Posted by alblack56 on 4/13/2011 4:24:00 AM (view original):

Mid-major coaches would do well to consider Georgetown.  When John Thompson went there in the late 70's, they were coming off a 3-23 season and had two NIT first round losses in the previous 25 years...that's it.  They were mid-major or below. He had them in the NCAA within 3 years. There's no way Georgetown would've been invited into the Big East in 1984  if Thompson had't built that program. We'd probably see them in the Colonial with George Mason and VCU.

Thompson proved you can stay at a private mid-major school and win consistently.

it wasn't that long ago when UMass was ranked #1
 

Posted by dacj501 on 4/14/2011 9:47:00 AM (view original):

it wasn't that long ago when UMass was ranked #1
 

I guess they can't expunge the old rankings...just the wins...

Posted by jenningss on 4/14/2011 2:36:00 AM (view original):
1st, thanks alblack (actually my brain sees allblack and goes to lazy images of vacationing in New Zealand) for this yearly thread.

I wish I could find a listing of programs who bring in and get hired out assistant coaches. I've been following Gonzaga basketball since the early 80's and am impressed with how the current coach Mark Few handles losing so many. It's as if assistants come here knowing they will get a shot somewhere else. I'm guessing Few always has multiple applicants and gets the pick of the litter. 

As a follow-up:

 

Doug Collins doesn't want son to follow Mike Krzyzewski at Duke

 But don't count Doug Collins as one of those people that wants his son to eventually become the Blue Devils coach.

Speaking on the Dan Patrick radio show, the veteran NBA coach wasn't enthusiastic about the possibility of his son dealing with the pressure of the job.

"I would not recommend my son to take that job. They still talk about John Wooden at UCLA. I think that to follow a Coach K I don't know how you could do that. I just think that would be an incredibly tough job, especially for a young coach who hasn't been a head coach. So I think you're going to see eventually Chris go somewhere else. I don't think you're going to see him sit around and wait."

Previous Duke assistants have reached various levels of success venturing out on their own.

Mike Brey has had strong runs at Delaware and Notre Dame, while Tommy Amaker has had mixed results at stops at Seton Hall, Michigan and Harvard, and Quin Snyder struggled after initially winning at Missouri.

The future for Johnny Dawkins, who just finished his second year at Stanford, is uncertain.

Kennesaw St. has hired Penn St. assistant Lewis Preston as head coach. Before going to Penn St., he was an assistant at Florida and Notre Dame. Preston has a background in academic improvement that the Owls need

The accountability is necessary because Kennesaw State has failed to meet the minimum score in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate in the last two reports and expects to lose scholarships and practice time as part of historical penalties when the next set of scores come out later this year. The APR uses a formula to track students' academic progress over a four-year period. A perfect score is 1,000. The NCAA demands a minimum score of 925. The Owls posted scores of 883 (2008-09) and 843 (2007-08) the past two years.

Alexander has been an assistant coach at Belmont University in Nashville for the last 16 years,