2021 MBB coaching carousel thread

Beard to Texas, as expected.

 

Roy Williams says Bye Y’all.

 

Congratulations Coach Williams on a long and storied career

 

Yeah, I realized I had posted that in the wrong thread. Meant to put it here, not the regular college hoops thread.

 

... on April Fools Day. Nice, Roy.

The last couple of seasons certainly haven't been as much fun as the first 31. It would easy to see that he's had enough.

Enjoy retirement.

 

How much longer does K hang on? Just turned 74 in February ...

 

his career and legacy will be white-washed and held up as a model of a great coach and leader of men. He’s a cheat, like some his most accomplished peers. Looking at you Boeheim, Calipari, Pitino, Miller
“While student-athletes likely benefited from the so-called ‘paper courses’ offered by North Carolina, the information available in the record did not establish that the courses were solely created, offered and maintained as an orchestrated effort to benefit student-athletes,” NCAA panel leader (and SEC commissioner) Greg Sankey said in a statement. “The panel is troubled by the university’s shifting positions about whether academic fraud occurred on its campus … however, NCAA policy is clear. The NCAA defers to its member schools to determine whether academic fraud occurred and, ultimately, the panel is bound to making decisions within the rules set by the membership.”


Tar Heel basketball players (and other athletes) were allegedly steered toward Department of African and Afro-American Studies courses which did not require regular attendance, offered flexible grading, had lax-to-nonexistent faculty oversight and required them to submit just one paper over the course of the semester.

Hence the name “paper courses.”

Athletes were allegedly steered toward these “paper courses” so that they could remain academically eligible to compete for the school’s athletic teams.

North Carolina’s rebuttal to these allegations? It claimed its “student-athletes” received no special (i.e. “impermissible” benefit) because these “paper courses” were made available to the entire student body.

 

One does wonder. Some are concerned the pandemic will grind him down too far. Or Adam Silver changes the G League to make room for college basketball's current one-and-dones.

Krzyzewski is 74.
Boeheim is 76.
Hamilton is 72.

And time is undefeated.

 

With the success that Juwan Howard had at Michigan and the relative success Pat Ewing has at Georgetown, does UNC, Syracuse or Duke hire a former player as coach?

 

Hubert Davis, already on staff in Chapel Hill, is a former player. Wes Miller, who has been doing strong work at UNC Greensboro, is a Chapel Hill alum.

Every coach on Mike Krzyzewski's staff is a former player of his. Plenty of his players are coaching elsewhere.

So ... for those two, the answer is highly likely to be "yes."

As for Syracuse, not as certain, but Gerry McNamara is on Boeheim's staff.

 

Mike Hopkins was sort of the natural successor to Boeheim but his recent struggles at Washington might change that some.