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2018 College Basketball Coaching Carousel

His resume is too good for us to hire him. Need to continue to go after those below average coaches with lousy track records.
 
9 20 win seasons and only 2 NCAAs tells you a lot about the quality of the SEC and their scheduling over the years.

Kennedy turns 50 in March, so he's too old anyway.
 
9 20 win seasons and only 2 NCAAs tells you a lot about the quality of the SEC and their scheduling over the years.

Kennedy turns 50 in March, so he's too old anyway.

For Wellman, he's too young, shows emotions on the sidelines, and has had too much success to be considered here
 
Odom and Gaudio both had better resumes than that.
 
Kennedy is a mediocre coach and a miserable human being. I can't believe it has taken ole miss this long to fire him.
 
Yeah, he seems to come from the Kevin Stallings / Mike Lonergan camp where you go probably a little too far in challenging your players... Blurring the line on verbal abuse.
 
Who are the cast of characters in line for the Ole Miss job? Dan Hurley from Rhode Island?
 
From the local paper in Jackson, MS:

- Kermit Davis MTSU (1st place in C-USA 20-5)
- Danny Hurley URI (1st place in the A-10 21-3)
- Eric Mussleman Nevada (1st place in the Mountain West 22-5)
- Darris Nichols Florida Assistant (Mike White's top assistant at UF and La Tech)
- Jon Scheyer (see below)
- Earl Grant College of Charleston (1st place in the CAA 20-6; was the top assistant under Gregg Marshall at Wichita State and Winthrop)
- Joe Dooley FGCU (1st place in the Atlantic Sun 20-8; an assistant under Bill Self at KS)
- Steve Forbes ETSU (1st place in the SoCon, 22-5; a game and half ahead in the SoCon standing of the greatest coach in the history of college basketball)

Other names that have been thrown around are Penny Hardaway (yes that Penny Hardaway - he is currently coaching HS basketball in Memphis - a big recruiting area for Ole Miss) and Steve Prohm, Iowa State head coach, who has ties to SEC and the deep South.

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From the local paper in Jackson, MS:

- Kermit Davis MTSU (1st place in C-USA 20-5)
- Danny Hurley URI (1st place in the A-10 21-3)
- Eric Mussleman Nevada (1st place in the Mountain West 22-5)
- Darris Nichols Florida Assistant (Mike White's top assistant at UF and La Tech)
- Jon Scheyer (see below)
- Earl Grant College of Charleston (1st place in the CAA 20-6; was the top assistant under Gregg Marshall at Wichita State and Winthrop)
- Joe Dooley FGCU (1st place in the Atlantic Sun 20-8; an assistant under Bill Self at KS)
- Steve Forbes ETSU (1st place in the SoCon, 22-5; a game and half ahead in the SoCon standing of the greatest coach in the history of college basketball)

Other names that have been thrown around are Penny Hardaway (yes that Penny Hardaway - he is currently coaching HS basketball in Memphis - a big recruiting area for Ole Miss) and Steve Prohm, Iowa State head coach, who has ties to SEC and the deep South.

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Any list that doesn't include the two time SoCon coach of the year, Wes Miller, is total bullshit.
 
Have to assume that Tom Crean's name will be thrown around a ton as jobs start to open up. Have to think Pitt, Georgia, and UConn could be available in a month or two.
 
Wow, I hadn't realized how bad UConn is this year.
 
Have to assume that Tom Crean's name will be thrown around a ton as jobs start to open up. Have to think Pitt, Georgia, and UConn could be available in a month or two.

UCONN is an interesting case. The program appears to be in a death spiral (right now UCONN is behind the likes of Oakland, Fort Wayne and Jacksonville State at #171) and they sit in the bottom half of the American Athletic Conference (and also missed the post-season last year); that said, Kevin Ollie won the Natty in 2014, and he coached an NCAA tourney team that advanced a round in 2016. Conference re-alignment destroyed that program.
 
Then what is a new coach going to do?

They still have Cincy and they did bring in Wichita State.
 
UCONN is an interesting case. The program appears to be in a death spiral (right now UCONN is behind the likes of Oakland, Fort Wayne and Jacksonville State at #171) and they sit in the bottom half of the American Athletic Conference (and also missed the post-season last year); that said, Kevin Ollie won the Natty in 2014, and he coached an NCAA tourney team that advanced a round in 2016. Conference re-alignment destroyed that program.

Was it conference re-alignment or Kevin Ollie that destroyed the program? Impossible to tell, but the national championship team was recruited by Calhoun.
 
Was it conference re-alignment or Kevin Ollie that destroyed the program? Impossible to tell, but the national championship team was recruited by Calhoun.

True, but going back to a common debate on this thread is it talent or coaching that is most important and leads to on the court success?

Also, going back to the 2014 UCONN roster that won it all (on that road to the Natty, UCONN beat very talented Villanova, Michigan State, Florida and Kentucky teams and check out the coaches that Ollie beat in a row to take the title: Jay Wright, Fred Hoiberg, Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan and Jon Calapari - no flukes in that win streak), it's not like that 2014 UCONN team was loaded with future NBA talent. Shabazz Napier has been a fringe NBA player for the last 3 years, and there's not another player on the 2014 UCONN roster that has sniffed the NBA. Unless coaching is complete luck, Ollie had to have some kind of clue to get to the top of college basketball 4 years ago. Maybe, he isn't willing to put in the time to recruit since then, but Ollie knew what he was doing in 2014.
 
Agreed, Pilch. He did something right in that run.
 
UCONN is an interesting case. The program appears to be in a death spiral (right now UCONN is behind the likes of Oakland, Fort Wayne and Jacksonville State at #171) and they sit in the bottom half of the American Athletic Conference (and also missed the post-season last year); that said, Kevin Ollie won the Natty in 2014, and he coached an NCAA tourney team that advanced a round in 2016. Conference re-alignment destroyed that program.

The best result of conference re-alignment.
 
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