2019 College Basketball Coaching Carousel

UCLA should do what Stanford did - buy and/or build houses for coaches with young families near campus. Find a local developer who is also a booster and get him or her to donate a few to the school or sell them at a cut rate.

 

Looks like Buzz Williams is going aTm.

Sources: Texas A&M to hire Va. Tech's Williams

 

This has basically been a done deal for weeks. Best of luck to Buzz. Virginia Tech basketball was an embarrassment before he arrived. The next coach will not have to rebuild. He's set a standard. Can't blame him for wanting to go home and get paid.

 

I read that as TURTLE BATTLE, and I thought, That's an interesting first name. Is he related to Mitch McConnell?

 

No land around there. No cheap housing. One of the most impacted areas in the country.
The coaches should live in Inglewood or South Central. That's where the players are.

 

This Arkansas search is getting wild. McCaffery, Richie Pitino and Musselman, supposedly.

This would be a case where most of the Iowa fan base would be happy for McCaffery to leave.

 

Richie Pitino seems like a natural for Arky

 

Jamie Dixon and UCLA finalizing deal for him to become basketball coach

In a dramatic plot twist for the son of a screenwriter who grew up in North Hollywood, Dixon would make a triumphant return to Southern California as UCLA’s next basketball coach if he and the school can find a way to satisfy the terms of his buyout at Texas Christian, according to multiple people close to the situation.

Dixon was in negotiations with the school to reduce his $8-million buyout to a substantially lower figure, one person said. Barring that, UCLA and Dixon would have to find a way to pay the full amount.

 

Kind of crazy that two coaches on the 1996-97 Northern Arizona staff will end up being UCLA head coaches during their careers.

 

So would the Big Ten officials.