Huse Resigned!!!

[LTown Cat]

Ken Bone was fired today from WSU. Just a thought.....

Doesn't that illustrate a difference in philosophy. He was fired after 5 seasons and winning 52% of his games. Huse only won 45% and was kept 8 years.

[mslacat]

I would guess Sprinkle would be interested, but he is very entrenched in California and that could be a factor for him. It does not sound like any assistants will be promoted, and a new coach will almost assuredly want to bring in his own coaches. As far as the recruits go If Dirden leaves the program I would say there is a better than 50/50 chance the star of the class 6-3 guard Ghassan Nehme may ask out of his LOI, and if he does look for him to be a very hot commodity. If assistant Chris Haslam leaves the program I think we have a very good chance of loosing 6-9 Kavell Bigby-William. Kavell was a pretty hot commodity among a lot of east coast low to mid major D-1 programs last fall. One of the reasons we landed him was because of Haslam is a native Brit and Huse was the only D-1 coach to travel to London to visit him, and Kavell stock has risen since then. I think we have a decent chance to keeping Bradly Fisher, since he did not play high school ball this year either in the US or England but again losing Haslem could hurt.

[LTown Cat]

I would guess Sprinkle would be interested, but he is very entrenched in California and that could be a factor for him. It does not sound like any assistants will be promoted, and a new coach will almost assuredly want to bring in his own coaches. As far as the recruits go If Dirden leaves the program I would say there is a better than 50/50 chance the star of the class 6-3 guard Ghassan Nehme may ask out of his LOI, and if he does look for him to be a very hot commodity. If assistant Chris Haslam leaves the program I think we have a very good chance of loosing 6-9 Kavell Bigby-William. Kavell was a pretty hot commodity among a lot of east coast low to mid major D-1 programs last fall. One of the reasons we landed him was because of Haslam is a native Brit and Huse was the only D-1 coach to travel to London to visit him, and Kavell stock has risen since then. I think we have a decent chance to keeping Bradly Fisher, since he did not play high school ball this year either in the US or England but again losing Haslem could hurt.

So that begs the question that gets asked many times around the country each year--should MSU release them from their LOI's? I understand the thought is that they committed to play at Montana State, they didn't commit to a coach, but let's be realistic here.

What do you all think?

[mslacat]

I would guess Sprinkle would be interested, but he is very entrenched in California and that could be a factor for him. It does not sound like any assistants will be promoted, and a new coach will almost assuredly want to bring in his own coaches. As far as the recruits go If Dirden leaves the program I would say there is a better than 50/50 chance the star of the class 6-3 guard Ghassan Nehme may ask out of his LOI, and if he does look for him to be a very hot commodity. If assistant Chris Haslam leaves the program I think we have a very good chance of loosing 6-9 Kavell Bigby-William. Kavell was a pretty hot commodity among a lot of east coast low to mid major D-1 programs last fall. One of the reasons we landed him was because of Haslam is a native Brit and Huse was the only D-1 coach to travel to London to visit him, and Kavell stock has risen since then. I think we have a decent chance to keeping Bradly Fisher, since he did not play high school ball this year either in the US or England but again losing Haslem could hurt.

So that begs the question that gets asked many times around the country each year--should MSU release them from their LOI's? I understand the thought is that they committed to play at Montana State, they didn't commit to a coach, but let's be realistic here.

What do you all think?

If I was an athletic director under this situation, I would personally talk to each recruit let them know that I will guarantee that MSU will honor their LOI no who we eventually pick as our new head coach, but if they wish I would be willing to release them from their letter of intent but if at all possible I would like them to discuss the matter with the new coach when he is chosen before signing with another program. I think this is the fair thing to do!

[Colter_Nuanez]

Huse resigns after eight years at the helm for MSU men's hoops
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I will update this story shortly.

[RickRund]

Ken Bone was fired today from WSU. Just a thought.....

GET HIM! He's a heckuva coach and might stay around after testing the waters higher up (with mixed results) and perhaps realizing the BSC isn't too bad of a gig.

I was just going to post this. I had not heard the Huse has resigned.....

