Coaching Carousel

[egib52]

You are right. They also lost a couple other key players in the last 2 or 3 years who would have really helped Valpo...
Javon Freeman-Liberty, who was a 1st team All-MVC player, and became DePaul's leading scorer and an All-Big East player.
Jacob Ognacevic, who transferred to Lipscomb, and became their best player. He averaged 11.2 ppg as a junior last year and shot 46% from three. And this year, he lead the team in scoring with 17.7 ppg, as well as being the leading scorer in 21 of their 33 games.

Well if we have an assistant opening happen anytime soon let's bring him in.

[Tommy]

Well if we have an assistant opening happen anytime soon let's bring him in.

That would be outstanding.

Speaking of past recruits he lost, that Sheldon Edwards guy was a stud. Never gave the ball up an freakishly athletic. I think he ended up with Loyola, which was really disappointing.

[basketball nut]

Dream dasher!

Sorry about that Tommy

[houstonbrave]

Not a change but Brian Barone gets an extension from SIUE through 2025-6.

[Da Coach]

Valparaiso fires Matt Lottich....
https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/st...7076982714369m

One of Matt Lottich's recruits at Valparaiso just asked to be released, since Lottich is no longer Valpo's head coach-

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/03/28/basketball-recruiting-logan-imes-zane-doughty-ask-for-release-from-letters-of-intent-notre-dame/70057119007/

Zane Doughty is a 6'9" forward at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis. He committed last July, and signed a NLI last November. But it is likley that Valpo will give him a release. At the time he committed last year, he was considered a bit of a "raw prospect", but he went on to have a terrific senior season and helped lead Ben Davis to a perfect 33-0 record and a 4A State Championship. He scored a game high 20 points and was the star of the game in their championship win over Kokomo HS, which was lead by former Bradley recruit Flory Bidunga, and 6'11" Michigan State commit Xavier Booker. Bidunga is now ranked as a 5-star recruit, and some websites rank him as the #1 overall recruit in the 2024 class. Xavier Booker.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2023-nfl-mock-draft-lamar-jackson-traded-to-colts-jordan-love-gets-wr-after-aaron-rodgers-trade/

Doughty played with Indiana Elite in the summer of 2021, and with Indy Heat in 2022.

And the other player mentioned in the top article was a former Bradley recruit Logan Imes of Zionsville HS in Indiana. He committed to Penn State when Micah Shrewsberry was the head coach. But now Shrewsberry left Penn State and took the Notre Dame job. It's possible that if Imes gets his release, he could swtich his commitment to Notre Dame or open his recruitment to other offers.
Could Bradley be interested in either of these two?

[Da Coach]

Big West member Cal State Northridge parts ways with Trent Johnson-

https://twitter.com/Tarek_Fattal/status/1641123427758243840

That makes 49 coaching changes in Division I so far. 32 have been filled, and 17 are still open

https://hoopdirt.com/2023-college-basketball-coaching-changes-tracker/

[Da Coach]

Update- VCU head coach Mike Rhoades has officially accepted the job at Penn State, and now Utah State's head coach Ryan Odom is reported to be the leading candidate to take the VCU job. If so, that will leave Utah State job open for now.

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1641125774139834369

[Da Coach]

Cal names Utah Valley coach Mark Madsen as their new head coach-
https://hoopdirt.com/madsen-named-he...-coach-at-cal/

Southern U. names Tulane assistant Kevin Johnson as their new head coach-
https://hoopdirt.com/southern-names-...ketball-coach/

South Florida hires Kennesaw State coach Amir Abdul-Rahim
https://twitter.com/USFAthletics/sta...83551415787520

Utah Valley and Kennesaw State now looking to fill their open coaching positions.

https://hoopdirt.com/2023-college-basketball-coaching-changes-tracker/

[Da Coach]

Temple hires associate head coach Adam Fisher as their new head coach-

https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1641191818825007104

[Da Coach]

Some names rumored at Valparaiso-
Brad Korn - SEMO head coach for 3 years- 44-51 overall record, 19-17 this past season, finished tied for 3rd and won OVC Tournament
Cuonzo Martin - currently unemployed, fired a year ago by Missouri
Todd Lickliter - currently unemployed, fired a year ago by Evansville

https://twitter.com/BruceinNJ/status/1641240725235826688

[Fetz86]

How Lickliter could be in the running for any head coaching job after his run at Evansville is beyond me.

