2016-17 Coaching Carousel

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we have the first head coaching change of the new season...
SMU's head coach Larry Brown is stepping down and assistant coach Tim Jankovich will take over.

Reportedly Brown wanted to extend his contract and SMU didn't - so he negotiated a buyout.

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How many times has Larry Brown been caught cheating by NCAA?

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interesting point..
UCLA vacated NCAA wins 1989- ineligible players & gobs of impermissible benefits, & letting agents & big money runners have access to his players
Kansas nailed for recruiting violations under Brown - banned from NCAA Tournament
SMU just got nailed for academic fraud under Brown - violations serious enough that he should have been canned & banned yet he got extended!

Surprising that with such a track record of repeated serious violations that ended in sanctions, vacated NCAA wins, post-season bans, suspensions, etc...
that Larry Brown continues to be held in such high regard.
Some programs get penalized just as severe for simply reversing the charges on a phone call to a recruit or an inadvertent overpay for summer job...

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Larry Brown had serious NCAA violations at KU, UCLA but still got hired at SMU then it blew up in their faces as he had more serious violations there...

Kelvin Sampson had serious NCAA violations at OU but still got hired at IU then it blew up in their faces as he had more serious violations there...

Bruce Pearl had NCAA recruiting violations at UW-M but still got hired at UT then it blew up in their faces as he had more serious violations there...

Frank Haith had serious NCAA violations at Miami but still got hired at Mizzou then it blew up in their faces as he had more serious violations there...

and on and on it goes....

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Chicago State head basketball coach Tracy Dildy also named Athletic Director (interim)

https://twitter.com/SpeaksBball/status/756504721116925952

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Unconfirmed, but now there's rumors of USF buying out head coach Orlando Antigua to get the NCAA off their backs on this investigation
If it happens, it'll be an unusual start to the 2016-17 season with two coaching changes even by end of July!!!!


SMU - Larry Brown steps down - Tim Jankovich hired
USF (South Florida - unconfirmed) - Orlando Antigua being bought out in the face of NCAA investigations - names being mentioned already John Pelphrey, Mike Davis, Anthony Grant

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also talk of George Washington's Mike Lonergan gonna be gone soon in light of a lot of negative press and allegations.

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ISU hires a new assistant coach Darshawn McClellan - was the assistant in Player Development at Vanderbilt and played at Vandy

https://twitter.com/DJMcClellan21

http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/darshawn_mcclellan_304367.html

[Da Coach]

A surprising coaching change- George Washington University just reportedly fired their head coach Mike Lonergan

[Da Coach]

USA Today now reporting the firing of Mike Lonergan at George Washington U-

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/atlantic10/2016/09/16/mike-lonergan-fired-george-washington-colonials/90541820/

Lonergan has been under investigaton at GWU for verbal abuse claims.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2016/07/21/george-washington-basketball-players-report-verbal-emotional-abuse-mike-lonergan/87384568/

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also talk of George Washington's Mike Lonergan gonna be gone soon ......

so, well before the season starts we got the carousel running...



George Washington - Mike Lonergan fired
SMU - Larry Brown steps down - Tim Jankovich hired

[tornado]

we have the first head coaching change of the new season...
SMU's head coach Larry Brown is stepping down and assistant coach Tim Jankovich will take over.....

SMU's Larry Brown looking to take a high school coaching job?

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/larry-brown-interested-in-east-hampton-high-school-coaching-job-says-ad-1.12343663

[Da Coach]

USA Today now reporting the firing of Mike Lonergan at George Washington U.-

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/atlantic10/2016/09/16/mike-lonergan-fired-george-washington-colonials/90541820/

GWU names assistant Maurice Joseph as Interim Head Coach

http://www.gwsports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/092716aaa.html

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Loyola named Joe Crisman to their basketball coaching staff as their Director of Basketball Operations
Crisman, from Munster, IN if a former Loyola Rambler and Illinois Wolves guard who graduated 2015.

http://www.loyolaramblers.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/092316aaa.html

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St. John's interviewed the Green Bay AD yesterday, who has been the Green Bay AD since 2013 & who Brian Wardle helped "put on the map"!
St. John's is expected to name their hire for new AD soon...