2025-26 College basketball coaching carousel

[tapintoamerica]

Bellarmine head coach Scott Davenport will retire. His son Doug is expected to take over as part of an agreement that was in place for the last couple years.

Has this ever worked? Not at Georgetown, not at Texas Tech, not at Davidson ... maybe at DePaul with Joey Meyer.

This is a good question. Trying to think of other examples of nepotism hires.

 

[dixiehack]

DePaul went on a slow decline under Joey Meyer that now looks like gold compared to everything that followed. Murray Bartow had the same sort of diminishing returns after Gene retired at UAB.

 

[tapintoamerica]

The NC State opening makes me think - why has LeVelle Moton never taken another job? He's probably gotten other offers, but opted to stay at NC Central since 2009.
He'd probably say no to State for a number of reasons, but he grew up in Raleigh, talks about his upbringing a lot and has helped build parks and developments in east Raleigh.
There are murals of him in town and he has a decently big profile in the HBCU circuit and locally. Would make for a good story if he came back to his hometown and led State back to glory.
But it's just a pipe dream in my head for now.

Can't imagine he'd have turned down other gigs. I suspect the big guys don't want to hire a coach from an HBCU.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Oh for sure. But if they don't want to pay his (probably minimal) buyout and don't want to extend him, does it seem as if they're gonna pony up for players? Unless they're telling him: We're using the money we could have used to buy you out or extend you to get a couple of guys in here, coach them up or be gone.

I think that schools are going to be more reluctant to pay buyouts this cycle. A school like ASU is trying to figure out how to fund the extra costs of the House settlement. ASU just won a conference co-championship in football. I think they might quite rationally decide to make sure they can come up with as much money as possible for the football program and if the basketball program falls off the end of the earth so be it.

 

[LanceyHoward]

One interesting aspect of the House is that it might allow the Big East to again become the dominant college basketball conference. Let's take DePaul as an example. They could take 10 million and use it to pay the basketball team. Big Ten schools are not going to devote half of their salary cap to the men's basketball team when they also have a bunch football players to hire.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Can't imagine he'd have turned down other gigs. I suspect the big guys don't want to hire a coach from an HBCU.

Bingo. Same thing for Robert Jones from Norfolk State.

 

[Craig Sagers Tailor]

Can't imagine he'd have turned down other gigs. I suspect the big guys don't want to hire a coach from an HBCU.

My understanding is that he has gotten offers, maybe not from ACC/SEC schools, but other mid-majors.

 

[franticscribe]

The NC State opening makes me think - why has LeVelle Moton never taken another job? He's probably gotten other offers, but opted to stay at NC Central since 2009.
He'd probably say no to State for a number of reasons, but he grew up in Raleigh, talks about his upbringing a lot and has helped build parks and developments in east Raleigh.
There are murals of him in town and he has a decently big profile in the HBCU circuit and locally. Would make for a good story if he came back to his hometown and led State back to glory.
But it's just a pipe dream in my head for now.

I think it's a mix of realizing how good he has it at Central, where he is likely coach for life, and the offers not actually being there. I remember a couple of years ago (might actually be more like four or five) when he did an interview on the David Glenn Show and he basically said that a lot of the reported offers he has had over the years weren't real.

I think he'd be a great hire for State and despite being a lifelong Carolina fan, I would be rooting for them.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I think it's a mix of realizing how good he has it at Central, where he is likely coach for life, and the offers not actually being there. I remember a couple of years ago (might actually be more like four or five) when he did an interview on the David Glenn Show and he basically said that a lot of the reported offers he has had over the years weren't real.

I think he'd be a great hire for State and despite being a lifelong Carolina fan, I would be rooting for them.

Can't see a delusional fan base tolerating this one. Eagles are 13-18.

 

[franticscribe]

Can't see a delusional fan base tolerating this one. Eagles are 13-18.

I hear you but also think you might be underestimating how well loved he is in Raleigh. I mean there's literally a huge mural of him in downtown Raleigh and a downtown neighborhood park named after him. He's coming off his worst season in over a decade, but his overall resume is very solid.

I honestly don't know how State fans would react. I know there'd be a joyful reaction in the Triangle's black community, where he is revered, but I don't know how well that translates over to the general fanbase.

 

[Craig Sagers Tailor]

Is there a world in which Chris Beard goes to Indiana? Then the Ole Miss job comes open. If they want Wade, I'm guessing they get him because Ole Miss money >>>>> NC State money.

 

[micropolitan guy]

My suspicion for Bobby Hurley is a month from now he will suddenly announce he is following a lifelong passion to coach some A-10 also-ran.

If it's Three Chopt Tech, I'll take it. Mooney has to go.