SJ 2009-09 Coaching Carousel thread

Grant would have to do far more than just control Virginia. Hoops in Va. is good, but not that good.

 

And, anybody decent in Virginia usually ends up wearing some shade of blue and white.

 

And the second-tier guys who might dominate in the CAA but are marginal ACC players end up at UVa [/calvinbaker&mikescott]

 

Well if UVA could have kept Ed Davis in state, it would have been a start.

 

Hate it for VCU. Guy's a hell of a coach.

 

My bad. When you said "ACC" I assumed you meant Atlantic Coast Conference, not three Mid-Atlantic states of your choosing.

 

Um, lemme see:

Al Skinner - Boston College
Sidney Lowe - North Carolina State
Oliver Purnell - Clemson
Paul Hewitt - Georgia Tech
Leonard Hamilton - Florida State
Frank Haith - Miami

ONLY black coach in the ACC? Are you kidding? That's half the conference schools ... was more than half with Dave Leitao.

For someone so eager to argue, getting your basic facts straight would be an excellent start.

 

In his state and his two neighboring states, he does not have any competition. If NC State keeps Lowe, then that is his only competition.

If you are a top high school player in Richmond, Miami or Atlanta is a long way from home. Geographically, five of those coaches are very far away.

This was already stated on the second page of this thread.

 

The idea that black players will gravitate toward a black coach is largely a fallacy. Players of all colors are all looking for different things in a program. Some want to be nearby, some don't care. Some want prestige, some want to come build something. Some value early playing time, some don't care. Grant will be a good recruiter where ever he goes next because he is personable, hard-working, charismatic and has a track record of success, not because he is black.

I would gravitate toward UGA or Bama if I was an up-and-coming head coach. The SEC schools have athletic departments that are insanely endowed, so you can get resources, but bball is just a diversion until spring football. If you succeed at a school like that, the big boys will come calling. The right coach could turn UGA or Bama into a perennial favorite to win the conference. I don't think the same opportunity exists at UVA.

 

A couple Bama papers are reporting the job is Grant's if he wants it. A decision could come very soon, maybe today or tomorrow.

http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/2009/03/vcus_anthony_grant_could_earn.html

 

High Point has made its decision, hiring Scott Cherry from South Carolina, so the dominoes can start falling.

In small school news, Kentucky is done playing in the NIT, so the axe should fall on Gillispie sometime today. Let the fun begin.

 

Scott Cherry, the former benchwarmer for UNC? Oh god.