Check the topic Partner's Future. It was mentioned there. I have no other insight.
There was some talk when we hired him about us being a stop on his journey back to Arizona, but I almost never hear of a coach wanting to leave a head coaching job for an assistant position. It’s not like an assistant gets a lot more free time than a head coach.
It’s a fun topic to shoot the breeze over, but is it something one of us would do, or advise their best friend to do?
There is literally one guy claiming he knows something. I’m sure Pastner figured he needed out at Memphis and Tech could set him up to get to the big time but think he’s pretty much blown that. If would take 2-3 really good years back to back to make him
a hot commodity imo unless he wants an assistant job in the NBA.
I agree about 2-3 years, and more in addition. He’d really have to show off more recruiting chops than we’ve seen lately or an intriguing offensive scheme for that to happen (in my opinion). He’s finally past his Bell problems, and hopefully he can get a second wind and find his footing again.
Stringing together 2-3 more classes like this last one and he’d be in good shape.
Would that mean he's available cheap?
I do wonder when he’ll be back on the sideline. I don’t think our legal and compliance departments are up to that kind of stress and risk right now, and I can’t see any faculty member on a hiring committee here saying “yes”.
There are over 200 NCAA-tourney-eligible universities. It only takes one to hire him.