2015 College basketball coaching carousel thread

Why the fuck does a school like Texas need a search firm? That's disgraceful.

"Gregg, it's Texas. We'll give you $4 million a year and use of a private jet like the one you have in Wichita. See you on Monday."

 

Don't the majority of schools use search firms? Even the "big" schools?

I could be wrong. Maybe it just seems that way.

 

Typically, it's the second-tier major conference schools, the Texas Techs of the world, usually when they hiring someone with no head coaching experience.

If you're a smaller school they can be great. If you're Texas, the AD should have a ongoing list of candidates for any possible opening. That's the way most of the bigger schools do it.

 

Texas used one to hire Charlie Strong.

The search committees that Rutgers and USF hired in recent years failed to verify the coaches' resume, and both unknowingly hired guys without degrees. That's not a very good return on the $250K or so that these places get.

 

Coaching search firms were responsible for the Kelvin Sampson hire at Indiana and the Billy Gillispie hire at Kentucky.

 

DISGRACEFUL!

 

If schools are willing to pay $250K so they can have plausible deniability about who they did and didn't talk to, maybe it's worth it.

 

My alma mater (a former mid-major powerhouse that has fallen on hard times) used a search committee the last time the job was open a few years ago -- then wound up hiring the guy the AD and a few clowns in the administration wanted all along. Didn't work out so well -- the team lost more than 20 games this season, with several starters transferring.

 

I know of a few instances where search committees came up with great hires of assistants, McElwain at CSU, Leach at Texas Tech (didn't end well, but still a great hire).

 

Clarification: My alma mater used a search firm, not a committee. My bad.

 

Jon Rothstein does not drink green juice!

 

Yeah, a school such as Texas must be using the "search" firm as more of a go-between for negotiations. It's not like Texas needs a consultant to go out and "find" Charlie Strong and Shaka Smart, but perhaps it's a better way to get the ball rolling.