Green Bay interviewed 3 candidates at the Final Four
1) Green Bay asst. Brian Barone
2) St.Norbert coach Gary Grzesk
3) Cardinal Stritch coach Drew Diener. Cardinal Stritch is an NAIA school in Milwaukee. Diener formerly assisted at Virginia

They're also interested in Miami assistant Erik Konkol.

They were interested in MIchigan St. assist. Dan Fife and Kansas St. asst. Chris Lowery, but both men have cooled toward the job

So.Illinois-Edwardsville has hired Jon Harris, assistant at Cal

names of interest for VMI:

Jim Boone, coach at Delta St.  and former coach of E. Michigan

Kurt Kanskie, Air Force asst.

Ryan Odum, head coach at Charlotte

I'd completely forgotten about Dave Bliss.

From CBSsports

Dave Bliss is returning to college basketball.

It's been 12 years since Bliss resigned from his post at Baylor during an NCAA investigation after the murder of Patrick Dennehy, a current player, by former player Carlton Dotson. Bliss was found to be making improper tuition payments for Deenehy and Corey Herring and, making matters worse, he attempted to conceal those improprities after the dissapearance and death of Dennehy.  (MY NOTE: As I recall, he asked his players to lie to investigators and say that Dennehy paid for his tuition by selling drugs.)

The NCAA hit Bliss with a 10-year show-cause in 2005 for "despicable behavior" and "unethical conduct.". Bliss, however, is not returning to the sport at the NCAA level, but taking a job with Southwestern Christian University, an NAIA school in Bethany, Okla..

NKU hires John Brannen who was assistant at Alabama

Posted by jaymc2007 on 4/7/2015 5:10:00 AM (view original):
NKU hires John Brannen who was assistant at Alabama

A good hire from them.  He played high school ball at Newport Central Catholic, about 5 miles from NKU.  
He was also the 2nd choice of  So. Illinois-Edwardsville.

Jeff Capel has taken himself out of the running for the Arizona State job, a source told ESPN's Jeff Goodman, confirming multiple media reports.

Capel, currently the associate head coach at Duke, had been offered the Sun Devils' head job, sources previously told ESPN.

Capel had met with Arizona State officials and was tentatively scheduled to visit the campus this week, CBSSports.com reported.

However, for the time being, he will remain with the national champion Blue Devils and head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

VCU officially announced Will Wade has been hired as the program's 11th head coach.

Will Wade will be returning to Richmond to take over as the next VCU basketball coach.

Wade, the coach at Chattanooga the past two seasons, finalized a deal to succeed his friend and former boss Shaka Smart, who left last week to become the coach at Texas, according to a source with direct knowledge.

Wade, 32, was Smart’s first hire in 2009 and spent four years as a Rams assistant before being hired by the Moccasins.

His Chattanooga teams have gone 40-25 overall and 27-9 in the Southern Conference. The Moccasins were 22-10, 15-3 this past season.

Wade was the Southern Conference coach of the year in 2014. Among his players this past season was VCU transfer Justin Tuoyo, who blocked a school-record 104 shots and was the conference defensive player of the year.

Smart’s trademark “Havoc” system won’t change much under Wade. He handled VCU’s presses as an assistant and is a disciple of full-court pressure and a fast pace on offense. He instituted a similar system called “Chaos” at Chattanooga.

 

 

Chris Beard will take over at Arkansas-Little Rock.  He's been the head coach at DII Angelo St. for the last 2 years

I think Capel should have gone to ASU unless he has something on his radar for next year. ASU is a good job, and a great place to build a program.

Posted by alblack56 on 4/4/2015 3:53:00 AM (view original):

A group of prominent black coaches headlined by Tubby Smith and Shaka Smart are forming an organization to address the dwindling numbers of minority head coaches in college basketball.

The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development is in response to the dissolution of the Black Coaches Association. Ten years after minority coaches held more than 25 percent of the jobs across the country, the percentage dropped to 22 percent last year. And another 12 minority coaches have been fired this season. Only 2 vacancies....at DePaul and Texas...have been filled by black coaches. 

i had no idea shaka smart was black. 25 to 22% doesn't sound too bad of a drop but i guess you'd expect with so many coaches being former players, there'd be a mix closer to what you see in the player pool?

alblack:
Now Avery Johnson's going to Alabama,, and with Tennessee hiring Rick Barnes and Mississippi State snagging Ben Howland it is beginning to look like the conference will have some much needed parody soon.

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freudian slip?  ;-)

or maybe that was intentional?  

If they had kevn hart hosting satruday night live i bet he could do a heckuva Avery Johnson.  
bobby moynihan as howland?  
taran killam as calipari?
maybe bring in dana carvey as rick barnes?

Posted by gillispie1 on 4/8/2015 12:46:00 PM (view original):

Posted by alblack56 on 4/4/2015 3:53:00 AM (view original):

A group of prominent black coaches headlined by Tubby Smith and Shaka Smart are forming an organization to address the dwindling numbers of minority head coaches in college basketball.

The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development is in response to the dissolution of the Black Coaches Association. Ten years after minority coaches held more than 25 percent of the jobs across the country, the percentage dropped to 22 percent last year. And another 12 minority coaches have been fired this season. Only 2 vacancies....at DePaul and Texas...have been filled by black coaches. 

i had no idea shaka smart was black. 25 to 22% doesn't sound too bad of a drop but i guess you'd expect with so many coaches being former players, there'd be a mix closer to what you see in the player pool?

It dropped from 87 black coaches in 2004 to 76 in 2014.  Twelve more were fired after this season and only 2 or 3 black coaches have been hired to replace them

Posted by alblack56 on 4/8/2015 2:00:00 PM (view original):

Posted by gillispie1 on 4/8/2015 12:46:00 PM (view original):

Posted by alblack56 on 4/4/2015 3:53:00 AM (view original):

A group of prominent black coaches headlined by Tubby Smith and Shaka Smart are forming an organization to address the dwindling numbers of minority head coaches in college basketball.

The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development is in response to the dissolution of the Black Coaches Association. Ten years after minority coaches held more than 25 percent of the jobs across the country, the percentage dropped to 22 percent last year. And another 12 minority coaches have been fired this season. Only 2 vacancies....at DePaul and Texas...have been filled by black coaches. 

i had no idea shaka smart was black. 25 to 22% doesn't sound too bad of a drop but i guess you'd expect with so many coaches being former players, there'd be a mix closer to what you see in the player pool?

It dropped from 87 black coaches in 2004 to 76 in 2014.  Twelve more were fired after this season and only 2 or 3 black coaches have been hired to replace them

is that just d1? i tried to google % of americans that are black, wiki says its 13% but that is "black only", whatever that means. i never thought of it that way, but that sounds too low. 9% were mixed though maybe people who identify as black can fall into that category because they are only mostly black or something. but anyway 20s as a % of coaches who are black seems pretty reasonable from that general populace standpoint.

i wonder what the stats are on like % of coaches that were basketball players, who reached the various levels. like if most coaches played but not that many made it to the NBA, i would think the % of coaches should more reflect the % of people. but if most of the coaches were NBA or high level d1 where its mostly black, that would seem screwed up to be so low, because you'd expect more of an equal mix pulled from that pool of players. i guess im just not sure what the % should be, if 25% is really outside of reasonable or not. i had heard the % of black coaches was low before but never the number, i had assumed it was lower than that...

Yes, that 25% figure is just for D1