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Arkansas - John Calipari
Bryant - Phil Martelli, Jr.
BYU - Kevin Young
Cal Poly - Mike DeGeorge
Canisius - Jim Christian
Central Arkansas - John Shulman
Charlotte - Aaron Fearne
Charleston - Chris Mack
Charleston Southern - Saah Nimley
Chicago State - Scott Spinelli
Coastal Carolina - Justin Gray
Cornell - Jon Jaques
DePaul - Chris Holtmann
Detroit Mercy - Mark Montgomery
Drake - Ben McCollum
Duquesne - Dru Joyce III
Eastern Washington - Dan Monson
Fairfield - Chris Casey
Florida A&M - Patrick Crarey II
Florida Atlantic - John Jakus
Fresno State - Vince Walberg
Gardner-Webb - Jeremy Luther
Green Bay - Doug Gotlieb
Hampton - Ivan Thomas
Houston Christian - Craig Doty
Indiana State - Matt Graves
IU Indiana - Paul Corsaro
James Madison - Preston Spradlin
Kentucky - Mark Pope
Long Beach State - Chris Acker
Louisville - Pat Kelsey
Loyola (MD) - Josh Loeffler
Marshall - Cornelius Jackson
Maryland Eastern Shore -
Mercer - Ryan Ridder
Michigan - Dusty May
Missouri State - Cuonzo Martin
Morehead State - Jonathan Mattox
Mount St. Mary's - Donny Lind
New Orleans - Stacy Hollowell
Ohio State - Jake Diebler
Oklahoma State - Steve Lutz
Old Dominion - Mike Jones
Pacific - David Smart
Pepperdine - Ed Schilling
Rice - Rob Lanier
Saint Louis - Josh Schertz
Siena - Gerry McNamara
SMU - Andy Enfield
Southern Cal - Eric Musselman
Southern Illinois - Scott Nagy
Stanford - Kyle Smith
UIC - Rob Ehsan
USC Upstate - Marty Richter
UT Martin - Jeremy Shulman
UTRGV - Kahil Fennell
UTSA - Austin Claunch
Utah State - Jarrod Calhoun
Vanderbilt - Mark Byington
Washington - Danny Sprinkle
Washington State - David Riley
West Virginia - Darian DeVries
Western Carolina - Tim Craft
Western Kentucky - Hank Plona
William & Mary - Brian Earl
Wright State - Clint Sargent
Wyoming - Sundance Wicks
Youngstown State - Ethan Faulkner
 
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DePaul made it official today. We can all guess one name they'll have on their list.

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DePaul fires Head Basketball Coach Tony Stubblefield - HoopDirt

DePaul Vice President and Director of Athletics DeWayne Peevy today announced a change in leadership of the DePaul men’s basketball program. Tony Stubblefield has been relieved of his duties as head coach amid his third season. “After evaluating the current state of our men’s basketball...
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Here are some current head coaches to watch this cycle:

Takayo Siddle, UNC Wilmington, 37
Bucky McMillan, Samford, 40
Bob Richey, Furman, 40
Will Wade, McNeese State, 41
Richard Pitino, New Mexico, 41
Jerrod Calhoun, Youngstown State, 42
Jared Grasso, Bryant, 43 - Now that his legal issue is done, someone will hire him. Bryant probably shouldn't have forced his resignation.
Alan Huss, High Point, 44
Brian Wardle, Bradley, 44
Joe Pasternack, UC Santa Barbara, 46
Matt Langel, Colgate, 46
Mark Byington, James Madison, 47
Chris Gerlufsen, San Francisco, 47
Shaheen Holloway, Seton Hall, 47
Danny Sprinkle, Utah State, 47
Dusty May, FAU, 47
Pat Kelsey, Charleston, 48
Darian DeVries, Drake, 48
Bryce Drew, Grand Canyon, 49
Niko Medved, Colorado State, 50
Jon Coffman, Fort Wayne, 50
Mark Pope, BYU, 51
John Groce, Akron, 52
Russell Turner, UC Irvine, 53
Anthony Grant, Dayton, 57
Steve Forbes, Wake Forest, 58
Ron Hunter, Tulane, 59
Leon Rice, Boise State, 60
Randy Bennett, Saint Mary's, 61
Brian Dutcher, San Diego State, 64

The older they are, the less likely they are to move from their current situation save for Grant IMO. Seems like his fanbase wants him fired every couple months and I think they just have unrealistic expectations.
 
