Bryce Drew...

[VULB#62]

Vandy has already hired a search firm.

[valpopal]

Vandy wants to keep Bryce in a different position on campus so his good class of recruits for next year don't go elsewhere and to save a buyout. However, I hear Bryce is already being considered to replace Avery Johnson at Alabama. Would be a good landing spot for him.

[truth219]

If there were any way to get Bryce back I would support it

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[IndyValpo]

Vandy wants to keep Bryce in a different position on campus so his good class of recruits for next year don't go elsewhere and to save a buyout. However, I hear Bryce is already being considered to replace Avery Johnson at Alabama. Would be a good landing spot for him.

OMG what moron is spreading a Drew to Alabama rumor. Less than 0% of that one....

[VUGrad1314]

Vandy wants to keep Bryce in a different position on campus so his good class of recruits for next year don't go elsewhere and to save a buyout. However, I hear Bryce is already being considered to replace Avery Johnson at Alabama. Would be a good landing spot for him.

Fails miserably in SEC


Gets better SEC job


Makes perfect sense

[vu72]

Holy crap!  Welcome to the world of high major basketball!

https://watchstadium.com/news/bryce-drew-terminated-as-vandy-head-coach-03-22-2019/

[valpopal]

Vandy wants to keep Bryce in a different position on campus so his good class of recruits for next year don't go elsewhere and to save a buyout. However, I hear Bryce is already being considered to replace Avery Johnson at Alabama. Would be a good landing spot for him.

OMG what moron is spreading a Drew to Alabama rumor. Less than 0% of that one....

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[VU2014]

I know it's not going to happen but Good Lord it would nice to have Bryce back... problem is you can't bring him back unless he's committed to Valpo for the long-term and I think he wouldn't be. I'm not sure he'd even want to come. Feels like his aspirations have always been set for higher profile jobs.

https://twitter.com/goodmanhoops/status/1109082950203858944?s=21

[valpo64]

This is getting ridiculous...

[a3uge]

C'mon guys, Bryce isn't coming back. If he did, and actually found success, he'd be gone in no time again.

It should be a closed door after the way he departed.

[VUGrad1314]

Who cares if he's committed? Give us a few years and jump again for all I care. Just give us some stability and a chance to get ourselves up and running in the MVC. If you can do that perhaps we'll be strong enough to take it from there ourselves but we need to be established in our new conference in order to survive without the Drews If that takes one last assist from the Drews so be it. I just want this program back on track.

[crusader05]

With the buy-out he's probably gonna get he'd have enough money to pay for the upgrades he would want at the ARC himself

[IndyValpo]

Vandy wants to keep Bryce in a different position on campus so his good class of recruits for next year don't go elsewhere and to save a buyout. However, I hear Bryce is already being considered to replace Avery Johnson at Alabama. Would be a good landing spot for him.

OMG what moron is spreading a Drew to Alabama rumor. Less than 0% of that one....

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Ok I'm the moron. I can live with that. Having said that if the AD hires Drew he might be run out of town. Alabama does not hire Vandy rejects. However, I have been wrong before...

[vufan75]

Remember Bryce's wife is from the south so I would doubt she would be happy coming back north again. Would love to see Bryce back on Valpo's sideline again but just can't see it happening now. He will get a new job at another high major program I'd guess. If not this year then he can still cash Vandy checks for a few more years. Alabama just doesn't seem to fit the criteria we've heard about before as in a private school. Maybe Wake Forest I could see if that job would be open someday?



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[bbtds]

My thought is Bryce might spend a year as Scott's special asst to the head coach at Baylor and then get hired at an even lower Major (P5) than Vanderbilt for the season after next (2020-2021). He will no longer look for his perfect job but will look for a private school where he can still freely express his Christianity. He can no longer be picky with his choice of jobs. He will need to work in 2020-2021.

[mj]

Would love to see Bryce back on Valpo's sideline again but just can't see it happening now. He will get a new job at another high major program I'd guess.

Bryce went 0-18 in SEC conference play. Seems like his stock is down at the moment. Maybe he takes an assistant position somewhere?

[bigmosmithfan1]

Look, I realize Bama is football-first but if that AD things Tide fans won't be all over him for hiring a guy who just got fired at Vandy, he thinks he's more invincible than he actually is. They'd hire a successful coach away from Vandy in a heartbeat, but one who just went winless in the SEC?

Bryce has two paths now -- go back to a midmajor and win for a few years and prove that the Vandy situation was a fluke, or go get a top assistant's gig at a P5 for a few years and continue kicking butt on the recruiting trail so that another school is willing to give him another chance with a high-major program because his ability to draw talent is undeniable.

I'll happily eat crow if I'm wrong on this but a fired HC with such a short track record at the P5 level is going to have a reeaallly hard time walking into another P5 job without a stopover somewhere else for a few seasons at least.

Also, y'all are nuts if you wouldn't trade him for Lottich in a heartbeat. (No, it won't happen for a number of reasons. But that still needs to be said).

[vu72]

I just can't see any major program's fans being excited about hiring a coach who just lost 20 in a row.  "Get excited fans, we just got a great new coach who has proven he can turn a program...into crap in three years"  I don't see it happening.  Perhaps a assistant gig or doing a Tubby Smith, moving way down to take a head coaching gig somewhere.  Hopefully Homer and Janet and Dana and family haven't got to in love with country music!  Wow, just wow.

[bigmosmithfan1]

He will need to work in 2020-2021.

Bryce's net worth between his Vandy contract (of which he will receive most if not all despite the firing), his NBA earnings, investments and his very respectable six-figure salary during his Valpo years is probably north of $25M. He won't "need" to work anywhere the rest of his life unless he wants to.

[Valpo Joe]

Have Homer come back for a year  move Matt down on the bench  bring back Powell  tell Bruce to help Scott after Baylor tanks to the Zags Oh yah fire the AD

[VUOR63]

Does this mean that the Valpo-Vandy home and home isn't happening?

[justducky]

Might we get a Vandy buyout check without even playing them?

If they do show I can picture dozens of us packing the first half dozen rows to watch the worst of the SEC and MVC battle for ahhhhhhhhhh    "The Team Rebuild Title".

[VUGrad1314]

I think we'll get a buyout check Maybe we can use it for a facility upgrade or a better coach if that's the direction they decide to go

[bigmosmithfan1]

Yes, we will get a buyout check from Vandy unless they don't want to pay that, in which case they'll play the contractually obligated game. This was never a question -- we're getting a game from Vandy or we're getting a check.

[VULB#62]

Powell is out of there as well. He tied his future to Bryce. We know how that went. Is he a possible replacement candidate for Matt should MLB decide to start fresh?