UNC Basketball Possible coaches

[StoneColdHeel]

Maybe they should contact CRHeel.

 

[nycfan]

Any legs on the Mike Malone rumors?

 

[Icky Mettle]

Any legs on the Mike Malone rumors?

I hope not.

 

[BillOfRights]

I would take a look at the assistants for top college coaches. Many of the successful coaches were assistants for accomplished coaches (Dean, Roy). Certainly not guaranteed, but worthwhile.

CURRENT NAMES:
Mark Byington (Cremins)
Billy Donovan (Pitino)
Ben McCollum (---)

NO LONGER AVAILABLE:
Otzelberger (McDermott, Hoiberg)
Tommy Lloyd (Mark Few)
Dusty May (Knight + other)

Dan Hurley is an exception as far as I can see, never having been an assistant.

I would take a look at Hurley's assistants among others.

Boston College already hired a Hurley assistant, Luke Murray, son of Bill.

 

[Icky Mettle]

Boston College already hired a Hurley assistant, Luke Murray, son of Bill.

I would have been very intrigued by Murray as a prospect. He has been given credit as the brains behind UConn's offense, which is a beautifully run offense.

 

[OldSchoolBlueBlood]

Mentioning anyone or anything associated with Hurley blows my mind. We hire anyone from that UCONN program and I am OUT on Carolina basketball.

Understood. I completely respect your position.
I just mentioned Hurley only as an example. I am sure outstanding assistant coaches could be obtained from many other programs.

Opposing fans may not like Hurley, but his players would run through a wall if he told them to do it. They play hard, play smart, and play together. They play with discipline and intensity, something that has been lacking in Chapel Hill. If we can get a great coach who is also a choirboy, so much the better. Coach Brown and Coach Davis were great, admirable people, but they were let go because they did not win. Winning is a salve that soothes many wounds.

 

[Milk and Cookies]

Ben McCollum just shot up in the betting markets in the last 2 hours. No idea why.

 

[MOUNTAINH33L]

BREAKING NEWS:

Ben McCollum just shot up in the betting markets in the last 2 hours. No idea why.

I don't hate it.

 

[mpaer]

Any legs on the Mike Malone rumors?

A Pro coach that had a cup of coffee in college
I don't get it

 

[OldSchoolBlueBlood]

Ben McCollum

44 y.o.

Three-time winner of Clarence Gaines Award as the best NCAA Division II coach.

Northwest Missouri State: 395-91 81.3% 15 seasons

Drake: 31–4 88.6% 1 season

Iowa: 24–13 64.9% 1 season

5× NABC Division II Coach of the Year (2017, 2019–2022)
3× Clarence Gaines Award (2012, 2020, 2022)
Basketball Times Division II Coach of the Year (2019)
John McLendon Collegiate Basketball Coach of the Year (2019)
8× MIAA Coach of the Year (2012, 2015–2017, 2019–2021, 2023)
MVC Coach of the Year (2025)
Missouri Sports Hall of Fame

 

[Bigs23]

Ben McCollum

44 y.o.

Three-time winner of Clarence Gaines Award as the best NCAA Division II coach.

Northwest Missouri State: 395-91 81.3% 15 seasons

Drake: 31–4 88.6% 1 season

Iowa: 24–13 64.9% 1 season

5× NABC Division II Coach of the Year (2017, 2019–2022)
3× Clarence Gaines Award (2012, 2020, 2022)
Basketball Times Division II Coach of the Year (2019)
John McLendon Collegiate Basketball Coach of the Year (2019)
8× MIAA Coach of the Year (2012, 2015–2017, 2019–2021, 2023)
MVC Coach of the Year (2025)
Missouri Sports Hall of Fame

Maybe he's the next Coach Cig.

 

[StoneColdHeel]

Ben McCollum just shot up in the betting markets in the last 2 hours. No idea why.

I wouldn't mind that hire at all. I think he would fit in well at UNC.

 

[OldSchoolBlueBlood]

and just for the record I want everyone to know that I am an ignoramus and make no claim to any special insight or knowledge.

 

[donbosco]

Ben McCollum

44 y.o.

