College basketball coaching carousel

Or he could end up like Todd Lickliter. Take the right situation and proceed with caution.

 

Moddy,

Hasn't VCU jacked up the student athletic fee to (in part) help pay for him? I suppose they can just do that again and raise more money,

 

The last two championship game nights I pictured Todd Lickliter sitting on a couch somewhere drunk off his ass muttering "what the fuck was I thinking?"

 

If Smart can go to Illinois and start getting top-level Chicago recruits, in a few years it will be like Bill Self never left.

 

I hope Gregg Marshall takes the Illinois job and then starts insinuating conspiracies with Big Ten brass as he has with Missouri Valley officials when the Shockers have repeatedly lost in the MVC Tournament. Would be entertaining as hell.

 

One of my Illinois buddies tells me Smart and Illinois AD Mike Thomas were at Akron at the same time, so there's already some familiarity there between them.

 

Nebraska whacks Doc Sadler.

Actually that would be a logical place for Weber to end up.

He's 55 and has a career WL% of .669.

He stagnated and regressed somewhat at Illinois, but he'd be an upgrade for the Huskers.

 

This.

 

I would think now that Nebraska is in the Big Ten, it might have some appeal to Dana Altman. OTOH, he kind of plateaued at Creighton and the Blue Jays seem to be better now, although maybe the coach's kid has something to do with that.

 

Dana Altman has done one of the best jobs in the country this season. And I don't think there's any way Nebraska pays nearly as much as Oregon. You might be talking about having to take a 50 percent pay cut.

 

Yes, he did a nice job. Still hasn't recruited well; he's succeded the past two years primarly on the strength of inherited players and one-and-done transfers be brought in. Two of his top incoming recruits quit this year in less than a semester and another hardly played at all. I would think if Nebraska wants him, it has the money and basketball is far more important to all Big Ten schools than it is to all Pac-12 schools.

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Umm ... are you fucking serious? So Penn State cares more about basketball than UCLA?

Oregon has more money invested in it's basketball program than Nebraska. Dana Altman (about $1.8 million), in his second year with the Ducks, makes almost twice as much as Doc Sadler (about $1 million) did after six years with the Cornhuskers. Ernie Kent made more than Altman does.