2013 Coaching Carousel

[Da Coach]

Looks like the 2010 coaching change didn't work out for Siena.
This morning Siena announced that men's basketball head coach Mitch Buonaguro, who took over for Fran Caffery when he left to take the Iowa job, has been relieved of his duties.

Siena went 35-59 in Buonaguro's three years as head coach (2010-13). The Saints finished seventh in the MAAC in Buonaguro's first season (8-10), tied for sixth last year (8-10) and ninth (4-14) this season.

[tornado]

Siena freshman Brett Bisping is from Morton, IL and his sister Brooke is on the Bradley women's team

[Da Coach]

Another opening-
San Jose State just announced they have fired Head Coach George Nessman

http://www.mercurynews.com/sjsu-spartans/ci_22781045/san-jose-state-fires-basketball-coach-george-nessman

Yesterday, UMKC announced officially that they had fired Head Coach Matt Brown-

http://fox4kc.com/2013/03/12/umkc-fires-head-basketball-coach/

[tornado]

A little bit of coaching carousel trivia...

Name a coach who has WON the Missouri Valley Coach of the YEAR and who currently coaches in the TOP major conference in the nation,
and has WON that conference's Coach of the Year THREE out of the past five years...and has even
been a finalist in National Coach of the Year voting...

...but who finished this season under .500 and even has a few people talking about whether he should be on the hot seat???

Mouse over...
Matt Painter - and no, he's not in any risk of being fired...

[alczervik75]

A little bit of coaching carousel trivia...

Name a coach who has WON the Missouri Valley Coach of the YEAR and who currently coaches in the TOP major conference in the nation,
and has WON that conference's Coach of the Year THREE out of the past five years...and has even
been a finalist in National Coach of the Year voting...

...but who finished this season under .500 and even has a few people talking about whether he should be on the hot seat???

Mouse over...
Matt Painter - and no, he's not in any risk of being fired...

Matt Painter is pretty safe, imo.

[BUBalum05]

Reports on twitter from Jeff Goodman at CBSSports that Mark Phelps is out at Drake.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/21877585/sources-drake-fires-mark-phelps

[tornado]

They have called a press conference for 3:30PM - so I guess that's it for mark Phelps

Hmmm...I take it they're not going to try to get into the CIT or CBI??
Maybe they're looking for Jim Molinari's phone number?


BTW - Marist fires their head coach Chuck Martin
and Anthony Peeler says he wants the UMKC job - I don't believe he has any head coaching or DI coaching experience

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/13/4118794/peeler-interested-in-umkc.html

[Da Coach]

It's official now Drake has fired Mark Phelps.

[Da Coach]

Ball State just fired Billy Taylor after 6 seasons.

[Da Coach]

The Des Moines Register posted this list of potential candidates for the Drake job-

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130314/SPORTS0204/130314034/List-of-potential-candidates-to-become-Drake-basketball-coach?Frontpage&nclick_check=1

Some interesting names, and some real longshots, IMO, including one with no connection to college coaching.

[tornado]

one of the names I saw mentioned, believe it or not, is this guy - a current UC-Davis assistant who was a previous Drake guy... and has more than 25 years of D-I coaching experience, vast recruiting connections in the midwest and west...
Chris Davis - who was an assistant under Dr. Tom Davis & Keno Davis - also an ex-Kent State asst. - and who was lead recruiter who landed almost all the guys who gave Drake the really good 2008 team...

[tornado]

Here's an interesting column from the Des Moines Register - where they interview and post the comments of a bunch of season ticket holders who, as if they are experts and coulda done better, take swipes at Phelps.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130314/SPORTS0204/130314041/Mark-Emmert-Phelps-record-didn-t-match-his-Drake-teams-talent?Sports

Head coach at Troy steps down

http://www.troytrojans.com/news/2013/3/10/MBB_0310130449.aspx?path=mbball

[Da Coach]

Buffalo just fired their head coach Reggie Witherspoon.

[tornado]

Well - here's a novel idea - just gets some wealthy fans and take out a FRONT PAGE ad calling for the coach's firing

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/03/fans-apply-press-demonizing-wakes-coach

Texas Tech just fired everyone -- so this is still fallout from the Bob Knight debacle..
As heralded as Bobby Knight seems to be - gotta remember he sent two different top programs (Indiana & Texas Tech) into multi-year funks that took them to the absolute bottom

[Da Coach]

Another coach loses job-
Ryan marks fired by Texas-Pan Am after improving the program and winning 16 games this year.
He recruited a lot in the Chicago area, and one of his 2013 recruits, Alex Majewski, was followed by Bradley.