2015 College basketball coaching carousel thread

I assume Southern Illinois is finally finished paying Chris Lowery off. That was the Jon Koncak-makes-$2-million-in-1990 eye-opening deal of mid-major basketball for the last decade.

 

Marshall not going anywhere. Not with Baker, VanVleet and Frohnkamp back next year.

 

When does the window close on some of these guys? Marshall will be fine, but some others have to jump when they can.

When my mid-major alma mater made the tournament, the coach was a hot commodity. He stayed, made a couple conference tourney runs, eventually got fired and hasn't been heard from since.

 

The schools like Wichita State, Gonzaga, Butler, maybe VCU as well, I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, but those schools have found ways to come up with enough money to keep coaches longer than most would expect.

It's the flavors of the month, like Stan Heath, and the Florida Gulf Coast guy and others who need to take advantage of a nice tournament run and parlay that into a more lucrative, if not better, gig.

 

Another head-scratching failure. I expected he was going to do great there.

 

Hindsight is 20-20, but I wonder how many coaches have been successful going from a program that small directly to a school in a major conference. FGCU was not exactly a mid-major.

 

I thought FGCU was going to be a perennial national power.

I forget. Whose cause was that?

 

FGCU was in a position to be the next Murray or Belmont. A low major that made the NCAA tournament every year but someone was pushing them as the next elite team. I don't remember who though.

 

A lot of it hangs on Calipari. If he goes back to the NBA then the carousel really spins, and who knows which jobs may come open.

 

St. John's needs to get over themselves. The 80's are over.

 

I meant Lavin as St. John's.

 

I don't think Lavin was a failure at SJU. It's like Seton Hall, Pitt, Temple DePaul, Providence, Indiana, LSU -- a place that will never be as good as it was in 1987. Lavin did okay. Not great but that's not a job where they'll ever be top 25 every year. Too games are on TV now and SJU isn't one of 20 programs shown all the time anymore.

How many of us around 40 remember watching the St John's-Syracuse game on Monday nights before the Big 8 game on ESPN 28 years ago? SJU was a top program in the media but really they had one FF run in 1985 and that was it.