2025-26 College basketball coaching carousel

[tapintoamerica]

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.

Which is amazing but probably true.

 

[LanceyHoward]

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.

I think that Beard's troubles at Texas have pushed him down the list a bit at Indiana and Beard is only a default candidate. My guess the school would want someone with a pristine public image such as T.J. Otzelberger. However, I could see Beard getting the job as a second or third choice.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

In a just world, Takayo Siddle is naming his next destination as I type. UNCW wins the CAA.

 

[tapintoamerica]

TJ Otzelberger's new contract runs through 2032 but drops his buyout obligation from $18.2 M to $4 M if he leaves. Curious. Affordable for a suitor.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Arkansas WBB coach Mike Neighbors resigns before he can be fired. Eight years, middling success. He was very good at Washington when he had Kelsey Plum.

 

[Hot and Rickety]

Ben Johnson out at Minnesota after four thoroughly underwhelming seasons, the school announces in a press release with a 1 a.m. timestamp:

Coyle Announces Leadership Change in Men's Basketball - University of Minnesota Athletics

 

[exmediahack]

Ben Johnson out at Minnesota after four thoroughly underwhelming seasons:

Coyle Announces Leadership Change in Men's Basketball - University of Minnesota Athletics

Dang it.

A friend of mine is a HC for a non-power 4 conference program. If he would have won 20 games this year at his program, he would have been on the shortlist for Miami and, now, Minnesota.

Instead, injuries and transfers killed him this year. Won 12 instead of 20.

That's how delicate the coaching world is. I find it fascinating.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Dang it.

A friend of mine is a HC for a non-power 4 conference program. If he would have won 20 games this year at his program, he would have been on the shortlist for Miami and, now, Minnesota.

Instead, injuries and transfers killed him this year. Won 12 instead of 20.

That's how delicate the coaching world is. I find it fascinating.

It really is. We're probably going to have one of these domino scenarios unfold pretty quickly somewhere. The kind where one guy gets whacked and the ripple effect is felt all the way to some high school in Trumpmenistan, Mississippi or some such place.

 

[Twirling Time]

It really is. We're probably going to have one of these domino scenarios unfold pretty quickly somewhere. The kind where one guy gets whacked and the ripple effect is felt all the way to some high school in Trumpmenistan, Mississippi or some such place.

The domino effect last year that led Cal from Kentucky to Arkansas probably happens every other year to an extent, if someone is enterprising enough to trace them all in the past.

 

[tapintoamerica]

The domino effect last year that led Cal from Kentucky to Arkansas probably happens every other year to an extent, if someone is enterprising enough to trace them all in the past.

Indeed.
The dominoes may be mitigated by the trend of hiring NBA guys. But it's still interesting.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

That should do it for Kyle Neptune, who will miss the NCAA Tournament for the third time in as many seasons. Took Jay Wright four years to get to the NCAAT, but that was a long time ago.

 

[Hot and Rickety]

The usual suspects are reporting that Fran McCaffery is out at Iowa. Couldn't have written a better script than McCaffery getting tossed as his final act as Hawkeyes coach.