College basketball coaching carousel

They were in seven of Bruce Weber's nine years as head coach, actually. The exceptions were 2007-08 and 2011-12.

 

Bizarre note on Bruce Weber, that I just realized.

I wanted to see a pic in his awesome orange jacket so I hit "Bruce Weber" on Google Images.

Um... yikes.

 

Meet Jay Cutler:



At least the first result for "Bruce Weber" is the coach.

 

The way Illinois is characterized on here, it's more A&M than Tennessee. A&M suffers from being in a shithole relative to Austin (the way I saw Champaign compared to Madison). Tennessee suffers from not have an in-state recruiting base comparable to Alabama, LSU, Georgia and Florida, the programs that are supposed to be its main competition in the SEC.

In that regard, Illinois is in better shape than Tennessee.

Illinois would be comparable to LSU in terms of having a city that is full of talent the big state school doesn't fully tap into. New Orleans is a pretty decent basketball metro, but in the last five-six years, LSU has lost Greg Monroe, D.J. Augustine (via Houston thanks to Katrina) and two 2012 top recruits - Javon Felix (Texas) and Ricardo Gathers (Baylor) to out-of-state programs. To a lot of New Orleans kids, going to Baton Rouge ain't a big deal.

In fact, I'm having a hard time thinking of the last New Orleans stud to go to LSU for basketball.

 

BrianGriffin, ladies and gentleman. He could relate your mother's funeral to LSU recruiting patterns. ;D

 

Your mother was buried on a Wednesday. LSU buried Brady on a Tuesday. LSU has still failed to bury the Jordan Jeffeson era.

How's that?

 

Well, Uwe Blab maybe? There's always room on an Illinois roster for a slow, white 7-footer...

 

Even Uwe Blab ditched Illinois to play for Indiana.

 

Is home recruiting base even that big a deal in basketball. Seems like even the tiniest low-major has 3-4 starters from halfway across the country now.

 

The Vitales and Bilases also never mention this. The "luvin" is simply better in Madison or Lawrence than it is in Champaign. I visited all three when I was 17 and, um, that played a moderate factor in college choice. I didn't go to Illinois but, out of the other two, I graduated from one and partied a lot at the other. Eustachy was right. Kansas chicks are hot.

 

Every single D-I football and basketball school has hot chicks.

And every incoming hotshot recruit thinks he's gonna get one of 'em.