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The "Miami Herald' expects a new coach to be named at Miami on  Monday or Tuesday.

Candidates are:
Mike Davis (UAB, formerly at Indiana))
Billy Kennedy (Murray St, formerly at SE Louisiana.)
Tommy Amaker (Harvard, formerly at Seton Hall and Michigan)
Chris Mooney (Richmond, formerly at Air Force)
Jeff Capel (fired at Oklahoma, formerly at VCU)
John Pelphrey (fired at Arkansas, formerly at So. Alabama)
4/10/2011 2:45 PM (edited)
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Posted by bscoresby on 4/10/2011 2:23:00 PM (view original):
Dave Rice in at UNLV.  Previously top assistant at BYU, played at UNLV during the Tark years, so he is a Tark legacy hire.
From what I heard, it sounded like Rice was the only candidate UNLV was ever seriously interested in hiring.
4/10/2011 4:10 PM
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Posted by alblack56 on 4/10/2011 2:45:00 PM (view original):
The "Miami Herald' expects a new coach to be named at Miami on  Monday or Tuesday.

Candidates are:
Mike Davis (UAB, formerly at Indiana))
Billy Kennedy (Murray St, formerly at SE Louisiana.)
Tommy Amaker (Harvard, formerly at Seton Hall and Michigan)
Chris Mooney (Richmond, formerly at Air Force)
Jeff Capel (fired at Oklahoma, formerly at VCU)
John Pelphrey (fired at Arkansas, formerly at So. Alabama)
Sloppy reporting by the Herald.  There is no way that Mooney is a candidate. 

Billy Kennedy has done a fantastic job at Murray State and would be a good choice, IMO.
4/10/2011 4:11 PM
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Posted by alblack56 on 4/10/2011 2:45:00 PM (view original):
The "Miami Herald' expects a new coach to be named at Miami on  Monday or Tuesday.

Candidates are:
Mike Davis (UAB, formerly at Indiana))
Billy Kennedy (Murray St, formerly at SE Louisiana.)
Tommy Amaker (Harvard, formerly at Seton Hall and Michigan)
Chris Mooney (Richmond, formerly at Air Force)
Jeff Capel (fired at Oklahoma, formerly at VCU)
John Pelphrey (fired at Arkansas, formerly at So. Alabama)
Davis and Amaker would be disasters. Capel and Pelphrey don't exactly give me the warm fuzzies, either.
4/11/2011 12:27 AM
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Manhattan has picked Louisville assistant Steve Masiello.  He was an assistant at Manhattan for 4 years before joining Pitino's staff at UL. Masiello was also a member of Kentucky's 1998 national championship team.

Manhattan had offered the job to Long Island's Jim Frey last week and it seemed a 'done deal'. But the two sides couldn't agree on a contract
4/11/2011 1:28 PM (edited)
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Posted by girt25 on 4/11/2011 12:27:00 AM (view original):
Posted by alblack56 on 4/10/2011 2:45:00 PM (view original):
The "Miami Herald' expects a new coach to be named at Miami on  Monday or Tuesday.

Candidates are:
Mike Davis (UAB, formerly at Indiana))
Billy Kennedy (Murray St, formerly at SE Louisiana.)
Tommy Amaker (Harvard, formerly at Seton Hall and Michigan)
Chris Mooney (Richmond, formerly at Air Force)
Jeff Capel (fired at Oklahoma, formerly at VCU)
John Pelphrey (fired at Arkansas, formerly at So. Alabama)
Davis and Amaker would be disasters. Capel and Pelphrey don't exactly give me the warm fuzzies, either.
The 'Sun Sentinel' has added Tony Barbee (Auburn) to the list. This was his first year at Auburn after 4 seasons at UTEP. He's a protigee of John Calipari
4/11/2011 1:32 PM
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I don't think Miami has an Athletic Director.

Seems odd for a search committee to hire a coach and then bring in the Athletic Director.
4/11/2011 9:27 PM
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Posted by Iguana1 on 4/11/2011 9:27:00 PM (view original):
I don't think Miami has an Athletic Director.

Seems odd for a search committee to hire a coach and then bring in the Athletic Director.

For recruiting, it's important to have a coach by the first week in April.  If there's no A.D.,  someone else has to step up.  DII Tuskegee took 2 1/2 years before hiring an A.D. in 2008, then fired him a year later.

4/12/2011 4:12 AM
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About Bill Grier (U. of San Diego)

*  When he was an assistant at Gonzaga, it was written into his contract that he'd get the job when Mark Few was done.  When it became apparent that Few was staying long-term, Grier took the San Diego job.

* In his first season, San Diego upset UConn in the NT.

* He then turned down  a multi-million offer from Oregon St. to remain at San Diego

* Since then, the Toreodors have gone 16-16, to 11-21 to 6-24

* Grier isn't implicated in the point-shaving scandal but  I suspect his days are numbered. How can you recruit after a 24-loss season and negative publicity?
4/12/2011 1:58 PM
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Grier is a good coach who succeeded with Brad Holland's players.  He has had a really tough time recruiting.  He had to take a very undersized PG - younger brother of UCLA's Jerime Anderson and Steve Kerr's kid.  Problem is USD will have trouble finding anyone better. 
4/12/2011 2:56 PM
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new AD hired at Miami; Shawn Eichorst deputy AD at Wisconsin.
Now they can get serious in their coaching search.

any coach that takes a high level D1 job, with no AD in place, better have a ton of money guaranteed.
4/12/2011 3:34 PM
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Miami officials flew to Boston to woo Tommy Amaker, coach at Harvard.  He's decided to stay with the Crimson.
4/12/2011 4:58 PM
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Billy Donovan has added two former head coaches to his assistant staff. John Pelphrey, fired at Arkansas, returns to Florida where he previously worked with Donovan.  Norm Roberts, most recently at St. John's, has also joined the staff there
4/12/2011 8:04 PM
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The Detroit News lists these as potential coaches at E. Michigan;

Tony Jones is actively pursuing the job. A Detroit native, he was an assistant at Tennessee and was 5-3 as the head coach during Bruce Pearl's 8-game suspension;


Todd Lickliter, a former Eastern assistant (1997-99), who received a $2.4 million buyout after being fired from Iowa after going 38-57.

Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne coach Dane Fife, who went from 10-18 his first year to 18-12.

Former Michigan State assistant and Toledo coach Stan Joplin. He is 203-155 in 12 seasons.

Michigan assistant Bacari Alexander;

former Dayton assistant Cornell Mann.



 
4/12/2011 8:09 PM
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Is it just me, or are some of these successful mid-majors coaches smartening up ... and instead of taking mediocre BCS jobs that are very difficult to succeed at, they're using the outside interest to leverage better contracts (albeit not what the BCS could offer)? 

They see the cautionary tales of the Lickliters, Monsons, etc. and think, "Hmmm ... making a million bucks at a place like this might beat the hell out of making $1.8 mil at a place like NC State".
4/12/2011 11:05 PM
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