1. Chris Lowery out at Southern Illinois.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7638549/southern-illinois-salukis-fire-chris-lowery-coach

3/2/2012 5:21:53 PM

weber out at illinois

3/9/2012 12:44:44 PM

Nebraska firwes (sic) head coach Doc Sadler

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/basketball/ncaa/03/09/sadler-nebraska.ap/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a11&eref=sihp

3/9/2012 6:12:31 PM

Matt Doherty out at smu.

3/14/2012 12:01:00 AM

Darrin Horn out at South Carolina

3/14/2012 12:02:10 AM

Ben Howland is staying at UCLA for now

3/14/2012 12:06:55 AM

Herb Sendek contract extended at ASU

3/14/2012 7:21:14 AM

So Bruce Weber fired from Illinois. The last 9 years @ Illinois he has 1 Final Four, 1 Sweet Sixteen, 2 2nd Rounds, 2 1st Rounds, and an NIT quarterfinal. Yet they fired him? Where is the media saying Illinois should be happy with that success? Why do they feel they need better success?

3/14/2012 10:17:28 AM

^ I hope the same shit that happened to Nebraska happens to them. Not happy with 10-2 or 9-3?We'll fire you and never get to 9 wins again. BOOM.

3/14/2012 10:58:49 AM

nebraska has gone 9-4, 10-4, 10-4, 9-4 the last four seasons.

3/14/2012 11:03:59 AM

BOOM

3/14/2012 11:04:21 AM

nm

[Edited on March 14, 2012 at 2:56 PM. Reason : ]

3/14/2012 2:55:20 PM

wtf does that have to do with the coaching carousel thread?

NyM needs to tighten up over here. Shit like this should get you a several month ban from Sports Talk.

3/14/2012 2:56:53 PM

Banned for accidentally posting in the wrong thread? Chill shorty, you take yourself too seriously. I deleted it before you even commented.

3/14/2012 3:00:03 PM

Apparently Leonard Hamilton is eyeing the Illinois job?

R.I.P. ACC

3/21/2012 5:38:16 PM

oh you haven't heard? mark gottfried is here dude.

[Edited on March 21, 2012 at 5:43 PM. Reason : florida state's not really an acc team anyway.]

3/21/2012 5:43:05 PM

^^ LOL. Shaka Smart turns down Illinois so they go for Hamilton? Sounds like the Missouri plan.

Hamilton would be smart to bolt right now. He will never achieve more than he did with FSU this year and they are going to be much, much worse next year especially if Snaer decides to go pro. Plus at FSU, football is still king regardless.




[Edited on March 21, 2012 at 5:46 PM. Reason : 456]

3/21/2012 5:46:06 PM

hamilton is trying to bolt but he's in his 60's, doubt illinois gives him serious consideration

3/21/2012 5:47:26 PM

^^ yeah, you misunderstand. hamilton wants the illinois job, not necessarily the other way around. and holy shit, he's 63? looks 40.

3/21/2012 5:48:59 PM

^ haha yeah i was thinking the same thing. No way I would have guessed him to be anywhere near that old.

3/21/2012 6:23:28 PM

Orlando Sentinel:

Quote :

" TALLAHASSEE —Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton is comfortable at FSU and has no interest in the coaching vacancy at Illinois, according to a Wednesday morning report. ESPN.com cited an unnamed source with "direct knowledge of (Hamilton's) plans" as having said the coach wants to stay with the Seminoles and continue to build up what he believes will be a better team in 2012-13."

Also mentions how Shaka turned down Illinois already

[Edited on March 21, 2012 at 6:34 PM. Reason : fghk]

3/21/2012 6:33:04 PM

Illinois must be a shitty program if the great Shaka Smart turned them down.

3/21/2012 6:56:49 PM

You should know black people don't age.

Paul Hewitt is 78.

3/21/2012 7:01:13 PM

Frank Martin to South Carolina. Good hire for them, but a horrible decision for Martin IMO.

3/24/2012 2:49:37 PM

^agreed

3/24/2012 5:35:05 PM

No doubt it's difficult to win at South Carolina, but I think some of you are underestimating how shitty Manhattan, Kansas is.

3/24/2012 6:06:51 PM

Seth Greenburg (lol) is apparently SMU's top candidate

3/25/2012 9:21:17 PM

Martin moves to a better sports school in a good, stable, yet easy conference(after kentucky). How is it not a good move?

3/25/2012 9:37:38 PM

^so, is that a done deal?

3/25/2012 9:39:09 PM

link?

