Jank's Name Comes up at Stanford, Wojcik, too

[tornado]

Here's an article naming several of the people whose names have been noted in the
search for a new head coach at Stanford.

Bob McKillop (Davidson) was asked and he declined
So was Georgia Tech's Paul Hewitt.

Tulsa's Doug Wojcik:
"Just finished his third season with the Golden Hurricane. Former assistant at North Carolina,
Notre Dame and Michigan State. Well thought of. Played and coached for Navy.
I heard he met with Bowlsby this weekend, which could mean something or nothing
— my guess is that Bowlsby has met/spoken with more than a dozen coaches."

Illinois State's Tim Jankovich:
"Was a Kansas assistant under Bill Self before taking over the Redbirds last spring.
Won 25 games in his first year.
He also worked at Vanderbilt, so he has a sense for the recruiting/admissions situation he’d face at Stanford.
My guess is that Bowlsby knows him, or knows of him, from his days at Iowa (when Jankovich was an Illinois assistant).
And Jankovich, who’s in his mid-40s, would certainly look like a Bowlsby head coach."
(gee, if the Pantagraph writer went bananas over Keno being hired after one good season
as a coach, he's have a heyday now!!)


Also mentioned are Siena's Fran McCafferty (a once time consideration for the BU job), and Steve Alford.
Jankovich's name mentioned for Stanford job

(ISU guys, you need to get on this one and give Jank a HUGE raise like Bill Self got, so he'll stay at ISU)

[Scouter]

(ISU guys, you need to get on this one and give Jank a HUGE raise like Bill Self got, so he'll stay at ISU)

I don't think it will really matter, considering he'll likely be gone in another year or two (if he doesn't get the Stanford job).

[basketball nut]

one year wonders continue to take the money and run and in the end a lot of the time cost a college lots of money and not much success (not saying this happens all the time but we all know it happens a lot-coach gets a lot on money and ends up coaching where?-as an asst or at some obscure college only because he had coached at a big name college.)

[brocks]

Didn't this Jank guy say something right after taking over ISU about this not really being a job where you can compete for national prominence . . . but it's a kinda nice job anyway?

I can't think of a worse idea than bringing that KU attitude to a Valley program. It's not that he isn't a decent coach; it's that he is the type that perpetuates the myth that any team not in the Big [fill in the blank] or [fill in name of ocean . . . ] Conference just isn't worth much.

If he leaves, good riddance. Rock choke Jayhawk.

[SFP]

Have any of you been to Stanford's campus? Heck if JL decided to head there with his family I wouldn't blame him. Palo Alto is a really nice town, great restaurants, a very rich alumni group (3rd largest endowment), the weather is great and it does not carry the huge pressure to win now unless it's CAL.

One draw back is the high standard for academics. Go figure a University having academic standards?

[Murph]

I hope he gets the job, ISU can then bring back Port......