2025-26 College basketball coaching carousel

[Twirling Time]

One thing's pretty sure with Texas: You're not going to have to wait long. Delete, search and replace are pretty much simultaneous procedures.

Or in some cases, it's hire, fire, and keep paying off your next-to-last coach.

 

[SixToe]

Larry Vickers hired to coach the Auburn women, leaving Norfolk State.

I'm told Sam Purcell had agreed and would take most-all-many of his Mississippi State staff and players. Then he backed out because Auburn wouldn't commit enough NIL money for the women's program.

 

[Bubbler]

The Drake takeover of the Big Ten is upon us. (Medved coached at Drake before DeVries and McCollum.)

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Somewhere, Keno Davis is thinking, "What the absolute fork?"

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Am I recalling correctly that Drake used to be considered the toughest job in the Valley b/c of the school's academics? Or am I misremembering?

 

[HanSenSE]

Nowhere to go but up at this gig.

San José State Makes Coaching Change in Women’s Basketball

sjsuspartans.com

 

[tapintoamerica]

Nowhere to go but up at this gig.

San José State Makes Coaching Change in Women’s Basketball

sjsuspartans.com

Wow. Not even the obligatory "We thank coach xxx for all her hard work on behalf of our program. We wish her well."

 

[dixiehack]

Wow. Not even the obligatory "We thank coach xxx for all her hard work on behalf of our program. We wish her well."

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

All indications were that UNLV was closing in on hiring Arkansas State's Bryan Hodgson, who previously had been Nate Oats' chief recruiter at Alabama and Buffalo. Instead, he's USF-bound. Fascinating hire at a place that has historically been a hoops graveyard, but where the late Amir Abdur-Rahim showed that one can win quickly and generate significant support and buzz in a large market; the program was attracting sellouts by February of his only season.

Considering that Abdur-Rahim was hired from the A-Sun and Hodgson is coming from the Sun Belt, it seems USF was able to pull from a higher tier than in its last search, which probably reflects how the perception of the job was elevated in just one year. UNLV not being a part of the MWC group headed to the PAC-12 also has to be a factor.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Every day that passes without a Villanova hiring announcement suggests that Kevin Willard is headed there. And who's gonna hire his replacement? Seldom has a Sweet 16 team been in such an odd situation.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

The Drake takeover of the Big Ten is upon us. (Medved coached at Drake before DeVries and McCollum.)

Somewhere, Keno Davis is thinking, "What the absolute fork?"

Keno Davis is the coach of Flint United in The Basketball League

 

[Retired_Scribe]

Every day that passes without a Villanova hiring announcement suggests that Kevin Willard is headed there. And who's gonna hire his replacement? Seldom has a Sweet 16 team been in such an odd situation.

Makes one root for The Crab Five to make it to the Final Four. Always root for chaos. Always.