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The question was who among Division I schools 's going to fire
(or replace) their coach first...........

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--Of course Cincy was the first, then Mizzou was the 2nd, then Oklahoma State & Indiana fell in line, but here are a couple more that happened just today:

Weber State (8-17, 4-10, Big Sky Conference, RPI=259)
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_3552599

Northern Colorado (3-24, Independant, RPI=325)
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/SPORTS/60227001

How about a pick-em to see which present MVC coach is the first to go?
 
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user1 said:
The question was who among Division I schools 's going to fire
(or replace) their coach first...........

Answers

--Of course Cincy was the first, then Mizzou was the 2nd, then Oklahoma State & Indiana fell in line, but here are a couple more that happened just today:

Weber State (8-17, 4-10, Big Sky Conference, RPI=259)
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_3552599

Northern Colorado (3-24, Independant, RPI=325)
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/SPORTS/60227001

How about a pick-em to see which present MVC coach is the first to go?
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You gonna sponsor that one T?
 
SanFranciscoPete said:
BUBravesMan said:
my pick is Dr. Tom
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My pick is Porter. There is no way they will fire Dr. Tom, they may let him retire though.....
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I doubt Moser gets the axe. The Redbirds are very young, and they showed well Saturday at Wichita. Don't know if that says more for ISU or how crummy WSU looked. Interesting that Weber State finished last in the Big Sky (how long has it been since that happened?) and Northern Colorado who joins the Big Sky next year, is in the market for some improvement.
 
Moser signed a 7 year deal with ISU. That's a huge buyout for a guy who is just finishing his 3rd year.

Also, the Weber State coach (Cravens) was a finalist for the ISU job, but it went to Moser.
 
cpacmel said:
Moser signed a 7 year deal with ISU. That's a huge buyout for a guy who is just finishing his 3rd year.

Also, the Weber State coach (Cravens) was a finalist for the ISU job, but it went to Moser.
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Moser will get 1-2 more years, but he employs a very low scoring "style of play", that may wear a bit thin on the B-N fans just as Mo's style did.
PM has been given a pass by many of the ISU faithful because he has only been here 3 years AND he has had a couple things that were out of his control (Gordon flunks out, Dunson & Dentmon bolt) that he has had to overcome.
But if Porter doesn't produce a winner by year 5, he will be on a very hot seat.

There are at least three MVC coaches that may soon be replaced not because they are fired, but because of moving up the ranks.
Altman, McDermott, and Turgeon are sitting right where Bruce Pearl was last year and where Bruce Weber was the year before. If they have a decent showing in the MVC Tourney and in the NCAA, they will be given offers they can't refuse to go elsewhere.

Talk centers almost every year on Waltman and Merfeld. But just a year ago, despite less than stellar records, Merfeld was given a contract extension through 2009. Evansville has a history of keeping coaches longer than most schools, so they will give him at least through 2007, then if he hasn't produced, he'll be feeling the heat.
Waltman is still coaching under the contract he signed in 2000, that covers through 2007, when Waltman turns 65.
I have to believe Waltman's last year will be 2006-2007, as he just cannot possibly build much of a winner out of what he has now.
We all saw how good his team was without David Moss, and that's how good they'll be next year unless they get a Larry Bird somewhere.
 
A couple articles I have read this morning list these schools as likely to fire or replace their coaches shortly.

Rutgers
Marshall
South Florida
SMU
TCU
Duquesne
Fairfield
Idaho
Idaho State
Ball State
Indiana State
Cal-Riverside
ECU

(let's come back to this list in a couple months and see how many are right)

Gregg Doyel also reports this:

'The NCAA is looking into the Chicago State athletic department three years after finding major violations by the women's basketball program. Two Mid-Continent men's basketball teams told SportsLine.com they've been advised to find non-conference replacements for 2006-07 in case Chicago State gets a department-wide death penalty.
 
Here is the next coach to leave---

Gary Garner (former Drake coach) has been fired at Southeast Missouri State after going 7-20.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2350329

The other MVC/Bradley connection here is that former Bradley player, Michael Rembert, transferred to SEMO last spring and sat out this past year to have 2 years of eligibility there. I hope this coaching change doesn't hurt him.
 
Here is a Gregg Doyel article with a bunch of coaching rumors some of which I haven't seen anywhere else. It either means Doyel is on the cutting edge with the breaking rumors, or maybe he's just making this stuff up.

http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/9272381

Note the #9 rumor suggests that Matt Margenthaler, the coach at Minnesota State (formerly Wenona State- they played at Bradley last fall), and formerly an assistant at Western Illinois, might have a shot at the Idaho State job.
 
One of those rumors (#5) was about Neil Dougherty at Texas Christian U. He just finished his 4th year there and the writer says--
Two of the state's worst programs, SMU and TCU, are thinking of firing their coaches. Neil Dougherty has run the Horned Frogs into the ground at 5-23. Both schools have apathy and economic issues. Football controls their budgets, but neither football program makes enough money to buy out one basketball coach and hire another. And the basketball boosters at both schools just don't care anymore.

I remember that Dougherty was hired about the same time Bradley hired Jim Les. At the time, he was a rising superstar as a highly respected assistant under Roy Williams at Kansas. He had built the reputation as one of the greatest recruiters in college basketball. But now he's run a respectable major program "into the ground". Now they've moved to the Mountain West where he is buried at the bottom. Maybe Bradley fans should appreciate what they have!

http://gofrogs.collegesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/dougherty_neil00.html

One success Neil Dougherty achieved while at TCU was that he won the 2004 Fasion Award. CollegeInsider.com matches coaches from different regions in a fashion contest, then plays them off in the Fashion Final 4. Dougherty knocked off Drexel's Bruiser Flint to win the 2004 championship! However, that might not be enough for the fans at TCU to want to keep him as their coach.
http://www.collegeinsider.com/fpi/brackets.html

Looks like he won last year, too! (2005)
http://www.collegeinsider.com/stlouis/
 
Da Coach said:
Here is the next coach to leave---

Gary Garner (former Drake coach) has been fired at Southeast Missouri State after going 7-20.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2350329

The other MVC/Bradley connection here is that former Bradley player, Michael Rembert, transferred to SEMO last spring and sat out this past year to have 2 years of eligibility there. I hope this coaching change doesn't hurt him.
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This is tough for Mike Rembert, and you have to hope the new guy coming in doesn't decide to "clean house".
 
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