2015 College basketball coaching carousel thread

Florida, Wisconsin, Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, Tennessee, Oklahoma are all football schools that have done pretty well with basketball.

 

It's such a lazy opinion.

 

The Big 10 schools can make it work and with the right combination of players and coach, you'll see a Florida or some such but it is an extremely hard trick to pull off.

Football pays the bills at so many schools, so of course it becomes a priority. So a school like Alabama will make a splashy hire and like trying to turn around a cruise ship on a dime, the inertia stays with football. Things don't improve when compared to the investment made on the coach and the school starts all over again.

 

Put me on the side that says it's a lazy excuse to say a football school can't excel at both.

Logistically, that makes no sense. You don't have a finite number of basketball scholarships if you're using all of your football scholarships. You don't have competition for practice space or facilities. If you've ever seen these schools' athletic finance ledgers, you know they don't have to spare expenses on one to fund the other. Perhaps back in the day when Kentucky (according to legend) gave Adolph Rupp a new car but gave Bear Bryant a watch, a discrepancy between two programs can shift history. But today the money is big. And in order to look like something close to a non-profit, the schools will spread it around.

If anything, a basketball coach at a "football school" gets the luxury of time to instill his system and players. The pressure is (a little) lessened by the attention to the other program. Otherwise, I just can't see a tangible impact in today's college landscape by trying to be both.

 

Shaka had an 8 pm team meeting scheduled. Then, apparently, he didn't.

Who the hell knows?

 

No mention of Bowling Green's coach Eustachying his career away?

Here's The Ass-Slapping Video That Got Bowling Green's Coach Fired

 

Latest is that it's scheduled for 10 p.m.

 

Gary Williams wants to know what the problem is:



All kidding aside, though, that's pretty damn foolish of Jans.

 

#DeadlineProblems

 

Not for me. The beauty of designing the Metro section tonight.

 

Shaka leaving for Texas.

 

ESPN: Shaka's leaving