I’m posting here for information purposes what I posted on the other Board.

One measure of the health of a program and, by extension, a league is how long coaches stay at a school. It is certainly not the only measure. As with any marriage, if a coach stays a long time, it’s an indicator that both sides are happy with the arrangement, Coach K being the classic example - especially since he had opportunities to go the the NBA and turned them down. If a program has frequent turnover of coaches, it suggests that something is structurally wrong.

UConn is the gold standard among Big East programs. They have had 3 coaches in the past 40 years - and counting. I’m listing the number of years that the last 3 coaches have lasted at each Big East school as a comparison, not including this year yet.

40 - UConn
35 - Creighton*
25 - Villanova
22 - Georgetown
20 - Seton Hall
18 - Maquette
18 - Providence*
12 - Butler
11 - St. John’s
11 - DePaul
8 - Xavier

*Creighton and Providence have new coaches, so there numbers could be viewed as 33 years and 16 years respectively, counting this year.[/align]