College basketball coaching carousel thread

Remember the disaster that was Clyde Drexler at Houston.

 

Gotta think the ridiculous cost of living in the East Bay was a factor too.

 

After Mullin to St. John's and now Ewing to Georgetown, I welcome the nostalgia. Disappointed that Seton Hall hasn't brought in Terry Dehere, Providence isn't looking at Marty Conlin, Pitt hasn't floated Jerome Lane's name and that Villanova hasn't made Tom Greis or Ed Pinckney the associate head coach. The drumbeat for Derrick Coleman to return to the 'Cuse would be perfect once Boeheim finally kicks.

Just need them all to play on Monday nights with Mike Gorman and Bill Raftery on the call and my life will be complete

 

I wonder if Patrick could coax his high school coach, Mike Jarvis, to aid in the transition. He knows D.C. and he's coached in the conference. Not sure how he gets along with Big John or how much he wants to do anymore (he's in his early 70s).

 

This is how you usher your coach out the back door.

Men's Basketball Coach, Dave Bliss Resigns - Southwestern Christian University Athletics

And the background if needed:

http://deadspin.com/dave-bliss-once-again-resigns-in-disgrace-1793977373

 

Groce hired at Akron.

 

Marty Conlon is probably off somewhere working on his suntan.

 

Pitt tried to lure Sean Miller last year. That count?

 

Steve Fisher retiring at San Diego State.

 

For those wondering, there will be no vacancy here. Assistant coach Brian Dutcher has long been lined up to take over when Fisher leaves, and the school will confirm his promotion tomorrow.

I went to SDSU in the early '90s when the men's basketball program was beyond irrelevant. They had a couple different 2-win seasons during the decade, and after playing across town at the Sports Arena, for a couple years they played at an on-campus gym that local high-school players would sneer at.

When Fisher was hired (shortly after they finally got the on-campus arena built), I thought the school was very fortunate to get him, but I wondered how much he really could do with the resources he had. Well, he showed me: Several trips to the Big Dance, two Sweet 16 appearances, a team that earned a rabid fan following, a hand in developing a guy, Kawhi Leonard, who's turned into one of the NBA's top stars.

I'll always appreciate what Fisher did for my alma mater.

 

Many coaches would fade into obscurity after getting fired in shame for their involvement in a sport-shaking scandal, and Fisher sort of did. He took a year off, then helped Rick Adelman turn the Sacramento Kings around for a year. Two years after getting fired by Michigan, Fisher popped up at San Diego State and accepted what looked like a suicide mission in trying to revive an Aztecs program that had never won a postseason game. The year before Fisher took over, SDSU won fewer games than he did in his first-ever NCAA tournament.

It was a Herculean task, and Fisher was up for it. Two years after hiring Fisher, SDSU made the NCAA tournament. After six years of steady improvement, the Aztecs ripped off an 11-season streak of 20 or more wins. They made seven NCAA tournaments under Fisher, won six Mountain West championships, and reached two Sweet sixteens. In 2011, SDSU went 34-3, losing only to Jimmer Fredette-led BYU teams and eventual tournament winner UConn. Fisher helped mold Kawhi Leonard into a defensive terror and he earned 2011 national coach of the year honors.

SDSU never won an NCAA tournament or made a Final Four, but Fisher built a prestige program out of nothing and left the Aztecs with a strong on-the-court identity of physical, relentless defense as well as a proven track record of developing mid-major players for the NBA. His overnight national championship and recruiting chops at Michigan were perhaps more consequential, but the turnaround he engineered at SDSU was somehow more impressive.

http://deadspin.com/steve-fisher-ca...ource=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

Oral Roberts whacks Scott (not Sean, as previously indicated) Sutton, on whom it apparently imposed recruiting restrictions including a ban on tattooed players and a requirement that all players pass a test of their faith.
http://deadspin.com/oral-roberts-barred-fired-coach-from-recruiting-players-1794236093

I suppose they can do this as a private religious school. But I also suspect that anybody with a brain will avoid this gig like the Old Testament plague that it is if the restrictions are still going to be in place.