2024 college basketball coaching carousel

Maybe. But it should be exciting. Her team last year was fourth in the NCAA in scoring, third in steals and first in 3-point attempts.

And some time ago another SEC school handed the keys to a coach with a whopping two years of experience at the D-I level, from the same school Caldwell is coming from.

 

Exactly 10 years to the day that "Calipari to the Lakers" was going to happen we get "Calipari to Arkansas"

 

Oats to Kentucky?

 

A month ago, who'd have thought that SMU was going to whack its second-year basketball coach, who had turned a 20-loss team into a 20-game winner, and that the move would be the first domino in a long transactional chain running through Kentucky and ending who knows where?
SMU's hedge fund bros, who have all the clout and power because their cash got their school into a Power 5 league, whack Rob Lanier. The opening sounds attractive to USC's Andy Enfield, who decides to ignore Tom Petty because he, does, in fact, have to live like a refugee and take the SMU gig lest he get executed in Troy a year later. USC is now open for Eric Musselman, a SoCal guy lured by a chance to return home and get out of Arkansas. This frees up Arkansas, which makes overtures at several hot coaches who decide they like where they are, they wonder about the Hogs' NIL cashbox or they realize that accepting the job at Arkansas means they must live in Arkansas.
And so now what? Well, AD Hunter Yuracheck asks himself, "How might I be able to get a big name to this middle-tier or worse gig in a powerhouse conference? Who might be available? And he looks north and east and allows himself to dream.
Pig Sooieeee! Yuracheck may be about to get somebody who will do a Reverse Eddie Sutton: crawl from Lexington to Fayetteville. If one must wear out the knees in service to continued employment, perhaps it's better to do it by crawling than by other methods.

 

Or Pearl.

 

That's Jeff Goodman's prediction/choice. He'd play politically. Hard-core Trumpist.

 

That’s just for men’s hoops. Not the whole program.

 

No offense, but Arkansas ain't exactly Longwood. They won a natty, finished as runner-up the following year and have been to six Final Fours. They play in a 20,000-seat barn that will fill up again with a winner.

 

That's morelike it. I used the 600 number provided as the divisor.

 

True. And Cal will help. But the SEC is getting a lot harder by the day.

 

I know you aren't trying to compare Florida history before 1995 to Tennessee's history

And at least Donovan was a five-year assistant at a blue blood program and led a program to the Final Four as a player. He had some semblance of skins on the wall.

Tennessee doesn't want exciting. It wants Final Fours and titles

If you fire a coach for this:
21–10 COVID-19 season
17–8 Second Round
25–9 NCAA Sweet Sixteen
23–11 NCAA Sweet Sixteen
20–13 NCAA Second Round

You better KNOW the next coach is going to do better. And no offense to this choice, it makes no sense if you are saying the last five years aren't good enough.