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The 2013-14 coaching carousel starts

Da Coach said:
An unusual twist to this story- South Florida was set to hire Manhattan's Steve Masiello, but now they have dropped him. Apparently, his resume claimed he had graduated from University of Kentucky, when in fact, South Florida checked with UK and found that he has not graduated. Apparently, Manhattan (and Louisville, where he was an assistant under Rick Pitino) never bothered to check that out.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...ill-coaching-deal-steve-masiello-lying-resume

It will be interesting to see if Manhattan accepts Masiello back as their coach.
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of course they will ... and have...
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcspo...ttan-reinstates-steve-masiello-as-head-coach/


like Royce Waltman once said ...
"If you get fired for cheating (& lying), you can get hired right back again.
If you get fired for losing it's like you've got leprosy, so young coaches need to bear that in mind.
Cheating and not graduating players will not get you in trouble, but that **** losing. ..."
http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2014/4/8/5593144/indiana-loses-a-legend-royce-waltman-passes
 
Nice find BF6,
Good luck Patrick - maybe that means we'll be scheduling Marist in the near future...

Marist's head coach took the job as Detroit Pistons General Manager on June 2, and within a week
there were reports that Pat Beilein was interviewing for the Marist job.
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcspo...er-to-become-detroit-pistons-general-manager/
http://zagsblog.com/articles/marist-holding-interviews-for-coaching-position/
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...son-Patrick-31-mix-Division-head-coaching-job
http://www.hudsonvalleysportsreport...beilein-son-michigan-coach-joins-speculation/
 
It appears Pat Beilein did not get the head coaching job at Marist...
Marist is reportedly set to announce they are hiring Mike Maker, a former Creighton assistant who is currently head coach of D-III Williams College in Massachusetts.
Maker - although a D-III coach, has years of head coaching experience, has taken them to the national level and been named national Coach of the Year...
This is reportedly the last D-I coaching spot to fill..
So now if Pat Beilein is going to be at WVWU then we may see them again in an exhibition.


one other coaching news...

Wyoming's Larry Shyatt....who in 3 seasons there has gone 6-8, 4-12, and 9-9 in the Mountain West...
-- a total of 19-29 in conference, and NO HIGHER than 6th in the Mountain West - average RPI 93
..gets a major contract boost - extended out FIVE years at $3.6 million!
 
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After just two seasons at EIU, head coach Jay Spoonhaur gets a 2-year extension & raise.

his numbers so far at EIU..
2012-13 11-21 overall, 6-10 in Ohio Valley Conference- RPI 276, Conf. RPI 16, attendance 905
2013-14 11-19 overall, 7-9 in Ohio Valley Conference - RPI 291, Conf. RPI 24, attendance 926
totals......22-40 overall, 13-19 in Ohio Valley Conference

his numbers are little different from the previous several seasons - and the attendance is 25-30% dropoff from the prior years' average
 
Da Coach said:
Here is another very strange coaching move-
Just as the recruiting was about to ramp up, Grambling fired their head basketball coach Joseph Price earlier this week.

A new interim university president took over on July 1st, and decided to make massive changes on her first day on the job, firing the basketball coach, and the Athletic Director among others. -

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...mbling-state-tigers-cynthia-warrick/11954787/
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Does JG have a sister in university management? :wink:

What is most interesting about this story, is it is the freakin' INTERIM President making these personnel moves with Grambling Athletics.

Is there any linkage to the former University President being replaced and the sudden firing of the MBB Coach and AD? Were all three involved in some university damaging actions which precipitated the fallout?

Or, is the interim President trying to makeover Grambling to be the Stanford of the Southeast as a purely academic institution? :wink:
 
AZ BU Fan said:
Or, is the interim President trying to makeover Grambling to be the Stanford of the Southeast as a purely academic institution? :wink:
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Here is more on the interim president's pedigree-
http://www.nola.com/news/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2014/06/cynthia_warrick_tapped_as_inte.html

It does not appear that she has any sort of track record of building a successful athletic program anywhere she has been. So the firings must have had more to do with perceived ineptitude in the Athletic Department staff and the coach.
However, Grambling has been bad for an awful long time, and I doubt any changes will make it significantly better.
 
Eastern Illinois is hiring a new Athletic Director

their three finalist candidates include
-Rick Hartzell - the former UNI AD and NCAA referee who does a lot of MVC games - many Bradley fans are familiar with him
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-Tom Michael - former Illini player who has been working in the Illinois Athletic Dept. for 18 years, currently as Senior Associate AD
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-Texas-San Antonio Deputy AD Jim Sarra
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New Mexico has filled its staff by hiring Alan Huss as assistant basketball coach.

Huss was the head coach at La Lumiere Academy where a lot of highly touted recruits have come out of....
Immediately after his hiring, one of their recruits who had previously committed to Oklahoma then Auburn - reneged again and changed his commitment to New Mexico.
Expect a few other La Lumiere kids to be heading to New Mexico - some already had (Darington Hobson, Obij Aget ..) in the past as Steve Alford also had connections to La Lumiere..

Of interest - the La Lumiere assistant now takes over as head coach there - it is Shane Heirman - the brother of former Bradley basketball player Montana Heirman.
 
Replacement for Doug Wojcik at College of Charleston is almost complete -
ex-Bradley assistant coach Ritchie McKay was interviewed and is in the running.


BTW - the tendency for coaching behaviors & actions to hit the public airwaves and then the school & coach get trashed on a national scale is kind of a new phenomenon...
used to be what happened in practice stayed in practice (except for the rare leakage of video as in the Bobby Knight choking incident..)

now it seems everything is public, cameras are everywhere, and coaches have to be aware someone's always watching - PLUS extreme punishment/firing is swift and humiliating.

Thus coaches may alter their behavior - wonder if this is good or bad as a lot of people think a little tough coaching was really not a bad thing.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...of-punishments
 
tornado said:
Ritchie McKay - gets a bump to $385K!! - http://www.dailyprogress.com/cavali...cle_3a373152-e5d6-11e3-896d-0017a43b2370.html...
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I ran across this interesting story -- in addition to Ritchie McKay getting paid as an assistant - and getting more than a lot of DI head coaches...
he is also the subject of an article in Albuquerque, New Mexico about the tremendous financial burden there is on the state because of
"Golden Parachute payments" that the state owes to former state employees....
money the state of New Mexico agreed to pay above & beyond the buyouts of contracts of employees that have been canned...

Ritchie McKay was bought out & fired by New Mexico way back in 2007, but he was given a $500,000 buyout/"golden parachute" at the expense of the taxpayers IN ADDITION to the remaining salary he had to be paid when fired!
http://www.abqjournal.com/450679
 
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