Coaching Candidates

[parkerj]

But specifically regarding Billeter, none of those jobs makes more sense.

Cross Vandy & GT off immediately. Their hire may open a job that winds up ahead of us on the list, but they're not hiring a D-II coach from South Dakota (and both are currently being linked to Duke assistant Jeff Capel)

UAB is likely to make an internal hire

Little Rock will have a lot of veteran talent returning from this year's team, but as a program this year was lightning in a bottle. They hadn't won more than 23 games since the 80s

SFA has been great lately and Billeter was an assistant at A&M, but their star is leaving and they're in the Southland. Slip up even a little and you're screwed.

JMU is a geographically poor fit for Billeter.

Portland is only on this list because they're looking to make a "splash" hire after Mark Few called out the entire conference. Terry Porter is the name that's popped up. Not likely to go for a D-II coach.

Wright State has been linked to a number of low-major D-I HCs despite having its own dysfunction. I'm jealous. They could possibly be the team to open the SDSU job, but aside from that I don't see them opening a job for anybody who would be a better fit for Billeter.