[LTown Cat]

I would guess Sprinkle would be interested, but he is very entrenched in California and that could be a factor for him. It does not sound like any assistants will be promoted, and a new coach will almost assuredly want to bring in his own coaches. As far as the recruits go If Dirden leaves the program I would say there is a better than 50/50 chance the star of the class 6-3 guard Ghassan Nehme may ask out of his LOI, and if he does look for him to be a very hot commodity. If assistant Chris Haslam leaves the program I think we have a very good chance of loosing 6-9 Kavell Bigby-William. Kavell was a pretty hot commodity among a lot of east coast low to mid major D-1 programs last fall. One of the reasons we landed him was because of Haslam is a native Brit and Huse was the only D-1 coach to travel to London to visit him, and Kavell stock has risen since then. I think we have a decent chance to keeping Bradly Fisher, since he did not play high school ball this year either in the US or England but again losing Haslem could hurt.

So that begs the question that gets asked many times around the country each year--should MSU release them from their LOI's? I understand the thought is that they committed to play at Montana State, they didn't commit to a coach, but let's be realistic here.

What do you all think?

If I was an athletic director under this situation, I would personally talk to each recruit let them know that I will guarantee that MSU will honor their LOI no who we eventually pick as our new head coach, but if they wish I would be willing to release them from their letter of intent but if at all possible I would like them to discuss the matter with the new coach when he is chosen before signing with another program. I think this is the fair thing to do!

I agree with you. It's such a delicate situation. If the kid calls up and says he wants released you have to just hope he is open to reason and will give the hiring process time for this.

[CatfaninGA]

Time for a NATION wide search, IMO

[WeedKillinCat]

As much as I hate to see a good guy like Huse lose his job, but this is a business. I am surprised this wasn't sooner....

[SACCAT]

Ken Bone was fired today from WSU. Just a thought.....

GET HIM! He's a heckuva coach and might stay around after testing the waters higher up (with mixed results) and perhaps realizing the BSC isn't too bad of a gig.

I was just going to post this. I had not heard the Huse has resigned.....

I was literally just talking to a WSU grad about 5 minutes ago about Bone being fired, and his response was "Thank GOD...No one respected him as a coach or person."

[homeytennis]

Bone won a Big Sky Championship as a head coach at Portland State. On his staff at WSU he was Ray Lopes and Rod Jensen who have been D-1 head coaches and have won conference titles. I wouldn't be surprised to see Huse to end up at Utah as an assistant for Krysko and Utah's No. 1 assistant is a guy named Tommy Connor who was an assistant at Utah when they went to the National Championship game and was a long time coach at Westminister in Utah and had a great W-L record there.

[SkyRider]

Ken Bone was fired today from WSU. Just a thought.....

GET HIM! He's a heckuva coach and might stay around after testing the waters higher up (with mixed results) and perhaps realizing the BSC isn't too bad of a gig.

I was just going to post this. I had not heard the Huse has resigned.....

I was literally just talking to a WSU grad about 5 minutes ago about Bone being fired, and his response was "Thank GOD...No one respected him as a coach or person."

Don't forget the mess he caused and left behind at Portland State:

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I'd pass on Bone for this and other reasons.

[homeytennis]

Heath Schroyer helped cause that mess as well.

[BLACKnBLUEnGOLD]

I would start the search by interviewing Dirden and Sprinkle. I'm not a raving fanboy for either one, but I think they're strong candidates.

Of course, there should be more than two candidates, as well.

[Colter_Nuanez]

UPDATED: Huse resigns as head coach of Montana State men's hoops
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[4everacatfan]

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/p ... 4303180034" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good article in the Great Falls Tribune this morning and in the Bozeman ChronicleI hope that MSU makes this a true national search there are a lot of good coaches out there that would be hungry for this opportunity. I wish Huse and his family only the best.

[rtb]

So let me get this straight. After thinking through this today, Huse gets a $135K buyout on his remaining contract. This is at a time when football season ticket prices go up, Bobcat Club is pushing for more and more money to pay for scholarships, and just last year we were in a "budget crunch". (http://missoulian.com/sports/college/mo ... f887a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

So this 3 year contract that Huse got was something all outsiders looking in didn't agree with at the time, yet somehow as fans and boosters we are going to be the ones that pay for the mistake when this really should be coming straight out of the pocket/s of those that were crazy enough to sign Huse to a 3 year extension when the program was headed south.

This is pretty disappointing to me as a fan and booster. It's that age old adage that they will spend whatever you give them and keep asking for more. I personally don't want to pay for bad decisions such as this one and I am guessing a lot of you guys don't want to either, but I'm sure they'll get it out of most folks via football tickets and donations.

