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2016-17 Coaching Carousel

Presbyterian College, one of the few remaining schools with a head coaching vacancy hires Dustin Kerns as their new head coach-
http://www.gobluehose.com/ViewArtic...47&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=211604591&DB_OEM_ID=18100

He was previously the associate head coach at Wofford.



Also, Robert McCullum was hired last week to take over at Florida A&M.


There now appears to be only one coaching job still open- Grambling State. Their head coach Shawn Walker was fired March 22.

An article dated May 5 said that Grambling had narrowed their search to 2 finalists-
http://www.knoe.com/content/sports/...ming-new-head-basketball-coach-421514763.html

And on May 12, 2017, an article said Grambling was going to hire Donte Jackson, the former head coach at Stillman College in Alabama (Divisio I of NAIA), as their new head coach.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sp...hire-stillmans-jackson-hoops-coach/101506718/

However, no official announcement has ever been made yet.
And strangely, their website still shows Shawn Walker, who was fired over 2 months ago, as their head coach-
http://www.gsutigers.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball#sidearm-roster-coaches



Coaching changes-

Akron - Keith Dambrot leaves for Duquesne - John Groce hired
Alabama A&M - Willie Hayes steps down - Donnie Marsh hired
Arkansas State - Grant McCasland leaves to take North Texas - Mike Balado (Louisville Assistant) hired
Austin Peay - Dave Loos steps down - Matt Figgers hired
Bethune-Cookman - fires Gravelle Craig - Ryan Ridder hired
Cal - Cuonzo Martin leaves - Wyking Jones hired
Chattanooga - Matt McCall leaves for UMass - Lamont Paris hired
Cleveland State - Gary Waters steps down - Dennis Felton hired
Coppin State - Michael Grant fired - Juan Dixon HIRED
Dayton - Archie Miller leaves to take Indiana - Anthony Grant hired
Drake - Ray Giacoletti steps down - Jeff Rutter is interim - Niko Medved hired
Duquesne - Jim Ferry resigns - Keith Dambrot hired
Eastern Washington - Jim Hayford leaves for Seattle - Shantay Legans hired
Florida A&M - Byron Samuels fired - Robert McCullum hired
Furman - Niko Medved left for Drake - Bob Richey hired
George Washington - Mike Lonergan fired - Maurice Joseph hired as head coach
Georgetown - John Thompson III fired - Patrick Ewing hired
Grambling - Shawn Walker fired - OPEN
Illinois - fires John Groce - Brad Underwood hired
Indiana - Tom Crean fired - Archie Miller hired
LIU-Brooklyn - Jack Perri fired - Derek Kellogg hired
LSU - Johnny Jones fired - Will Wade hired
Massachusetts - fires Derek Kellogg - Winthrop's Pat Kelsey hired then renegs and returns to Winthrop - Matt McCall hired
Miami (OH) - fires John Cooper - Jack Owens hired
Missouri - Kim Anderson steps down - Cuonzo Martin hired
Morehead State - Sean Woods steps down - Jonathan Mattox now hired as head coach
New Mexico - Craig Neal fired - Paul Weir hired
New Mexico State - Paul Weir leaves to go to New Mexico - Chris Jans hired
NC State - Mark Gottfried fired - Kevin Keatts hired
NC-Wilmington - Kevin Keatts leaves - CB McGrath hired
North Texas - Tony Benford fired - Grant McCasland hired
Oklahoma State - Brad Underwood leaves - Mike Boynton hired
Oral Roberts - Scott Sutton fired - Paul Mills hired
Portland State - Tyler Geving fired - Luke Jackson hired
Presbyterian - Greg Nibert steps down - Dustin Kerns hired
Quinnipiac - Tom Moore fired - Baker Dunleavy hired
Rice - Mike Rhoades leaves to take VCU - Scott Pera hired
San Diego State - Steve Fisher retires - Brian Dutcher hired
SMU - Larry Brown steps down as season is underway - Tim Jankovich hired
Santa Barbara - Bob Williams steps down - Joe Pasternak hired
Seattle - fired Cameron Dollar - Jim Hayford hired
South Florida - had been open since Orlando Antigua fired - Brian Gregory hired
Tennessee-Martin - Anthony Stewart was acting as Interim Coach - Anthony Stewart hired as permanent Head Coach
VCU - Will Wade leaves to take LSU - Mike Rhoads hired
Washington - Lorenzo Romar fired - Mike Hopkins hired
Winthrop - Pat Kelsey leaves to take UMass - then changes his mind and returns to Winthrop
Youngstown State - Jerry Slocum steps down- Jerrod Calhoun hired
 
Da Coach said:
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There now appears to be only one coaching job still open- Grambling State. Their head coach Shawn Walker was fired March 22....

