2010 College hoop coaching carousel thread

I'd be surprised if Barbee didn't win at Auburn. Really good coach. UTEP would also be a nice place for several coaches to land. There is a reason that some schools get reputations as launching pads for coaches and others are dead ends.

 

They are very comfortable living in the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area. Jake and the family were not interested in heading to Iowa City or any other place. He isn't the type of guy who wants to deal with major school boosters and delusional fans.

As a native of Cedar Falls/Waterloo, it's a good place to live. The fans know him and give him his privacy and space. In return, the coaches immerse themselves in the community and are personable. Lute Olson's late wife Bobbi said when Lute coached the Hawkeyes, living in Iowa City was like a fishbowl (translation = hell). Iowa fans left and right haggled her about Lute's coaching, how come they can't win more, they should be in the national championship, is he taking another job, yada yada yada.

The sad thing was, Iowa was a consistent winner during Lute's stay. UNI fans know that "UNI is UNI" and will always be the little brother to Iowa and ISU.

I didn't think Jake was a candidate for the Iowa job and I was correct. There's too much drama in Iowa City to handle.

Iowa fans think that Ralph Miller, Bucky O'Connor, and Lute Olson are walking through that door again, bring back up-tempo basketball, and slap on a full court press that Tom Davis used.

 

As an Iowa guy, I agree completely. Certain portions of that fanbase can rival the worst of the worst when it comes to overinflating their place in the sports world.

My question: There have been some rumors about Gregg Marshall being in play for the Iowa job, if not actively campaigning for it.

I seem to remember a lot of people on here having dealings with him and having not one good word to say about him. Can anyone refresh my memory? Something about being ridiculously arrogant and going out of his way to be an asshole to everyone around him, if memory serves.

 

But a bad place to eat. It might be last place on the All-MVC Restaurant team.

I like Marshall, he's a breath of black-hat fresh air in a league full of staid coaches, but he is arrogant and can be an asshole in a petulant kind of way. He's the only coach, for example, to ever get ejected from a MVC Tournament game.

The man can coach, however. I think WSU is paying him $800K, Iowa should be able to top that if he's interested, and I would have no doubt he would be (though all officialdom are denying it, of course).

 

A new practice facility or new coach at Minnesota?

http://www.startribune.com/blogs/89126107.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4OW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUr

 

On to Plan C at St. John's. Hewitt turned them down.

 

Got a link on that? I ask because the story Machine Head linked said Hewitt was ready to take the job if he could convince his wife to move to NYC.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5027590

 

Here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5027590

Ground breaking on the new facilities at Minnesota may have just been pushed back a couple of years.

Edit: Derwood types faster

 

Story from the Des Moines Register on it:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100324/SPORTS020704/100324041/1003/SPORTS/BREAKING-NEWS-UNI-finalizes-new-contract-with-Ben-Jacobson

Kudos to Jacobson for staying put. Not sure I'd call it the best day in UNI athletics history, though. I'd say last Saturday would be tough to top, not to mention some of the big days for the UNI football team over the years (though in D-II play).

 

Yeah, but you can do a 2-for-1 interview. Don't like or get the coaching job? You can stick around and interview for the AD job as long as you're there.
I agree, I don't see anyone happy with their current coaching gig jumping to Oregon. And I'm thinking Oregon won't settle for anything but a big name. Just a theory on my part, but my hunch is they're figuring their swoosh money and new arena will be enough to entice someone big.

 

Could Alford be in the mix at Oregon? I know he's been asked about it and said he's happy at New Mexico, but he'd listen if he gets the call. That's pretty far from a flat denial that he's going anywhere.

If arrogance and ego are factors, it's got to be killing him that he's at a non-BCS conference where you practically have to use rabbit ears to see him on TV.