It seems as though Penn State’s search for a new men’s basketball coach is coming to a close. Multiple reports on Tuesday evening suggested the school has made an offer to VCU head coach Mike Rhoades, suggesting he will indeed be the next head coach of the Nittany Lions. While there may have been plenty of calls for assistant Adam Fisher to get a serious look at being the next head coach, it is hard to argue that Penn State hasn’t made a good coaching hire on this stop on the coaching carousel.
Rhoades has taken VCU to the NCAA tournament three times in five years since being named the head coach of the Rams, succeeding Will Wade and returning to where he was once an assistant coach under Shaka Smart. Some might suggest Penn State comes out of this coaching change with an upgrade over Micah Shrewsberry, who left to become the head coach at Notre Dame, just based on his success as a head coach coming into the job.
Here is what Twitter had to say about the potential coaching hire in State College.