Three-time winner of Clarence Gaines Award as the best NCAA Division II coach.

Northwest Missouri State: 395-91 81.3% 15 seasons

Drake: 31–4 88.6% 1 season

Iowa: 24–13 64.9% 1 season

5× NABC Division II Coach of the Year (2017, 2019–2022)
3× Clarence Gaines Award (2012, 2020, 2022)
Basketball Times Division II Coach of the Year (2019)
John McLendon Collegiate Basketball Coach of the Year (2019)
8× MIAA Coach of the Year (2012, 2015–2017, 2019–2021, 2023)
MVC Coach of the Year (2025)
Missouri Sports Hall of Fame

A friend sent this guy's name along to me a couple of days ago.

 

[heelslegup]

If uou remove McCollum's first couple of years at NW Missouri, he won nearly 90% if I recall.

He and his wife have deep roots in the state of Iowa however.

The record speaks for itself. GREAT coach IMO but could he manage the politics here.

 

[StoneColdHeel]

They could have hired Luke Murray and maybe had Bill Murray at the games.

 

[PTOHeel]

I’d be pretty shocked, but quite happy if it ends up being McCollum. Not a splash “name,” but seems like a really good coach that could be quite successful. Opposite of the BB hire.

 

[heelslegup]

McCollum turns 45 on April 12

 

[donbosco]

McCollum turns 45 on April 12

BIORHYTHMS!!!!!!!

 

[Centerpiece]

Not my words. Stolen from a Carolina FB group:

“There are two kinds of Carolina fans: "2000 Fans" and "Post-2000 Fans".

If you are a "2000 Fan" (like myself), then you were deeply affected by two events:

July 6, 2000 - Roy Williams throws a Kansas pep rally after reneging on a handshake agreement to become UNC's next BB coach. AD Dick Baddour panics and hastily hires UNC alum and first-year Notre Dame coach Matt Doherty on July 11.

November 27, 2000 - Frank Beamer throws a Virginia Tech pep rally after reneging on a handshake agreement to become UNC's next FB coach. Baddour panics and hastily hires UNC alum and Saints LB coach John Bunting on December 11.

But if you are a "Post-2000 Fan", you don't recall the humbling events of 2000. You utter phrases like "WE ARE CAROLINA" and "Best Job in the Country", when justifying the firings of Mack Brown and Hubert Davis.
In basketball, your view of the Roy hiring (April, 2003) is rosy, because it ended well. It was inevitable that UNC would get Roy, because WE ARE CAROLINA, right? You cannot comprehend "Jayhawk shirt-sticker Roy" who planned to stay at Kansas permanently. (What would "The UNC BB Standard" be if Roy had stuck with Kansas a second time, I wonder?)
In football, you have no memory of Mack Brown's 90s success, culminating in consecutive top-10 finishes, before Baddour let him leave for Texas. You weren't there when he hastily hired inexperienced DC Carl Torbush, after a circle of players stormed his office. To you, UNC Football has always been mediocre for 100+ years, and getting "Beamered" (by the non-ACC Hokies) should have been no surprise.
In short, you have no idea why "2000 Fans" are pessimistic about UNC's ability to land a top coach for the Best Job In The Country. (It must be our alleged "acceptance of mediocrity", or a weird obsession with Davis and Brown...)
The truth? We were there in 2000, and you weren't. Our ADMINISTRATION IS MEDIOCRE. That's where the tolerance for incompetence begins and ends.
We know what a crock the WE ARE CAROLINA hubris is. We know what MULTIPLE botched search processes look like. We know what a crutch "pulling family heartstrings" was to get Roy (and Mack 2.0).

We can see from the Belichick hire that nothing has changed since the Baddour years. They are incapable of saying "no" to impatient donors who like Super Bowl rings and want immediate success.
This administration has no idea how to identify long-term talent. Their only strategy is to throw a lot of money at whoever appears successful at the moment. (Because we think we're the only school that has money.)

And once May and Donovan both say no, history will repeat itself. We are scheduled for our "Plan D panic hire" sometime around April 20. Get the popcorn.”