Billiken Law

NLI, not LOI.

Bennett isn't leaving. He's bulletproof at SMC, has an amazing piece of property where he lives. When he didn't go to Oregon State that was the message he wasn't leaving. Besides, the WCC has been getting 2-3 bids since BYU joined.As for running a clean program, the current NCAA pribation would say otherwise.

considering the guy said it's someone whose team is going to the NCAA that would eliminate him

They'll probably stick around until a new coach is hired. The team can still practice and someone will have to be watching them to make sure they keep up their academic obligations.

He did make the tourney 2 times at St. John's, once with a team with 8 seniors he inherited and once when his first recruiting class (what was left) were all seniors. And he only one 2 post season games, 1 in the BET and another the first round of the NIT (2-8 overall in the post-season),). And don't forget that blowout loss to Robert Morris, at home, in the NIT. And he had to take chances on guys who SLU would never let in....many who didn't make it academically. However, that ship has sailed.... off to the University of San Francisco.

Lavin will get that job if he wants it. I have a suspicion that's why they pulled the trigger on Rex now.

Assistants rarely make that kind of money. A friend is the third assistant on an NBA team and isn't anywhere close to that.

Santa Clara fired their coach 2 days after being eliminated from their conference tourney. There's your timeline to get it done.

Bo Ryan and Wisconsin would beg to differ.

Starting to foul NC State with 5 minutes left to erase a 16 point deficit, then pulling out a press when town 5 to advance for the 3rd straight year in the tourney despite SLU going 12 for 26 from the line themselves is a good thing to remember.....

California (Harvard-Westlake, a Ivy feeder school) to prep school in Mass to Stetson??? Looks like a lot of schools missed on Newton.

UDub fans would have to care about basketball for that to happen. They're more concerned about breaking the streak of 12 straight years of losing to Oregon in football than anything Romar is doing.

He's on the bubble with the 5th youngest roster in D1, has at least one Mcdonalds's AA coming in next year, lives in Seattle. Yeah, he's going to Mizzou.

Horn's problems at South Carolina were 1) he had no ties to the area. An example of a coach taking the first power 5 job offered while the iron was hot, and 2) he didn't cheat.

I had a chance to meet Driscoll a few years ago and was ready to run through a wall for the man after 5 minutes. He is ridiculously high energy and enthusiastic. Wouldn't be an expensive hire either.

Soderberg was Biondi cheaping out on a hire. Plenty of proven low to mid major guys who would take the job for $700K or less. It has to be a good fit philosophy wise, mission and culture wise and geographically. I've served on committees where a great candidate didn't fit the culture and we moved on.

Best quote Ive ever heard about KO: "Kevin thinks 'mother' is only half a word."Why even bring him up? His time passed years ago.

If you say so.

Renardo Sidney. All you need to know about Stansbury. Sold his soul, lost complete control of his team. Looking south though, I give you Jared Haase of UAB. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerod_Haase

thank you for the clarification.

inaccurate.

It depends on the reason for the individual no longer being employed there. Bad relationship with the AD? Maybe a new AD wanted his own guy? Running from violations (e.g. Frank Haith)? How old is he and how long was he at his previous job and what was the trajectory? Was he successful with the previous coach's recruits and how did the new coach do with the guys who remained and were recruited by the previous staff. Was he a good fit at that school in terms of geography and support? How long has he been out? I look at the hiring trends in the A-10 and Big East and recent hires (our peer programs), taking into account the changing NCAA landscape which probably influenced these hires. Ordered by standings: VCU - low major (Chattanooga, after 2 successful assistant hires) Dayton - assistant Bonaventure - low major (Robert Morris) GW - low major (Vermont) Rhode Island - low major (Wagner) Duquense - low major (LIU-Brooklyn) UMass - assistant SLU - retread from Evansville and Army Fordham - low major (Eastern Kentucky) George Mason - low major (Bucknell, after BCS level retread flamed out....BCS level guy who turned down St. John's in 2010) Big East (since that's the ultimate destination goal): Xavier - assistant Seton Hall - low/mid major (Iona) Creighton - BCS coach who was about the be fired and had a all-America son to play for him Providence - low/mid major (Fairfield) Butler - assistant who was previously head coach at a low major (Gardner Webb) Marquette - assistant DePaul - retread fired from Virginia who was previously HC at DePaul St. John's - greatest player in school history, never before a head coach Not that this necessarily means anything in the grand scheme of things but I was interested in the hiring trends of our peer programs.

He was too clean to succeed in the SEC.

Nope, he wasn't. He left his previous job voluntarily. When I sad retreads I'm referring to guys who were fired from their previous positions.

so a guy who has been dismissed from his last two jobs, left a new coach with a team that has lost 17 of their last 18, had multiple non-qualifiers, would require at least $2 million a year and hasn't coached in the midwest for 25 years is your choice. This is a shtick, right?