DePaul is such a weird situation. They have an AWESOME new arena, play in the Big East, have a solid history and are in one of the best recruiting cities in america; if not the best. But they have struggled for so long with so many different coaches that I'm just not convinced you can build a championship contender every year there. Chicago has proven over and over that they just DO NOT CARE about college basketball.

Chicago State = Historically one of the WORST program in D1.
UIC = irrelevant their entire existence and average about 50 people at home games.
Northwestern = Plays in the freakin Big10 and took them 50 freakin years to make 1 NCAA tournament. 2 total NCAAs. How is that possible in the Big10?
Loyola = Irrelevant for 40 years. got their unicorn and plus some help the media gods (sister jean) and levels of success that will not be touched again and they struggled to sell out their 4,500 seat arena. Fast forward 3 years and they are lucky to get 2,000 in their and nobody talks about them anymore.
DePaul = Great history, but have done nothing for the better part of 30 years. the laughing stock of the P6's and can barely break 1,000 for home games.
 
treeman said:
DePaul is such a weird situation. They have an AWESOME new arena, play in the Big East, have a solid history and are in one of the best recruiting cities in america; if not the best. But they have struggled for so long with so many different coaches that I'm just not convinced you can build a championship contender every year there. Chicago has proven over and over that they just DO NOT CARE about college basketball.

Chicago State = Historically one of the WORST program in D1.
UIC = irrelevant their entire existence and average about 50 people at home games.
Northwestern = Plays in the freakin Big10 and took them 50 freakin years to make 1 NCAA tournament. 2 total NCAAs. How is that possible in the Big10?
Loyola = Irrelevant for 40 years. got their unicorn and plus some help the media gods (sister jean) and levels of success that will not be touched again and they struggled to sell out their 4,500 seat arena. Fast forward 3 years and they are lucky to get 2,000 in their and nobody talks about them anymore.
DePaul = Great history, but have done nothing for the better part of 30 years. the laughing stock of the P6's and can barely break 1,000 for home games.
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Chicago proper high school basketball has been on the decline for about a decade now. In the 2010s, you'd routinely have like 6-7 guys Chicago guys in the Top 150 and now that number is down to 2 and 3 on a good year. If you expand deep into the suburbs you can likely squeeze another guy or two here and there, but even the last couple of years, the Top 5 Illinois kids have been dominated by the deep suburbs (30+ miles out) or other areas like Peoria, Moline, etc.

Because of that, Illinois or other national powers come in and snag the elite players. I also noticed several kids in the last 4-5 years end up leaving to go prep with their parents also moving. I don't know if that is a product of the violence and crime, but I know that probably does hamper families from wanting to send their kids there. Their NLI program, which we've actually had one longer than they have, is going to be crucial. Honestly, they will likely have to overpay to get kids to come there between the crime, the weather, cost of living, etc.

It honestly is the worst job in the Big East despite having all of the organizational or historical positives you mentioned. Unfortunately, nobody gives a shit about Ray Meyer or Mark Aguirre, who was a criminally underrated NBA player IMO.

The guy that makes the most sense at DePaul is a boom or bust candidate because, quite frankly, it doesn't matter unless they boom. That's Will Wade.
 
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This is what some people fail to realize. If we scrap football and our budget get's around that $4,000,000-$5,000,000. Now all of the sudden we are paying $700,000 for a head coach. who can offer $100,000+ to keep+retain good assistant coaches. Even if we have a collective around $300,000 that's damn near being able to offer your starting 5 $60,000. That gets you pretty damn far in Terre Haute, playing in one of the best mid-majors arenas in America where we could average 5,000+ with a couple of years of success. Now all of the sudden we are a very attractive job and we are consistently at the top of the MVC, leading to media attention and NCAA births.

