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I find it interesting Dave Reynolds calls the job at WIU
"a low-pressure job".....yeah, right........head coaching at the D-I level is
NEVER a low pressure job..........never.
Just look at any D-I coach and watch how fast they age and how quickly their hair turns gray, and how many are fired each year.
Probably most of us will never know the kind of pressure these guys face daily, but it's pressure that can cause heart attacks (Skip Prosser), and ruin people (Quin Snyder, Dave Bliss), and cause otherwise nice guys to turn on each other to destroy them.
 
tornado said:
I find it interesting Dave Reynolds calls the job at WIU
"a low-pressure job".....yeah, right........head coaching at the D-I level is
NEVER a low pressure job..........never.
Just look at any D-I coach and watch how fast they age and how quickly their hair turns gray, and how many are fired each year.
Probably most of us will never know the kind of pressure these guys face daily, but it's pressure that can cause heart attacks (Skip Prosser), and ruin people (Quin Snyder, Dave Bliss), and cause otherwise nice guys to turn on each other to destroy them.
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Pretty sure he meant it was "a low-pressure job" in terms of a Division I school. In that sense, I would agree with him.
 
No, ...I said I DON'T believe it is a low pressure job.
I have never heard nor read any D-I coach say it is low pressure, and quite the contrary I have heard coaches talk at length about how it is incredibly high pressure, & one of whom I have heard say this is Jim Molinari himself.

I think it is a very high pressure job to be a D-I coach and not only high pressure, but high pressure 24 hours a day/365 days a year.
Likely a whole lot more high pressure than the jobs most of us hold, and probably a ton more high pressure than the job the person who called it a "low pressure job" holds.

It is easy to name people who have held the same job for 10-20 years, and quite easy to cite journalists who have held essentially the same position for 10-20 years, but very difficult to cite a D-I head coach who has.
Only one coach in the 10-team MVC has held his job longer than the nearly 6 years that Jim Les has been head coach. And don't think there hasn't been constant pressure in those 6 years to push JL out of his job....!

By the way, I also think Jim Molinari will do quite well in the present position, as I think he's good at what he does and can handle the pressure.

Here are WIU's RPI's over the last decade: 267, 327, 317, 276, 313, 305, 278, 271, 300, 184.
I think Mo will have them better than any of those RPI's within a couple years.
 
tornado said:
No, ...I said I DON'T believe it is a low pressure job.
I have never heard nor read any D-I coach say it is low pressure, and quite the contrary I have heard coaches talk at length about how it is incredibly high pressure, & one of whom I have heard say this is Jim Molinari himself.

I think it is a very high pressure job to be a D-I coach and not only high pressure, but high pressure 24 hours a day/365 days a year.
Likely a whole lot more high pressure than the jobs most of us hold, and probably a ton more high pressure than the job the person who called it a "low pressure job" holds.

It is easy to name people who have held the same job for 10-20 years, and quite easy to cite journalists who have held essentially the same position for 10-20 years, but very difficult to cite a D-I head coach who has.
Only one coach in the 10-team MVC has held his job longer than the nearly 6 years that Jim Les has been head coach. And don't think there hasn't been constant pressure in those 6 years to push JL out of his job....!

By the way, I also think Jim Molinari will do quite well in the present position, as I think he's good at what he does and can handle the pressure.

Here are WIU's RPI's over the last decade: 267, 327, 317, 276, 313, 305, 278, 271, 300, 184.
I think Mo will have them better than any of those RPI's within a couple years.
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Here's the quote from the article:
"No. 2, it’s a low-pressure job where he has a good chance of succeeding."

It's apparent to ME that DR was referring to it being low-pressure in terms of in relation to other Division I schools. I'm not doubting that being a D-I head coach (or even an assistant coach) is a high-pressure job. But that's not what DR or I said. REYNOLDS SAID (AND I AGREED WITH HIM) THAT THE JOB AT WIU IS LOW-PRESSURE COMPARED TO OTHER D-I JOBS. Is Bradley a high-pressure job? Yes. Kentucky, Kansas, UNC, UCLA, etc.? Yes, yes, yes and yes. Is Western high-pressure compared to them in terms of winning conference championships and going to the NCAA? No. Of course they expect him to have a winning record and have a solid program, but anything else on top of that is just gravy in the eyes of the WIU administration.
 
I would argue that it is simply not true to claim just because the "pressure" at WIU is perceived by some as lower than at Kentucky, it therefore must be a "low pressure" job. Sorry, I just cannot agree, and apparently I am not alone, as I cannot find a single example anywhere in existence of a coach who says it is.

Again, I don't think any D-I head coach has ever claimed his job was low pressure.
Surely they are the ones who would know.
It wouldn't be the sports writers, it would be the guys actually doing the job.
And as I said, I searched and couldn't find a D-I head coach who ever described his job as low pressure.
So you are free to agree with DR but I side with the coaches on this one.
 
What I find interesting is how does he know BU plans on filling the last scholie soon....is he guessing...assuming....has JL told him?

Since he says BU "plans" on filling it soon it sounds like he has first hand knowledge.....


I'm not doubting or questioning him or anything but saying it the way he did leaves no room for any other interpretation does it?

Yes we are still recruiting but that does not mean we are a lock to fill it.

I guess if we have offers we have plans to fill it and now that I think about it he didn't say we expect to fill it soon....so maybe I'm just an ********************.

:).........
 
dogsrus said:
What I find interesting is how does he know BU plans on filling the last scholie soon....is he guessing...assuming....has JL told him?

Since he says BU "plans" on filling it soon it sounds like he has first hand knowledge.....


I'm not doubting or questioning him or anything but saying it the way he did leaves no room for any other interpretation does it?

Yes we are still recruiting but that does not mean we are a lock to fill it.

I guess if we have offers we have plans to fill it and now that I think about it he didn't say we expect to fill it soon....so maybe I'm just an ********************.

:).........
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Whatever
 
A couple comments from the local Macomb press about Molinari and the new job...

"it is painful because sometimes what you understand intellectually is different when you go through it emotionally"

"He has no illusions. And his eyes are wide open. Jim Molinari knows this is not a coaching cakewalk"

"History dictates that elevating the profile of a Division One basketball program long mired in mediocrity (and doing so the right way) breaks more coaches than it makes"

"The challenge then for Western was finding a candidate with both the coaching chops and desire to undertake and succede in this unique job with its unique built in challenges. It wasn't easy."

"Dr Tim Van Alstine (WIU AD): "In fact, some of the other candidates that we did interview; they didn't give us the sense that they wanted to be here. Jim gave us a sense of confidence that he wanted to be here. He had a sense of confidence in our players and I think that really helped a lot. It made our players feel good; that they wanted to be part of a coaching staff and a program that felt they could win. Jim brings that to our program."

"And I feel a great burden of responsibility. They're showing confidence in me and I am going to take that responsibility."

"The one thing I can say about Coach Mo is that he is passionate. He is passionate about his relationship with his players. He is passionate about his relationship with the media. He is definitely passionate about his relationship with fans. And he is passionate about winning."

"I will work extremely hard. I know it's going to be a difficult challenge."
 
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