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    Pat Kelsey Appears To Be The Pick

    His only losing season as HC is his very first. 9 years at Winthrop produced 3 NCAA tourney teams and 2 additional 20 win teams (and two 19 win seasons). SC is not a basketball state, and Winthrop only has about 4500 students. 3 of 3 winning seasons at Charleston, with the last 2 being NCAA...
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    Will Wade Being Considered?

    You can only recruit to and win against where you are. At Winthrop, Kelsey was in a 1 bid league, meaning you must focus all year on winning that tournament. He did that 3 times in 9 seasons. IN addition, he won at least 20 games 2 other seasons. At Charleston, also in a 1 bid league, he has won...
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    Will Wade or Scotty Davenport

    I think the most interesting facts about Wade are that he was the first hire Tommy Amaker made as Harvard HC and also the first hire Shaka Smart made as VCU HC. Two very different coaches who each saw something very great about having him on staff.
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    Will Wade Being Considered?

    He probably would. Wade does not want exile in the nothings of CFB. He wants to be at a program that matters.
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    From What I Gathered On Musselman

    One of my best friends isn AR native and Arkansas grad - and, oddly, at least as big a basketball fans as football. He agrees with the group of Hawg boosters that see Musselman as an odd duck in the Ozarks because they see him as an NBA guy in a large part of his heart. His problems this past...
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    Plan B?

    Perhaps, buy you failed to note these details: Carmody was not a first time HC. He had taken all 4 of his Princeton teams (Princeton is the most successful Ivy League program) to the post-season, 2 of them the NCAA, where he won a game. While Carmody did get two 20 win teams at Northwestern, he...
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    From What I Gathered On Musselman

    He is reported to be looking to leave Arkansas, with many Hawg boosters ready to see him go. Maybe a new place would be what he needs to blossom into the best he can be. Maybe he would just be trying to fly from his own issues that he can never escape.
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    The UofL basketball coach opening is very tempting to others....

    The part about media watching closely sounds like getting a guy like Collins might prove the best. He will bring 0 negatives in that regard. And he certainly could more talent to Louisville than to Evanston.
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    Plan B?

    Agreed. That NYC area type belongs there. For example, I don't think Lou Carneseca could have been happy and winning big in any other region. Even Syracuse and BC seemed too far away from NYC to him.
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    Plan B?

    What Collins inherited at NU was a program that had never been competitive, What Drew inherited was a program with a sound, though far from really good, history, but in Kevin Stallings last years had losy its way in al real, including recruiting. So it was a terrible time for anybody to take...
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    Plan B?

    Drew got screwed over by Vandy, which has now fired Stackhouse, who got Drew's job via his good buddy the then Vandy AD, who also is no longer in Nashville.
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    Plan B?

    Northwestern has the worst basketball history in the BT. Collins has gotten the purple Wildcats into the NCAA 3 times, including back to back seasons. Impressive. Very tough to win anything in Evanston.
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    Coaching Search Developments

    Why would IU fire Woodson? He's an alum. He played for Knight. He had Knight's approval. He has 3 winning seasons in 3 years. Surely he will get at least a 4th.
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    Coaching Search Developments

    The question is how many total more? Baylor per capita the student body has many more, but it is far from a a large school. And its alums are not as wealthy as SMU alums.
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    Coaching Search Developments

    If they cut back on football support then Yes. But if they remain focused on competing in football as well as they can, then Probably Not.
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    Bob Huggins

    Plus he's already 70. Only UNC football is stupid enough to think that a fired coach past 70 is able to become what he was at his best with a new job.
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    Teams Declining NIT

    While I am on the general subject, there is now way in Hell that Kansas ever could have become what it did without wide and deep connections to the Kansas City mob, which until well after WW2, until Las Vegas became huge, was easily THE most important organized crime center between Los Angeles...
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    Teams Declining NIT

    City College of New York basketball was 'owned' by the Jewish mobsters in NYC, for gambling purposes. A very good film could be made about it, showing CCNY players specializing with well known mobsters and their prize prostitutes, taking huge payoffs to play for CCNY, but you could not tell...
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    Teams Declining NIT

    Until Lou Carnesca was coach, St John's could be counted on to turn down the NCAA for the NIT. I think the last very highly ranked team to turn down the NCAA for the NIT was Marquette in 1970, because Al McGuire was certain UCLA would win the NCAA and he wanted his team to finish as champs of...
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    Coaching News Supposedly Coming

    Mack showed at Xavier the he is a very good coach. Also, his 2nd team at Louisville, which got no post-season because of the Covid hysteria, was capable of a very deep run. Any time a coach like Pitino gets canned, the next coach is going to find the going very tough because unless he wins it...
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