![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s also on the aforementioned advisory team for the NIL collective, which theoretically means he has the relationships to move the program forward in that realm. Butler, at least, is someone the base can rally around while establishing relationships, quickly, with current players who would love to be future NBA Draft picks. In any other scenario, it’s not enough to get this nod. The 35-year-old former Mountaineers star has been in coaching for less than three years - a few months as an assistant coach at Division II Wheeling University before landing a gig on a G League staff. The radically kind coach and diminutive star guard fueling college basketball's best storyĭa’Sean Butler, College Park Skyhawks assistant coach. (It also would mean The Jerome Tang Effect is real.) Here’s guessing Baker will reach out to McCasland for thoughts, and maybe McCasland hooks him up with Drew, and maybe that gets Brooks and Jakus into the mix as longtime assistants who have familiarity with the Big 12 - and whose departures wouldn’t necessarily upend a program in the way a head coach’s departure would. If it doesn’t work? Everyone hits reset in the spring.Īlvin Brooks III and John Jakus, Baylor associate head coaches.īaker doesn’t have ties to Scott Drew, but he does have ties to a Drew apprentice, Grant McCasland, who was Baker’s men’s hoops coach at North Texas. It could be a palate cleanser for all involved. And it’s not a total rebuild with the likes of Kerr Kriisa and Jesse Edwards on hand. His stint with the Cleveland Cavaliers ended poorly. ![]() Here’s guessing the 70-year-old Beilein has learned how great it is to consult with NBA teams and fit in a round of golf here and there, instead of grinding away recruiting and coaching teenagers. O'Neil: Only room for sadness in Bob Huggins' latest issue Call List (in alphabetical order)īeilein, former West Virginia and Michigan coach. West Virginia should be winning games in the NCAA Tournament most of the time. Huggins led the Mountaineers to a Final Four in 2010 - one of two appearances in program history, with the other coming in 1959. 500 is a task in that league, but the wins and losses are what they are. West Virginia has posted one winning record in Big 12 play in the last five seasons. The competitive ceiling remains debatable. An organized NIL collective in Country Road Trust - which lists Jerry West, among others, as a member of its “advisory team” - and an athletic director in Baker who understands the significance of staying ahead of that particular curve. Membership in arguably the best men’s hoops conference in the country, at least for the near future. The only show in the entire state, when it comes to men’s basketball. SOURCE: West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins is expected to resign, has learned, confirming multiple reports. Past that: West Virginia men’s basketball head coach is a desirable job. Let’s stipulate that calamities caused the opening and that the calamities might negatively affect everyone inside and outside the entire operation in the coming season. Still, West Virginia isn’t sitting out the 2023-24 men’s hoops season, so someone has to lead the way. One agent said this when asked for his thoughts on who follows Huggins: “Good question.” Doing so under these circumstances - when it’s this coach, acting this self-destructively - adds layer upon layer of complication. Replacing a head coach in midsummer is not unprecedented in college basketball. There’s no playbook for athletic director Wren Baker and the rest of the decision-makers in Morgantown to rely on, either, all things considered. ![]()
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