2018 Men's Hoops Coaching Carousel

Per the El Paso Times, UTEP has interviewed the following head coaches (unless otherwise noted):

¤ Joe Dooley, Florida Gulf Coast

¤ Steve Forbes, East Tennessee State

¤ Ray Harper, Jacksonville State (also former WKU HC)

¤ Randy Rahe, Weber State

¤ Rodney Terry, Fresno State

¤ Greg Foster, Milwaukee Bucks assistant (UTEP alum)

¤ Chris Ogden, Texas Tech assistant

Elpasotimes.com: UTEP talks to seven in basketball coaching search

[quote=“Run49er, post:41, topic:31105”]Per the El Paso Times, UTEP has interviewed the following head coaches (unless otherwise noted):

¤ Joe Dooley, Florida Gulf Coast

¤ Steve Forbes, East Tennessee State

¤ Ray Harper, Jacksonville State (also former WKU HC)

¤ Randy Rahe, Weber State

¤ Rodney Terry, Fresno State

¤ Greg Foster, Milwaukee Bucks assistant (UTEP alum)

¤ Chris Ogden, Texas Tech assistant

Elpasotimes.com: UTEP talks to seven in basketball coaching search[/quote]

Is it typical for the names of coaches being interviewed to be known this early in the process??

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Sportingnews.com: RANKING 10 WORST COLLEGE BASKETBALL COACHING HIRES OF EXPANDED BRACKET ERA

Commercialappeal.com: Tubby Smith must want to get fired

Kevin Ollie out at UConn. From national champions to irrelevancy in four seasons!

Getting caught up on today’s news and see that Mark Fox has been fired by Georgia.

Mike Decourcy reporting that Tom Crean is interested in the UGA opening.

Been hearing Rick Pitino’s name a lot from trusted sources regarding the Georgia job. - Jay Williams

Hoopdirt said this about his statement: Most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in a long time…

Rothstein reporting Thad Matta a serious candidate for UGA job.

In a couple of Mountain West moves:

Tim Duryea out at Utah State, where he was also a longtime assistant to his predecessor Stew Morrill before taking over when the latter retired in 2015.

Fresno State has a vacancy as head coach Rodney Terry will head back to his home state of Texas to replace Tim Floyd at UTEP.

In addition to those, North Alabama has fired Bobby Champagne after 15 seasons as the D-II school makes the transition to D-I and membership in the Atlantic Sun Conference in July.

And Pepperdine will hire Arizona associate head coach (and former Washington and Saint Louis head coach) Lorenzo Romar for a second stint. Previously coached the Waves of the West Coast Conference for three seasons, 1996-99, before taking the SLU job.

This is a great thread.

Run can you update the list?

https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/973295443395432448

Pat Forde on Gottfried to CSUN:

https://twitter.com/CoachingChanges/status/973387914829795331

https://www.fanragsports.com/news/rothstein-thad-matta-offered-georgia-job/amp/#click=https://t.co/XQ87yUh9vW

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/college/memphis-tigers/basketball/2018/03/12/memphis-tigers-coach-tubby-smith-meet-university-administrators-tuesday/416454002/

ECU update:

Note it lists Bobby Lutz as a candidate, along with Ryan Odom & Earl Grant.