She's still putting up winning records and has Arizona at least on the bubble, after qualifying for the Tourney 4 years in a row. UA was a dumpster fire before she took over. They've gone backward from the National Runner Up w/ Aari, but they would be crazy to fire Barnes. Look at these other coaches being mentioned on the hot seat, it's night and day different compared to where she's at w/ UA.
That almost seem to be getting to impossible fix status. Sharp drop after McGuff left and that's been 15 years. Only 2 seasons w/ a winning record since, and only one season they didn't have a losing record in conference.
Um, yeah. But only sort of.
So maybe they let her move on if she won't take a pay cut, without having to fire her? She doesn't have as much cache as she did a few years ago, but I imagine she'd still have some suitors if she was available.
Seems like it's gotta be Auburn. They did have a good year last year tho
Here's another thought for the Missouri HC position: Beth Cunningham, who has now achieved a third straight 20-win season for Missouri State after her predecessor, Coach Mox, left for UVA. And she's had to reload personnel with that team. Remember that Cunningham had a very good, extended run at VCU before resigning (issues with athletic director) working with Muffet McGraw and Carol Lawson before landing this position.
Missouri St. has been a solid program for quite a while now. Since the 2009-10 season, they have won 20 or more games in all but 4 seasons, under 4 different coaches. So...Kellie Harper had 3 of the 4 non 20 win seasons.
Meh, she always seems to find a way to sneak into the tournament (and could very well do so again this year despite having no quality wins). Arizona is going to hesitate to fire her (she's an alum, after all) unless they find that she's abusive.
Nice research there.
No insight from me, but this poster who I follow is perplexed like you. From their perspective it could be seen as a salary raise play. But who really knows?
SEC football money tide lifts all boats. He also has a senior-laden team, so now's a good time to cash in
Yeah the hierarchy now is that you basically dont turn down the SEC or BiG if they come calling. There are a few exceptions of non-P2 schools that have big wcbb investments (UConn, ND, ...) but KSt aint of them.
I'm gonna go ahead and say it's just about impossible to predict if it will work out or not. I can come up with examples of coaches who went from mid major (or even non D1) to P4/P5 and did well, but I think much more often they get canned after somewhere between 3-5 years that don't pan out very well. There's pretty much 3 options when it comes to coaching hires: get an established coach or roll the dice on someone from the mid major level or an assistant coach w/ no previous head coaching experience.
I'd say yes--only because they can buy a replacement and bring in better transfers if they truly care to improve (see what they were able to do in volleyball last season).
