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commish118
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Tough call.  If I am young and prefer coachign Men, I take Miami.  There is a lot more upside and with a fair amount of success you can use Miami as a steppign stone.  Plus, if you can get to a major program or a major conference, the $1MM would be easy to make. 

I would only take the UK job if I preferred coaching in the women's game or it was later in my career and the window of opportunity to coach a major men's program was closing. The UK women's job would actually put you under more preasure.  As the highest page coach, you better compte for a title aevery couplle of seasons or you would be out and making far less.  Plus, it would be much harder to transition from the women's game to the men's game then the other way around.

At the same time, coaching at a top program with the best facilities and a huge budget, would have to be tempting for any coach.  And the $1mm could set your family up for life.

So I wonder if Mitchell or Auriemma have ever been approached to coach a men's team.
5/6/2012 2:04 PM
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Rob Judson is reportedly the new coach at Illinois St, although an official announcement hasn't been made.  He's been their assistant for 5 years and was the head coach at No. Illinois for 6 seaons, going 74-101 and winning one MAC Western Division title

5/7/2012 11:41 AM
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With Temple and Charlotte out of the A10 and Butler in, the A10 is in talks with VCU and George Mason. I wonder if they add both if another eastern program would leave, they would look for another team in the West, or they would go with 15 teams for now.  Creighton would be a great fit, but they are probably too far west and I don't think they would leave the Missouri Valley. 
5/7/2012 7:26 PM
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Perhaps Cleveland State or Detroit from the Horizon.  There's a dearth of attractive Eastern teams..Iona?  Wagner?
5/7/2012 7:51 PM
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There are a ton in the East.  There are a lot of programs that may show an interest.  The biggest issue is finding a program willing to spend the money to compete.  That is the issue they ran into with Fordham.  The A10 wanted a NYC team for TV and recruiting, and Fordham promised to spend money, but it just han't happened. Butler, VCU, and Geroge Mason are spending money and are already committed to stay top tier programs.  Who else is close, and willing to step up?
5/7/2012 10:21 PM
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Posted by alblack56 on 5/7/2012 11:41:00 AM (view original):

Rob Judson is reportedly the new coach at Illinois St, although an official announcement hasn't been made.  He's been their assistant for 5 years and was the head coach at No. Illinois for 6 seaons, going 74-101 and winning one MAC Western Division title

Nope, the school announced today the Vandy assistant Dan Muller, who played at Illinois State from 1995-98, has accepted the job
5/8/2012 11:07 AM
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Grambling has hired Joseph Price, the assistant to Pat Knight at Lamar.  He played for Notre Dame under Digger Phelps.
5/8/2012 8:15 PM
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Brown University has contacted Oregon State associate head basketball coach Doug Stewart about its head coaching job, and Stewart will be going to Providence, R.I., for an interview in mid-May.

"It's my alma mater, where I played and coached, and my wife's from there,'' Stewart said. "There's a lot of positives that come along with a situation like that. And I obviously feel very strongly about the school and the opportunity to win there.''

Stewart came to Corvallis from Brown along with OSU coach Craig Robinson in 2008 after spending two years as an assistant with the Bears.

Stewart has been well-traveled since his playing career at Brown. After graduating in 1994, he joined the Washington Generals and spent six years facing the Geese Ausbie-led Harlem Globetrotters.

5/10/2012 9:02 AM
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George Mason is staying in the Colonial.  VCU has not made a decision.  Old Dominican is likely to move to Conference USA to play football.  If VCU and Old Dominican do jump, you have to wonder about GM's decision to stay.  The acting Big East commissioner also said there is no truth to the rumor that the basketball only schools were leaving to form their own conference.  At least he said he has not heard any of them talk about it.  You have to wonder if they leave if they would be targeting George Mason, VCU, and maybe half the A-10 schools.

Conference realignment is not over by any means!
5/11/2012 5:47 PM
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I don't think it makes sense for the BB only BigEast schools to leave and form a new league.   If (when) there eventually is a split, let the football teams leave which would leave the BigEast name to the remaining schools.  I'm assuming that would also include the auto NCAA bid and the 6 year cash rollover from the NCAA tourney points system.

I'm not sure how leaving the BigEast would benefit the BB-only unless one of the existing big 5 conferences decide to add a few basketball only teams. 
5/11/2012 6:35 PM
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There was always an agreement in the Big East that there would always be an equal number of basketball only and football programs so there could never be a bias toward one or the other.  The basketball only schools loved the football revenue.  Now the top drawing teams are, or have left and many belive that the desperation move to bring in football progams will weaken the basketball. 

I think it is all spectulation.  Ultimately it comes down to the politics behind closed doors. 
5/11/2012 9:49 PM
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Former UK star Sean Woods is returning to the Bluegrass to coach at Morehead State. He led Mississippi Valley to the NCAA tournament this season.

Woods follows in the footsteps of another UK star, Kyle Macy, who coaches Morehead from 1997-2006. Macy is now the color commentator for UK broadcasts.

There are now three DI schools without coaches:  Binghamton, Brown, and Mississippi Valley

5/12/2012 6:13 PM (edited)
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Posted by commish118 on 5/11/2012 9:49:00 PM (view original):
There was always an agreement in the Big East that there would always be an equal number of basketball only and football programs so there could never be a bias toward one or the other.  The basketball only schools loved the football revenue.  Now the top drawing teams are, or have left and many belive that the desperation move to bring in football progams will weaken the basketball. 

I think it is all spectulation.  Ultimately it comes down to the politics behind closed doors. 
the BigEast basketball only schools never have shared the football money.
the football money was split 8 ways and the basketball monies were split 16 ways.

the BigEast TV contracts are expiring and with the possible additions of the new football teams I think they're hoping to get a $100 million per year deal for football.
which would be somewhere in the range of $8 million per team per year. 
Good luck finding $100 million with the group of football teams remaining but you never know if a new player like NBC might want to make a splash with their national sports channel and the proposed BigEast could give them game start times in all 4 time zones. 

the basketball contract was somewhere above $30 million per year plus the NCAA tourney take has been close to $20 annually.  Which gave all 16 teams over $3 million each for the national TV rights for basketball.
5/12/2012 6:38 PM
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re: Big Least - looks like Boise St is having second thoughts. That won't help the new tv deal...
5/13/2012 12:04 AM
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Thanks for the clarity, Oldwarrior!  I just know that there has been rumors about the basketball only teams leaving for quite some time.  The fact that it won't go away tells me there has to be some truth to it. 
5/13/2012 12:46 AM
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