2010 March Madness

It is March Madness, the time of year when college basketball dominates. But March Madness also means coaching changes.

March 29, 2010:

Sacramento St. has removed the interim tag from Head Coach Jamie Craighead. Craighead was the youngest D-1 head coach last year, at 29 years old. Craighead received a three year contract.

Craighead led Sac. St. to a 15-15 record. The highest win total, for Sac. St, since the 1992-93 season.

March 26, 2010:

USF fired Tanya Haave. Haave had a 36-86 overall record in four years at USF.

Mark Trakh, former Pepperdine and USC head coach, has been contacted about becoming the next coach at USF.

Certainly a good idea but Pacific keeps the terrible Lynne Roberts, who has a 42-76 record in four years. Why? Any wonder that the Big West is rated so low?

March, 12, 2010

Cal State Northridge has fired head coach Staci Schulz. Schulz had a 36-109 in five years at CSN.

I hope CSN doesn't do the easy thing, and promotes one of their assistants. If CSN was smart, which is debatable, they would look at the following coaches to be their next head coach:

Tim LaKose, current head coach at Cal State Bakersfield.
Jason Flowers, currently an assistant at UC Riverside.
Greg Adams, former CSN assistant coach and current head coach at Western New Mexico.

But, how about this for thinking out of the box; Joan Bonvicini, current Seattle University coach, to be the next coach at CSN.

Other News & Notes:

Sherri Murrell, head coach at Portland St. and former head coach at Pacific, is one of the very few coaches who has come out.

What is really stupid is, this should be a non issue.