2014 College basketball coaching carousel thread...

This is very true. I guess we'll find out if the city of Los Angeles or the franchise's history carries any weight in free agency. I hope it doesn't.

 

So, Archie Miller to the Vols?

 

I can't see Cal being a better job than Tennessee, was Martin on the hot seat or something?

 

Fan base never accepted him. They were brutal.

 

I don't think Tennessee is a good job. You are the number three sport on a campus where the fb and women's bb teams are falling off the radar.
Cal is a better job, not UCLA or Arizona, but next tier down.

 

No way. Cal is a second-division Pac-12 program. Might be the #2 sport on campus, but still not one that anybody cares about.

And the local talent base is pretty poor. The national and West Coast schools tend to cherry-pick the best recruits from that side of the bay, and what's left isn't enough to run a solid Division I program. Montgomery could do it because he's a great coach, but it's very difficult to do.

 

The real question isn't whether Cal is a better job than Tennessee but whether it's better than Marquette, which was his other exit option. Tennessee was apparently a bad marriage as the fans didn't like Cuonzo - openly pining to bring Pearl back - and the AD - who came in after Martin was hired - didn't exactly show much support.

 

How come?

 

I would think Marquette would be the better job, but when a coach leaves for a job most would consider a step down and then another coach pulls his name from consideration (maybe he did this after he knew he wasn't getting it, as so many do...) and then leaves for Cal, I'm guessing Marquette has some issues right now...

I think the basketball programs at both schools are pretty similar. Both make the tournament a little more than half the time, at least recently... Tennessee usually pays better than a school like Cal, but Martin will get a honeymoon period at Cal that he didn't get at Tennessee and he can be under the radar at Cal, which means he likely won't be canned after one mediocre season.

 

Entirely too many in the fan base, it seems, treated Cuonzo like utter crap. And Dave Hart not supporting someone? Knock me over with a feather. He's done the same thing at East Carolina and Florida State ... did you really expect Hart to change?

Couldn't happen to a nicer AD ...

 

Outing alert: Mizzou is actually Dave Hart...the UTAD Tweeted out that until this morning he had no idea Martin was interested in the Cal job.

 

No. 3 on campus?

More like No. 7...in the nation, in attendance.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2013/2013%2007%20Attendance%20section%2010-18.pdf

Off the radar? The Sweet 16 is not worthy of radar?