie time]

It looks like Western Illinois is 7 1/2 games out of first. Oral Roberts is 15-1 and WIU is under .500

[Tulsa Brave]

WIU has had a couple of really ugly road losses lately...72-50 at UMKC and 60-44 at Southern Utah. They are now down to 6th in the league, and will almost certainly lose 2 of their final 3. One of the Scott's will be the COY in the Summit...Sutton or Nagy.

[lefty]

WIU has had a couple of really ugly road losses lately...72-50 at UMKC and 60-44 at Southern Utah. They are now down to 6th in the league, and will almost certainly lose 2 of their final 3. One of the Scott's will be the COY in the Summit...Sutton or Nagy.

yup those two hurt along with the 2OT loss at home to Oakland.....

[tornado]

In a classic Mo-coached game, the WIU Leathernecks held UMKC to just 42 points and won again - pulling their record to 8-8
and staying among a pack of four teams who are all within a win of each other and battling for 3rd place in the Summit League.
None of those teams that are ahead of Mo battling for 3rd have the tiebreaker on him either...so he controls his own destiny in WIU's remaining two conference games, but both are on the road..

[lefty]

In a classic Mo-coached game, the WIU Leathernecks held UMKC to just 42 points and won again - pulling their record to 8-8
and staying among a pack of four teams who are all within a win of each other and battling for 3rd place in the Summit League.
None of those teams that are ahead of Mo battling for 3rd have the tiebreaker on him either...so he controls his own destiny in WIU's remaining two conference games, but both are on the road..

I actually went their last night instead of the Bradley game.....I know..give me the 40 lashes....I've been trying to get down there all year and last night was it.
Second half was better than the first and while WIU had took good shots in the first they were not falling...but they will be good next year as they have only 2 seniors and Clark could still possible come back as I understand it at that....they have a good looking freshman that kind of reminds me some of Rice from Drake.......WIU has a couple of brutal conference road games coming up, it would be great if they could win one of them

[Tulsa Brave]

In a classic Mo-coached game, the WIU Leathernecks held UMKC to just 42 points and won again - pulling their record to 8-8
and staying among a pack of four teams who are all within a win of each other and battling for 3rd place in the Summit League.
None of those teams that are ahead of Mo battling for 3rd have the tiebreaker on him either...so he controls his own destiny in WIU's remaining two conference games, but both are on the road..

They go to South Dakota State and North Dakota State. Anything other than 2 losses will be a MAJOR surprise. South Dakota State clobbered ORU at home, is unbeaten at home, and has won their last 10 home games all by double digit margins. North Dakota State has lost just 2 games at home all season, to South Dakota State in OT and to ORU, and all but 2 of their 9 home victories have been by double digit margins. I look for WIU to be the 6 seed in the Summit League tourney, as Southern Utah will win the tiebreaker for 5th thanks to their sweep of WIU. They also do not control their own destiny for 3rd...Oakland is a game ahead of them, and if they beat both South Dakota and UMKC will get 3rd even if WIU pulls off a miracle and wins both of their last 2. Oakland will actually get 4th if North Dakota State also wins out as they should.

[tornado]

One sports writer - Mike Brown of the Tulsa World -
"conducted an informal survery of media and sports information directors for
Summit League men’s basketball .. coach of the year"

The polling was quite close and Jim Molinari was right there in the running only a few votes behind Scott Nagy & Scott Sutton...(he even got a 1st place vote!)
Maybe a strong finish for the Leathernecks can boost Mo to the award...

http://bisonmedia.areavoices.com/2012/02/23/summit-survey/

[AZ BU Fan]

Coaching Trifecta?

Wouldn't it be super if JM is COY in Summit this season, JL is COY in Big West Conference in 2012-13, and GF is COY of MVC in 2013-14!

Imagine the media coverage if such a thing could happen!

Better yet, what if all three were COY in their Conferences in 2012-13?

[tornado]

Coach Molinari and one of Mo's best players - Ceola Clark - have gotten some encouraging news...

Clark appears to have a good chance of getting a Sam Singh-like 6th year.
Ceola Clark missed ALL of his first year at WIU in 2007-2008 with injury, then
he also lost all but 6 games last year - and both seasons should qualify for medical waivers and he fits the criteria as a good student to get that 6th year..

http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/sports/x1481616814/WIUs-Tyler-takes-his-final-shots-at-Western-Hall

http://www.goleathernecks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=49949&SPID=4947&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=12000&ATCLID=1283682&Q_SEASON=2011

http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/BKC-Ceola-020912

When the time arrives, Billy Molinari should also be eligible to get the 6th year...
Billy has already missed THREE seasons and even if he gets the 6th year he'll end up with only 3 seasons of playing...

[Da Coach]

Jim Molinari's WIU team finished with the 4th seed in the Summit Conference.

Tonight they won their quarterfinal game against North Dakota State for WIU's first tournament win in 13 years.
Congrats to Coach Mo.

http://www.thesummitleague.org/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=21767&SPID=1768&DB_OEM_ID=3900&ATCLID=205391755

WIU will play the #1 seed Oral Roberts Monday at 6 PM in the first semifinal game.

[Hello Newman]

Coach Molinari and one of Mo's best players - Ceola Clark - have gotten some encouraging news...

Clark appears to have a good chance of getting a Sam Singh-like 6th year.
Ceola Clark missed ALL of his first year at WIU in 2007-2008 with injury, then
he also lost all but 6 games last year - and both seasons should qualify for medical waivers and he fits the criteria as a good student to get that 6th year..

http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/sports/x1481616814/WIUs-Tyler-takes-his-final-shots-at-Western-Hall

http://www.goleathernecks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=49949&SPID=4947&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=12000&ATCLID=1283682&Q_SEASON=2011

http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/BKC-Ceola-020912

When the time arrives, Billy Molinari should also be eligible to get the 6th year...
Billy has already missed THREE seasons and even if he gets the 6th year he'll end up with only 3 seasons of playing...

Tornado, I heard Billy was probably going to hang it up for his career. Do you think he will still try to play?

[tornado]

If he even has one leg he will try..
I will ask when I see Mo as I suspect I'll see him shortly when my daughter plays a HS soccer game at Macomb HS in a few weeks, and I suspect Jim & his daughter will be there

Anyway - I know Mo is playing for that NCAA bid but if Mo can get to the Summit finals - he could be NIT minimum!

In WIU's win over ND State Ceola Clark had a 4-pt play in the final minute - the kid is playing like he's ticked about the omission from 1st Team All Summit

http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/sports/x570348340/New-and-Notes-from-day-two-at-the-Summit-League-Championships

http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/newsnow/x587873391/Clarks-4-point-play-lifts-WIU-to-Summit-semifinals