2019 College Basketball Coaching Carousel

HIs first call should be to Barry Rohrrsen

 

It’s breathtaking to me how fast Arkansas became irrelevant. NC in 1994. Made the finals in 1995.

By 1997, they were two hours removed and beginning this process of Nolan not getting the top guys in, the ugliness over the departure, Stan Heath and then a parade of coaches who didn’t work.

I thought Anderson would work and was surprised they fired him.

The program really needs a coach who earns the trust of city players. Fayetteville isn’t the friendliest place for a non-white athlete. It’s isolated, proudly conservative and rural (even with the financial boom there). Nolan provided cover with wins and his assertiveness but even that evaporated eventually.

 

Pay well?

 

Yeah, FSU has a big basketball booster culture and “recruiting” budget relative to its peers.

Thats how it gets so many McD AAs and one-and-dones.

 

Hasn't been updated after Beilein left Ann Arbor?
How crazy and insistent is the U of M fanbase about Juwan Howard? We are on pins and needles in Providence right now. I don't see anything mentioned better than Ed Cooley.

 

Cooley would be a good hire. Somebody at the Big East meetings said he saw Cooley today and that the Friars' boss was still on the schedule to play golf on Tuesday.

 

They should punt - maybe give a mid-major striver a three-year $5 mil "prove-it deal" or just go interim. I'm sure M has the cash (since they don't have to pay Bielein anything now) - but you don't commit to six years without being able to talk to everyone who you would want to. Most coaches are locked in. The nice thing about this time of the year is any coach talking to you is serious about the gig and not just leveraging for an extension. Musselman would have been so great in Ann Arbor.

 

One problem for U-M is Beilein's best disciple, LaVell Jordan, has been mediocre at Butler
Howard is getting a big push with recommendations from Webber, Rose and King
U-M worries about being associated with the Fab Five again
It is whether he's hired or not
At this point, Howard is as good a hire as any

 

I think that Howard's lack of college coaching/recruiting experience would make the hire a disaster. I can't think of an NBA type who went back to college and did well, even those with more coaching experience such as Avery Johnson. One possible exception might be Penny Hardaway but he had very deep ties to the AAU scene because of the team he had run. But Howard has been associated with the NBA the last 25 years.

 

Michigan basketball coaching candidate Ed Cooley to stay at Providence

 

Howard could hire Steve Fisher as his quality control coach/consigliere. What's Thad Matta up to? Rudy T?