2025-26 College basketball coaching carousel

[swingline]

Fred Hoiberg says howdy.

 

[Chef2]

Fred Hoiberg says howdy.

At least Hoiberg got a chance to coach at home.
RMK still has the best line about Alford and his leadership……"Alford couldn't lead a wart into bed."

 

[wicked]

Roy also was at Kansas for 15 years and had been to some Final Fours before going back to UNC. Then there's Matt Doherty, who'd spent one year at Notre Dame before he returned.

 

[Batman]

LSU finished the first half on a 22-2 run against Florida — and still lost by 14.

 

[Neutral Corner]

The only thing he could do at Indiana was damage his legacy there. There really is very little to gain by "going home" for anyone except a young coach. Ol' Roy excepted.

When he was at FAU he would have taken the IU job in a heartbeat. Once he's settled in at Michigan, not so much.

 

[DanOregon]

I really wonder if Indiana is still a "basketball school" with the football success. Michigan will ALWAYS be a fb school. But the Knight era was a long time ago.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I really wonder if Indiana is still a "basketball school" with the football success. Michigan will ALWAYS be a fb school. But the Knight era was a long time ago.

IU will not be a football school because Indiana is not a football state.

 

[Twirling Time]

IU will not be a football school because Indiana is not a football state.

Kind of the flipside of Arkansas, which had its biggest basketball success while the football team was in the crapper in the 1990s (1 natty in 1994 and played for another in 1995).

As soon as Houston Nutt came in in 1998 and sparked the football team, the basketball team faded slowly to the back burner. As much as basketball advanced in the 90s, Arkansas is and always will be a football state first.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I wonder who the Calipari shocker of this cycle will be.

Bill Self? Should be secure enough in his legacy to just retire instead of moving somewhere else, but he's shockingly only 62.
Rick Pitino? He just said he's not taking another college job, which means his wife is looking at houses in Bloomington.
Kelvin Sampson? Is 69 (nice) and has done an incredible job turning Houston back into a power conference giant, but it just feels like that's a job where the F4 is the peak. Helluva peak of course but maybe Kansas throws insane money at him to see what he can do with a whole shirtton of good ol' boy money.

 

[Oz]

I wonder who the Calipari shocker of this cycle will be.

Bill Self? Should be secure enough in his legacy to just retire instead of moving somewhere else, but he's shockingly only 62.
Rick Pitino? He just said he's not taking another college job, which means his wife is looking at houses in Bloomington.
Kelvin Sampson? Is 69 (nice) and has done an incredible job turning Houston back into a power conference giant, but it just feels like that's a job where the F4 is the peak. Helluva peak of course but maybe Kansas throws insane money at him to see what he can do with a whole shirtton of good ol' boy money.

There were rumors back in 2020 that Self would succeed Popovich in San Antonio. Popovich isn't retuning this season. Uncertain future with the Spurs. Not saying, just saying.

 

[Della9250]

I wonder who the Calipari shocker of this cycle will be.

Bill Self? Should be secure enough in his legacy to just retire instead of moving somewhere else, but he's shockingly only 62.
Rick Pitino? He just said he's not taking another college job, which means his wife is looking at houses in Bloomington.
Kelvin Sampson? Is 69 (nice) and has done an incredible job turning Houston back into a power conference giant, but it just feels like that's a job where the F4 is the peak. Helluva peak of course but maybe Kansas throws insane money at him to see what he can do with a whole shirtton of good ol' boy money.

Self retiring is a shock because of his contract. He signed a rolling five-year, 53 million deal starting with 23-24 and there's a $5 million bonus if he gets through the first five years of it. Self retiring for not wanting to deal with the new way of basketball would not be shocking.

Pitino doing anything is not shocking

 

[dixiehack]

Pitino to Indiana would surprise me because he's a creature of New York and New England. Lexington may be small by cosmopolitan standards but it is still an actual city. Bloomington (pop. 79,168) would getting into Paris Hilton feeding the livestock territory for him.