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Coach Search Options after Autry

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College basketball coaching carousel: 25 head coaches, high-major assistants to know for the 2026 cycle

Here are many of the hot names to track as the college hoops job market sizzles deeper into March
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I was about to post this CBS list from Norlander after I saw it this morning. I think our targets should be, in order:
1a.) Schertz, Saint Louis—We gotta make a play and a pitch for him, even if he turns it down. We might be the best job to open this off-season, and he's the most proven coach available, so I think you have to try for him.
1b.) Hodgson, South Florida—great fit, huge upside as a head coach, and we probably don't want to miss out on him while he's still rising.
3.) Jarrod Calhoun, Utah State—proven winner.
4.) Luke Murray—I know doesn't have head coaching experience, but I think his upside could be Tommy Lloyd high, he's an offensive mastermind, and has learned how to run a championship-level program at UConn. So maybe we should at least consider him if we can't get our top two choices, even though it would be something of a risk.
5.) Casey Alexander, Belmont
6.) Takayo Siddle, UNC Wilmington

Side note: Is it crazy not to include James Jones from Yale? He's built an Ivy League power there and is a proven winner, but he's now 62. We probably want a younger, hungry guy who will be here for years. But I could see him at least getting an interview.
 
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If you listen to Norlander and Hartzell's podcast, they reiterate that some of these P5 schools, including big football schools like LSU, South Carolina, K State, Notre Dame, even Pitt, can't afford to pay huge buyouts to their current coaches and staff, then hire an expensive new coach who will need staffing guarantees, and then provide $10 million or more in NIL funds. They concluded that these schools "aren't spending $30 million to change their basketball coach when that money could be going to football."

I think we're very much in the driver's seat here in terms of potentially having our pick of the coaching candidate litter this off-season, unless some other massive job unexpectedly opens up. Red's buyout is miniscule in comparison (he only has $3 million left on his contract and I can't imagine the buyout is that much, maybe $2 million?). We need to gather the funds and then land the best coach we can. We have to do due diligence and can't make a mistake here.

Addendum: To quote from the pod: "If you take all the jobs that are expected to become available, and you perform at 80 percent of the capacity of what the job can be—I'm not talking best case scenario, I'm talking you do a very good job but not a great job—the best outcome-impact relevancy is Syracuse."

"I tend to think the job with the highest ceiling for sure is Syracuse."

They also added that they don't think it's a lock that Hodgson is the next coach at Syracuse, which I was surprised by to hear. But it may have more to do with the new AD coming in, and so the search still being fluid at this point.
 
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Sherman20 said:
I was about to post this CBS list from Norlander after I saw it this morning. I think our targets should be, in order:
1a.) Schertz, Saint Louis—We gotta make a play and a pitch for him, even if he turns it down. We might be the best job to open this off-season, and he's the most proven coach available, so I think you have to try for him.
1b.) Hodgson, South Florida—great fit, huge upside as a head coach, and we probably don't want to miss out on him while he's still rising.
3.) Jarrod Calhoun, Utah State—proven winner.
4.) Luke Murray—I know he's just an assistant, but I think his upside could be Tommy Lloyd high, so maybe we should at least consider him if we can't get our top two choices, even though it would be a risk.
5.) Casey Alexander, Belmont
6.) Takayo Siddle, UNC Wilmington

Side note: Is it crazy not to include James Jones from Yale? He's built an Ivy League power there and is a proven winner, but he's now 62. We probably want a younger, hungry guy who will be here for years. But I could see him at least getting an interview.
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My concern w/ Calhoun was he was mediocre or less for 5 years at Youngstown State...and his name is Calhoun.
 
Sherman20 said:
If you listen to Norlander and Hartzell's podcast, they reiterate that some of these P5 schools, including big football schools like LSU, South Carolina, K State, Notre Dame, even Pitt, can't afford to pay huge buyouts to their current coaches and staff, then hire an expensive new coach who will need staffing guarantees, and then provide $10 million or more in NIL funds. They concluded that these schools "aren't spending $30 million to change their basketball coach when that money could be going to football."

I think we're very much in the driver's seat here in terms of potentially having our pick of the coaching candidate litter this off-season, unless some other massive job unexpectedly opens up. Red's buyout is miniscule in comparison (he only has $3 million left on his contract and I can't imagine the buyout is that much, maybe $2 million?). We need to gather the funds and then land the best coach we can. We have to do due diligence and can't mistake here.

