Or double secret probation.
I watched St. John’s vs. Xavier last month in one of those FS1 All Access games, which are very cool btw. All I can say is you do not want Mike Anderson as head coach after watching that. Granted he was being compared in the huddle to Sean Miller in real time - a battle very few coaches would win. Miller sounded like a basketball savant with his in-game scouting and adjustments every timeout.
He's got a good track record and has won everywhere he's gone. Only place he was fired from was Maryland and he was replacing a legend in Gary Williams. Even there he didn't do too bad.
I thought about him but because of the scandal I don't think it would be good for recruiting.
Tulsa hasn't been good in a while, it's his first year there. Before Tulsa Konkol did good at Louisana Tech, and never had a losing season there.
I put Anderson on the list in case we can't financially afford other options. Same reason I put Scott Pera there too. If we can't hit a home run the two of them would be safe hires.
If he got fired (“resigned”) from Wichita State, it was bad. One of the Koch brothers was backing him massively, and he eventually said “too much”.
They also paid him $7.5M to go. If it was that bad, they likely would have fired him for cause and kept the money. It has been three years, so perhaps he has learned his lesson. Since there were no specifics, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Especially if you word the contract carefully/
If we're willing to do this, and we're probably not, I'd go hire Pitino first.
It cost them that much to fire him with cause. They owed him $15 million without cause. https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article247245209.html.
