2010 College hoop coaching carousel thread

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/sports/ncaabasketball/18gonzalez.html

A Pirates player, Robert Mitchell, was arrested in Newark on Tuesday and charged with kidnapping, robbery, burglary and possession of a weapon, according to a law enforcement official in Essex County. Mitchell was accused along with another person of breaking into a home in South Orange, duct-taping eight people and stealing cash and personal items. The police have not identified the other person.

 

He will transfer to West Virginia.

 

The scuttle on Rutgers keeping Hill is that since Seton Hall is in the market for a new coach, Rutgers is trying to break the cycle of doing it together for about the fourth time, since they both made new hires in 1997, 2001 and 2006

 

And as a side note, maybe Rutgers doesn't want to be one of at least five Big East jobs that could be open — Seton Hall and DePaul are searching, St. John's might be open in the next couple days and there are rumors that Keno Davis is being considered for the Iowa opening. If Rutgers cans Hill, why battle all those schools for the same candidates being perhaps the lowest-ranked opening?

 

Not familiar with Rutgers hoops, but it's easy to can a coach. Getting a better one is trickier. Which several schools are about to find out.
I do wonder if the Ducks pulled the trigger on Kent three weeks ago to line someone up and beat the market.
This weekend there are probably a couple coaches who will suddenly be the "hot" coach after an upset or two.

 

I think if it's Carlesimo, a buddy of the former AD/No. 2 booster, the rest of the Pac-10 would jump for joy.

They would not be happy to have Randy Bennett in Eugene. He was in pretty serious talks with OSU in 2008 but that didn't work out. Oregon is in a much better place now than OSU was in 2008 but what you wrote here

is 100 percent accurate. You'd have to search high and low for a more delusional fan base for a program that isn't among the elite in any sport except track.

 

Surely Pope's two bagtags in about 15 seconds last night against Texas Tech sent the Hall's brass over the edge.

 

That makes sense and is actually pretty smart, IMO. If you wait until everyone else is looking and you haven't done anything since 2007, you're likely having to scrounge for leftovers. Get in the mix before everyone, you can use the 2007 season and new arena plus the Nike connection to try and snag someone before it's open season.
Personally, I wonder how much the football woes at UO will hurt the basketball program's coaching search.

 

Shit, at least Bobby did Seton Hall a favor by running that kid over the weekend.

Now that Wichita, St. John's, and Tulsa has lost, how warm are those seats that Marshall, Roberts, and Wojcik is sitting on? Didn't Roberts get a vote of confidence/extension of some sort?

 

Marshall is safe at Wichita.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/ncaa/03/17/gonzalez.seton.hall.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

"I had an unusual relationship with Coach Gonzalez," long-time St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley said Wednesday. "There never really was a comfort zone.

"I had a comfort zone with Seton Hall, sending many players there in the past, but not recently. Whoever gets the job will personality-wise be different than Coach Gonzalez. I would consider sending our players there."

I thought this was a little classless out of Hurley Sr. He's acting like a svengali here, though I suspect it's more just lobbying for either one of his sons to get the job.

 

!. Bob Hurley loves to play svengali.
2. Danny Hurley is a Seton grad and head coach at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark right down the street from the Prudential Center. But Seton is likely to go after a Pecora, McCaffrey, Donahue etc.
3. The whole Robert Mitchell story is bizarre. He rips Gonzo to a writer, gets thrown off the team from criticizing the coach then gets nailed for a burglary ... charged with B&E, kidnapping, robbery and weapons possession. Also, not the only Gonzo recruit wh has off-court trouble with the law this season.
4. Rutgers has $1.8 million reasons for retaining Fred Hilll.