ACC Basketball Has a Major Transition Coming: 70, 68, 64, 62

[UConnJim]

70, 68, 64, 62. That will be the ages of Boeheim (Syracuse), Krzyzewski (Duke), Williams (UNC), and Pitino (Louisville) at then end of next season. Thus, the 4 major basketball programs in the ACC will be probably be facing coaching transitions over the next few seasons and they rarely go smoothly. In addition, Hamilton (FSU) will be 66, Larranaga (Miami) will be 65, and Bzdelik (Wake Forest) will be 62.

Sure, the conference has younger coaches at a number of schools, but almost half the coaches are eligible for Social Security and not too many young coaches last in the ACC.

The ACC has a couple of good coaches < 50 years old in Dixon at Pitt and Bennett at Virginia. Dixon looks like he will stay at Pitt, but Bennett looks like he could end up at Wisconsin in the future as he is from Wisconsin, was an assistant coach at Wisconsin, his father was once the head coach there, and the current Wisconsin head coach is 66.

It will be interesting to watch!

 

[huskypantz]

More interesting if they're conference mates.

 

[TRest]

70, 68, 64, 62. That will be the ages of Boeheim (Syracuse), Krzyzewski (Duke), Williams (UNC), and Pitino (Louisville) at then end of next season. Thus, the 4 major basketball programs in the ACC will be probably be facing coaching transitions over the next few seasons and they rarely go smoothly. In addition, Hamilton (FSU) will be 66, Larranaga (Miami) will be 65, and Bzdelik (Wake Forest) will be 62.

Sure, the conference has younger coaches at a number of schools, but almost half the coaches are eligible for Social Security and not too many young coaches last in the ACC.

The ACC has a couple of good coaches < 50 years old in Dixon at Pitt and Bennett at Virginia. Dixon looks like he will stay at Pitt, but Bennett looks like he could end up at Wisconsin in the future as he is from Wisconsin, was an assistant coach at Wisconsin, his father was once the head coach there, and the current Wisconsin head coach is 66.

It will be interesting to watch!

I can see K pulling a Chaney, and being locked out of the office some day.

 

[pj]

I can see K pulling a Chaney, and being locked out of the office some day.

K has had heart problems in the past, I see him finishing more like JC, missing increasing amounts of time to health problems as he gets into his 70s and then finally giving up.

 

[btstimpy]

70, 68, 64, 62. That will be the ages of Boeheim (Syracuse), Krzyzewski (Duke), Williams (UNC), and Pitino (Louisville) at then end of next season. Thus, the 4 major basketball programs in the ACC will be probably be facing coaching transitions over the next few seasons and they rarely go smoothly. In addition, Hamilton (FSU) will be 66, Larranaga (Miami) will be 65, and Bzdelik (Wake Forest) will be 62.

Sure, the conference has younger coaches at a number of schools, but almost half the coaches are eligible for Social Security and not too many young coaches last in the ACC.

The ACC has a couple of good coaches < 50 years old in Dixon at Pitt and Bennett at Virginia. Dixon looks like he will stay at Pitt, but Bennett looks like he could end up at Wisconsin in the future as he is from Wisconsin, was an assistant coach at Wisconsin, his father was once the head coach there, and the current Wisconsin head coach is 66.

It will be interesting to watch!

It will be interesting. It took a couple of tries to replace Dean Smith at UNC. Bill Gutridge and Matt Dougherty took a crack at it before Roy Williams agreed to return. It is hard to follow a legend sometimes. I don't envy the coach that steps in behind either Coach K or Jim Boeheim.

The ACC has had some of this in football too. Replacing Bobby Bowden at FSU isn't an easy thing to do. Jimbo Fisher has pulled it off like a piece of cake. This is not easily done.

 

[Fishy]

The Duke job will be the most interesting.

Whoever takes that job will have a ton of advantages...but there is zero safety net.

The entire world will be waiting to come down on that guy.

 

[NickyNewark]

It will be interesting. It took a couple of tries to replace Dean Smith at UNC. Bill Gutridge and Matt Dougherty took a crack at it before Roy Williams agreed to return. It is hard to follow a legend sometimes. I don't envy the coach that steps in behind either Coach K or Jim Boeheim.

The ACC has had some of this in football too. Replacing Bobby Bowden at FSU isn't an easy thing to do. Jimbo Fisher has pulled it off like a piece of cake. This is not easily done.

Thank's for keeping us informed of the "interesting developement's" in the ACC everyone's favorite conference(sarcasm on). Our own BY ACC expert keeping us heathen's informed! I wonder how well the ACC is doing vs AAC going into the Sweet 16? I can't wait for you to declare UVa NC's this yr? ACCn coming to a tv near you soon.

 

[Vowelguy]

The Duke job will be the most interesting.

Whoever takes that job will have a ton of advantages...but there is zero safety net.

The entire world will be waiting to come down on that guy.

Lots of K disciples will be in contention -- Dawkins, Collins, Amaker, Wojo

 

[06029]

Lots of K disciples will be in contention -- Dawkins, Collins, Amaker, Wojo

Duke's transition will be about as smooth as Uconn's. They will have a lot of guys to choose from that will be glad to come back home. UNC may have learned that the next man on the bench is not really a good move, so I expect that one to be better this time around. Cuse, that will be very interesting to watch since the heir apparent has been on the bench for a while and no one knows if he can be a HC. He hasn't been offered many jobs in the recent past.

And Wake fired Bzedlik last week (technically, he resigned). Maybe Calhoun to Wake?

 

[Fishy]

The problem with Coach K's coaching tree is that there are more flops in it than the average Duke game.

Stanford is having a nice run, but Johnnie Dawkins is closer to getting canned at Stanford than he to getting the Duke job. Snyder, Capel...nyet. Dement, O'Toole, Henderson...no, no and no. Brey - no.

Amaker might have rehabbed his reputation, but not enough. He's probably too big for Boston College right now, but not big enough for Duke.

Past that, you're probably looking at Chris Collins and while it's not fair to judge him on his first year, Northwestern did not impress. Might end up being Wojo, especially if K wants him.