...on May 12, 2017, an article said Grambling was going to hire Donte Jackson, the former head coach at Stillman College in Alabama (Divisio I of NAIA), as their new head coach.
Grambling to hire Stillman's Jackson as hoops coach
http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sp...hire-stillmans-jackson-hoops-coach/101506718/

However, no official announcement has ever been made yet.
And strangely, their website still shows Shawn Walker, who was fired over 2 months ago, as their head coach-
http://www.gsutigers.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball#sidearm-roster-coaches
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Yesterday, the Grambling website still showed Shawn Walker as their head basketball coach, even though he was fired way back on March 22.
Today, they have removed him from the coaches web page, but they still show all his assistant coaches listed, and they do not show anyone replacing him as their head coach.
http://www.gsutigers.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball#sidearm-roster-coaches

Very strange situation at Grambling, but it seems few people there care. Their average attendance is always at the bottom of Division I at barely 500 per game.

They were recently hit with some severe NCAA penalties for their low APR and academic deficiencies, and this has been a recurring problem for Grambling.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/sp...three-programs-hit-postseason-bans/101519898/
 
There are officially now 2 Division I programs with head coaching vacancies.

Butler just lost their head coach Chris Holtman who left to take the Ohio State job. So far, there is no official word, and no good rumors on what they plan to do.
Note that Holtman was an assistant at Butler when he replaced Brandon Miller in 2014, and Brandon Miller had been assistant at Butler a few years earlier previously when he was selected to replaced Brad Stevens in 2013, and Stevens was an assistant at Butler when he replaced Todd Licklighter in 2007, and Licklighter was an assistant at Butler when he replaced Thad Matta in 2001, and Matta was an assistant at Butler when he replaced the previous coach Barry Collier in 2000. You have to go all the way back to when Collier replaced Joe Sexton in 1989 to find the last time Butler hired someone completely from outside their program and who had not previously been an assistant at Butler (Collier was an assistant at Stanford when he was hired by Butler in 1989).
The current Butler assistant coaches are:
Terry Johnson, who has been an assistant coach at Butler for the past 11 seasons under Chris Holtman, Brandon Miller, and Brad Stevens.
Ryan Pedon, who has been an assistant coach for just the past 3 seasons under Chris Holtman. He worked under John Groce at Illinois prior to that.
Mike Schrage, who has been an assistant coach at Butler for the past 2 seasons under Chris Holtman, but he is an Indiana native and may have the most coaching experience of the 3 assistants having spent the past 23 years working on D1 basketball staffs such as Indiana, Mississippi, Duke, and Stanford before coming to Butler. He was a student manager at Indiana (1994-1998 ) under Bobby Knight. He was a staff member under Coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke for 9 years (1999-2008 ), and he was an assistant coach at Stanford for 8 seasons under Johnny Dawkins.
So if Butler hires from within, it could be Terry Johnson, Ryan Pedon, or Mike Schrage.

Then there remains the strange case of Grambling State. They fired their previous head coach Shawn Walker on March 22. They completed a search, and on May 12 it was reported by a local newspaper that they had selected Donte Jackson, the former head coach at Stillman College in Alabama (NAIA) as their new head coach. However, no official announcement has ever been made, and their basketball website still does not show a head coach, though it still shows all 3 of their assistant coaches from fired coach Shawn Walker's staff.


One other note- CBSSports writer Matt Norlander wrote this column today about who Butler should hire. There are some interesting names-
http://www.cbssports.com/college-ba...tmann-off-to-ohio-state-who-will-replace-him/

One of his names is:
Illinois State coach Dan Muller: If you want to go outside the family and hire a current coach who would certainly take the job, this is your guy. Muller, 41, is 104-65 in four seasons at Illinois State. It's only a matter of time before Muller takes a bigger job. For Muller, who loves Illinois State, this would be an easier call than in previous situations, as the Redbirds will be good next season but losing big pieces from last season.

For the record, I think this is an extreme longshot. I can see why they might have Dan Muller on their radar, and he is an Indiana guy, though ISU is his only head coaching experience. But I believe they would have several other guys ahead of him on any list, and that means a bunch of people would have to turn them down before they would get to Muller. IMO, that is not likely to happen.
 
