Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Hoops - Finding that Mid-Major future star coach

Interesting article about NCST's hoops head coaching search as it relates to finding a mid-major guy ready to breakout - a la Paul Hewitt and even Bobby Cremins. Note the backgrounds of the current ACC coaches:

School .............Coach .............Previous school
Boston College .....Al Skinner ........Rhode Island
Clemson Oliver .....Purnell ...........Dayton
Duke ...............Mike Krzyzewski....Army
Florida State ......Leonard Hamilton ..Miami
Georgia Tech .......Paul Hewitt .......Siena
Maryland ...........Gary Williams .....Ohio State
Miami ..............Frank Haith .......Texas (asst.)
North Carolina .....Roy Williams ......Kansas
Virginia ...........Dave Leitao .......DePaul
Virginia Tech ......Seth Greenberg ....South Florida
Wake Forest ........Skip Prosser ......Xavier