3/25/2012 9:40:14 PM

According to the sports talk radio shows down in SC, it was a done deal as of Friday. Maybe they jumped the gun some. I still think Martin could have waited for a better opportunity than SC. They don't give a shit about basketball in SC and will continue to get raped for their good players by the better programs in NC and all over the southeast.

I do agree that it is a better situation than Manhatten and a better conference than the Big 12.

3/26/2012 8:06:25 AM

i was sure he would end up with the miami job a while back

3/26/2012 8:12:42 AM

Looks like Frank has been paying player for awhile.
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/2012/story/_/id/7737800/kansas-state-wildcats-frank-martin-paid-former-prep-players

Quote :

""I'm not going to tell you who they were," Martin said of the former high school players, "but I sent them a lot of money over the years to make sure they could take their girlfriend out to the movies, make sure they could wash their clothes and do all the things that scholarship money don't cover. They don't have an option."

on USC job

Quote :

""In the age of social media that we live in right now, it's crazy," Martin said. "I was scheduled to be at a press conference today in South Carolina and I was sitting watching a show in New York City last night. And obviously I'm sitting here with you guys today, so it's. ... The stuff that gets out these days, I look at it as a compliment that we're doing our job the right way at Kansas State that these sort of things get out.""

3/26/2012 12:41:45 PM

UNC's Haase to UAB.

3/27/2012 12:47:08 PM

Quote :

"Martin moves to a better sports school in a good, stable, yet easy conference(after kentucky). How is it not a good move?"

Because it's fucking South Carolina. They haven't won an NCAA tourney game since I've been alive and NOBODY gives a shit about basketball down here. I'm surrounded by USC fans and as of this week, 99% of them didn't even know their coach had been fired, much less care about it.

Although I think Martin can do a little better because of his personality, it's almost impossible to recruit down here. In the region, you either want to go to an ACC school or get the fuck out of South Carolina. And nobody is dying to play in the SEC (although it is slowly getting better).

If Martin hadn't butted heads with the K-State AD, there's no way he goes to SC (except for a huge raise...and apparently they are paying him a lot).

3/27/2012 12:52:26 PM

^^seems like he's basically been with Roy ever since he played for him in 94 at Kansas, except for a breif stint playing overseas.

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 12:54 PM. Reason : ]

3/27/2012 12:54:22 PM

I think it's a good move for Martin. besides Kentucky, Florida and Vanderbilt, the SEC is pretty even in terms of level of shittiness. he's proven himself to be a good coach, and I would think it would be easier to recruit to Columbia, SC over Manhattan, KS

granted I've never been to Kansas but I also see no reason to ever go there

3/27/2012 1:02:53 PM

Having been to Kansas, I can confirm that there is no reason to ever go there. SC sucks pretty hard though. Take recruits to myrtle beach I guess.

3/27/2012 1:05:59 PM

Having drove/rode thru Kansas i had to stop and have a drink half way thru. would have stopped sooner but there isn;t a got damn thing in Kansas. the whole state has three 3 trees in it.

3/27/2012 1:27:38 PM

troll away!

3/27/2012 1:41:08 PM

a fan of the state of kansas, are you? or south carolina?

3/27/2012 1:44:53 PM

baiting, are we?

3/27/2012 1:56:33 PM

How has Bzdelik kept his job this long?

3/27/2012 1:59:16 PM

Having lived in both Kansas and SC, I must say that you guys don't know jack shit. Judging a place simple because you drove through it is like calling a girl a bitch because you walked past her and did not like the color of her hair. A place is what you make of it.

3/27/2012 2:03:13 PM

probably because his team doesn't rape people in hotels.

3/27/2012 2:03:22 PM

kansas looks like the whole state is stuck in the 50's

boringest, ugliest state I've ever driven through

^^no its not, its like judging a girls beauty based on her outward appearance

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 2:07 PM. Reason : .]

3/27/2012 2:04:21 PM

Quote :

"A place is what you make of it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhJAXvD4Ho

3/27/2012 2:10:34 PM

Columbia is a shit hole. I don't know of its any better than Kansas State...but there's a reason basketball coaches haven't been able to recruit worth a shit there in a long time. You can't take them to basketball games because nobody goes. Your best bet is to get them to commit during a visit when the football team is playing.

I've seen K-State play on TV and they've got a lot more "atmosphere" than USC does. Bottom line is that its not a "step-up" in program. At best...it's a lateral move. But if you hate your current AD and they're throwing $2 mil at you...then I guess you have to make the move.

3/27/2012 2:14:27 PM

Quote :

"Columbia is a shit hole"

amen ... had to go there for a conference once. hope to never return.

3/27/2012 2:52:12 PM

coeds in Columbia are not exactly terrible

3/27/2012 3:35:28 PM