2010 College hoop coaching carousel thread

Hey, grammar police. At Vandy -- not Oregon.

 

defilippo doesn't mess around. hiring mooney would make sense, he's a philly irish-catholic (meeting a couple key criteria for the alumni and boosters) yet could recruit in acc territory, too.

 

That's on me. It's 3 in the morning. Although...if you break down that second sentence, you might be able to catch my confusion.

 

Keep in mind he fired Jeff Jagodzinski for kicking the tires about the Jets head coaching job.

 

BC is all about loyalty. If you even graze the tires for a gig at BU, the Celtics, Bruins, or the Red Sox, you will get run off of Chestnut Hill.

 

Rumors, highly unreliable ones, tell me that Skinner and BC were headed for splitsville BEFORE he inquired at St. John's.
Structural factors will make it really difficult to impossible for any coach, no matter how talented, to do much better than Al at BC. They've changed football coaches many times, not to mention football conferences, and the water seeks its own 8-4 ESPN-minor bowl level.

 

Sounds like BC was hoping Skinner would get the St. John's job so everybody would be spared the embarassment of a firing.
Assuming Lavin goes to St. John's, I can see Baron easily going to BC - he's underappreciated at URI, the school has dragged its feet on an extension, and his younger son has already committed to Virginia. Leaves the door open for the return of Skinner, who was much more popular here than close-but-no-NCAA cigar Baron has ever been. Don't forget, Skinner built the team that came within a 75-second choke of the '98 Final Four.
You never should've left the Big East, guys.

 

When you're playing ACC basketball, and the basketball team is the number two winter sports program on campus and in the minds of alumni, success is always going to be relative.
Al took the program from ruin to keeping its head slightly above water. My forecast for the next few seasons is glug-glug-glug.

 

Amazing thing about this story is that Skinner was actually fired last week and the news remained hush-hush until this morning. They agreed to keep it a secret (from everybody except St. John's, I guess) that he had been dismissed in order to give him a better chance at St. John's.

 

BC gets itself into more athletic department mishegas than any school in its weight class. From Ric Kuhn to its coaching employment blowups, it's a near constant symphony of unfortunate headlines. And it's not the residue of design, either. The school, by and large, is happy in its weight class. But weirdness is always lurking nearby.