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Saturday, April 15, 2006
Latest rumors/news from the coaching carousel:
Less than a week after identifying American's Jeff Jones as a candidate to replace Jeff Capel at Virginia Commonwealth, the has added Billy Taylor to the list.
Taylor's name seems to come up for almost every job that opens at a mid-major lately. Just who the Times-Dispatch's sources might be is an interesting question, since VCU has indicated it will wait until it hires a new athletic director to make a coaching hire and that process is not yet complete.
It would be likely that the new A.D. might come in with a list of candidates quite different from the list in the T-D newsroom.
ON THE PENN FRONT: Terry Toohey of the Delaware County Times has for the Penn job and either Toohey knows something nobody else knows, or he has not been paying attention. He still includes Siena's Fran McCaffery on his list, even though pretty much everyone else on the Penn beat has reported he has re-upped at Siena and has no escape clause in the new deal that would allow him to go to Penn. McCaffery himself has said in absolute terms he is staying at Siena and has been quoted supporting Taylor for the job.
Of course Toohey also is hyping former Lehigh coach Dave Duke, who has been an assistant at Penn since being forced out at Lehigh years ago for not winning, as the guy for the job. That alone makes his judgment questionable to folks who remember Duke's Lehigh teams.
The Philly Inquirer, in a while the school looks for a coach, talks about how Duke won 90 games in 8 seasons at Lehigh.
After two winning seasons in his first three years, with talent inherited from McCaffery, who once was Lehigh's coach, too, Duke who started digging the hole that Sal Mentesana couldn't climb out of, eventually bringing about the Taylor hiring. In Duke's last four years, all in the Patriot League, where theoretically he should have had an easier go than in the old East Coast Conference, Duke's Lehigh teams went 29-79.
An by the way, is that Penn-Lehigh relationship a little incestuous? Didn't Lehigh's new football coach come from Penn? Do the two schools have a working agreement like minor league teams have with major league teams?
The Inquirer also reports that former Penn assistant Gil Jackson, who is now at Howard, has pulled his name out of the hunt at Penn. The Inquirer, in a separate story, also of Mike Jarvis and former Penn State coach (and current West Virginia assistant) Jerry Dunn to the list of Penn candidates.
Let us be the first to say that Dunn would be a poor choice. Dunn is one of those guys who makes a tremendous assistant, but just doesn't translate into a good head coach.
Less than a week after identifying American's Jeff Jones as a candidate to replace Jeff Capel at Virginia Commonwealth, the has added Billy Taylor to the list.
Taylor's name seems to come up for almost every job that opens at a mid-major lately. Just who the Times-Dispatch's sources might be is an interesting question, since VCU has indicated it will wait until it hires a new athletic director to make a coaching hire and that process is not yet complete.
It would be likely that the new A.D. might come in with a list of candidates quite different from the list in the T-D newsroom.
ON THE PENN FRONT: Terry Toohey of the Delaware County Times has for the Penn job and either Toohey knows something nobody else knows, or he has not been paying attention. He still includes Siena's Fran McCaffery on his list, even though pretty much everyone else on the Penn beat has reported he has re-upped at Siena and has no escape clause in the new deal that would allow him to go to Penn. McCaffery himself has said in absolute terms he is staying at Siena and has been quoted supporting Taylor for the job.
Of course Toohey also is hyping former Lehigh coach Dave Duke, who has been an assistant at Penn since being forced out at Lehigh years ago for not winning, as the guy for the job. That alone makes his judgment questionable to folks who remember Duke's Lehigh teams.
The Philly Inquirer, in a while the school looks for a coach, talks about how Duke won 90 games in 8 seasons at Lehigh.
After two winning seasons in his first three years, with talent inherited from McCaffery, who once was Lehigh's coach, too, Duke who started digging the hole that Sal Mentesana couldn't climb out of, eventually bringing about the Taylor hiring. In Duke's last four years, all in the Patriot League, where theoretically he should have had an easier go than in the old East Coast Conference, Duke's Lehigh teams went 29-79.
An by the way, is that Penn-Lehigh relationship a little incestuous? Didn't Lehigh's new football coach come from Penn? Do the two schools have a working agreement like minor league teams have with major league teams?
The Inquirer also reports that former Penn assistant Gil Jackson, who is now at Howard, has pulled his name out of the hunt at Penn. The Inquirer, in a separate story, also of Mike Jarvis and former Penn State coach (and current West Virginia assistant) Jerry Dunn to the list of Penn candidates.
Let us be the first to say that Dunn would be a poor choice. Dunn is one of those guys who makes a tremendous assistant, but just doesn't translate into a good head coach.
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