2022 college basketball coaching carousel of progress

[wicked]

Pleasepleaseplease let that happen! He would get torn apart by the fanbase.

He's also 69. Who's the coach in waiting?

 

[tapintoamerica]

Georgetown should join the Patriot League or similar league. Great liberal arts private rich school.

Not yet. I know it's not a $$$ sport in college, but their men's soccer team won the title a couple years ago. They have been competitive in other sports. Dropping out of Big East TV money would crush the budget.

 

[tapintoamerica]

This would be something.

JunksRadio doesn't sound like a great source.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Memphis. Take away the prime Calipari years (2005-09) and there hasn't been much to see there for a long time (pretty interesting that you can say the same for U-Mash.)

Maryland moving to the Big Ten saved the athletic department, financially, but eliminated all their rivalries. Maryland-UNC is an easy sell on a Wednesday night. Maryland-Nebraska with a 9 p.m. tip so it can air as the second-fiddle B1G Network game to Ohio State-Michigan or Purdue-Indiana? Who's going to that?

I'd argue that Butler is heading down the road to irrelevance, though a coaching change might help.

Wake Forest had a good stretch from about 1990 to 2005 but has been invisible since then.

DePaul, for sure. A complete non-entity for decades.

Those are all good ones.
I'd add Washington and Ga Tech.

 

[Hot and Rickety]

Georgetown issues a statement supporting Patrick Ewing despite the program being an absolute trash fire.



Georgetown issued almost the exact same statement 18 years ago to this day with Craig Esherick, and fired him 12 days later. Firing Ewing will not be as simple because he's Patrick Ewing and because he signed a new contract last year. But Esherick also had signed a new deal the year before he got canned.

 

[Hot and Rickety]

And, with seasons starting to end, we're off and running.

 

[Della9250]

JunksRadio doesn't sound like a great source.

It's the biggest DC sports morning drive show. Multiple guys went to Maryland, they are connected with enough people, and have a very good relationship with Gary Williams, that if they put something like that out there it's pretty solid.

 

[Della9250]

Pleasepleaseplease let that happen! He would get torn apart by the fanbase.

He's also 69. Who's the coach in waiting?

Andy Enfield? Let Pitino go in, build things up for a year or two and then Enfield takes over a much better situation that where they are currently?

 

[heyabbott]

Andy Enfield? Let Pitino go in, build things up for a year or two and then Enfield takes over a much better situation that where they are currently?

I was really hoping that Danny Manning would work out. But Not Pitino. Not that Maryland isn't desperate, but its a move that stinks of desperation

 

[DanOregon]

Personally - in terms of sourcing: Fan blog < local TV sports guy < local radio sports guy < local columnist < local print beat <national print/digital beat.

I do wonder if Pitino is still considered relevant to five-stars looking for a campus to hang out at for six months before the NBA draft.

 

[Twirling Time]

This Georgetown/St. John's discussion got me going down a rabbit hole of programs that are total shells of their old selves, at least ones that were good when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.

Temple is one of those programs. Extremely relevant under John Chaney and now just kind of floating around in the ether in a weird league where their conference games are against the likes of East Carolina and Tulsa.

Georgia Tech is mostly irrelevant now, last year's ACC Tournament "title" notwithstanding. Used to be a regular Final Four contender.

UNLV fits this bill. I'd say UMash but UMash was really only relevant for those couple of Calipari years with Marcus Camby and the others.

Maryland is going down this road. The Terps still make the tournament more often than not but have only gotten out of the first weekend once since 2003.

New Mexico is now a nothing program. Used to be fairly relevant. No one talks about how hard it is to play at The Pit any more.

I'm sure I'm missing some.

Arkansas was like that for the interregnum between the firing of Nolan Richardson and today. Couldn't sell out the 20,000-seat Bud Bowl. Now that they're tickling the AP poll again, they have the students and general fan base interested.

 

[Hot and Rickety]

The eminently trustworthy Pitino says he's not going to Maryland.