Comments on: Madly Spins The Carousel: An Early Look At Coaches On The Hot Seat

By: G. Floyd

G. Floyd — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:45:00 +0000

James, you may be correct, but from what my sources indicate is that Fowler was already deep into talks with Lowe before Lavin’s name was associated with the job. But it is a mute point now – I would like to mention that Riddick & Reynolds is a great website and should be added to RTC’s Around the Blogsphere collection.

By: James C.

James C. — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:06:29 +0000

Whoops. Forgot the dashes in the URL:

http://www.riddickandreynolds.com/coaching-candidate-spreadsheet/

By: James C.

James C. — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:05:05 +0000

G. Floyd, I’m afraid Lee Fowler did, in fact, pursue both Lavin and Belein. We missed with Lavin because we couldn’t keep it under wraps and ESPN raised his pay, and Belein was almost a done deal before Fowler realized his buyout was too much (HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THE BUYOUT IS GOING INTO NEGOTIATIONS?!?).

Thank the Lord Fowler’s gone and we have a competent AD at the helm.

RTC, if you’re interested, I’ve got a coaching candidate spreadsheet up at my site to help familiarize us State fans with who might be out there. You can find it here: http://www.riddickandreynolds.com/coachingcandidatespreadsheet

By: G. Floyd

G. Floyd — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:19:32 +0000

Steve Lavin and John Beilein were never offered the job at NC State. Only Rick Barnes and John Calipari recieved any contact from NCSU. After the original two rejected an offer for NC State, media outlets started to compile their own lists of coaching candidates that ranged from respetable (Beilein) to the absurb (Phil Ford) and coaches started “taking their names off the list.” That is when the coaching search got out of hand, much like Oregon’s search last year.

By: jstevrtc

jstevrtc — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:12:26 +0000

In reply to tallguy.

Yeah, that was a typo, and a mistake on my part as editor of the piece, and not Mr. Carey’s as author. I cut/pasted one word too far and accidentally took out the “not” that was originally there. So that’s on me.

What’s great is as soon as I posted it, within mere minutes, I saw it, got an email from Mr. Carey, and saw your comment. Fixed it as soon as I saw it. In addition to comments about the subject matter of our posts, we also like getting ones with corrections. Keeps us on our toes and minimizes factual errors, both accidental (like this one) and otherwise.

Walker addresses the issue of the buyout in his article, and that’s the question GT fans and higher-ups have to ask: even with the buy-out…is it worth it?

John S. from RTC

By: tallguy

tallguy — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:56:02 +0000

You’ve got a typo in the Lowe paragraph- he hasN’T led his squad to the NCAA once. Hell, he only has 2 NIT bids.

Also, probably should mention that Hewitt has a 5 million dollar buyout and an automatic roll over clause in his contract…it’d cost Tech more to fire Hewitt than for UNC to fire Roy Williams.