New Coaching Carousel for 2018-19

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California is said to be hiring Mark Fox


Arkansas - Mike Anderson fired - OPEN
Alabama - Avery Johnson fired - Nate Oats HIRED
Appalachian State - Jim Fox fired - Dustin Kerns HIRED
Buffalo - Nate Oats left for Alabama - OPEN but they will promote assistant Bryan Hodgson
BYU - Dave Rose steps down - OPEN
Cal - Wyking Jones fired - Mark Fox to be HIRED
Cal Poly - Joe Callero fired - John Smith HIRED
Elon - Matt Matheny fired - OPEN
Fairfield - Sydney Johnson fired - OPEN
George Washington - Maurice Joseph fired - Jamion Christian HIRED
Georgia State - Ron Hunter left for Tulane - Travis Williams HIRED
Howard - Kevin Nickelberry steps down - OPEN
Idaho State - Bill Evans fired - OPEN
Kennesaw State - Al Skinner will step down - OPEN
Mercer - Bob Hoffman fired - Greg Gary to be HIRED
Mississippi Valley State - Andre Payne fired - OPEN
Montana State - Brian Fish fired - OPEN
Morgan State - Todd Bozeman fired - OPEN
Nebraska - Tim Miles fired - Fred Hoiberg HIRED
Niagara - Chris Casey fired - Pat Beilein HIRED
Ohio - Saul Phillips fired - Jeff Boals HIRED
Presbyterian - Dustin Kern left for Appalachian State - Pat Moynihan HIRED
St. Joseph's - Phil Martelli out - Billy Lange to be HIRED
San Francisco - Kyle Smith left for Washington State - Todd Golden to be HIRED
Siena - Jamion Christian leaves for George Washington - Carmen Maciariello HIRED
SIU - Barry Hinson gone -Bryan Mullins reportedly HIRED
SIUE - Jon Harris fired - Brian Barone to be HIRED
South Dakota State - TJ Oetzelberger left for UNLV - OPEN
Stetson - Corey Williams fired - Donnie Jones to be HIRED
Stony Brook - Jeff Boals left to take Ohio - Geno Ford HIRED
Temple - Fran Dunphy already announced would step down at end of 2018-19 - Aaron McKie will be HIRED
Tennessee Tech - Steve Payne FIRED - OPEN
Texas A&M - Billy Kennedy FIRED - OPEN
Troy - Phil Cunningham fired - Scott Cross HIRED
Tulane - Mike Dunleavy fired - Ron Hunter HIRED
UCLA - Steve Alford FIRED in December - Murry Bartow is Interim Coach
UMES - has an interim coach, Clifford Reed but they are 5-24 - pending
UMKC - Kareem Richardson fired - Billy Donlon HIRED
UNLV - Marvin Menzies fired - OPEN - TJ Oetzelberger to be HIRED
Vanderbilt - Bryce Drew fired - OPEN
Washington State - Ernie Kent fired - Kyle Smith reported to be HIRED
William & Mary - Tony Shaver fired - OPEN

42 jobs opened, 18 still remain open

[Da Coach]

Texas A&M is reportedly targeting current Virginia tech head coach Buzz Williams for their open head coaching job. They recently fired 8-year head coach Billy Kennedy.

Virginia Tech is paying Williams close to $3 million per year, and has a contract with him through 2023 which will increase to $3.3 million in the final year,
But Texas A&M has lots of money from their membership in the SEC and all their conference's success in BCS football, and will be able to pay more than Virginia Tech can afford.

The question is whether Buzz Williams wants to return to Texas A&M for the bigger money or is he happy at Virginia Tech?
Williams is a Texas native who has plenty of recruiting connections in Texas. He was also an assistant coach at Texas A&M under Billy Gillispie from 2004-2006.

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Hmmm ....if Texas A&M hires the Virginia Tech guy who came from Marquette
then will Virginia Tech hire the Marquette guy and then Marquette will go looking?

