Valley coaches moving up...

[tornado]

Great tradition - numerous MVC head coaches getting hired away by better schools.....
Used to be a pretty regular phenomenon...

1989 Eddie Fogler - WSU to Vanderbilt
1991 Tony Barone - Creighton to Texas A&M
1992 Charlie Spoonhaur - Missouri State to SLU
1999 Kevin Stallings - ISU to Vanderbilt
1999 Steve Alford - Missouri State to Iowa
2003 Bruce Weber - SIU to U of I
2004 Matt Painter - SIU to Purdue
2006 Greg McDermott - UNI to Iowa State
2007 Mark Turgeon - WSU to Texas A&M
2008 Keno Davis - Drake to Providence
2010 Dana Altman - Creighton to Oregon
2011 Cuonzo Martin - Missouri State to Tennessee
In fact, since the early 2000's there's never been more than two years before yet another MVC head coach got hired away at a BCS school...except...
now we've gone more than two years....so has this phenomenon slowed down??
Or is there some MVC coach gonna move at the end of this season??

[Chibearsfan10125]

I think part of the reason we've seen this trend slow down is that coaches are realizing they can build winners at the "mid-major" level. Gregg Marshall has had a few opportunities to leave, but that being at an average BCS school like South Carolina (where he was rumored to be headed to at one point) wouldn't have really been an upgrade from his job at Wichita State. He's build an incredible program at the Valley level.

Being at a bigger school isn't as important as it used to be. Recruits aren't just looking at the big schools any more. We see players like Stephen Curry (Davidson) or Gordon Hayward (Butler) becoming household names at non-BCS schools. Also, some of the schools in Valley have been down in recent memory. Only Creighton and Wichita have been really good, and Marshall and McDermott weren't really looking to move.

[tornado]

Marshall might be the logical one to move on but he's already been courted and declined...

[Bradleyfan1]

Instead of losing a coach.............This time we lost a program.


So IMO Greg Mc'd has now done it twice!

[tornado]

McDermott did not really have much to do with Creighton moving to a new conference, although he likely had some input -
that was more the decision of the school president & AD making a financial decision.

Here's a question - does Creighton (or Butler) become a "Power Conference" member or BCS-type conference member now?

or do the "seven charter members of the new Big East" (DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, Villanova) become "mid-majors?