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MBBALL Wayne Tinkle

Griz til I die said:
I mean AD's are gonna look at his overall record and 2 tourney appearances in 12 years and come away skeptical. It doesn't matter what circumstances he was dealt with at OSU, all that matters is the win-loss column. Maybe he can get a very low level D1 head job from like an NAU type program, but there's no way he'd be able to get another job on par with OSU. Now he can definitely get an assistant job at the D1 level, but I'd be surprised if he got a head coaching gig.
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If anything Wayne needs to rebuild his resume, if that’s even possible. He certainly can’t expect the kind of pay day he had at OSU. I don’t think it’s unrealistic for him to come back to UM as an assistant and coach the big men. Lord knows we need help in that area and he probably has some good contacts in the NW.
Would Travis even want him? That’s the $ 64,000 question.
Knowing Wayne, unless his ego gets in the way, which i never felt was his problem, maybe a couple of years on the staff would benefit everyone?
 
There are plenty of jobs out there IF Tinks wants to stay in the game. He’s in that category of someone like Dan Monson. Schools will reach out to see if he would want to work again— just like EWU did when Monson got fired at Long Beach.

The coaching network values people like him with experience- both good (Elite 8 run) and bad (his overall record at OSU). Even though his overall record isn’t great, his network, reputation and recruiting ties will be attractive to AD’s.

Anyone that know WT knows how much of a nice guy, and a people person that he is, which has carried him a long way during his coaching and playing career.

At the very least, many Power 5 programs would grab him as an assistant for all reasons mentioned above. A nice way to spend your last 5-10 years in the workforce if you could land with a head coach that you liked working under. And just like Bobby Hauck - an assistant coaching job at say Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, LSU etc pays more than a head job in the mid or low majors and comes with far less scrutiny or pressure.
 
Looks like Oregon State is going to hire Michigan assistant Justin Joyner as their new head coach. Joyner is in his first season as an assistant for the Wolverines, but prior to that spent 8 years as an assistant on Randy Bennett's staff at Saint Mary's. Young guy at only 38 years old and his wife is the women's soccer coach at Oregon, so he has connections to the area. Their AD has been going for high level P5 assistants to fill head coaching jobs. The new Football coach came from Alabama. Interesting route to go. This seems like quite the contrast from Tinkle.
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Justin Joyner comes to Ann Arbor to serve as an assistant coach with the University of Michigan Basketball program after a successful seven-year coaching sti...
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HelenaHandBasket said:
I have heard some chatter but not sure how much I really believe it. Tinks is very close with Mark Few leading to some rumors about an assistant gig.
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I kind of wondered about that too. Tinkle is from Spokane originally so it does make some sense. Him and Few had a good long embrace after the game Monday night. I think that would be a good gig for him if it came to fruition.
 
Griz til I die said:
I kind of wondered about that too. Tinkle is from Spokane originally so it does make some sense. Him and Few had a good long embrace after the game Monday night. I think that would be a good gig for him if it came to fruition.
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Makes a lot of sense on several levels. If he and Few are buddies (noted/claimed above), that's a good start. Tink has shown he's good at recruiting and coaching bigs ... how many coaches can look them in the eye when they shake hands? And he spent over a decade playing professionally overseas (mostly in Europe, as I recall). Few is well known for recruiting all over the world, so that would be an easy call.
 
Griz til I die said:
I kind of wondered about that too. Tinkle is from Spokane originally so it does make some sense. Him and Few had a good long embrace after the game Monday night. I think that would be a good gig for him if it came to fruition.
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He just finished building his dream home in CDA. I can see this happening for sure.
 
DoubleNicks said:
Hopefully we have Decuire for awhile but it also crossed my mind that maybe Wayne would do well in the women's game...he did raise and develop good talent in Joslyn and Elle so he has shown he can work with and get buy-in from young female athletes.
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Mom gets a lot of the credit there too. Let's not give all the credit to the dad, Lisa put in her time too, and then some.
 
