Re: What Program Would a BE Coach Leave For?
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 2:43 pm
RedStorm wrote:herodotus wrote:
Wojo, and Willard would leave for UK, and Florida in a NY second. Other than that, you're probably right. Even the top A10 coaches are no longer quick to jump at a mid level P5 job, (or mid level BE job for that matter) Shaka turned down many P5 offers before jumping to Texas. Miller waited until Indiana came calling. Sean Miller left a then A10 X program for Arizona. Dan Hurley didn't jump for some crappy P5 program. The days when a Pete Gillen would leave even an MCC Xavier program for PC, are long in the past. Willard, and Wojo are the two coaches who are not long for the BE. For any of the others, it would take either an offer from a UK, KU UNC type program, or the right NBA offer. The NBA can take a coach from nearly anywhere, as we've seen in the past. Even Mullin, and Ewing would find it hard to turn down the Knicks, provided the deal, and the timing was right.
Yeah, I should have said "no SEC school except for UK". I could also see a guy like Willard, who has been on the hot seat in the recent past maybe bolt if he doesn't think the recruiting at SH is looking great.
As for the aforementioned former A10 coaches who were picky in their p5 destinations, they were all elite guys. Not just the usual good coach with prospects.
As for Dan Hurley, he has had a roving eye every offseason. If St. Johns had not hired Mullin he would have jumped at that opportunity without hesitation. I really don't think he is the same caliber coach as some of the other former A10 guys mentioned and he would take many of the gigs they turned down. I think a Tim Jankovick is a much better coach than Hurley and I don't think it would take an elite p6 job for him to leave. I think almost every coach currently in the A10 and AAC would bolt for any B10 or ACC job most SEC jobs.
I think the conferences seem to have their own practices and personality as it comes to hiring coaches.
The NBE is starting to 'circle the wagons' and hire from within. Time will tell is this strategy staves off the poachers. Personally, I think it will. I can't see the big boys going after our newer hires.
As for the AAC, they are in a comfortable area. The programs they would ordinarily be threatened by (the perennial power teams) usually look to hire the young up-n-comer coaches, like Holtmann. The AAC has a lot of name coaches that are beyond that point in their careers. They also compensate those coaches very well. Gregg Marshall makes over 3 million a year. Tubby Smith is way up there. I think Holtmann's reported salary would've put him on the low end of what AAC coaches are making as much as that pains me to say.