Coach Rutter

[kingcy]

Why was he not an assistant coach under Fred? Yes he was on the staff but in the Director of BB Operations role. Seems to be a good coach and had Drake playing well last night. Hope he gets that program doing well and lands of his feet somewhere.

 

[CycloneErik]

He coached under McDermott. I think he only had the staff job with Fred, but I'm prepared to be wrong.

 

[Rabbuk]

He was a staff member I think like director of basketball operations or something

 

[CyBobby]

I want to wish Coach Jeff Rutter and his Drake Bulldogs the best for the rest of their season.......

 

[jbindm]

Break up the Bulldogs! Winners of four of their last six. Good for Coach Rutter. I hope he gets the job on a permanent basis.

 

[3GenClone]

Break up the Bulldogs! Winners of four of their last six. Good for Coach Rutter. I hope he gets the job on a permanent basis.

They had a great interview with him on the Sports Fanatics Show yesterday. Coach Rutter really took the reigns and drove that conversation with Chris and Ross. He should be the next Head Coach at Drake - he seems like he could succeed in the Missouri Valley.

 

[Cycsk]

They had a great interview with him on the Sports Fanatics Show yesterday. Coach Rutter really took the reigns and drove that conversation with Chris and Ross. He should be the next Head Coach at Drake - he seems like he could succeed in the Missouri Valley.

How do they not hire him as the permanent coach? Drake is one of the best "turn-around" stories of the entire college basketball world.

 

[jbindm]

They had a great interview with him on the Sports Fanatics Show yesterday. Coach Rutter really took the reigns and drove that conversation with Chris and Ross. He should be the next Head Coach at Drake - he seems like he could succeed in the Missouri Valley.

I think the interview was on Tuesday night, but yeah. It was good stuff. He came across as very personable and as far as finding someone to be the face of a program they could do much worse.

 

[swarthmoreCY]

There's always room for a coach like Rutter.

 

[Clones8686]

It's a long season, I anticipate he will continue to do well, but the sample size isn't high enough that I would pull the trigger quite yet. Will be interesting to see how he does when he goes against MVC teams for a second time. He also gives way too much playing time to Graham Woodward, who is quite frankly not very good at all, and that is very confusing because they have other options.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I hope he gets the full time gig. Definitely has a good presence and is one of those immediately likeable guys. Beyond the X's and O's, the ability to reach your guys and get them on the same page is way underrated.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

He was one of McDermott's guys, right?

 

[Clones8686]

He was one of McDermott's guys, right?

He was and he was going to follow McDermott to Creighton but decided to stay in Ames so his kids could finish school. Perhaps the timing of all of that is how he ended up not being an official assistant under Hoiberg.

 

[Lamoni]

I think it is a testament to how good of a coach he is that Ray stepped down when he did to give Rutter a chance to be the head coach and show the country how good he is. Drake would be hard pressed not to keep him.

 

[jsb]

He was and he was going to follow McDermott to Creighton but decided to stay in Ames so his kids could finish school. Perhaps the timing of all of that is how he ended up not being an official assistant under Hoiberg.

I'm pretty sure that Rutter was going to get demoted to Director of Basketball Ops had McDermott not left. I think demoted might be too strong...basically McDermott had to make some moves because things were bad after 5 years. So he hired Grayer to make the fans happy and Nick Nurse. Rutter got caught up in that. Then when McDermott got the Creighton job, I think Rutter could have followed him as a regular assistant. But he decided to stay with Fred as the Director of Ops.

 

[I-stateTheTruth]

I don't know much about Rutter but Drake gave a beatdown to Indiana State the other day. I was at the ISU-ISU game in Orlando and that was a scrappy Sycamores team, which also made some shots. In the last 2 minutes, I was sure they were going to beat the Clones. Good win for the Bulldogs.