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But who says those are the only options to select a coach from? Neither option is appealing to me - coaches in their late 30s to early 50s who have proven to be able to build a program are the types of coaches that we should be looking at. Juwan Howard is a huge outlier when it comes to coaches...

A new name that hasn't been mentioned that I would have some interest in - Joe Golding from Abilene Christian. This is my first time getting a chance to watch them play, and they are absolutely ferocious defensively. Top turnover forcing team in the country this season, was 2nd best in that...

Pitino was really good at recruiting transfers. Of the five players that started the most games this season, 4 of them were transfers, and more often than not they were players that were expected to be around for multiple years. I think the short timeline of recruiting that occurs with transfers...

I'm a Gopher season ticket holder, so I can speak to what happened to him. One big issue he ran into was local recruiting. He relied more heavily on his assistants to do the day-to-day recruiting and probably wasn't seen around town as much as a head coach should. But what probably turned the...

No I expect him to be back for another year. Since there is basically no such thing as a Miami basketball insider, the only reference I've seen to the status of the Miami job was from Matt Norlander at CBS a couple days back, where this was said:

I'd be surprised if he didn't get one this year. His name has been very heavily connected to BC, Minnesota, and Penn State. I'd prefer to see one more year from him to get some more experience, but I really like his future. I watched Cleveland State throughout the Horizon tournament. You can...

No they were head coaching positions. I can't speak to what level of D1 school offered him since I don't know what programs. He did say that there was one job he planned on accepting but changed his mind on - I assumed that this job would have been a High Major job or a higher quality Mid-Major...

He's been offered D1 jobs in the past and turned them down, though not sure what schools they are. He's someone very highly thought of by top coaches as a defensive guru - people like Jay Wright and John Beilein have flown up to Canada just to learn from him. This article details more on him...

@Consigliere I see it as very unlikely that he becomes a candidate for multiple reasons, but thinking outside the box, I'm curious to how you would feel about Dave Smart as a candidate. Some background on Smart: - Coached at Carleton University in Canada from 1999-2019, and is now the...

It's fertile, but there are a lot more programs in the area that will be fighting for those recruits, and Rutgers isn't at the top of that food chain. Programs like UConn and Syracuse would still get top billing, and then you have programs such as Seton Hall, Providence, Georgetown, Maryland...

Didn't realize that there was a set and fast rule that it had to be within 10 years. Cuonzo failed to make it to the NCAAT in 3 seasons at Missouri St., but has made it to the NCAAT in each of his stops at Tennessee, Cal, and Missouri. I'm sure as **** not going to be pounding down the door...

You are right, there really aren't any examples of this. The two closest I could come up with were Will Brown at Albany (who made the tournament in back-to-back seasons with 9-7 records), but he did follow those two seasons with a 15-1 season where he once again won the title. Eddie Biedenbach...

Meanwhile, I think you are making the assumption that just because the coach of Team A failed in this one conference tournament, that means he is destined to repeat failure in the future, and/or he hadn't had any success prior to the year in question that did involve winning a conference...

Obviously Team B goes, but that doesn't mean that the coach of Team B developed a better team than the coach of Team A did. How many times a coach made the tournament at his prior stop matters next-to-nothing by the team he gets to Miami. What matters is what kind of roster you build and how...

I get that, especially in the ACC, the conference tournament has historically meant more than the regular season title. And for leagues like the Horizon, it ends up mattering more for NCAA Tournament purposes. But if I'm evaluating a coach, I'd glean more from a coach who has a team who has had...

I don't disagree with any of this (though Gates could at least check off your first box today, as a win or a Wright St. loss today will get them a share of the conference title). I like Nagy, too, and I do think he is currently the top coach in the league. He did take over a much better...

I think it would be a little early in his career for an ACC job, but one coach I have my eye on is Dennis Gates at Cleveland State. Was an assistant under Hamilton at FSU for years, so has ACC experience (and Florida connections). At Cleveland State, he came in to a situation that was an...