Da Coach said:
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Then there remains the strange case of Grambling State. They fired their previous head coach Shawn Walker on March 22. They completed a search, and on May 12 it was reported by a local newspaper that they had selected Donte Jackson, the former head coach at Stillman College in Alabama (NAIA) as their new head coach. However, no official announcement has ever been made, and their basketball website still does not show a head coach, though it still shows all 3 of their assistant coaches from fired coach Shawn Walker's staff.
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Despite Grambling never officially posting that their men's basketball head coaching position was filled, apparently Donte Jackson will take over on July 1. It's not clear why they had to wait until July 1, since they have been without a head coach since firing Shawn Walker back on March 22.
The Shreveport Times Newspaper filed this article about their new coach Donte Jackson-
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/stor...1/jackson-sees-potential-gsu-hoops/102370466/

The Grambling website still doesn't show the new coach, and only shows the previous assistants.
But one of those assistants, Kenyan Alston has already been hired as the AD at NAIA Stillman University.
http://www.gsutigers.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball#sidearm-roster-coaches
 
It's rumored that Butler's leading candidate to replace Chris Holtman is former player LaVall Jordan. He has been the head coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the past 1 year. He has been an assistant at Butler, Iowa, and Michigan.
Other sources are saying there are still 4 finalists- LaVall Jordan, Micah Shrewsberry (former Butler assistant under Brad Stevens and now an assistant with the Celtics), Terry Johnson (current Butler assistant), and Ryan Pedon (current Butler assistant).


LaVall Jordan has a past Bradley connection. He and Willie Scott were the 2 finalists to replace Alvin Brooks III for an assistant coaching position at Bradley back in 2010. Willie got the job.
 
Da Coach said:
It's rumored that Butler's leading candidate to replace Chris Holtman is former player LaVall Jordan. He has been the head coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the past 1 year. He has been an assistant at Butler, Iowa, and Michigan.
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There are reports that LaVall Jordan will become the next Butler head coach.

That leaves Wisconsin-Milwaukee as the only D1 school now without a head coach. Note that UW-Milwaukee was a finalist to be added to the Missouri Valley Conference last month, and remains an option for expansion in the near future.

LaVall Jordan's record at Wisconsin-Milwaukee last year was a woefully bad 11-24 overall and 4-14 and 10th place (last) in the Horizon league, his only season as a head coach anywhere. That has to be one of the worst head coaching records ever by a coach being hired at a major program like Butler, or at any D1 school. But even though Jordan's record last season at UW-M was very disappointing, that one year record does not reflect his recruiting or coaching ability very well.

For the 11 years before LaVall Jordan was hired, UW-M was coached by Rob Jeter, who was a leading candidate for Bradley's open coaching position in 2011. His record in his final season at UW-Milwaukee was 20-13, and 10-8 in the Horizon League. Many UW-M fans were upset that their unpopular AD Amanda Braun fired their well-liked, 20-win head coach and it lead to a complete rebuild. Jeter had won 21 games in 2013-14 and won the Horizon League Tournament, got an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and won their first round game before being eliminated in the 2nd round. Jeter also coached UW-M to an NCAA bid in 2005-06. He had 7 winning seasons out of his 11 years at UW-M, and his overall record was 184-170, and he was 112-87 in the Horizon league. It will be interesting to see who she hires now to replace LaVall Jordan.
 
Milwaukee hires Pat Baldwin, Northwestern asst
...btw, Pat Baldwin's son could have well been the #1 player in the IL Class of 2021 but will now probably be in school in the Milwaukee area..
The Sun Times actually has the rising freshman at #1 regardless of class! - LINK
 
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Da Coach said:
Despite Grambling never officially posting that their men's basketball head coaching position was filled, apparently Donte Jackson will take over on July 1. It's not clear why they had to wait until July 1, since they have been without a head coach since firing Shawn Walker back on March 22.
The Shreveport Times Newspaper filed this article about their new coach Donte Jackson-
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/stor...1/jackson-sees-potential-gsu-hoops/102370466/

The Grambling website still doesn't show the new coach, and only shows the previous assistants.
But one of those assistants, Kenyan Alston has already been hired as the AD at NAIA Stillman University.
http://www.gsutigers.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball#sidearm-roster-coaches
Click to expand...

Grambling finally announces Donte Jackson as their new head coach-
http://www.gsutigers.com/news/2017/...s-grambling-states-mens-basketball-coach.aspx
 
odd-
Dave Wojcik's brother Doug Wojcik also left his head coaching position suddenly and unexpectedly twice - in 2012 & 2014 but both times amid player abuse accusations...
 