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with the Hoiberg hiring - only 18 open spots left - altho more could open after the Final Four


Arkansas - Mike Anderson fired - Bill Musselman expected to be HIRED
Alabama - Avery Johnson fired - Nate Oats HIRED
Appalachian State - Jim Fox fired - Dustin Kerns HIRED
Belmont - Rick Byrd steps down - OPEN
Buffalo - Nate Oats left for Alabama - OPEN
BYU - Dave Rose steps down - OPEN
Cal - Wyking Jones fired - Mark Fox to be HIRED
Cal Poly - Joe Callero fired - John Smith HIRED
Elon - Matt Matheny fired - OPEN
Fairfield - Sydney Johnson fired - OPEN
George Washington - Maurice Joseph fired - Jamion Christian HIRED
Georgia State - Ron Hunter left for Tulane - Travis Williams HIRED
Howard - Kevin Nickelberry steps down - OPEN
Idaho State - Bill Evans fired - OPEN
Kennesaw State - Al Skinner will step down - OPEN
Mercer - Bob Hoffman fired - Greg Gary to be HIRED
Mississippi Valley State - Andre Payne fired - OPEN
Montana State - Brian Fish fired - OPEN
Morgan State - Todd Bozeman fired - OPEN
Nebraska - Tim Miles fired - Fred Hoiberg HIRED
Nevada - Bill Musselman left for Arkansas - OPEN
Niagara - Chris Casey fired - Pat Beilein HIRED
Ohio - Saul Phillips fired - Jeff Boals HIRED
Presbyterian - Dustin Kern left for Appalachian State - Pat Moynihan HIRED
St. Joseph's - Phil Martelli out - Billy Lange to be HIRED
San Francisco - Kyle Smith left for Washington State - Todd Golden HIRED
Siena - Jamion Christian leaves for George Washington - Carmen Maciariello HIRED
SIU - Barry Hinson gone -Bryan Mullins reportedly HIRED
SIUE - Jon Harris fired - Brian Barone to be HIRED
South Dakota State - TJ Oetzelberger left for UNLV - OPEN
Stetson - Corey Williams fired - Donnie Jones HIRED
Stony Brook - Jeff Boals left to take Ohio - Geno Ford HIRED
Temple - Fran Dunphy already announced would step down at end of 2018-19 - Aaron McKie HIRED
Tennessee Tech - Steve Payne FIRED - OPEN
Texas A&M - Billy Kennedy FIRED - Buzz Williams to be HIRED
Troy - Phil Cunningham fired - Scott Cross HIRED
Tulane - Mike Dunleavy fired - Ron Hunter HIRED
UCLA - Steve Alford FIRED in December - Murry Bartow is Interim Coach
UMES - has an interim coach, Clifford Reed but they are 5-24 - pending
UMKC - Kareem Richardson fired - Billy Donlon HIRED
UNLV - Marvin Menzies fired - OPEN - TJ Oetzelberger HIRED
Vanderbilt - Bryce Drew fired - OPEN
Virginia Tech - Buzz Williams left for Texas A&M - OPEN
Washington State - Ernie Kent fired - Kyle Smith reported to be HIRED
William & Mary - Tony Shaver fired - Dane Fischer HIRED

45 jobs opened, 18 still remain open - only one (UCLA) is Power Conference

[patrick_o'brian]

Per Evan Daniels’ Twitter, Vandy is looking at former UNC Tar Heel, NBA All-Star, and current Grizzlies Assistant, Jerry Stackbouse as well as Hornets assistant and for Butler Bulldog 29 year old Ronald Nored.

[Da Coach]

Per Evan Daniels’ Twitter, Vandy is looking at former UNC Tar Heel, NBA All-Star, and current Grizzlies Assistant, Jerry Stackbouse as well as Hornets assistant and for Butler Bulldog 29 year old Ronald Nored.

This rumor is a bit surprising. Vanderbilt can afford to pursue and pay a big salary for a proven winner at the college level (both Bryce Drew and previous head coach Kevin Stallings were being paid around $2.5 million per year). But both those names mentioned (Jerry Stackhouse & Ronald Nored) have extremely limited coaching experience, and neither has ever been a head coach at the college level. Both would be bargains compared to what Vandy was paying Stallings and Drew.

Jerry Stackhouse's only head coaching experience was 2 seasons as the head coach of the Raptors 905 (2016-1, the G-League team of the Toronto Raptors. And he has no college coaching experience at any level.

