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This Spring, Maine hired Bob Walsh as their head coach. Walsh had been a PC assistant coach back in the day, and for the past 8-9-10 years had been the very successful head coach of Div-3 Rhode Island College ("RIC" is about a 5 minute walk from PC). So he's making a big jump from Div-3 to Div-1, taking a very difficult job up in the very isolated college town of Orono. He has a great blog, updated regularly, with interesting articles about his coaching philosophy. He's also walked us through much of his on-going transition moving from RIC to Maine.

Here is his link:
http://blog.coachbobwalsh.com/

Here is the most recent article that he's linked to, from Yahoo, about Coach K's self serving time as head coach of USA Basketball:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba-needs- ... 17393.html

Here is a link to an article on Chip Kelly in Philadelphia:
http://grantland.com/features/chip-kell ... influence/

Here is an opinion piece by Walsh on there being really no "wasted recruiting trips":
http://blog.coachbobwalsh.com/2014/09/w ... ting-trip/

Here is a piece by Walsh on how he put together Maine's upcoming schedule (has a game at Seton Hall this year!):
http://blog.coachbobwalsh.com/2014/09/the-schedule/

From zagsblog...

http://zagsblog.com/articles/coach-k-bo ... -theories/

Boeheim and Coach K deny gaining recruiting advantages. Calipari is actually more honest about it, saying he got to know freshman Karl Towns while coaching the Dominican Republic team.