In years past, this blog (when it was the East Coast Bias) covered coaching changes - both for knowledge of who got fired and out of fascination about how other programs go about making changes. It's a similar dance every year; and the post about how to evaluate college basketball coaching candidates still rings true.
In the offseason, I'll take some other looks into the coaching carousel from last year and how things went for teams that made the change. But for now, the list of 27 open jobs that I know of; Ron Hunter has moved on from IUPUI to Georgia State, so one job is filled already.
But there are high-major positions with Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, and Oklahoma... along with high-major conference jobs open at Providence, Texas Tech, and Utah (moving to the Pac-10 Pac-12). And interesting jobs with Fresno State, Monmouth, Manhattan, Bradley, and Loyola-Chicago.
It's an exciting time for fans, and a frightening time for Athletic Directors; at lower-level schools, can they find a coach who will take pay less than many assistant positions in the major and mid-major conferences while still able to find players who can win? At the highest levels, the jobs are extremely difficult to succeed at, and the fan expectation is very high - even in places where teams haven't tasted consistent success.
And of course, recruits are wondering why they signed binding Letter of Intent paperwork only to find their coach gone.
The updated coaching changes chart, with win-loss records and years in Division 1 schools. For the three firings at schools that have been provisional D1 members, I left out their in-conference coaching records. If you see any glaring errors, let me know in the comments. Read on, below the fold.
School | Former coach |
D1 Yrs
|
W's
|
L's
|
Conf W's
|
Conf L's
|
|
1 | Alcorn State | Larry Smith |
3
|
12
|
78
|
10
|
44
|
2 | Arkansas | John Pelfrey |
4
|
69
|
59
|
69
|
59
|
3 | Bradley | Jim Les |
9
|
152
|
139
|
78
|
94
|
4 | Cal State Bakersfield | Keith Brown |
4
|
32
|
83
|
||
5 | Colgate | Emmett Davis |
13
|
163
|
214
|
81
|
108
|
6 | Eastern Washington | Kirk Earlywine |
4
|
42
|
78
|
24
|
41
|
7 | Florida A&M | Eugene Harris |
4
|
46
|
80
|
27
|
37
|
8 | Florida Gulf Coast | Dave Balza |
4
|
39
|
82
|
||
9 | Fresno State | Steve Cleveland |
6
|
92
|
98
|
39
|
67
|
10 | Georgia State | Rod Barnes |
4
|
45
|
80
|
45
|
80
|
11 | Georgia Tech | Paul Hewitt |
11
|
190
|
162
|
72
|
104
|
12 | Kennesaw State | Tony Ingle |
6
|
63
|
120
|
||
13 | Lamar | Steve Roccaforte |
5
|
76
|
78
|
40
|
42
|
14 | Loyola-Chicago | Jim Whitesell |
7
|
109
|
107
|
50
|
70
|
15 | Manhattan | Barry Rohrssen |
5
|
58
|
95
|
31
|
61
|
16 | Monmouth | Dave Calloway |
13
|
175
|
217
|
134
|
120
|
17 | NC State | Sidney Lowe |
5
|
86
|
78
|
28
|
56
|
18 | Northern Illinois | Ricardo Patton |
4
|
35
|
82
|
19
|
44
|
19 | Oklahoma | Jeff Capel |
5
|
96
|
69
|
37
|
43
|
20 | Providence | Keno Davis |
3
|
46
|
50
|
18
|
36
|
21 | Stetson | Derek Waugh |
11
|
121
|
192
|
90
|
124
|
22 | Tennessee | Bruce Pearl |
6
|
145
|
61
|
65
|
31
|
23 | Texas A&M Corpus Christi | Perry Clark |
4
|
54
|
71
|
32
|
32
|
24 | Texas Tech | Pat Knight |
4
|
62
|
69
|
19
|
45
|
25 | Towson | Pat Kennedy |
7
|
71
|
144
|
36
|
90
|
26 | Utah | Jim Boylen |
4
|
70
|
59
|
33
|
32
|
27 | Wyoming | Heath Schroyer |
4
|
49
|
69
|
16
|
41
|
1 | IUPUI | Ron Hunter |
17
|
292
|
219
|
134
|
93
|