Drake coaching job - Mark Phelps

[tornado]

A couple more notes I found in some of the coverage...

--apparently Drakes Athletic Director was an assistant AD at Arizona State, thus the connection there
--Mike Gibson, Arizona State's director of basketball operations, is expected to join Phelps at Drake as an assistant

[DUBulldog]

--apparently Drakes Athletic Director was an assistant AD at Arizona State, thus the connection there

Just as an FYI, Drake's AD was never at ASU at the same time as Phelps.

I don't know much about Phelps, other than that he's supposedly very charismatic. I do know that Herb Sendek felt strongly enough about him to bring Phelps to ASU with him from NC St and make him his Associate Head Coach. Sendek has definitely had some successful assistants in the past.....Thad Matta and Sean Miller to name two.

[Da Coach]

Articles about Drake's hiring of Mark Phelps--

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080421/SPORTS020403/804210322/1091/SPORTS02

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080421/SPORTS05/804210326/1016

[DUBulldog]

Here's some comments from the brother of a player that Phelps recruited to ASU. Sounds like he really made an impression on the entire family.

http://www.drakenation.com/Topic24578-8-1.aspx

[tornado]

Pantagraph writer Jim Benson really trashes Providence for throwing so much money at Keno Davis.
Not sure why it should bother Mr. Benson, as it doesn't chnage his salary and he admits Keno is a pretty nice guy,
but Benson seesm to equate Providence's hiring of Keno Davios to everything that's wrong in all of college and pro sports.

"Davis is a decent guy ...
However, someone needs to explain how one dream season (actually, just one season at all) translates into a $7 million payday.

Providence was desperate...
Imagine the horror ...
So now Providence is red-faced and somehow needs to save the day. They look around and try to find a ???hot??? young coach. The 36-year-old Davis is targeted.
....... they would have been nuts to do so for someone with one year??™s experience.

Suddenly, Davis is a rich man. His family won??™t ever have to worry about paying the bills. If money buys happiness, Davis is set.

The good thing is Davis has a seven-year contract.
Anyone who doesn??™t turn around a program with his own recruits in four years can say bye-bye...."

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/04/21/usports/doc480bf873db29b590312837.txt

[Bravesfan]

Okay, now that Mark Phelps is the new coach at Drake, will they play the Mission Impossible theme during player introductions and introduce their coach as Mr. Phelps?

[DUBulldog]

Okay, now that Mark Phelps is the new coach at Drake, will they play the Mission Impossible theme during player introductions and introduce their coach as Mr. Phelps?

As long as nobody brings up Digger Phelps, it will be all good.

[tornado]

That was Jim Phelps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Phelps

[Bravesfan]

That was Jim Phelps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Phelps

Yeah, I knew his name is Mark and not Jim. But I think that could be a cool introduction for the team, using the Mission Impossible theme.

[Bravesfan]

As long as nobody brings up Digger Phelps, it will be all good.

Yeah, forgot about him!