2023 College Basketball coaching carousel
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My alma mater Bucknell is looking. The program (and the Patriot League overall) has been on the decline lately. Transfer portal completely changes the math (negatively, so far) for schools in that tier. Hope a good choice can turn the ship a bit. We have some former player candidates, but I’m intrigued by Bill Murray (yes, that one)’s kid Luke (UConn assistant) who looks to be building to a head coaching opportunity.
Who are the Notre Dame candidates? They just lost former 5-star recruit JJ Starling to the protocol, admission standards are a giant pain in the ass, and they are now down to 5 scholarship players. Yikes!
Conventional wisdom was that ND's preferred candidate wouldn't be known until after the first weekend of the tournament because he would be coaching a team in the tournament. However, now that Monday has arrived and tournament coaches Pitino and Cooley have been reported to accepted new jobs, the speculation is that Porter Moser is the top target because his buyout decreases dramatically on April 1. It could also be Mitch Henderson because his team is still in it, but that seems to be speculative based on Indiana birthplace. I haven't seen his name much from local reporters.
Georgetown nabs Ed Cooley, from Providence, as its next head coach. Lots of noise here in central PA it would have been Shrewsbury.
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BREAKING: Ed Cooley has accepted the Georgetown job and is leaving Providence, source tells CBS Sports.
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BREAKING: Ed Cooley has accepted the Georgetown job and is leaving Providence, source tells CBS Sports.
The Big East is interesting as hell again. Three teams in n the Sweet 16, UConn starting to return back to form, Pitino back, and now a big Providence vs Georgetown rivalry now that Cooley has left the Friars to stay in conference.
Great collection of coaches and storylines in the years to come.
Great collection of coaches and storylines in the years to come.
Tobin Anderson is leaving FDU for Iona per John Fanta of Fox and others. Great hire for them. Plays a similar style that Pitino did so that will fit well.
I love that this dude leveled up like 86 hours after his team beat Perdue and less than 48 hours after his team lost. College coaches, man ...
That’s the ultimate “strike while the iron’s hot” move. Let’s not forget, his team didn’t even win the NEC Championship and then pulled the big upset. Like hitting the lottery.
He may not even have to move (20-22 miles distance between the schools) but that seems like a lateral move. Maybe he should have waited for a bigger program?
Not sure if you know much about FDU, but literally any move he had made would have been to a bigger program. He totally turned around FDU but their final NET rating was 301st. FDU also has next to no resources. Their head of media relations is a student. Going to Iona is a huge step up in terms of conference affiliation, financial resources, and tradition.
He was a finalist for the Iona job before they hired Pitino, so it's not like he needed this win on his resume to get the job. For the most part, college ADs are not dumb enough to throw money at coaches who win the small sample size lottery of March. Recent exceptions include USC hiring the FGCU guy after their sweet sixteen run (lol). With FDU's resources, finishing outside the bottom 50 and winning in Dayton are just as important as taking down Purdue.
A week ago sure. But they’re going to get some now (spring/summer) I think
They have to have at least one rich alum and they have to have sold some T-shirts and stuff.
edit Peggy Noonan went there and some Billionaire Zygi Wilf. Maybe he wants his name on a new athletic center or something
Edit 2: John Legere too
PS are they going after Seth Greenberg? That would be awesome
(Maybe not for him, his current job is just fine)
The star will fade and FDU will still be FDU just like St. Peter's is still St. Peter's. FDU is in a horrible conference with inadequate funding from the university.
I mean what is he supppsed to do? This is hiring season. It’s when positions are filled.
Many of these things are already lined up ahead of time and not announced.
Oklahoma's performance declined this season, which had to sink Moser's chances. The win over Alabama was huge, but the Sooners never captured that momentum. Moser's recruiting has been ok, pulling multiple 4-star top-100 high schoolers and 4-star transfer each year, but no one who has broken out. Moser has worked well with strong academic standards and in a Catholic institution; he also invests a lot in building program culture and student support for the team. But can you really trust him to rebuild ND after seeing OU struggle?
Moser needs a big step up next season to keep his job. But if Valentine continues to struggle here at Loyola, everyone knows he'd be welcomed home again in a heartbeat. (BTW, Loyola just started up its first NIL collective after getting our assess kicked in the A10.)
You can’t be serious, right? Providence has been a stepping stone to better jobs for successful coaches since Gavitt. Cooley gave us 12 years……probably 7-8 more than we deserved.
Ah gotcha. Yeah I don’t disagree with the last sentence kinda a slap in the face. Hey it will make for a great rivalry anyway.
PC tried to get Pitino when he was with Louisville and they were in the Big East.
What was the timeframe on that? Perhaps Louisville was looking to get Rick out of town at that point and PC provided a win-win in that regard.
It was when they hired Cooley, in 2011. Pitino arrived at Louisville in 2001, they were in the Big East through 2013 (when they won the National Championship), and left after 2017.