SJ 2009-09 Coaching Carousel thread

General Grant was in Richmond, but I heard he was way too hard on his players. They did win, though.

 

That was actually an early April Fool's joke. Grant is still at VCU. Moddy told me.

 

Somebody hide the sharp objects from Angola. Mike Davis is a candidate for Wazzu.

http://blog.al.com/offthevine/2009/04/is_uabs_mike_davis_joining_the.html

 

I don't know much about Davis, but this sounds like a poor idea. They should just throw money at the Portland State or Utah State coaches, unless Wazzu is a worse job - which I guess it could be.

 

Oh yeah. Right now, UAB has three returning basketball players and no signees or commitments at present, since DeMarcus Cousins bailed and scared off the rest of what was shaping up to be a good class. Not that it matters much, since Davis has squandered talent good enough to be in the NCAAs the last two seasons. They lost 4-5 players off the squad at once in December, mostly due to academics. Within a couple of years, the school's APR will qualify for a Cy Young Award. Davis is so lax about academics that one of the first-semester ineligible players was his own son. We won't even get into the inability to make in-game adjustments despite a bench full of coaches that makes the announcers booth in The Naked Gun seem sparse.

 

Wazzu president Elson Floyd is a HUGE basketball fan. I just can't see him being silly enough to think Mike Davis is the best choice here.

This needs to be a two-syllable decision: Ken Bone.

If they don't hire him he better have turned them down or they better land a freaking whopper in the "why the fuck would he go to Pullman?" variety.

 

I don't know how much of the above material is your own, but that was a damn good rant. My compliments.

 

Mike Davis is a helluva nice guy, but he is not cut out to be a head coach. Dixie's right -- he has all of the tactical genius of a dog playing Risk. What he can do is recruit. He should be an assistant for a SEC school. If he goes to Wazzu, it means he would have gone from Indiana to UAB to Wazzu in less than five years. Even as much as the Bennetts revived that program, that would be a big fall.

 

Scott Drew out as a Memphis candidate...

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/apr/04/baylors-drew-withdraws-tigers-coach-hunt/

And on his blog Wolken makes it clear the search is becoming a fiasco...

http://thememphisedge.com/category/tiger-basketball/

Next name up is rumored to Leonard "one tourney appearance with a loss to a 12 seed at FSU" Hamilton. Good luck with that.

 

Leonard Hamilton?

Are you joking?

And reading that blog -- they fucked up big time with Drew. They had him if they wanted him and for some reason blew it.

Maybe they deserve Leonard Hamilton.....

 

They can do better than Drew. They also can do better than Hamilton. That said, they probably won't on either count. I wonder why they've not approached Tim Floyd, though maybe they have and I've just not given enough of a shit about this search. He seems like a perfect fit here.

 

I would think the same thing -- I can't believe there isn't more interest from big name coaches in this job.