Tourney Recap: Due to time constraints this will be posted Monday night.
Pink Slip Madness: Michigan and Tommy Amaker
As expected (after failing to reach the NCAA tourney with a group of seniors) Tommy Amaker had to be let go (even though he may have been liked at Ann Arbor). As Amaker said during his exit interview (paraphrasing) "it is a humbling experience to realize you have failed". This (Michigan) becomes the biggest open job as of right now!. Some of the concerns with regards to the next coach are:
1) Are they willing to pay top dollar for a high caliber coach? (eg around 1.5 million per year)
2) Are they willing to commit to upgrading the facilities?
Some of the names thrown around (Brian Curtis of CSTV): Tubby Smith, Bob Knight?, Lon Kruger (coached at Illinois and Kansas State), Ernie Kent (Michigan connection), Mike Montgomerry (Palo Alto to Ann Arbor has some similarities).
This also has major recruiting reprocussions. I will get deeper into this later on. For now, here are some of the top recruits who are affected by the coaching carousel. Typically universities want to give the next coach a shot at re-recruiting the signed recruits, before allowing them to go elsewhere if they don't want to stay... It doesn't mean all of the players will want to transfer, but a lot of them do in such cases. That's how Arizona got Andre Iguodala, Texas got Damion James, Villanova got Scottie Reynolds, UAB got Mayfield, etc, etc, etc...
Also from Brian Curtis on CSTV: There could be a coaching change at Iowa (new AD; their previous AD (Bob Bowlsby, former NCAA selection cmte chair) went to Stanford). Curtis confirmed that there was some preliminary interest between Steve Alford and New Mexico. After all Bob Knight went southwest, so why not his prized pupil?
CBS TV listings - Sunday March 18, 2007
*** all times pacific; add +3 for eastern ***
*** all times pacific; add +3 for eastern ***
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