Louisville has had 2 basketball coaches in the last 46 years; 4 in the last 73 years with 69 of those years between 3 coaches: Hickman, Crum and Pitino.

If you pay the coach what he is worth, give him the facilities he needs to recruit and support him, he will stay.

As a comparison since 1944 the number of coaches at rival programs:

Kentucky 7
Indiana 6
North Carolina 7
Duke 8
Syracuse 5

Yeah but that skews things in favor of Louisville. All those schools had/has a coach that people associated with basketball at each school. Boeheim, K, Smith, Knight and Rupp. And the only one that struggled to find a successor in any sense was Indiana, though Duke and Syracuse will have their work cut out for them in the next decade.

Your opening post details longevity.....

(12-10-2016 07:33 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  Quick, name the D-I basketball and FBS coaches that have been head coach at their school for 25 years or more (the entire time spent in D-I):

Coach K

Just mercenaries now days. And within a few years, Coach K's name will disappear off the list as he retires. Now days, it's a miracle if they last more than a decade.

I pointed out that many coaches with longevity come from programs that have had a number of coaches in a very short time....

(12-15-2016 07:04 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  Louisville has had 2 basketball coaches in the last 46 years; 4 in the last 73 years with 69 of those years between 3 coaches: Hickman, Crum and Pitino.

If you pay the coach what he is worth, give him the facilities he needs to recruit and support him, he will stay.

As a comparison since 1944 the number of coaches at rival programs:

Kentucky 7
Indiana 6
North Carolina 7
Duke 8
Syracuse 5

(12-15-2016 07:19 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  Yeah but that skews things in favor of Louisville. All those schools had/has a coach that people associated with basketball at each school. Boeheim, K, Smith, Knight and Rupp. And the only one that struggled to find a successor in any sense was Indiana, though Duke and Syracuse will have their work cut out for them in the next decade.

Crum deserves to be mentioned in that group. He won two national championships. Had more titles than Boeheim, held head to head over Knight, beat Knight so bad he refused to schedule him anymore and beat Coach K for one of his two titles....

Pitino may well finish ahead of some in your group. You also failed to mention Wooden or Allen. You might as well include Lewis if you are strictly talk longevity....
CJ

I never said Crum didn't belong on that list. I just said for that little comparison you made, you skewed it in favor of Louisville because of the start date.

(12-15-2016 06:29 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(12-14-2016 04:48 AM)dxdtdemon Wrote:  I think that Thad Matta will get to 25 years at Ohio State if he doesn't develop worse mobility issues. This is his 13th year in Columbus, and I think he's in a position where they realize that OSU can't get a better coach and he realizes that he probably isn't about to replace John Calipari or Tom Crean anytime soon. Also, Tom Izzo just needs a few more years to get to 25.

Wow, it's been that long already?

I thought this was Izzo's 20th season in East Lansing, but this is actually his 22nd.