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Grading College Basketball’s Biggest Offseason Coaching Hires

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Texas Tech: Grant McCasland

Scott Drew’s coaching tree has gotten a lot of love lately after Jerome Tang’s sterling first season at Kansas State. Texas Tech hopes McCasland, who built a dominant mid-major program at North Texas, can continue to add to the Drew tree’s legend. McCasland’s North Texas teams played a grind-it-out style that consistently ranked among the slowest paces in the country, but the results didn’t lie: The only season North Texas won fewer than 20 games under McCasland was the shortened 2021 season, and the Mean Green beat Purdue in the NCAA tournament that year. He’s fresh off a 31-win season in ’22–23 capped by an NIT title.

McCasland isn’t the larger-than-life personality Chris Beard was in marketing the Texas Tech program, but there’s no doubt he’s a high-level coach. If he can properly harness the power of the Tech fan base both in terms of home court advantage and NIL resources in recruiting, the ceiling for this hire is incredibly high.

Grade: A-

 

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On 4/19/2023 at 12:58 PM, cousin oliver said:

Kind of neat being termed a "Dominate Mid Major program."  That brought a proud feeling when reading.

 

On 4/19/2023 at 12:45 PM, Wag Tag said:

All I ever asked for is to be described as a dominate mid major program!!! Thanks Mc! GMG 

I would rather be a dominant program. 

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