Seems a bit early to have to post this, but the turnover has started: UNC Wilmington fires C.B. McGrath amid 5-14, 0-6 season https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...mington-fires-cb-mcgrath-amid-5-14-0-6-season
"Before being hired at UNCW, McGrath spent 14 seasons as an assistant coach under Roy Williams at North Carolina. " Ouch, that's a long time to wait, only to get canned after 2.5 seasons.
McGrath looked good when he had 5 star recruits at UNC but discovered that his training from his 12 year tenure under Williams’ tutelage was poor preparation for a situation where real coaching was needed. Sent from my iPhone using Butler Hoops
That's complete b.s. McGrath's problem at UNCW wasn't the quality of players he had, which included the first NBA player the school's had in more than 25 years. Apparently he's one of those folks who isn't cut out to be in charge. He had constant roster turnover that kept the team from ever making progress. The nail in the coffin for McGrath was this season's best player leaving suddenly after Christmas to play professionally overseas. He'll land as a high level assistant somewhere. My guess is Stanford, where his friend and fellow longtime Williams assistant Jerod Haase is doing alright. Not everybody is cut out to be a head coach.
Man, this sounds just like Chris Lowery when he was at SIU, other then it took about 7 years before he was finally canned. He wound up an assistant at Kansas State under Bruce Weber.
That was one of the strangest tenures ever. Had massive success and went to a sweet 16 with Painters/Weber’s recruits. Then had the best recruiting classes in the history of the program but they were terrible. SIU hasn’t been the same since. They had a great program for a decade or so. Sent from my iPhone using Butler Hoops mobile app
Pretty uninspiring hire for Evansville. Wonder if it's just as an interim coach for the rest of the season.
Happy for Todd and hopefully he gets the opportunity to end his HC career on a high note after the Marian experiment. Health was not the overriding reason he left UE. He and Matthew knew it was time to get out. He’s got a great basketball mind—just needs an AC with recruiting chops. And with his network I think he’ll put together a great staff.
Would you rather have the guy who is retirement age and failed at Iowa or the 50 year old who was Associate HC for Stevens' two final four teams, and whose "failure" was at fricken South Alabama?
Think you’re underselling Todd here a bit. Brad Stevens is from Todd’s coaching tree and has nothing but praise for him. NCOY. As clean as they come and has respect of IN high school coaches. Maybe not the “sexy” hire—but the last sexy hire turned out too sexy. Need an injection of culture and Todd’s the guy to do it. He needs a younger AC to recruit but could still see Matthew coming back as Associate HC and Todd handing it over in 2 years.
Hands down Id take Lick. What does age have to do with it? Again what has Graves accomplished? Is failing at Iowa worse than failing at South Alabama?Bet Evansville compared the two before making their decision.
