With the Final Four set, the coaching carousel still keeps spinning. Here’s the latest on USC’s search, plus what’s happening at Wazzu
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April has arrived and we just got another high-major opening, bringing the number of power-conference jobs in this year’s cycle to 11. The long-expected move of Andy Enfield turning away from USC and heading to the Lone Star State was made official Monday morning. SMU announced Enfield’s hiring, which puts USC on the clock to get his replacement — though the school has been working channels on that for days.
Trojans athletic director Jen Cohen will be tasked with bringing on a coach who can get USC into the upper half of the 18-team Big Ten. (Still sounds weird to read and say out loud.) The objective is to land a sitting head coach at a high-major program. A variety of candidates for the USC opening were interviewed via Zoom over the weekend, sources told CBS Sports. Among the names to monitor: Arkansas’ Eric Musselman, Texas A&M’s Buzz Williams, TCU’s Jamie Dixon, Kansas State’s Jerome Tang, Colorado State’s Niko Medved and BYU’s Mark Pope. I would expect one of those coaches to get the job.
Elsewhere on Monday, as expected, Oklahoma State finally closed when it hired Steve Lutz to a five-year deal after more than a week of flirtation with the former Western Kentucky coach. Sources said OSU was poking around one more big offer in recent days, but that never materialized. Lutz’s deal will start at $2.4 million.
Additionally, Washington State remains open in its move from the Pac-12 to the WCC. Montana State coach Matt Logie was offered the job Monday afternoon, sources said, but was mulling the offer into Monday night after Montana State came with a strong contract extension. Logie is coming off a 17-18 season; he took the Bobcats to the NCAA Tournament’s First Four as a 16-seed out of the Big Sky.
We also had a hiring in the Missouri Valley on Monday. Drake tapped D-II wizard Ben McCollum to succeed Darian DeVries. McCollum has been offered other D-I jobs that past two cycles but couldn’t commit. Now he takes over a program that’s currently well-positioned in the Valley but is traditionally one of the toughest jobs in that league.
The carousel has 55 job switches so far, and a few more are inevitable. Here’s a capsule on every gig that’s flipped.
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