Ronald Nored is a slightly familiar name to Bradley fans. When he was in high school in Alabama, he was recruited by Bradley coach Jim Les and was reported to have visited Bradley.
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...640#post131640

He committed to Western Kentucky, but then he de-committed after WKU head coach Darrin Horn left to take the head coaching job at South Carolina. Then there was an erroneous report from Rivals.com that he had committed to Bradley. But that was a mistake and he actually committed to Butler, who had gotten involved after he decommitted from WKU.
https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...nored#post8374

He had a pretty good playing career at Butler, then went into coaching immediately after his final season at Butler. He has limited head coaching experience having been head coach with the Long Island Nets (the G-League team of the Brooklyn Nets) for 2 seasons (2016-1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Nored

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Belmont's Rick Byrd announces he is retiring
He is currently 65 years old - has 805 career wins, 713 at Belmont where he's been for 33 years

[Da Coach]

Rick Byrd is the only head coach Belmont has ever had since joining Division I. Below is a link to his record, and other than his first few years while building the program, he has not had a losing season in the last 14 years. He has averaged 24 wins per season over the last 14 seasons. His teams made the NCAA Tournament 8 of those 14 years, won 11 regular season conference championships, and won 7 conference tournament championships in the A-Sun and OVC! He has had offers for better jobs and more pay, but has stayed loyal to Belmont.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/belmont/

BTW, it has been rumored that Byrd was one of the main reasons Belmont turned down offers to join the MVC in 2013 when Creighton left, and again in 2017 when Wichita State left. It might mean that if the MVC decides to expand again, they might be more likely to consider moving.

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There is talk among ISU fans that now Bryan Mullins is hired as head coach at SIU, he will hire Brendan Mullins, his brother
as one of his assistants -
Brendan Mullins is currently an assistant under Dan Muller at ISU - and before that was an assistant at UIC - LINK

indeed ISU does lose another assistant coach...
Brendan Mullins was serving under Dan Muller but now leaves to join his younger brother at SIU

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Jim Molinari has been named the Interim Head Coach at Nebraska ....

now that Fred Hoiberg is hired at Nebraska and Molinari is gone there
there's a couple people on the ISU board saying they want to hire Molinari for the open assistant spot on their coaching staff after Mullins left for SIU
I'd have to think Coach Mo would turn that offer down...

[Da Coach]

ISU, despite being perhaps the most athletic and most talented team last year was one of the worst defensive teams in the league last season. No doubt Mo would help them tremendously on defense.

[Da Coach]

According to ESPN college basketball writer Jeff Borzello, Georgia State is inviting 3 candidates in for interviews to replace former head coach Ron Hunter. -
https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1113065571661332482

Micah Shrewsberry- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Shrewsberry
Levelle Moton- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeVelle_Moton
Tony Barbee- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Barbee

[Da Coach]

Arkansas, who fired Mike Anderson a week ago, has called a press conference for this afternoon. It is assumed they will announce their new head coach. It was reported they were pursuing Kelvin Sampson, but he just signed a lucrative contract extension with Houston. So then they were reported to be after their 2nd choice, Eric Musselman.

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Musselman will want $3 mil per year there - not final but gotta think he'll take the $$.

remember they were a Top 10 team almost all season - got as high as #6 on a couple occasions,
they were unanimous pick to win the Mountain West and even said by some to likely go undefeated...
... but they underperformed compared to the hype -

They went 5-4 down the stretch when it mattered...
..losing in the 2nd round of their own conference tourney but got an NCAA at-large bid
and got a rather surprisingly low 7th seed considering they were #14 ranked the week before
Then lost their first round NCAA game to a lower seed

But Musselman followed the Fred Hoiberg school of recruiting and built Nevada mostly out of unhappy transfers from other schools...
...so don't expect him to stop now, he will probably go right after players on other teams' rosters who may think they're not getting the respect they deserve.
I wouldn't even be surprised if he picks off a couple kids from the MVC like he did at Nevada - LINK - LINK

[Wilbery]

They went 5-4 down the stretch when it mattered...
..losing in the 2nd round of their own conference tourney but got an NCAA at-large bid
and got a rather surprisingly low 7th seed considering they were #14 ranked the week before
Then lost their first round NCAA game to a lower seed

- LINK - LINK

Why did Nevada get an at-large? They were 1-1 in Q1 games and other teams were left out with higher rankings and more Q1 wins.