I would think this wraps up the 2016-17 coaching changes...headed into 2017-18


Coaching changes-

Akron - Keith Dambrot leaves for Duquesne - John Groce hired
Alabama A&M - Willie Hayes steps down - Donnie Marsh hired
Arkansas State - Grant McCasland leaves to take North Texas - Mike Balado (Louisville Assistant) hired
Austin Peay - Dave Loos steps down - Matt Figgers hired
Bethune-Cookman - fires Gravelle Craig - Ryan Ridder hired
Butler - Chris Holtman leaves to take Ohio State - LaVall Jordan hired
Cal - Cuonzo Martin leaves - Wyking Jones hired
Chattanooga - Matt McCall leaves for UMass - Lamont Paris hired
Cleveland State - Gary Waters steps down - Dennis Felton hired
Coppin State - Michael Grant fired - Juan Dixon HIRED
Dayton - Archie Miller leaves to take Indiana - Anthony Grant hired
Drake - Ray Giacoletti steps down - Jeff Rutter is interim - Niko Medved hired
Duquesne - Jim Ferry resigns - Keith Dambrot hired
Eastern Washington - Jim Hayford leaves for Seattle - Shantay Legans hired
Florida A&M - Byron Samuels fired - Robert McCullum hired
Furman - Niko Medved left for Drake - Bob Richey hired
George Washington - Mike Lonergan fired - Maurice Joseph hired as head coach
Georgetown - John Thompson III fired - Patrick Ewing hired
Grambling - Shawn Walker fired - Donte Jackson hired
Illinois - fires John Groce - Brad Underwood hired
Indiana - Tom Crean fired - Archie Miller hired
LIU-Brooklyn - Jack Perri fired - Derek Kellogg hired
LSU - Johnny Jones fired - Will Wade hired
Massachusetts - fires Derek Kellogg - Winthrop's Pat Kelsey hired then renegs and returns to Winthrop - Matt McCall hired
Miami (OH) - fires John Cooper - Jack Owens hired
Milwaukee - LaVall Jordan leaves to take Butler - Pat Baldwin hired
Missouri - Kim Anderson steps down - Cuonzo Martin hired
Morehead State - Sean Woods steps down - Jonathan Mattox now hired as head coach
New Mexico - Craig Neal fired - Paul Weir hired
New Mexico State - Paul Weir leaves to go to New Mexico - Chris Jans hired
NC State - Mark Gottfried fired - Kevin Keatts hired
NC-Wilmington - Kevin Keatts leaves - CB McGrath hired
North Texas - Tony Benford fired - Grant McCasland hired
Ohio State - Thad Matta fired - Chris Holtman hired
Oklahoma State - Brad Underwood leaves - Mike Boynton hired
Oral Roberts - Scott Sutton fired - Paul Mills hired
Portland State - Tyler Geving fired - Luke Jackson hired
Presbyterian - Greg Nibert steps down - Dustin Kerns hired
Quinnipiac - Tom Moore fired - Baker Dunleavy hired
Rice - Mike Rhoades leaves to take VCU - Scott Pera hired
San Diego State - Steve Fisher retires - Brian Dutcher hired
SMU - Larry Brown steps down as season is underway - Tim Jankovich hired
San Jose State - Dave Wojcik steps down - OPEN
Santa Barbara - Bob Williams steps down - Joe Pasternak hired
Seattle - fired Cameron Dollar - Jim Hayford hired
South Florida - had been open since Orlando Antigua fired - Brian Gregory hired
Tennessee-Martin - Anthony Stewart was acting as Interim Coach - Anthony Stewart hired as permanent Head Coach
VCU - Will Wade leaves to take LSU - Mike Rhoads hired
Washington - Lorenzo Romar fired - Mike Hopkins hired
Winthrop - Pat Kelsey leaves to take UMass - then changes his mind and returns to Winthrop
Youngstown State - Jerry Slocum steps down- Jerrod Calhoun hired
...51 schools begin the new 2017-18 season with a new head coach compared to the start of last year..



One other interesting bit of news...
At Geno Ford's old alma mater- Ohio University....
a top member of the Athletic Dept. - Drake Bolon, Assistant Athletic Director, has been caught cooking the books and pilfering a little for himself -
http://www.thepostathens.com/article/2017/07/drake-bolon-ohio-tampering-records
 
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