UW-Green Bay head coaching search

[Da Coach]

Since the coaching search at UW-Green Bay has an affect on whether members of Brian Wardle's coaching staff come to work at Bradley, I though it deserved its own separate thread.

ESPN's Jeff Goodman is reporting that Wisconsin-Green Bay is considering Michigan State assistant Dane Fife and former SIU coach Chris Lowery as replacements for Brian Wardle-

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/582518577804275712

And CBSSports.com is reporting that Fordham has hired Eastern Kentucky's head coach jeff Neubauer

https://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS/status/582516277375270912

[basketball nut]

ESPN's Jeff Goodman is reporting that Wisconsin-Green Bay is considering Michigan State assistant Dane Fife and former SIU coach Chris Lowery as replacements for Brian Wardle-

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/582518577804275712

And CBSSports.com is reporting that Fordham has hired Eastern Kentucky's head coach jeff Neubauer
https://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS/s...16277375270912

That would be Ok w/ me so that way we would get Brian Barone as an asst coach here.

[LongTimeFan]

I wonder how Green Bay will respond to an ultimatum.

[Da Coach]

It usually doesn't help much, especially for an assistant coach. I suspect the AD will make her own decision independent of this. That leaves Barone to decide if he waits it out or joins Wardle at Bradley.

[tornado]

.... Kansas State assistant coach Chris Lowery ...

the very fact that Chris Lowery's name is getting mentioned as a candidate that is going to be interviewed at Green Bay....

http://wncy.com/news/articles/2015/mar/31/phoenix-candidates-emerge-for-gillespie/

is somewhat surprising...
Lowery was forced out at SIU just 3 years ago - and is blamed for sending the SIU program into oblivion and they've never recovered.
And yet - here we are just 3 years later and considered a candidate to return as a respectable midmajor-level head coach?
I am not sure why Green Bay would consider Lowery...

[tornado]

Former UWGB coach Dick Bennett and former star guard Tony Bennett have called UWGB athletic director Mary Ellen Gillespie to endorse Gary Grzesk for the job at Green Bay

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/sports/college/uwgb/2015/03/31/dick-tony-bennett-endorse-gary-grzesk-uwgb-job/70752506/

[Da Coach]

This article from the Green Bay Press Gazette also mentions just those 2 as candidates-

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/sports/college/uwgb/2015/03/28/bradley-offers-wardle-new-opportunities/70614000/

Gary Grzesk

T.J. Otzelberger is an assistant coach at the University of Washington for the past 2 seasons

T.J. Otzelberger is rejoining the Iowa State coaching staff as an assistant under Fred Hoiberg. So that would appear to take him out of the running for the UW-Green Bay head coaching job.

[LongTimeFan]

Possibly a few recruits to help fill out the roster for next year? If Warlde and Barone are both gone, will some of their recruits for this year follow? I hope this post is not considered tampering.

[Da Coach]

More names emerging for UWGB job

http://www.hoopdirt.com/blog/4d873b8c/wisconsin-green-bay-dirt/

[Da Coach]

One more new name emerged today for the UWGB job- Joe Wolf. He is originally from Kohler, Wisconsin, which is near Green Bay. He had a good college career at North Carolina (1983-87), played parts of 12 seasons in the NBA, and has been a coach in college, CBA, D-League, and the NBA for the last 11 years.

[Da Coach]

ESPN's Jeff Goodman reports 2 new names being considered for the Green Bay job-Xavier assistant Travis Steele and Michigan assistant Bacari Alexander

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/584757842558738432

[lefty]

seems like more and more names keep popping up??¦.makes me think GB won't hire Barone

[Da Coach]

Either that or the AD wants to give the appearance of being thorough.

[wily coyote]

seems like more and more names keep popping up??¦.makes me think GB won't hire Barone

I'm not saying Barone won't get hired but when a school opens the job up usually not a good sign for anyone on staff.

[Da Coach]

The UWGB AD in 2010, Ken Bothof conducted the Green Bay coaching search in 2010. It was done in a pretty similar, drawn-out way by identifying a number of candidates, interviewing them, cutting the list down to 5 finalists, doing more interviews, then in the end he rejected all the other applicants and selected Tod Kowalczyk's top assistant, Brian Wardle as head coach.
This article does say that current AD Mary Ellen Gillespie has said she is doing one thing different. She will not be announcing who the finalists are out of concern it might drive off some coaches who do not want their schools or fans to know they are seeking another job, though usually these things have a way of becoming public anyway.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/sports/college/uwgb/2015/03/30/uwgb-will-conduct-coaching-search-differently-time/70703284/

But by comparison, the 2010 UWGB coaching search lasted 16 days. Tod Kowalczyk was named head coach at Toledo and left UWGB on March 30, 2010, and Brian Wardle was announced by Ken Bothof on April 15. 2010.
This time, Wardle was named Bradley's head coach, and he left UWGB late on Friday, March 27. So we are now into the 10th day of the current UWGB search.