With the hirings at Princeton, Michigan St., IUPUI, Kennesaw St., and Stetson, there are now 7 D1 programs without a head coach:

Alabama A & M
Colgate
Florida A & M
IPFW
Miami
Southern Univ.
UC Davis

Sounds like Miami has focused in on George Masons Jim Laranega.

Posted by alblack56 on 4/20/2011 5:36:00 PM (view original):
Mitch Henderson, an assistant at Northeastern for the past 11 years, is returning to Princeton to coach his alma mater.  He played on the 1996 team that upset UCLA in the NT, and on the 1998 that eliminated  UNLV.

Out goes Johnson; in comes Henderson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yp4_EraSLw&feature=related

Posted by hoosierkyle on 4/21/2011 1:56:00 PM (view original):
Sounds like Miami has focused in on George Masons Jim Laranega.

It's a done deal now. I think that's a mistake for Laranega. Miami will never be a basketball school

Laranega is not exactly a young pup with time to try and build it into a basketball school either.

Roman Banks has been named the new head men's basketball coach at Southern University.

Banks comes to Southern after an eight-year stint as an assistant coach at Southeastern Louisiana.

 

This is the second stint at Southern for Banks, who played collegiately at Northwestern State and still holds the school's all-time assist record.

 

In his first tenure in Baton Rouge, Banks was a six-year assistant coach with the Jaguars.

just looked at Miami's home attendance last season.
9 of 15 home games drew less than 5000, with a low of 2793.  Season high of 7972 to see Duke.

Larranega is 61. 

Sporting News said, "Larranaga is taking his talents to Coral Gables because he’ll be able to position himself, by doubling his salary to the $1 million range, for a more comfortable retirement. There’s no question that’s his motivation for moving. "

there is an interesting blurb on Ken Pomeroy's basketball website - kenpom.com/blog/ - about coaching resumes on everyone who has been a DIII coach since 2003.  it's VERY interesting to see some tendencies and some coaches who are all over of the map.  If you click on any team in the Ratings section, there's a link to the head coach and his resume.

Posted by alblack56 on 4/22/2011 4:24:00 PM (view original):

Larranega is 61. 

Sporting News said, "Larranaga is taking his talents to Coral Gables because he’ll be able to position himself, by doubling his salary to the $1 million range, for a more comfortable retirement. There’s no question that’s his motivation for moving. "

My thoughts exactly. Show me the money!

Mike Wise, in the 'Washington Post' wonders why Larranega took Miami, after turning down millions from his alma mater, Providence, 3 years ago.

great move for larranega.  he wanted to stay at mason to see if he could repeat his success.  then realized it wasnt gonna happen.  now he makes a smart move and goes to a big conference.  sure he'll be there for 4 years and get canned, but at least he will get a pay raise and get to go to south beach anytime he wants

Temple assistant Matt Langel has taken the job at Colgate.

Karl Hobbs has been fired at George Washington.

D1 vacancies are:

Alabama A&M
Florida A&M
George Mason
George Washington
UC Davis

I understand the Karl Hobbs firing, but not the timing.  I wonder why they waited so long.  There are some good young coaches who have already signed with other teams,

Hobbs looked to be a great hire when they got him.  A Jim Calhoun assistant, he had immediate success and talked about building a system, like UCons.  But they have faded in the A-10 while teams like Duquesne have been rising.  GW had a history of getting international players, and given it is in DC they had a great advantage recruiting these kids.  That is what Jarvis did.   But Hobbs decided to recruit against The Big East and ACC for players on the east coast.  I know that he used to be able to do that at UConn, but he GW was fighting way too much competition for the talent.  There next coach needs to get back to recuiting international players, like they used to.  He needs to take advantage of being in DC.  I wonder if they could lure Mike Jarvis back?  I would think he could do better than Florida Atlantic.