New & Official Coaching Candidates Thread

[Brooklyneagle]

Quality is like oats. If you want good clean oats, you'll have to pay a fair price. If however, you don't mind oats that have been through the horse, they are cheaper.

[DrJackRyan]

Celtics assistant coach Walter McCarthy wants the job, per today's Herald.

I love Waltah!

[BC923]

Celtics assistant coach Walter McCarthy wants the job, per today's Herald.

I love Waltah!

WALTHAM — The list of candidates for the head basketball coach’s position at Boston College includes Walter McCarty, the Herald has learned.

And the Celtics assistant coach acknowledged yesterday he is intent on exploring the possibility.

“I’m very interested,” said McCarty, who spent 71⁄2 years as a player for the Celts. “I want to be highly considered. I love the city. I have great ties in the city. I have a great foundation here, especially with recruiting.

“If you look at Louisville’s 2013 national championship team, four of those five starters were my guys. So I’m very confident in my ability to coach and lead a program. I think that I’m ready.”

After retiring from active duty, McCarty spent three years as an assistant under Rick Pitino in Louisville and moved back to the NBA for one year as an assistant for the Pacers.

Boston College’s basketball fortunes have fallen in recent years, and McCarty said he would relish the opportunity to return it to prominence at a school more known for its football and hockey programs.

“This city loves basketball, and that’s a great university,” McCarty said. “I think the people in the area and the students can be re-engaged with the basketball program. There’s a good fan base. It just needs to be revived and be resurrected with the right person in place who can re-engage the community, who can engage the fan base and bring them back together.

“And it also has to be a person who can bring players to campus who will be a part of not just the program, but the community. I think if you bring the right type of players here and put a good product on the floor, you can do that.”

[Bryn Mawr Eagle]

Have we filled the basketball S&C coaching position yet?

[Walsh601]

Shaka Smart spoke to VCU commits & their coaches yesterday & assured them he isn't going anywhere

https://twitter.com/AdamFinkelstein/status/448447507069423616

[twballgame9]

Shaka Smart spoke to VCU commits & their coaches yesterday & assured them he isn't going anywhere

https://twitter.com/AdamFinkelstein/status/448447507069423616

My sources on this board assure me that he, Howland, Heisman and Wooden are the finalists for the prestigious Wake job.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

he was linked to marquette but... whatever

[angrychicken]

Word on the street is that Dr.James Naismith is on the short list. I like it for 2 reasons:
1) he knows how to develop a program
B) he knows New England
iii) hiring him will bring back the tradition of digging up grave sites and riding the pony.

[twballgame9]

he was linked to marquette but... whatever

"My sources indicate that Shaka Smart is interested in the BC job." - twballgame

Now he has been linked to the BC job, and just as reliably and with as much credibility as Goodman or Thamel. Oh, and the Wake rumors were first.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

at this point i don't care who they get as long as they bring back the best wake forest tradition that's ever existed

[twballgame9]

I just think its funny that the Albany grad thinks the BC job is a good job while the BC grads (other than ATL) prefer to hit themselves with the self-loathing chilice.

[eepstein0]

Does McCarty have any chance? Interesting idea, although I'm not sure if he can coach at all

[2001Eagle]

I want bates to talk to Gregg Marshall. I love the way his teAms play and I think there's a chance he wants to come back east.

[BC923]

Does McCarty have any chance? Interesting idea, although I'm not sure if he can coach at all

I like the idea, but I'm not sure either. I didn't know that he had 3 years at Louisville, which means that he was learning from Pitino which I think is a good thing. That also means he was doing some recruiting, which is important. You'd need to be really sure about his coaching (he has obviously been with Brad Stevens) but I think it's not the worst thing to at least check on

[HJS]

I want bates to talk to Gregg Marshall. I love the way his teAms play and I think there's a chance he wants to come back east.

I don't think Marshall would come to BC without some sort of major promise of support (and money). But, I'd say he and Howland represent the Alpha and Omega of big time candidates we realistically have a shot (likely a longshot) at hiring.

[WilpertsRevenge]

i would prefer we not hire him based on the extra g in greg.

[JesuitIvy]

McCarty played at Kentucky, coached at Louisville and in the NBA. the ol' crick in my bone make me think he doesn't quite understand the admissions hurdle at BC

[DavidGordonsFoot]

McCarty has a better chance of winning a Grammy than landing the BC job.

