SJ 2009-09 Coaching Carousel thread

Didn't that Al Thornton guy leave a year early?

 

That column is a pretty low blow, for a guy that you've never met.

 

Thornton stayed his full time. Von Wafer left early, though, and I'd be fairly stunned if he graduated.

 

Which is why he talked to coach after coach that does know him.
Go eat some free hot dogs, dude.

 

Who gets the UConn job when Calhoun "retires?"

 

In the small world department, I think the SID at ASU played (a decent rival) high school basketball against Sean Miller back in Pennsylvania.

I think they were both point guards.

 

That, and it sounds like Pastner would be how they would keep Xavier Henry (and maybe his brother) from going to KU. From a Lawrence Journal World notebook ...

• Pastner to hire Henry?: A source told the Sporting News on Monday that new Memphis coach Josh Pastner "would hire former Kansas player Carl Henry as the program’s director of operations, which would keep signed recruit Xavier Henry, Carl's son, in the program."

The Memphis Commercial Appeal said Pastner was "instrumental" in the recruitment of Henry. Pastner will be introduced as Memphis coach today.

Carl Henry said last week that Xavier wanted to attend KU in the wake of John Calipari's hiring at Kentucky.

 

Big shock. Right?
Question for the peanut gallery: When schools do this, is there a limit the parents can be paid for their new "work"? I mean, if Dad's getting a $300k paycheck for being the director of basketball operations, he can essentially give half of it to his kid to put toward an Escalade or whatever.

 

Lawrence Journal World followed that up with a new report today -- Henry denies wanting a Memphis job.

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2009/apr/07/carl-henry-disputes-report-hell-join-memphis-staff/

Carl Henry will not be headed to the University of Memphis as director of basketball operations, the former Kansas University basketball player said Tuesday afternoon.

Henry told the Journal-World in a phone conversation that the Sporting News report that he'd likely join new coach Josh Pastner's staff, so that his son, Xavier, would remain committed to Memphis was not true.

"I can't work at Memphis. I don't want to work at Memphis. If I took that job I couldn't do what I do - work with kids," said Henry, who coaches the Athletes First AAU team in Oklahoma City.

"I am not going to coach my kids (in college). I'd rather watch my kids play. I've told the (college) coaches before, 'I don't want to coach them; it's your job now.' "

 

The sleaze in college basketball is everywhere. Hiring "street agents" as assistant coaches, parents, finding jobs for relatives, arranging for housing. I read the SI story about James Harden from ASU and how "everything came together" reuniting with his high school coach and a teammate, his mom retiring to Tempe and the plush digs the teammate's dad had provided his son and it just seemed more than a little shady.

 

In mildy interesting news, Buzz Peterson has now taken more than a week to decide whether or not he wants the Appalachian State job.
Supposedly, the decision hinges on whether or not he makes more than the football coach, Jerry Moore.