I wish I had a contract with my employer where I could do my job correctly less than 1/2 the time and when they wanted to fire me they let me "resign" and wrote me a check for another years worth of salary. Turns out academics and government are operating in their own reality.

Ok - I'll get off my soap box now, but I had to vent about the stupidity of giving a bad coach a 3 year contract extension and then asking for his resignation.

[CatBlitz]

So let me get this straight. After thinking through this today, Huse gets a $135K buyout on his remaining contract. This is at a time when football season ticket prices go up, Bobcat Club is pushing for more and more money to pay for scholarships, and just last year we were in a "budget crunch". (http://missoulian.com/sports/college/mo ... f887a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

So this 3 year contract that Huse got was something all outsiders looking in didn't agree with at the time, yet somehow as fans and boosters we are going to be the ones that pay for the mistake when this really should be coming straight out of the pocket/s of those that were crazy enough to sign Huse to a 3 year extension when the program was headed south.

This is pretty disappointing to me as a fan and booster. It's that age old adage that they will spend whatever you give them and keep asking for more. I personally don't want to pay for bad decisions such as this one and I am guessing a lot of you guys don't want to either, but I'm sure they'll get it out of most folks via football tickets and donations.

I wish I had a contract with my employer where I could do my job correctly less than 1/2 the time and when they wanted to fire me they let me "resign" and wrote me a check for another years worth of salary. Turns out academics and government are operating in their own reality.

Ok - I'll get off my soap box now, but I had to vent about the stupidity of giving a bad coach a 3 year contract extension and then asking for his resignation.

Great post.
Fields needs to take a good look the mirror.

[LTown Cat]

So let me get this straight. After thinking through this today, Huse gets a $135K buyout on his remaining contract. This is at a time when football season ticket prices go up, Bobcat Club is pushing for more and more money to pay for scholarships, and just last year we were in a "budget crunch". (http://missoulian.com/sports/college/mo ... f887a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

So this 3 year contract that Huse got was something all outsiders looking in didn't agree with at the time, yet somehow as fans and boosters we are going to be the ones that pay for the mistake when this really should be coming straight out of the pocket/s of those that were crazy enough to sign Huse to a 3 year extension when the program was headed south.

This is pretty disappointing to me as a fan and booster. It's that age old adage that they will spend whatever you give them and keep asking for more. I personally don't want to pay for bad decisions such as this one and I am guessing a lot of you guys don't want to either, but I'm sure they'll get it out of most folks via football tickets and donations.

I wish I had a contract with my employer where I could do my job correctly less than 1/2 the time and when they wanted to fire me they let me "resign" and wrote me a check for another years worth of salary. Turns out academics and government are operating in their own reality.

Ok - I'll get off my soap box now, but I had to vent about the stupidity of giving a bad coach a 3 year contract extension and then asking for his resignation.

Last week Bleedinbluegold said this in response to a post I made and he is right on:
"It's pretty clear there is, and has been, a leadership crisis in MSU Athletics. My money goes to academics."

[allcat]

So let me get this straight. After thinking through this today, Huse gets a $135K buyout on his remaining contract. This is at a time when football season ticket prices go up, Bobcat Club is pushing for more and more money to pay for scholarships, and just last year we were in a "budget crunch". (http://missoulian.com/sports/college/mo ... f887a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

So this 3 year contract that Huse got was something all outsiders looking in didn't agree with at the time, yet somehow as fans and boosters we are going to be the ones that pay for the mistake when this really should be coming straight out of the pocket/s of those that were crazy enough to sign Huse to a 3 year extension when the program was headed south.

This is pretty disappointing to me as a fan and booster. It's that age old adage that they will spend whatever you give them and keep asking for more. I personally don't want to pay for bad decisions such as this one and I am guessing a lot of you guys don't want to either, but I'm sure they'll get it out of most folks via football tickets and donations.

I wish I had a contract with my employer where I could do my job correctly less than 1/2 the time and when they wanted to fire me they let me "resign" and wrote me a check for another years worth of salary. Turns out academics and government are operating in their own reality.

Ok - I'll get off my soap box now, but I had to vent about the stupidity of giving a bad coach a 3 year contract extension and then asking for his resignation.

I fully support paying him off right now, I agree that the crazy part was why was he given a 2 year extension with the buyout. "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today".