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Latest Iowa coaching rumor: Wichita State’s Gregg Marshall
Wichita State Coach Gregg Marshall gives instructions to his team in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Nevada in the first round of the NIT on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in Wichita, Kan. (AP Photo, Jeff Tuttle)
I’ve spent all day on this one. Gregg Marshall was interested in the Iowa job in 2007 when he coached at Winthrop. Now he’s at Wichita State.
I spoke with his agent, Myles Soloman, who said politely, “I really can’t comment on any searches going on. That’s something that you’d have to take up with Coach Marshall.”
Wichita State’s athletics director said Iowa has not asked for permission to interview Marshall. A Wichita State assistant, Chris Jans, coached Kirkwood Community College in the mid-1990s and hails from Iowa. Jans didn’t want to talk about the subject.
Marshall has 12 years of coaching experience. He led Wichita State to a 25-10 record this year, including a 74-57 win over Iowa. He’s coached the Shockers for three seasons and led them to the NIT this year. He has compiled a 247-130 record and took Winthrop to seven NCAA Tournament appearances. He is the winningest coach in Big South Conference history.
Wichita State shot nearly 57 percent from the floor against Iowa and hit 11 of 21 3-point attempts. Here’s what he said after the game:
“Coach Lickliter is going through some hard times now trying to build this thing the right way and he will do that,” Marshall said after the game. “But in the history books this will go down as a win for us against Iowa basketball in the Big Ten.”
Does this have any traction? Hard to say. But it might have more legitimacy than most of the rumors I’ve chased down in the last week.
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Call me an old guy, of which I am one…but I seem to recall a coach from Wichita State named Ralph Miller who came to Iowa City many years ago.
The fact that Hewett of GT and Marshall are "rumored to be on Iowa's radar" (Hewett in another story from another site) really concerns me. Either of these guys would be settling for at best a second tier guy. Hewett has been as down as he has been up at GT. He has a losing conference record at GT, and his teams haven't won more games than they have lost in conference since 2003-2004. Sure he went to a final, but not much to look at outside of that. Losing overall records 3 of the last 5 years. Eesh! And Marshall has had one arguably good year at Wichita, but even this year, they lost six games in a very weak (save UNI) Missouri Valley. No big time coaching experience here. Some one make the argument for either of these guys! If we are gonna go in a direction like this, go after Ernie Kent or Steve Lavin. Either of those guys have much more street cred and both are more accomplished than Marshall or Hewett. Looks like we are settling if these reports are true.
He's got to dump that nonessential third G in his name first. Then we'll look at his resume. That excessive use of G's does not bode well.
Greg is short for Gregory. Gregg is a different name, not short for anything.
I could out-coach this cat.
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who?? ralph miller. ralph's style of coaching would be barley on par with Lick's today.
Lickliter is what Bobby Knight would be like if he was raised by wolves, in the English country-side.
do we get some hops with that barley?
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UNI would love this hire . It would assure them of a win every year.
Coach Marshall leaving WSU for IOWA would be idiotic, WSU is on the rise, IOWA is at best a re-building project, WSU sell out every game (10,500), great local support, MVC is very underated, all power 6 conferences are overated, (IE the KU vs UNI game). It will take 4-5 years for IOWA to be competitive again, WSU will be a top 25 team next year and for several seasons. But I've seen coaches do worse for the almighty $$$$$
Wow. Thankyou for sharing. I certainly did not think about this particular issue in that way before and it opened some serious discussion for me on this topic.
You Iowa folks have a warped view of this, you look at it like "is this guy (Coach Marshall..etc.) good enough to coach at Iowa"…HUMMM … Wichita State slaughtered Iowa in KC this season, WSU has a ton more talent and a much brighter future, WSU has better support from fans, Plays in an underated league, (Iowa plays in overated power 6 conference). Yea Iowa has football..big deal !! all that means is basketball is 2nd fiddle ETC. ETC. So the real question is.."Is Iowa basketball good enough for…who-ever" All "big" schools feel entitled, I.E. The Kansas Jayhawks… who by the way was beaten by the best team (by far) in Iowa. Oh yea, UNI is from the Missouri Valley conference. Keep living in fantasy land up there.
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