It's all you can eat Fridays again!

A Sea of Blue discusses a Yahoo Sports story that Tubby Smith is going to bring in to the Minnesota TimberGophers a super-recruiter as an assistant. Reasonable minds can ask this question: Why didn't he bring him to Kentucky when he was the head coach?

Lots of tranfers taking place, along with a wave of 7-footers commiting left and right. Details and links at Recruiting Wars. Usually massive transfers are a sign of a new head coach taking over a program. For example Hawaii had four new players coming in and two transfering out.

Latest news on the Goodman blog talk about a Nike-sponsored assistant coaches event in Nikor (Nike + Oregon, not to be confused with the camera company). Goodman also looks at next year's prospects (2007-2008) of Baylor, and Utah State, and Reggie Theus flirting with the NBA.

Mike Jones had a short-term tenure at South Carolina. The Syracuse transfer did "not meet ___ standards", a catch-all blanket explanation.

While Ole Roy got a four-year extension, Billy Donovan is still cooking. They are still "negotiating", while I could translate that to mean "waiting to see if an NBA job is offered"... Like father like son perhaps (in the basketball sense of course), Donovan may repeat the NBA mistake of Rick Pitino. Allegedly the reason the talks with the Memphis/Vancouver Grizzlies broke off was that he wanted full control of the franchise. Sounds familiar Celtics fans?

Not so good news for USC fans of 2007-2008. Gabe Pruitt will hire an agent

Andy Katz puts on his dollars and sense hat and looks at coaching salaries, extensions and bonuses