2020-21 College Basketball thread

I also think Wes Miller is going to have to take a step between the Southern Conference and one of the most storied jobs in college basketball. I may be wrong because of his Carolina ties, but that's a huge move. It's one thing to go from the SoCon to one of the middle of the pack programs in the ACC, a la Mike Young. It's quite another to go to UNC.

 

Usually, I would agree. But ...

1) He's "family."
2) It would be one thing if he has been in Greensboro for 2-3 seasons, getting them to one NCAA tournament after a nice SoCon tourney title on the back of one player. But he has won three of the last five SoCon tournaments. He would have made the mid-major jump some time back ... unless he was eyeing a shot at the alma mater and stayed put.

The family might help him a little more than your alma mater has with Mike Young, not that the latter has needed anything based on his work thus far. But we'll also find out if the next coach - even if in the family - gets some autonomy or gets treated like Matt Doherty did.

 

One other factor, Cosmo.

To the best of my (meager) knowledge, it's not like there are all sorts of family spread out coaching now.

Jerry Stackhouse is at Vanderbilt, but IMO isn't doing the sort of work that will get Bubba's attention. That's about it.

 

Jerod Haase came to UAB after playing for Roy at KU and thirteen years as Roy's assistant at KU and UNC, including coaching UNC's JV. After UAB beat Iowa State in the dance, he got hired at Stanford. I thought he'd have a chance at the job one day, but he's been mediocre there.

 

Somebody at TTU wrote a shitty contract. Make the buyout dropoff so it doesn't go into effect until the new academic year starts on Sept. 1, not on April 1 when everyone is looking for a coach.

 

I read where Craig Smith is personally responsible for $700,000 of his $1,100,000 buyout from Utah State. So a pac 12 program is only covering 36% of a buyout to get a new guy. Anybody know if this is standard?

 

Any contract is a two-way street; Beard could have had enough leverage to make this date. Imagine TTU wanting a large buyout number and Beard saying "okay, you can have a $5M buyout number to sell, but we bury that it goes down later."

 

I know Todd Stansbury was responsible for his buyout when he left Oregon State to be the new AD at Georgia Tech.

 

It dropped to a four million dollar buyout, so at least they're getting some consolation.

 

Problem, in the eyes of the natives, is that he played at Kansas. If he played at Chapel Hill, different story ... assuming he did better at Palo Alto.

Will be interesting to see if Johnny Dawkins emerges as a serious candidate in Durham when K is done – because he didn't do so hot in Palo Alto.

 

Maybe. It's also possible that Beard's agent negotiated that and, IIRC, the school wanted Beard badly enough. Might not be strictly a terrible deal drawn up by Texas Tech.

 

What are the chances they go completely outside of the family?