Sendek gone?

It's really gonna hurt State this year. I wonder if the recruits are gonna stay cause I think State has a top 20 recruiting class, and then you compound that with Costner coming back. Next year, even with Sendek there they wouldn't finish more than the middle of the pack in the ACC just because they are extremely young. Will they even have a senior? Brackman isn't coming back and is concentrating on baseball so that pretty much leaves you with Simmons, Grant, Fells, McCaulley, Costner and the new recruiting class. And I bet Wright (one of the top PG's in the country for 2007) will go someplace else now. I don't blame Herb at all.

 

From ESPN Insider:

INDIANAPOLIS -- Herb Sendek's decision to leave NC State for Arizona State didn't shock his new colleagues considering the way he had been treated by the Wolfpack faithful.
The perception was that Sendek was being unfairly criticized despite coaching the Wolfpack to five straight NCAA Tournaments. He was in a no-win situation, since his personality is a bit vanilla at times compared to the star power of Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina's Roy Williams. Still, NC State's loss of the cerebral Sendek will be Arizona State's gain, although it may take some time for him to get the Sun Devils moving again.

"Herb has done a great job everywhere he's been," Arizona coach Lute Olson said. "[But] look at what UCLA will have back, SC [as well], and we'll have everyone back but Hassan Adams and Chris Rodgers. Depending on what happens at Cal [with Leon Powe's draft decision] they'll be tough, too.

"The league is pretty strong top to bottom, so it might take him some time."

As for NC State's next move, don't be surprised to see George Mason's Jim Larranaga mentioned. Larranaga is a hot commodity now and has strong ACC ties from his tenure as an assistant at Virginia. He loves Mason and the school will try to keep him from looking elsewhere, but it's hard to imagine him not listening to NC State if the Wolfpack called.

Alumni Dereck Whittenburg and New Orleans' Monte Towe may also get calls. So, too, could Winthrop's Gregg Marshall. AD Lee Fowler is well connected, so expect this to be a thorough search.

Two weeks ago, when Sendek's name surfaced on the rumor mill with Cincinnati, Sendek and Fowler both told ESPN.com about how Sendek was happy in Raleigh and how well the program was going. Talent remains and more is on the way, with the Wolfpack expected to be an upper-tier ACC team again.

One name to cross off is Texas' Rick Barnes. He's not leaving Austin for Raleigh. He has a better job. Indiana's new coach, former Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson, probably would have been a top candidate had the Hoosiers not swooped in to grab him.

There are plenty of mid-major coaches, like Wichita's Mark Turgeon, who would gladly run to State if Fowler called. Turgeon was in the mix at Arizona State earlier this week, but a source close to Turgeon said he withdrew his interest and was in talks with the Shockers to extend and beef up his deal there.

Other nuggets
• Any suggestion that ASU was after Montana's Larry Krystkowiak wasn't true. Krystkowiak was in Mexico vacationing and hadn't talked to ASU. A source close to Krystkowiak, though, did confirm that Krystkowiak does have a phone interview set with Pepperdine for early next week.

Krystkowiak makes roughly $100,000 on each one-year contract -- standard procedure in the state. There is talk of giving him a multiyear deal, but the money probably wouldn't change that much.

• Meanwhile, Seton Hall interviewed Ohio coach Tim O'Shea Saturday at the Final Four, according to a source close to the search, and is scheduled to do so again Sunday. The Pirates have talked to Manhattan's Bobby Gonzalez, Davidson's Bob McKillop and Pitt assistant Barry Rohrssen.

• The strangest move of the weekend was UNC-Wilmington's Brad Brownell going to Wright State. Brownell won the CAA and lost in the first round of the NCAAs to George Washington. He is from Indiana, and if he was going to move, the natural thing would have been the open Ball State gig, but multiple sources said Brownell and his athletic director were at odds and he wanted out.

• Oklahoma is showing interest in Miami's Frank Haith and is expected to also contact Turgeon, among others. Creighton's Dana Altman, an expected candidate at Oklahoma, told ESPN.com that he isn't leaving Omaha.

 

those players won't leave. this coaching change is the best thing that could happen for them, since they will most likely end up with a coach that understands how to coach the talent he has.

 

are state's recruits for next year guys that fit herb's offense??? or are these the super athletic, up and down, type?

 

maybe wojo and crissy collins can share the state job???

 

WE STILL HAVE MARCUS STONE!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

Thank God the nightmare is finally over.
With the arrival of a new coach ( whether he is from a "Name" program or an up and coming Mid major), we finally have hope again that our team can be competitive for league titles again somewhere down the road.
What few of you State Bashers seem to admit, we had NO hope of that with Herb.
Zero ACC championships in 10 years ( I think 1 total appearance in the final game ?) , a total of what, 3 or 4 victories over Duke and UNC combined over that timespan ?
Sure, we aren't at the level of UNC and Duke in hoops, and we won't be anytime soon, but setting your goals of a mid-ACC finish and a 7th-9th seed in the NCAA's just isn't going to do it. With Herb and his God-Awful boring offense , this is all we could hope for.

 

How many ACC championships has UNC had in that time span?????? Wake? Maryland?

 

Fixed