Addendum: To quote from the pod: "If you take all the jobs that are expected to become available, and you perform at 80 percent of the capacity of what the job can be—I'm not talking best case scenario, I'm talking you do a very good job but not a great job—the best outcome-impact relevancy is Syracuse."

"I tend to think the job with the highest ceiling for sure is Syracuse."

They also added that they don't think it's a lock that Hodgson is the next coach at Syracuse, which I was surprised by to hear. But it may have more to do with the new AD coming in, and so the search still being fluid at this point.
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Those who want to listen to the main part, start listening from the 1 hour, 7 minute mark
 
Cusefan0307 said:
Probably will get slammed for this by some, but I think Oats has plateaued a bit. They’ve definitely underachieved this year.
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I think that's just the nature of college sports right now for all but the bluest of bloods in their sports. Duke is always going to be at worst very good. Ohio State and Bama football is the same. Even Alabama basketball is going to have meh years. Constant roster turnover is just such a crapshoot.

But I'd kill for Alabama's meh year this year.
 
Cusefan0307 said:
Probably will get slammed for this by some, but I think Oats has plateaued a bit. They’ve definitely underachieved this year.
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If plateauing is having the highest scoring offense in the NCAA, a 22-7 record and 2nd in the SEC, and a project #4 seed in the tournament. Sign me up. That is considered a "down year" for Oats?
 
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NKR1978 said:
I think that's just the nature of college sports right now for all but the bluest of bloods in their sports. Duke is always going to be at worst very good. Ohio State and Bama football is the same. Even Alabama basketball is going to have meh years. Constant roster turnover is just such a crapshoot.

But I'd kill for Alabama's meh year this year.
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I am saying for their talent I'd expect they would be better. They have 7 top 50 HS players on that team. I kind of view them like Louisville I think Louisville has underachieved too. It would be great to be like both, but I think Hodgson would be a great hire and potentially could be one of the best coaches in the ACC after Scheyer and Odom.
 
Cusefan0307 said:
I am saying for their talent I'd expect they would be better. They have 7 top 50 HS players on that team. I kind of view them like Louisville I think Louisville has underachieved too. It would be great to be like both, but I think Hodgson would be a great hire and potentially could be one of the best coaches in the ACC after Scheyer and Odom.
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I can only hope we land that sorta talent and underachieve like that in future seasons.
 
Cusefan0307 said:
I am saying for their talent I'd expect they would be better. They have 7 top 50 HS players on that team. I kind of view them like Louisville I think Louisville has underachieved too. It would be great to be like both, but I think Hodgson would be a great hire and potentially could be one of the best coaches in the ACC after Scheyer and Odom.
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They have played a brutal schedule which is why they have 7 losses.
 
Cusefan0307 said:
I am saying for their talent I'd expect they would be better. They have 7 top 50 HS players on that team. I kind of view them like Louisville I think Louisville has underachieved too. It would be great to be like both, but I think Hodgson would be a great hire and potentially could be one of the best coaches in the ACC after Scheyer and Odom.
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Alabama has the #1 strength of schedule in college basketball
 
Briancuse said:
They have played a brutal schedule which is why they have 7 losses.
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At times, they look a little disinterested. Their defense comes and goes too. They could be an early out in the tournament. I’m not sold on their coach yet either. There’s actually some rumblings in Louisville about him already.
 
hoopsupstate said:
At times, they look a little disinterested. Their defense comes and goes too. They could be an early out in the tournament. I’m not sold on their coach yet either. There’s actually some rumblings in Louisville about him already.
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I was talking about Bama they played a brutal ooc schedule. St john's purdue illinois Arizona clemson and gonzaga.
 
hoopsupstate said:
At times, they look a little disinterested. Their defense comes and goes too. They could be an early out in the tournament. I’m not sold on their coach yet either. There’s actually some rumblings in Louisville about him already.
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Louisville fans aren’t terribly happy with Kelsey. If he loses early he’s going to get crushed.
 
orangepassion said:
Those who want to listen to the main part, start listening from the 1 hour, 7 minute mark
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One of them also said this about Schertz on the pod, "one of the key figures on this year's carousel":
"I want to say he's gone. I just don't know where he's going... If you had asked me a week ago, I would've said Syracuse for him. And maybe I'll just stick with the idea that he's not going to be there [at Saint Louis]. But I'm a lot less confident in that than I was."
Interesting. I wonder if they think Hodgson is likely going to Syracuse now, and then the other open jobs (or jobs that are expected to open) are less appealing, and he might stay at Saint Louis one more year.
 

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