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(03-26-2016 10:51 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  Montgomery Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/stor.../82312882/

A person with knowledge of the search at UAB informed The Montgomery Advertiser a search committee is expected to be formed this upcoming week with candidate interviews to be conducted shortly after. The leading candidate for the opening include current UAB interim head coach Robert Ehsan but several other candidates who could emerge throughout the process are Arkansas assistant coach TJ Cleveland, Georgia assistant coach Philip Pearson, Alabama assistant coach Antoine Pettway and former South Carolina head coach Darrin Horn.

Darrin Horn's stock was soaring at WKU...they made the Sweet 16 in 2008 then he left for South Carolina (one NCAA appearance since 1999) where he broke even...looking back he should not have taken the SC job...probably not tops on the list but we could do MUCH worse than Darrin Horn

(03-27-2016 12:20 AM)Dragonz Lair Wrote:  

(03-26-2016 10:51 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  Montgomery Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/stor.../82312882/

A person with knowledge of the search at UAB informed The Montgomery Advertiser a search committee is expected to be formed this upcoming week with candidate interviews to be conducted shortly after. The leading candidate for the opening include current UAB interim head coach Robert Ehsan but several other candidates who could emerge throughout the process are Arkansas assistant coach TJ Cleveland, Georgia assistant coach Philip Pearson, Alabama assistant coach Antoine Pettway and former South Carolina head coach Darrin Horn.

Darrin Horn's stock was soaring at WKU...they made the Sweet 16 in 2008 then he left for South Carolina (one NCAA appearance since 1999) where he broke even...looking back he should not have taken the SC job...probably not tops on the list but we could do MUCH worse than Darrin Horn

Id rather have a young, ambitious coach who wants to go out and prove his worth. Horn may get here and settle in and do just enough to keep a job.

I was talking to a friend who knows a hell of a lot more about college hoops than I do, and he named several guys off the top of his head. Part of this I posted in another thread earlier, but damn if I know where. First off, we need to back way off of what we're paying the HC and get back into the normal range for this conference. This is particularly true if we hire a rising assistant. He's getting a job with a solid roster, not a crappy bench and a rebuilding job. A guy can take over here and have a very good W/L record from the start. We need to set aside enough money to hire a veteran bench coach if we go that route. Let the new coach choose him, but require a fifteen year veteran or something on that order sitting beside him. What is Duane Reboul up to these days?

We need to be getting our financial ducks in a row in case conference reorganizing does break out again. We also need to be sure that we have enough budgeted for cost of attendance, for all sports. That's probably close to a million all by itself. Every dollar matters, because at this point they largely come from the boosters.

Chris Caputo at Miami is Coach Larranaga's top assistant. He's really good.

LaVall Jordan at Michigan is associate head coach for Coach Beilein. He was a finalist at Butler last year. Recruited a lot of the Michigan team that made the national title game.

Justin Hudson at San Diego State is the top young coach on the west coach and he's been groomed by Steve Fischer.

That is three really good ones, all groomed by excellent head coaches.

Current head coaches worth a look:

1) Chris Beard at Arkansas-Little Rock. He won at Division II and now in the Sun Belt and won a game in the NCAAs. He was an assistant for Bob Knight.

2) Matt McCall, Chattanooga. He's a Donovan protege and considered a rising star. He won the SoCon this year with 29 wins. That was a similar situation to UAB right now where he took over a team built to win.

3) Steve Forbes, ETSU. He has Ingram connections, coached at UT for Pearl and at Wichita State for Marshall and at Texas A&M for Gillispie. He took over Murry's team and won 23 games. He was wrapped up in the Pearl mess and banished to JUCO for two years, where he went to the national title game twice.

All three have salaries under 300K at moment. I think there will be a lot of former head coaches looking to land at a place like UAB.

Person is worth interviewing, if only to show the unwashed that someone they know about is interested. I'm not that high on him, but that's what the interview process is about. Whoever comes in will inherit a loaded team that is used to winning but needs to add another layer of intensity. A guy with a big-time resume like Chuck, who earned every bit of it as a player, would have the respect immediately to demand it of them.

The 2017 class in Alabama is one of the very best ever. If UAB could land a couple of them, especially one or two of the big men like Reese and Garrison, then Lee's senior year could be something else. That possibility will make the UAB job highly coveted by coaches. You come here and win bigger than Haase did and you either revive your career or springboard it, or find yourself in a situation where you can be Mark Few.

(03-26-2016 11:57 PM)DragonClaw Wrote:  

(03-26-2016 09:17 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(03-26-2016 09:10 PM)DragonClaw Wrote:  What about Brian Gregory? Just let go by Ga Tech?

Let the last 6 words of your post be the answer to the first four words.

I think he's a good candidate. He's from the Tom Izzo tree, did very well at Dayton and was beginning to turn GaTech around and it's tough to win at Ga Tech with academic standards and ACC competition. He's already been recruiting the south

Dear lord, no. GT never made the tournament with him. He can't recruit and relied way too much on graduate transfers. GT should be a national program given their arena, location and conference.