2014 College basketball coaching carousel thread...

Looks like Stephen F. Austin's Brad Underwood is the guy at Southern Miss:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24545509/usm-offers-sfas-brad-underwood

Went 32-3 in his first year as a Division I head coach, and was a well-respected assistant under Frank Martin for a long time before that. As long as he can recruit the JuCos, he'll be fine at Southern Miss.

 

I would not want that gal from "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" doing mine. ;D

 

Doc Sadler is the man at Southern Miss. Assistant at Iowa State. Seems to me to be a meh choice. Supposedly well-liked and respected, but he didn't exactly light 'em up at Nebraska (his last head coaching job).

 

You should always do a background check. I'd bet a lot don't.

 

Not too many people have done dynamic things basketball-wise in Lincoln, so that shouldn't be held against him.

That Tim Miles has done what he has with Nebraska is remarkable. Then again, he got the chance because he almost resurrected the program in Fort Collins in his prior gig.

 

Is it too soon to start a 2015 coaching carousel thread? Because four players have now left Maryland with eligibility remaining - Seth Allen, Shaq Cleare, Nick Faust and Roddy Peters - and a fifth, Charles Mitchell, is likely right behind them. All of those players started at least 10 games last year. Allen started 15 and Cleare started 20, and Allen was the second-leading scorer. This from a team that didn't play in a postseason tournament last year. So to call Mark Turgeon "embattled" seems fair.

 

Two words: George O'Leary.

An Athletic Director doesn't know everything about a candidate. Also, it is a question of protecting the university and a consultant can provide backing for whomever the AD wanted to hire in the first place.

 

Notre Dame could have found out about O'Leary in an hour if they had someone in HR doing a routine background check.

 

Oregon State has fired Craig Robinson (AKA, Michelle Obama's brother), per SI's Pete Thamel:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-basketball/news/20140505/oregon-state-craig-robinson-fired/

 

If you don't support the brother-in-law of the first black POTUS, you are all racists!!!

 

Rumors had been circulating this weekend. One of his top returning players just announced he was transferring, four seniors had graduated, 2014-15 was looking bleak.

Players graduated, stayed out of any major trouble, was a good public face for the school, was accommodating to the media ... did everything right but win.

 

He also helped get a long-promised basketball practice facility built and brought Gary Payton (and his kid) back to Corvallis. The record might not exactly show it, but he leaves the program better than where it was when he arrived (when they were turned down by numerous coaches).