New Coaching Carousel for 2018-19

[tornado]

I guess expectations are way high some places
This Tennessee women's head coach made the NCAA Tourney all seven years she was the head coach, and yet she was fired- https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/sta...74067753005058

[egib52]

I guess expectations are way high some places
This Tennessee women's head coach made the NCAA Tourney all seven years she was the head coach, and yet she was fired- https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/sta...74067753005058

Always tough to replace a legend.

[Da Coach]

Alabama has just hired Buffalo's head coach Nate Oats.
Buffalo now joins the list of coaching vacancies.


Btw, Nate Oats just signed a lucrative 5-year conract extension just a couple weeks ago to stay at Buffalo
https://www.ubbullrun.com/2018/3/8/1...year-extension

[tornado]

but he can coach so I gotta think Alabama found a little money falling out of some football lockers and offered him $3.5 million

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 - OPEN
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 - 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 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, 20 still remain open

[Da Coach]

One more bit of coaching news-
Stetson is planning to hire Donnie Jones, who is currently an assistant at Dayton, and formerly was an assistant at Wichita State. He was also the former head coach at Central Florida from 2010-2016.
He has been accused of some sleazy recruiting violations when he was head coach at UCF.-
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...429-story.html
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/lo...uiting-scandal

[tornado]

Donnie Jones also seems to be hiding something on the Fred Van Vleet payoff scandal at Wichita State

https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article201819574.html

[Da Coach]

Georgia State promotes assistant coach Travis Williams to Interim Head Coach.
And as noted above- Washington State hires San Francisco's Kyle Smith as their new head coach, and UNLV hired South Dakota State's T.J. Otzelberger

[Da Coach]

... UNLV hired South Dakota State's T.J. Otzelberger

South Dakota State takes only a few hours to hire their new head coach. They promote 3-year assistant coach Eric Henderson to fill their open head coaching position.

https://hoopdirt.com/south-dakota-state-moves-quickly-names-henderson-head-basketball-coach/

Interesting....We know now that the coaching search in 2011 dragged on and on because of ineptitude, and meddling by the President, as well as multiple candidates turning down Bradley's offers. However, we were told it was because they needed to do a thorough coaching search, and that they were required by the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to post notices advertising the open position for 2 weeks and to consider minority candidates. Yet we've seen numerous cases where schools complete their hiring within a day or two. Just another example of dishonesty from that group.

[Da Coach]

Cal Poly has scheduled a press conference tomorrow afternoon. It is suspected that they will name John Smith as their new head coach-

https://hoopdirt.com/cal-poly-schedules-4pm-presser-for-thursday-expected-to-name-smith-as-head-basketball-coach/

John Smith has spent the last 6 seasons as the associate head coach at Cal State Fullerton. Prior to that, he went 96-87 (.693) in nine seasons as the head coach at Riverside City College (CA).

http://www.fullertontitans.com/sports/m-baskbl/coaches/Smith_John?view=bio

[Da Coach]

Howard University head coach Kevin Nickelberry resigns.

https://hoopdirt.com/official-nickelberry-resigns-as-head-basketball-coach-at-howard/

[Da Coach]

A couple new hires-

Former Bradley assistant, and son of legendary Michigan head coach John Beilein, Patrick Beilein was hired by Niagara to be their next head coach.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/26379343/beilein-son-hired-new-coach-niagara

And St. Joseph's will hire Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Billy Lange as their new head coach.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/26379238/st-joe-hire-76ers-lange-coach

[64NIT]

No mention in the ESPN article that Beilein was an assistant at Bradley.

[Da Coach]

Appalachian State to hire Presbyterian head coach Dustin Kerns

[Da Coach]

One other coaching hire- Former Bradley player and assistant coach under Jim Molinari, Duane Broussard was an assistant under Steve Alford at New Mexico, and more recently at UCLA. He lost his job earlier this past season when UCLA fired Alford.
Broussard was just hired as an assistant coach under Jamie Dixon at Texas Christian University.

[Da Coach]

Jim Molinari has been named the Interim Head Coach at Nebraska after the firing on Tuesday (March 26) of Head Coach Tim Miles while they pursue a coaching search.