Hendo headed to Drake?

[salemjack]

Maybe Hendo asked to delay the official announcement so that Sell could get a jumpstart and talk to Petersen and the players?

[salemjack]

Borg reporting that Hendo met with the team earlier today.

Handling it like a man.

Best of luck, Hendo!!

[peavy]

Maybe Hendo asked to delay the official announcement so that Sell could get a jumpstart and talk to Petersen and the players?

Drake's board and that other community thought that could be a reason, too.

Seems Keith Murphy broke the news - he tweeted the update on no offers but also retweeted the elsen tweet

[da_coach]

First off, Congrats to Coach Hendo. You are deserving of this opportunity, and you were a fantastic steward of the SDSU Basketball program.
Anyone who has met coach for longer than five minutes, can tell you what kind of person he is. This is a step up, and I will be cheering for Drake next year. (unless they happen to bump into the Rabbits somehow}

So... coaching possiibilities:

My pick is Coach Pete
-head coaching experience at the Ju Co level, won a National Title at the Juco level.
-is reportedly loved by the players and I think we'd keep more if he stayed.
-I just think he checks the most boxes.
But who knows. He's an Iowa kid, played for Iowa State, and he could want to go there.

Coach Klink
-has been the good soldier for the program for a long time. Has been passed over twice, and stayed. He likes it here, he's been a Jackrabbit BB coach forever, and it may be his time.
If Pete doesn't get it, I will be ok with Coach Klink. he kinda deserves a chance.

Outside the Staff:
TJ"s Staff... on of the assistant's on TJ's Staff at Iowa State, was being talked about a lot by the Drake crowd. And, what was TJ before he came here, an Assistant at Iowa State. I think that guy is worth a look.

Creighton's staff: The two hires Sell has made have had Greg McDermott connections. Both TJ and Hendo worked under him. Does Creighton have an assistant coach, that is highly regarded.
Before you dismiss this thought... DeVries... who was Drakes Coach, who went to WV and now Indiana, was a McDermott assistant at Creighton, and One of the finalists that interview for the SDSU job when Otz got the job.

Joe Krabbenhoft - Assistant at Wisconsin, but a SD native, and worked on Hendo's staff.

I think these are all decent options, but maybe the go outside of the normal.

I'm confident Justin Sell will hire the right guy.

I mostly hope it's Coach Pete, so we can probably keep more players. But it's hard to say.

[bigticket1]

First off, Congrats to Coach Hendo. You are deserving of this opportunity, and you were a fantastic steward of the SDSU Basketball program.
Anyone who has met coach for longer than five minutes, can tell you what kind of person he is. This is a step up, and I will be cheering for Drake next year. (unless they happen to bump into the Rabbits somehow}

So... coaching possiibilities:

My pick is Coach Pete
-head coaching experience at the Ju Co level, won a National Title at the Juco level.
-is reportedly loved by the players and I think we'd keep more if he stayed.
-I just think he checks the most boxes.
But who knows. He's an Iowa kid, played for Iowa State, and he could want to go there.

Coach Klink
-has been the good soldier for the program for a long time. Has been passed over twice, and stayed. He likes it here, he's been a Jackrabbit BB coach forever, and it may be his time.
If Pete doesn't get it, I will be ok with Coach Klink. he kinda deserves a chance.

Outside the Staff:
TJ"s Staff... on of the assistant's on TJ's Staff at Iowa State, was being talked about a lot by the Drake crowd. And, what was TJ before he came here, an Assistant at Iowa State. I think that guy is worth a look.

Creighton's staff: The two hires Sell has made have had Greg McDermott connections. Both TJ and Hendo worked under him. Does Creighton have an assistant coach, that is highly regarded.
Before you dismiss this thought... DeVries... who was Drakes Coach, who went to WV and now Indiana, was a McDermott assistant at Creighton, and One of the finalists that interview for the SDSU job when Otz got the job.

Joe Krabbenhoft - Assistant at Wisconsin, but a SD native, and worked on Hendo's staff.

I think these are all decent options, but maybe the go outside of the normal.

I'm confident Justin Sell will hire the right guy.

I mostly hope it's Coach Pete, so we can probably keep more players. But it's hard to say.

Krabbenhoft was on Nagy's staff. He went to Wisconsin when Nagy went to Wright State.

[LetsGoRabbits]

First off, Congrats to Coach Hendo. You are deserving of this opportunity, and you were a fantastic steward of the SDSU Basketball program.
Anyone who has met coach for longer than five minutes, can tell you what kind of person he is. This is a step up, and I will be cheering for Drake next year. (unless they happen to bump into the Rabbits somehow}

So... coaching possiibilities:

My pick is Coach Pete
-head coaching experience at the Ju Co level, won a National Title at the Juco level.
-is reportedly loved by the players and I think we'd keep more if he stayed.
-I just think he checks the most boxes.
But who knows. He's an Iowa kid, played for Iowa State, and he could want to go there.

Coach Klink
-has been the good soldier for the program for a long time. Has been passed over twice, and stayed. He likes it here, he's been a Jackrabbit BB coach forever, and it may be his time.
If Pete doesn't get it, I will be ok with Coach Klink. he kinda deserves a chance.

