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Ben Howland - 399-208, 57 yrs old, 19 yrs as HC, 10 NCAA Tourneys, 3 Final Four, 1 Elite Eight, Finished first in conference 10 times
Howland has been out of work since his messy departure from UCLA. Pretty clearly an elite level coach and also one that wants to coach again if he can find a job that fits what he wants. He was rumored to be on a number of lists last year but no job - makes you wonder if something came up in background checks. He was recruiting Atlanta heavily at the end of his UCLA career and likely would be able to mine that again. He sort of got caught late at UCLA changing his style from a slower, defensive focused team, to a more uptempo unit. His last 2 years at UCLA his teams avg 1.07 ppp and allowed .951 ppp avg 67.1 ppg. Biggest negative outside potential player management issues is that other than 4 years at Pitt his entire career is on the West Coast - would he come east for a job or would he rather stay on the West coast by his family (kids and grandkids). He's one that you do background checks on, if they don't come back good then you move on but if they do come back clean then I think you have to approach him.
Bob McKillop - Davidson, 489-297, 64 yrs old, 26 yrs HC, 7 NCAA Tourney's, 1 Elite Eight, 13 1st place finishes in Southern Conference
McKillop is my other outside the box candidate. I don't think GT will look at him and I don't think he would come (his family is really happy at Davidson - all 3 kids graduated from there, the school named its court after him last year). That said, if you wanted a Larranaga type hire, shorter term, would clean things up and build a good team - McKillop is a strong x and o guy. Would likely have to get the right recruiting asst. His teams are excellent offensively 1.125 ppg last 4 years and not so good defensively 1.03 ppp allowed. They do play relatively quick - 67.1 posessions per game. I don't see this one happening, but just wanted to give a couple of outside the box candidates.
