It's that time of year: College coach carousel!

Nope. Todd Bozeman paid a player and he is a D-I HC. As soon as Pearl's show cause is up, some struggling program will take a chance on him. He's won everywhere he has gone. Everywhere he has gone, he has made the college basketball program the toast of the town.

In order to truly be unhireable, a HC needs to have a scandal so bad that it can't be explained away. Bliss was involved in a murder cover up and there were tapes to prove his involvement. But even Jan van Breda Kolff had job interviews after the St. Bonnies scandal. The only reason Kelvin Sampson isn't a college coach is because his show cause order is so Draconian that he couldn't compete under the penalties. Larry Eustachy recovered nicely from his frat house party days. Tim Floyd is at UTEP despite what happened at USC.

 

To your points -- a Twitter timeline of the Mike Anderson to Arkansas story-or-nope-it-isn't-a-story:

http://www.hogdb.com/2011/03/20/mike-anderson-arkansas-rumor-a-twitter-timeline/

Whole lot of media folks, particularly Dan Wolken of Murdoch's iPad newspaper (which I guess means he's FoxSports.com too), not looking too good on this one.

 

That's not accurate at all, at least regarding the UT athletic department.

Pat Summit deservedly has a sterling reputation, but technically her team and Bruce's team aren't even in the same department and she answers to a different (women's) AD.

And while I hate using blogs as measuring sticks, I'll point out that the half-dozen or so UT sports blogs barely have Lady Vol topics/threads/followers.

UT's a football school, for sure, but it's second only to Kentucky in SEC all-time men's basketball success, and the third place team's not even close.

As for Pearl -- I can easily see him becoming a Jon Gruden/Cowher type guy, who goes to ESPN and quickly discovers he likes being on TV a helluva lot more than he likes going through the grind of coaching. He won't have a choice for the next two years, as the NCAA is going to hammer him with a show-cause. And, frankly, his coaching ability is vastly overrated. He can motivate the hell out of players, but his Xs-and-Os ability was really called into question frequently this season.

 

If you had to rank the open major jobs - which is the best and worst?

I'd say Arkansas right now is the best job available and Providence is the worst.

 

Providence is not he worst, two schools UT and OU have major NCAA sanctions pending.

 

But OU and UT in two or three years will no longer have sanctions and will be far better jobs than Providence

 

True but how many coaches can survive four losing seasons in a high profile job?

 

Providence is the worst. Non-football school in the Big East. Career suicide. Sure, St. John's turned it around this year, but there's a lot of people in NY wondering just how many of those 12-star recruits for next year will ever make it to Queens.

 

Chicago Tribune reporting that Milwaukee's Rob Jeter is the leading candidate for the Bradley gig.

Yes, which all means that Bruce Pearl would have a chance to go back to Milwaukee. [/nothappening]

 

St. John's will be OK. Lavin will find a way to pay recruit well and lose (again) early in the tourney.

Providence really should think about dropping out of the Big East. There is no way they can compete in that conference the way it's structured. Of course, given the conference ties, it'll never happen.

 

Aren't the conference offices still in Providence?

 

Yes, which is why it won't happen.