College hoops coaching firing/hiring thread

Illinois State apparently hired Kansas assistant Tim Jankovich.

 

UNCG I could see, but Charlotte, I think, is too big for the CAA. Let's not forget, before last year's Final Four, the CAA was considered a lower-tier conference.

 

In a stunning move, Denver hired Joe Scott from Princeton as their new head coach. Scott was 2-12 this year in the Ivy League with the last of John Thompson III's recruits.

That can't be a good hire for the Pioneers, is it?

 

I want to see your point, Freelance, but I'm not sure there was a worse move in college basketball than Charlotte moving from C-USA to the A-10.

The 49ers have no natural rivals there. They're not even an afterthought there. At least in the CAA, UNCC and UNC By The Sea (er, Wilmington) can be rivals. And the Virginia schools wouldn't be too bad a haul from Charlotte.

It would have made more sense, but I guess Charlotte had its reasons. :-\

 

Many of those arguments also can be applied to Saint Louis vis a vis the Missouri Valley.

 

Wow, that's kind of surprising. The guy must have really missed Colorado.

 

Joe Scott equals getting out of Dodge before the posse gets you.

 

Joe Scott did Princeton a huge favor. He ran that program into the ground, finished last in the Ivy this season and deserved to get canned.

Ands he didn't really do it with the last of JT III's because he had only one senior who played. The others quit in the last couple of years because they couldn't take Scott.

 

Freelance: I would agree with your point except, as Sam pointed out, Charlotte in the A-10 is a terribly awkward fit, the only payoff is somewhat better men's basketball, and even that's not a given anymore. Not that you can extrapolate the last two years, but the CAA had a better case for two teams in the NCAAs than the A-10, which needed its regular-season champ to take the gas pipe in the conference tourney. Plus pairing Charlotte with another regional team it could rival with, like UNCG, gives it a rival (along with UNC-Sea, as well as renewing acquaintances with ex-Sun Belt ODU and Sun Belt/Metro VCU).

St. Louis should have gone to the Missouri Valley, though I wonder if they hesitated because they'd be the Jesuit school in a league of large public institutions. I know the A-10 and Big East have had public/Catholic school issues in the last few years (the A-10 Catholic schools nearly revolted when Virginia Tech was admitted).

 

St. Louis actually would have balanced out the Valley somewhat. Creighton, Bradley, Drake and Evansville are also private.

 

I post corrected. For some reason I thought it was mostly if not totally public school. That's what I get for posting without Wiki-ing.

 

That anybody anywhere is talking about Denver basketball for 30 seconds makes this a great hire for the Pioneers. Scott was good at Air Force but seemed to lose his grip in Princeton. Personality thing?