Could the search finally be over in Olean? Film at 11...BuffaloNews.com: Schmidt pays visit to St. Bonaventure
PostGazette.com: Schmidt emerges as top candidate
In other news, Butler promoted assistant Brad Stevens to head coach and ol’ Huggy is mulling over the WVU opening.
Donovan remains a Gator…
Billy decides to take UK job – Billy G that is! 
Kentucky.com: Kentucky to name Gillispie basketball coach
Dallas.com: A&M’s Gillispie hired at Kentucky
Sportsline.com: Kentucky finds its new coach in A&M’s Gillispie
And UCLA assistant Kerry Keating will be the next head coach at Santa Clara.
Well, now that Kentucky, Michigan, West Virginia, and even South Florida have hired new coaches, perhaps Bona will have one by next week…
can we give BJ Holmes a call?
can we give BJ Holmes a call?
YES!! [SIZE=4]PLEASE!!![/SIZE]
by “we” i mean the coaching staff.
Unless bobby wants Chisox, and a few others and myself to get in on a conference call.
A guy with a losing record in the Northeast Conference? That’s the kind of bold move that has gotten St. Bonaventure where they are now in major college athletics.
[QUOTE=CMack124;229941]A guy with a losing record in the Northeast Conference?[/QUOTE]
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Schmidt’s record in the NEC is 58-52. Nothing to write home about but then I don’t know much about that low-major conference, to be honest. RMU’s hoops budget ranks pretty low at #297 ($594,490), compared to #156 at Bona ($1,336,472).
Look at UMass coach Travis Ford. His record at Eastern Kentucky in the OVC was 28-52 (61-80 overall). Anyway, at this point, Bona just needs to get someone hired. Then they need to do a study on athletics and determine what conference affiliation would best serve the school. At this point in time, it’s not the A-10.
K-State to name successor according to FOXSports’ Jeff Goodman…
FOXSports.com: Martin frontrunner for K-State job
Goodman states that if Frank Martin is indeed promoted to head coach, Hill will be offered the associate head coach position. Hmmm…
Looks like D. Hill is making out pretty good on the Huggy deal. If he got the assistant job at G’town or the assoc. head job at KSU he should be excited as h#ll. I know the boards feelings towards D. Hill, but do you guys still consider him a niner even w/ the crap he pulled?
I don’t consider him a Niner at all. He finished his playing career at Bowie State. Bobby helped get him back in school at UNC Charlotte in order for him to get the courses needed to graduate, his only tie to the University IMO is that his degree reads the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Florida assistant Donnie Jones also headed to West Virginia – to take over the program at Marshall.
[U]List of current Division I openings (4/6/07, 3:45 pm)[/U]
Air Force
Arkansas
California-Riverside
Chicago State
Harvard
Hawaii
Iona
Kansas State
Louisiana Tech
Missouri-Kansas City
Princeton
Saint Bonaventure
South Carolina State
Texas A&M
Has Gregg Marshall missed his window of opportunity? Looks as though he has for this season.
Side note to UK’s hiring of Gillispie…
[URL=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/SPORTS03/704070505][B]Gillispie twice arrested on DWI charges[/B][/URL], Louisville Courier-Journal
Louisville assistant Kevin Willard takes the Iona job…
[URL=http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007704050406][B]Iona to name Willard men’s basketball coach[/B][/URL], Westchester Journal News
[URL=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070406/SPORTS02/704060538/1028][B]Willard lands job as Iona’s head coach[/B][/URL], Louisville Courier Journal
Willard is the [B]18th[/B] Pitino assistant to get a head coaching gig!
and the A-10 loses Pitino to the Big East (Louisville)…
[URL=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/SPORTS02/704070549/1028][B]Pitino’s son joins his staff[/B][/URL], Louisville Courier-Journal
Supposedly A&M is considering Marshall, among others, according to an ESPN article I just read. A&M and Arkansas probably aren’t going to get an assistant from another program, so even if they overlook Marshall, the dominoes continue to fall and whoever they get, there will be an opening at those schools.
So I wouldn’t say his window has passed quite yet.
Updated List
[U]List of current Division I openings (4/7/07, Noon)
[/U]Air Force
Arkansas
California-Riverside
Chicago State
Harvard
Hawaii
Louisiana Tech
Missouri-Kansas City
Princeton
St. Bonaventure
South Carolina State
Texas A&M
UAB assistant Kerry Rupp will take over at Louisiana Tech.
Ex-Gonzaga and ex-Minnesota head honcho Dan Monson will get another chance, this time at Long Beach State.
And, as most already know, Martin and Hill take the reigns at K-State…
Latest from Sportsline.com…
John Pelphrey from South Alabama to Arkansas…
…and Texas A&M is expected to make an offer to Wichita State’s Mark Turgeon.
And not quite sure what to make of this from the K-State athletics website:
NOTE: Martin and Hill will be introduced at a press conference in the Legend’s Room of Bramlage Coliseum on Monday, April 9, at 11 a.m. [b]The event is closed to the general public.[/b]Link: KStateSports.com
The Bonnies have a coach!
BuffaloNews.com: Bona names coach
TimesOnline.com: RMU coach Schmidt accepts St. Bonaventure job
[QUOTE=run49er;230481]The Bonnies have a coach!
TimesOnline.com: RMU coach Schmidt accepts St. Bonaventure job
RMUColonials.com: Mark Schmidt profile[/QUOTE]
Crap! I liked the idea ID proposed earlier to make a reality show out of it.