Jeff Goodman is reporting that Cal is negotiating a deal with former GA coach Mark Fox. Curious move if accurate. Fox coached UGA for 9 years. Made two NCAA tournaments. Never won a NCAA tourney game. In his 9 years in Athens, UGA had a single season with a rating better than #60. Seems like there would better candidates for that job. Money may be an issue for Cal.
PAC-12 is barely a power conference at this point and the Cal job ain't that great.
Apparently so. Have heard that the revenue that the Pac-12 receives from its media deals is far below the SEC, Big 10, ACC and Big 12. It appears that is having a lasting impact in football and basketball competitiveness.
Wojo's Marquette teams have been mostly okay. How many ncaa tournament games has he won? One? Two? If Duke is insistent on a K disciple getting the job, I would put Wojo behind Collins, Capel, Dawkins and Amaker.
The American is a mix of retreads like Dawkins, Gregory, and Haith, a few up and comers, and two pro alums in Penny and McKie. Hard to say UCF or any other AAC job is a good stepping stone.
I think it is actually a pretty impressive list of coaches, given that it is not exactly a power conference.
What's wrong with being a woman?
Yeah. It's a way station for coaches who had limited success in the bigs. But you can't imagine many of those coaches becoming a consistent winner at a P6 school either because they're alums and probably won't want to leave, they're old and not likely to get a P6 job if they want one, and most importantly, if you can win at UConn, Cincy, and some of the others, you don't need to leave to be a Final Four contender.
For those reasons, it's not really a league where P6 teams are going to get a coach except maybe the second tier programs.