If you are a head coach and you DePaul gives you a ring. I'm not even entertaining the idea until I know there is a major NIL package I dip into to get recruits there. Anything short of that is career suicide.
 
treeman said:
This is what some people fail to realize. If we scrap football and our budget get's around that $4,000,000-$5,000,000. Now all of the sudden we are paying $700,000 for a head coach. who can offer $100,000+ to keep+retain good assistant coaches. Even if we have a collective around $300,000 that's damn near being able to offer your starting 5 $60,000. That gets you pretty damn far in Terre Haute, playing in one of the best mid-majors arenas in America where we could average 5,000+ with a couple of years of success. Now all of the sudden we are a very attractive job and we are consistently at the top of the MVC, leading to media attention and NCAA births.
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You're assuming that if the current NIL pool is split between BB/FB, that taking away FB means the pool will remain the same size. Is there any evidence to think that getting rid of football would just take that money off the table completely and leave the BB program in the exact same situation it is now?
 
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You're assuming that if the current NIL pool is split between BB/FB, that taking away FB means the pool will remain the same size. Is there any evidence to think that getting rid of football would just take that money off the table completely and leave the BB program in the exact same situation it is now?
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When you donate to Crossroad of Champions, you specify where you want your donation to go. From what I understand the Crossroad of Champions NIL money it is very, very heavily pooled towards basketball. Like veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerry.
 
MovingScreenOfDeath said:
You're assuming that if the current NIL pool is split between BB/FB, that taking away FB means the pool will remain the same size. Is there any evidence to think that getting rid of football would just take that money off the table completely and leave the BB program in the exact same situation it is now?
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I'm willing to bet for every $1 dollar we lose short term because of football we gain $2 dollars long term because of basketball success. How does the saying go? Penny wise Pound foolish
 

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Jason Svoboda said:
When you donate to Crossroad of Champions, you specify where you want your donation to go. From what I understand the Crossroad of Champions NIL money it is very, very heavily pooled towards basketball. Like veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerry.
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Yeah I hope there aren’t a lot of people donating to FB. ROI there is nil
 
From the article:

Schertz is currently without an AD and the President of the university is retiring in June. The instability in leadership makes him an extremely likely mover candidate this cycle, no matter the job. His buyout is only 500k, making a move even more palatable for prospective schools. Hiring Schertz would signal a distinct shift in DePaul’s usual (and mostly unsuccessful) course of action. An outside-the-box hire may be what the school needs to shake off years of hoops misfortune.
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Coaching Search: DePaul

The coaching carousel is officially turning. DePaul athletic director DeWayne Peevy relieved Tony Stubblefield of his duties on Monday, marking the first midseason, high-major opening of the cycle. Stubblefield went 28-54 over two-and-a-half seasons in Chicago. After a promising first year, the...
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That above pretty much tells you that every single suitor is going to weaponize that against the school. Meanwhile, you've got clueless Board of Trustees posting on Twitter that we can retain him if you just send the schools another twenty spot.

Enjoy the rest of the year, folks.
 
TreeTop said:
WHAT?!!?!?
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I was being a little exaggerative, but the post is on Twitter where a BOT member said we don't need a President or AD to retain HCJS and it could be done if the fan base just donates more. Just a monumental misunderstanding of sports business.
 

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Jason Svoboda said:
That above pretty much tells you that every single suitor is going to weaponize that against the school. Meanwhile, you've got clueless Board of Trustees posting on Twitter that we can retain him if you just send the schools another twenty spot.

Enjoy the rest of the year, folks.
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Me personally I don't think we have to worry about next year with virtually most coming back outside of 2 that we know of. It will be the after next season in 2025 where things get Dicey.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
I was being a little exaggerative, but the post is on Twitter where a BOT member said we don't need a President or AD to retain HCJS and it could be done if the fan base just donates more. Just a monumental misunderstanding of sports business.
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How is this different than you and others saying we can keep him if we just drop football?
 
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