2010 College hoop coaching carousel thread

[Lester Bangs]

An unusual move on the assistant side: Tom Crean fires big-man assistant Roshown McLeod, effective immediately. What's up with that?

Gotta be something very wrong for this sort of public hanging. That's a "I'm gonna screw your career" kind of move.

 

[Della9250]

I hope Norm Roberts' time to jump off this carousel has come.

Why? He's doing a great job considering he is right in the middle of the one of the most talent-rich basketball areas on the planet, has perhaps the greatest arena of all-time to sell as a part-time home court, is in the greatest basketball conference and thus gets to compete against top teams every year --

I mean, under those conditions, what do you expect him to do, have a winning record or something?

Well there's that, or the fact that in year six he hasn't even made the NIT, let alone the NCAAs, his next loss will be the 100th of his career, he constructed a roster that has NINE juniors on it and can barely be above .500 and he has one of the worst Big East records in the conference's history.

 

[SalukiNC]

Hopefully DePaul is dumb enough to take Chris Lowery off Southern Illinois' hands (and checkbook)......one can dream.

They've tossed around Brad Stevens' name for the DePaul job, but he'd be out of his mind to leave Butler for that steaming pile of Big East crap.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Eugene paper is reporting today that Kent is out at Oregon. The delusionists think they'll get Few, since he's from the area. So is Billy Grier, but he's STB at USD the last two years and is no longer hot like he was in 2008, when he turned down the Oregon State job.

Turgeon coached there before, but he's got a good thing going at A&M. Cameron Dollar's done a nice job building the Seattle U program but he's not a big enough name to sell 12,500 seats at their new area.

They are also talking about PJ Carlesimo, a hiring that I suspect would quietly thrill nine Pac-10 coaches.

Nike basketball probably makes this call, with some input from the university. The ex-AD, a big booster and Knight lapdog who bought out Moos and hired himself, is supposedly great friends with PJ.

Here's a good story about it (and no, I'm not Bob Clark):
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/24542623-41/million-coach-salary-ducks-basketball.csp

 

[DanOregon]

PJ Carlesimo - the guy has a bad habit of following successful and well-liked coaches (Nate McMillian, Rick Adelman) that he can never live up to. Kent might be easier in the short term but if anyone thinks PJ is remembered fondly by Blazer fans, they are mistaken.
Of course, Oregon might go back to St. Mary's and nab Randy Bennett.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

PJ Carlesimo - the guy has a bad habit of following successful and well-liked coaches (Nate McMillian, Rick Adelman) that he can never live up to. Kent might be easier in the short term but if anyone thinks PJ is remembered fondly by Blazer fans, they are mistaken.
Of course, Oregon might go back to St. Mary's and nab Randy Bennett.

The feeling up in Oregon is that Carlesimo is a lock because he's who Nike wants to get the job.

 

[Bob Cook]

Hopefully DePaul is dumb enough to take Chris Lowery off Southern Illinois' hands (and checkbook)......one can dream.

They've tossed around Brad Stevens' name for the DePaul job, but he'd be out of his mind to leave Butler for that steaming pile of Big East crap.

DePaul is one of the worst jobs going, and it might still be if it scaled back and went to the Horizon, which would be a much better fit. DePaul should do that, and quit playing games in Rosemont. It would be better -- economically and for student enthusiasm -- to stay on campus at little Alumni Hall and play to a small but rockin' crowd instead of to flies in a remote arena that always has the feel of a place built for about $10.

 

[spnited]

St. John's leading UConn by 12 early in the 2nd half in the Save Norm's Job game.
And there are rumors that Calhoun might be ready to pack it in.

 

[Della9250]

The way UConn played, he should retire. An awful performance for a team that had everything to play for.

 

[micropolitan guy]

The feeling up in Oregon is that Carlesimo is a lock because he's who Nike wants to get the job.

And what Nike wants there, Nike gets. The athletic department has virtually no public accountability.

 

[SalukiNC]

Hopefully DePaul is dumb enough to take Chris Lowery off Southern Illinois' hands (and checkbook)......one can dream.

They've tossed around Brad Stevens' name for the DePaul job, but he'd be out of his mind to leave Butler for that steaming pile of Big East crap.

DePaul is one of the worst jobs going, and it might still be if it scaled back and went to the Horizon, which would be a much better fit. DePaul should do that, and quit playing games in Rosemont. It would be better -- economically and for student enthusiasm -- to stay on campus at little Alumni Hall and play to a small but rockin' crowd instead of to flies in a remote arena that always has the feel of a place built for about $10.

In that case, DePaul should hire one of the worst coaches in the college game
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They really should stop playing in that huge arena. It's nice for concerts, but not Big East games that have no attendance.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Would Calhoun leave, given that there is talk that the AD and him don't get along, and that Jim wants to pick his own guy to replace him?