2024 College Basketball Coaching Carousel

[deacdixieboy]

Ole Miss has a relatively new 9500 seat coliseum, and Arkansas has a 30 year old arena that seats 20K, so you tell me !!?!?

Which one is on campus?

 

[DeacsATS]

sure but who is taking a job because of what nolan richardson did 30 years ago?

does arkansas have the higher profile and more money now?

they may, it's just not obvious to me that that is the case

Arkansas went to the Elite 8 2 years in a row ('21 & '22), the Sweet 16 ('23), then had a terrible season this year. But it has been a much better program than Ole Miss for a long time.

Ole Miss is pretty meh, aside from having Beard as the current coach.

 

[Deacfreak07]

Which one is on campus?

arkansas's arena is about twice as far from the center of campus than ole miss. (both less than a mile. The Joel is 1.6 miles from Wait Chapel FYI)

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

but do they have more money$$$$??

 

[Deacfreak07]

but do they have more money$$$$??

Hard to say with basketball specifically, but Arkansas definitely has a better financial position. They operated at a $1M surplus in FY23 and ole miss had an $8M loss. arkansas also spends about $12M more a year than ole miss, and this is after ole miss bumped up their spending by $50M the last couple years.

 

[Pilchard]

Arkansas has a far bigger following for basketball than Mississippi. Would assume that means more NIL resources.

Chris Beard will have coached 4 different power conference programs in 5 years. Would think that would be a record:

Texas Tech 2021
Texas 2022 and 2023
Ole Miss 2024
Arkansas 2025

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

wait it's already official?

 

[Pilchard]

Not official, but lots of smoke

 

[KennyRogersRoast]

The dream of an all former Texas head coach Final Four comes closer to reality. Is Tom Penders still alive?

 

[Frosty]

but do they have more money$$$$??

Ole Miss has that gboro personal injury money rolling in, so probably

 

[TheIshThatSaved WakeForest]

The Coach Cal to Arkansas rumors are so hot tonight

 

[warak]

Cal is not going anywhere, to the fan base displeasure. I think he has already confirmed back next year at Kentucky

 

[TheIshThatSaved WakeForest]

Cal is not going anywhere, to the fan base displeasure. I think he has already confirmed back next year at Kentucky

No, Kentucky announced they aren’t firing him. He could certainly leave on his own and make all parties happy. We’ll see if this is the same as the Grobe to Arkansas night, but it’s all over the local media tonight.

 

[BarcaDeac]

 

[TheIshThatSaved WakeForest]

Trilly now saying it’s happening

 

[BarcaDeac]

Well I guess that answers that about Arkansas money

 

[BarcaDeac]

 

[Deacfreak07]

I would assume uk would be amenable to negotiating down the buyout, right?

 

[PhDeac]

So who will Kentucky hire?

 

[TheIshThatSaved WakeForest]

Oats seems most mentioned so far. Underwood and Billy Donovan also thrown around tonight.