" . . . Hopefully we’ll go down there and perform and see if we can make some noise.” What comes after that — whether it’s a miracle run to a NCAA tournament berth or an invite to a different postseason tournament — is a conversation for a later date. Right now, Tinkle is plenty present, gearing up his team for Las Vegas and preparing for any matchup the bracket may throw at them. ‘I’m not going to leave here bitter’ It wasn’t the way Tinkle wanted to end his tenure, nor was it always perfect in Corvallis. As head coach, Tinkle won more games than he lost (176-205), though he produced more winning seasons (seven, potentially eight when including this year) than losing ones and made the NCAA tournament twice. His Elite Eight run (2020-21) will always come with the asterisk of the COVID-19 pandemic. The three-straight losing seasons (2022-24) that followed will be similarly flagged, not just for the disappointing on-court results; but also conference realignment, the death of the (old) Pac-12, and the rise of NIL and revenue share. “I know there were a couple of tough years, we had to deal with some real tough issues,” Tinkle said. “There are facts there (and) I’m not going to sit here and sound like a cry baby and make excuses. But there is a lot more positive (for me) to take away.” He says his love for the sport is plenty intact, and that he has goals left to achieve in basketball. Those final goals won’t come to light in orange and black, but Tinkle says it doesn’t change what Corvallis and Oregon State have meant to him. And if you’re looking for someone to be spiteful, Tinkle isn’t the one. “I’m not going to leave here bitter, because of all that Oregon State has done for me and my family,” Tinkle said. “I mean, the memories of my son (Tres) playing here, my daughter sitting in the front row, my wife behind us. All that we’ve done, and all the accomplishments and achievements of our players, both academically and athletically.”

Read more at: https://portlandtribune.com/2026/03/02/wayne-tinkle-oregon-state-mens-basketball-fired-030226/
 
Griz in Texas said:
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What's left to explain.

If you think Few has something to teach a 60 year old man who has a pretty full resume that is going to make him want to sit down on the bench and learn to revitalize his career, give us all a break down.
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Did someone suggest he's doing it to revitalize his career??

He'd do it because he loves the game of basketball, loves coaching, would be working in a place he loves, and for a coach who is his friend.

Oh, and he'd have a legitimate shot at going to the Final Four, so there's that.
 
EverettGriz said:
Did someone suggest he's doing it to revitalize his career??

He'd do it because he loves the game of basketball, loves coaching, would be working in a place he loves, and for a coach who is his friend.

Oh, and he'd have a legitimate shot at going to the Final Four, so there's that.
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Bullshit!

He has no reason to take that kind of job. This is just living in a fantasy to believe otherwise.
 
Griz in Texas said:
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What's left to explain.

If you think Few has something to teach a 60 year old man who has a pretty full resume that is going to make him want to sit down on the bench and learn to revitalize his career, give us all a break down.
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LOL, so you really have zero idea. A guy doing a friend a solid, a friend that still enjoys being a part of a program, a guy that still enjoys teaching, and doing in a place dear to his heart while he decides what his next move will be...happens all the time. This would have little to do with what Few may or may not be able to teach him.
 
HelenaHandBasket said:
LOL, so you really have zero idea. A guy doing a friend a solid, a friend that still enjoys being a part of a program, a guy that still enjoys teaching, and doing in a place dear to his heart while he decides what his next move will be...happens all the time. This would have little to do with what Few may or may not be able to teach him.
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I just don't see that they swapped spit like everyone is trying to say and now they are in some romance.

Few is a class guy who was merely expressing best wishes to Tinkle, who is a great guy himself. I told Wayne back in about 1984 he should have gone to high school in Montana, he was just that dude walking around campus and calling out to people he knew all the way across the oval on his way to classes. You might have thought he and Scott Zanon were good buds if you just took what you saw on the court, but Scotty was a giant asshole from an early age so that was just Wayne being tolerant of the arrogance.

I just don't buy that one moment like that has all the meaning all of you hopefuls are trying to make it out to be, but we'll see.
 
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