Henry Chinaski
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Several posters have essentially been getting at the intersection of the Venn diagram of:
A. Jobs that are a tier or two above Wake and Clawson would jump at
B. Schools that would want to hire Clawson (as one of the tags points out, with his ACC win % of 32)
I don't think that overlap is terribly big.
Circle A, by conference, giving a slight lean toward midwestern schools because of Clawson's background and a slight lean against southern ones because of Wake's location:
ACC: Clemson, maybe FSU
Big 10: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin
Big 12: Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, West Virginia
Pac 12: Arizona, Cal, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington
SEC: Alabama, maybe Arkansas, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, LSU, maybe Missouri, Texas A&M
Circle B, looking at only teams in Circle A, with a slight lean away from western schools because Clawson has no history there:
ACC: maybe FSU
Big 10: Iowa, Michigan State, maybe Wisconsin
Big 12: Kansas State, Oklahoma State, West Virginia
Pac 12: maybe Arizona, maybe Washington
SEC: maybe Arkansas, maybe Missouri
So, out of those schools, who will be hiring?
ACC: FSU
Big 10: maybe Michigan State
Big 12: None
Pac 12: maybe Arizona
SEC: maybe Arkansas, maybe Missouri
If I were looking into a crystal ball, I would say Michigan State is the most likely to hire Clawson. The others seem like long shots.
Good post - he'll probably do the Grobe "parlay faint ark interest into a lifetime contract" move. i still think MSU is a real possibility - they are going to come up with graceful exit for D'antoni and then all bets are off. But up there i could see sexy "MAC coach of the day" looking better than Wake coach. No one at State U is gonna care that Dave runs a clean program or that his players graduate. That shit only matters here. Everywhere else it is all W and L.