[Da Coach]

Grant McCasland, who has been at North Texas for 6 seasons, is hired by Texas Tech. UNT just won 31 games and the NIT championship. And they also won 2 regular season CUSA titles, and one CUSA Tournament championship in the last 3 years under McCasland.
Assistant coach Ross Hodge will take over at North Texas.

https://twitter.com/austinmassey247/status/1641661350991613952

[braves16]

Word on the Valpo board is that Chris Lowery looks to be their next head coach.

[Da Coach]

Word on the Valpo board is that Chris Lowery looks to be their next head coach.

Chris Lowery is currently an assistant coach at Northwestern under Chris Collins. He is credited with helping to turn Northwestern into a Big Ten contender, and an NCAA team. He played at SIU, and is a native of Evansville, Indiana.

Prior to this season, he spent 10 seasons as an assistant under Bruce Weber at Kansas State. His first head coaching job was at Southern Illinois in 2004 when Bruce Weber left for Illinois and Matt Painter left for Purdue in successive years. He had 3 good seasons and NCAA bids in 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07 mainly with very good players he inherited from Weber and Painter. But then his fortunes changed. He never managed to recruit enough talent after the Weber/Painter players left, he ended up with 4 losing seasons in a row, and his coaching came under fire by fans. In his final 4 seasons, he averaged 19 losses per season. He was replaced by Barry Hinson in 2012, and they have never won any conference or tournament titles, nor gotten back to the NCAA in the 16 seasons since 2007.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb...-lowery-1.html

Many Valpo fans were hoping for Roger Powell, former Illinois star, and current assistant at Gonzaga. Powell's first coaching job was as an assistant coach at Valparaiso from 2011-2016 under Bryce Drew. He moved to Vanderbilt when they hire Drew away, and was his Associate Head Coach from 2016-19, then when Drew was fired by Vanderbilt, Powell was hired by Mark Few as an assistant.
Other names mentioned as possible finalists are De Andre Haynes, assistant coach at Marquette, JR Blount, assistant coach at Iowa State and former Loyola player, and Brad Korn, head coach at SEMO, and also a former assistant and player under Bruce Weber.

[Stryker]

Chris Lowery is currently an assistant coach at Northwestern under Chris Collins. He is credited with helping to turn Northwestern into a Big Ten contender, and an NCAA team. He played at SIU, and is a native of Evansville, Indiana.

Prior to this season, he spent 10 seasons as an assistant under Bruce Weber at Kansas State. His first head coaching job was at Southern Illinois in 2004 when Bruce Weber left for Illinois and Matt Painter left for Purdue in successive years. He had 3 good seasons and NCAA bids in 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07 mainly with very good players he inherited from Weber and Painter. But then his fortunes changed. He never managed to recruit enough talent after the Weber/Painter players left, he ended up with 4 losing seasons in a row, and his coaching came under fire by fans. In his final 4 seasons, he averaged 19 losses per season. He was replaced by Barry Hinson in 2012, and they have never won any conference or tournament titles, nor gotten back to the NCAA in the 16 seasons since 2007.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb...-lowery-1.html

Many Valpo fans were hoping for Roger Powell, former Illinois star, and current assistant at Gonzaga. Powell's first coaching job was as an assistant coach at Valparaiso from 2011-2016 under Bryce Drew. He moved to Vanderbilt when they hire Drew away, and was his Associate Head Coach from 2016-19, then when Drew was fired by Vanderbilt, Powell was hired by Mark Few as an assistant.
Other names mentioned as possible finalists are De Andre Haynes, assistant coach at Marquette, JR Blount, assistant coach at Iowa State and former Loyola player, and Brad Korn, head coach at SEMO, and also a former assistant and player under Bruce Weber.

I haven't followed Powell since the 04'-05' season at IL, but he was a favorite of mine. Definitely seemed like a character man that would do well in life. Seems he has so far. Would be an interesting coach in the MVC imo.