[Walsh601]

Manhattan coach Steve Masiello will be introduced as the next head coach at USF later this week, multiple sources told CBSSports.com.

The deal is for five years and worth more than $1 million per year.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24499847/manhattans-masiello-expected-to-accept-offer-to-be-usfs-coach

[HJS]

Manhattan coach Steve Masiello will be introduced as the next head coach at USF later this week, multiple sources told CBSSports.com.

The deal is for five years and worth more than $1 million per year.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24499847/manhattans-masiello-expected-to-accept-offer-to-be-usfs-coach

I'm not necessarily a huge fan of Masiello. Manhattan coaches have very spotty records. However, he did represent the up-and-comer types (along with Marshall and Miller) I would prefer over the "best coach who will stay route" (e.g. Schmidt, O'Shea, Lonergan, Jones, Coen, etc). However, I'd wager the admin thinks the opposite.

[tallsy]

With all this SEC talk, I wonder if Rick Stansbury is a candidate. I'd be worried about someone with no NE connections, but we could do worse.

[eaglesfan06]

I don't think Walter McCarty is a legit candidate.

Anyone who is selling themselves that hard to the media for an open job is basically just pandering for more money or a better job elsewhere.

[commavegarage]

the fight goes continues says amaker's out:


Amaker staying at Harvard?

by Mark • March 25, 2014



If Boston College wanted to hire Harvard Coach Tommy Amaker as its next basketball coach, it could have simply picked up the phone and told Amaker that he was their first choice and work on a deal to get it done.

According to sources familiar with the process, BC didn’t do that and Amaker is withdrawing his name from consideration.

It is not a done deal, but all indications were pointing toward Amaker removing himself from consideration, although there were also indications that BC could still be working on getting Amaker to change his mind.

The resolution of the issue–either way–is expected in the next few days.



Athletic director Brad Bates consulted several people, brought in a search firm headed by former South Carolina and Vanderbilt coach Eddie Fogler and compiled a list of candidates as replacements for Steve Donahue.

Amaker’s name may or may not have been on that list, but it was on a list.

Amaker reportedly was not pleased with that. His theory was that if someone wanted him to be their coach, it was a plain and simple deal.

He felt that he was beyond the point of auditioning.If you wanted him, offer him the job. If you didn’t want him, don’t bother calling. He did that when he was hired by Seton Hall. He did that when he was hired by Michigan. He did that when Harvard hired him seven years ago.

Bates chose to go the traditional way, of putting a list of several candidates together.

Amaker, who has guided Harvard to 3 consecutive NCAA tournaments and won second round games the past two years, did not want to work under those parameters and reportedly has withdrawn his name from consideration for the BC job.

If that has happened, there might still be some wiggle room to get Amaker back into the mix, but Bates will then have to move to the next names a list that is still being compiled


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I take gumshoes at his word when he says people are out, because he probably still has some connects in the boston area, just not at BC. thus someone from Harvard could very well say to him that amaker is not leaving. from there, he is backing into any bc commentary

I stand by what ive said before re this search

[claver2010]

that was entirely predictable, not complaining at all

[pick6pedro]

Harvard has never been strong at teaching humility.

[twballgame9]

It is not a done deal, but all indications were pointing toward Amaker removing himself from consideration, although there were also indications that BC could still be working on getting Amaker to change his mind.

The resolution of the issue–either way–is expected in the next few days.

Wait, what? All indications say X, but there were also indications that say not-X, regardless, no one knows but X or not X will be decided soon.

This is from the HJS school of posting. He literally predicted every possible outcome.

[twballgame9]

Amaker’s name may or may not have been on that list, but it was on a list.

Furthermore, what?

[claver2010]

“Amaker reportedly was not pleased with that. His theory was that if someone wanted him to be their coach, it was a plain and simple deal.”

“there might still be some wiggle room to get Amaker back into the mix”

[GreenvilleEagle]

Amaker’s name may or may not have been on that list, but it was on a list.

Furthermore, what?

Are you no longer a lawyer?

[JesuitIvy]

My money, fwiw, says Amaker never was a candidate. The main reason being he'd be the same mistake Donahue was (the hot Ivy coach of the moment)