Outside the Staff:
TJ"s Staff... on of the assistant's on TJ's Staff at Iowa State, was being talked about a lot by the Drake crowd. And, what was TJ before he came here, an Assistant at Iowa State. I think that guy is worth a look.

Creighton's staff: The two hires Sell has made have had Greg McDermott connections. Both TJ and Hendo worked under him. Does Creighton have an assistant coach, that is highly regarded.
Before you dismiss this thought... DeVries... who was Drakes Coach, who went to WV and now Indiana, was a McDermott assistant at Creighton, and One of the finalists that interview for the SDSU job when Otz got the job.

Joe Krabbenhoft - Assistant at Wisconsin, but a SD native, and worked on Hendo's staff.

I think these are all decent options, but maybe the go outside of the normal.

I'm confident Justin Sell will hire the right guy.

I mostly hope it's Coach Pete, so we can probably keep more players. But it's hard to say.

Did Krabbenhoft come back for a second stint after Otz left? he was definitely part of Coach Nagys staff. I am honestly not sure one way or the other if he did or did not come back for a short second stint??

would there be any chance Clint would want to come home from Wright St? I suppose he is being paid more there than what we would be offering, but it is pretty clear the family are still Jacks fans. Jill was in Connecticut for the girls games the past week. It does not seem like Wright St or the Horizon in general are necessarily stepping stones to anything very interesting,

[bigticket1]

It will be interesting to see if Drake gets added to Oscar's short list.

[Jackrabbit2012]

It will be interesting to see if Drake gets added to Oscar's short list.

Hendo has been on record stating Cluff will get $1M in NIL. Drake can afford that?

[tbcruiser]

No.
Purdue or Iowa State will give him that

[wcbsas]

First off, Congrats to Coach Hendo. You are deserving of this opportunity, and you were a fantastic steward of the SDSU Basketball program.
Anyone who has met coach for longer than five minutes, can tell you what kind of person he is. This is a step up, and I will be cheering for Drake next year. (unless they happen to bump into the Rabbits somehow}

So... coaching possiibilities:

My pick is Coach Pete
-head coaching experience at the Ju Co level, won a National Title at the Juco level.
-is reportedly loved by the players and I think we'd keep more if he stayed.
-I just think he checks the most boxes.
But who knows. He's an Iowa kid, played for Iowa State, and he could want to go there.

Coach Klink
-has been the good soldier for the program for a long time. Has been passed over twice, and stayed. He likes it here, he's been a Jackrabbit BB coach forever, and it may be his time.
If Pete doesn't get it, I will be ok with Coach Klink. he kinda deserves a chance.

Outside the Staff:
TJ"s Staff... on of the assistant's on TJ's Staff at Iowa State, was being talked about a lot by the Drake crowd. And, what was TJ before he came here, an Assistant at Iowa State. I think that guy is worth a look.

Creighton's staff: The two hires Sell has made have had Greg McDermott connections. Both TJ and Hendo worked under him. Does Creighton have an assistant coach, that is highly regarded.
Before you dismiss this thought... DeVries... who was Drakes Coach, who went to WV and now Indiana, was a McDermott assistant at Creighton, and One of the finalists that interview for the SDSU job when Otz got the job.

Joe Krabbenhoft - Assistant at Wisconsin, but a SD native, and worked on Hendo's staff.

I think these are all decent options, but maybe the go outside of the normal.

I'm confident Justin Sell will hire the right guy.

I mostly hope it's Coach Pete, so we can probably keep more players. But it's hard to say.

RE Klink … two coaches left and he didn’t go with them. Was he asked to join and declined or did they fill his spot with someone they thought was better? Two new staffs retained him, which is not unusual but both times new guys came into the program (Hendo for TJ and Petey for Hendo) and became the lead assistant. Klink is SDSU through and through but in this ever changing landscape of college basketball not sure he’s the right guy.

[mitchellrabbit]

RE Klink … two coaches left and he didn’t go with them. Was he asked to join and declined or did they fill his spot with someone they thought was better? Two new staffs retained him, which is not unusual but both times new guys came into the program (Hendo for TJ and Petey for Hendo) and became the lead assistant. Klink is SDSU through and through but in this ever changing landscape of college basketball not sure he’s the right guy.

Klinks wife is from Colman. Maybe they are happy being in the Brookings area. Maybe he is happy being an assistant. Maybe if they offered him the job he would take it.

[jbjack]

In this Gaskins clip, this Des Moines reporter says it's a good job but not a great one. He said a very great stepping stone job. Said drake didn't sell out once this year (5,000 person arena)

Averaged 3900 though. Not too shabby.

[wcbsas]

Klinks wife is from Colman. Maybe they are happy being in the Brookings area. Maybe he is happy being an assistant. Maybe if they offered him the job he would take it.

Sure lots of maybes … including my diatribe … none of us really know for sure but despite his institutional knowledge he’s never been a HC.

[JRFanatic]

Usually when they have gone internal they’ve announced it the same day. Makes me think that it will be an external hire.


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[MontanaRabbit]

Sure lots of maybes … including my diatribe … none of us really know for sure but despite his institutional knowledge he’s never been a HC.

Neither had AJ back in 1999, or Scott Nagy in 1995, or TJ or Hendo. Reasoning that Klink won’t get a chance because he’s never been a head coach is dumb.