What a crazy day today has been. Longwood, Marist, Drake, and Ball State have all opened. Here are a few other things that are going on…
• Bowling Green head coach Louis Orr is safe and will return for a seventh season. He is 89-101 during his time at BGSU (13-19 2012-13). With one year remaining on his contract, there has been much speculation about his future. School officials have confirmed that he will be back.
• Also safe is San Diego head coach Bill Grier. Similar to Orr, he has just completed his sixth season (84-111, 16-18 2012-13). He hasn’t had a winning season since his first season in 2007, but AD Ky Snyder has committed to his return.
• The hot name right now at UMKC is Louisville assistant Kareem Richardson. This is his first season at Louisville and has previously served as an assistant at UMKC. Richardson has also worked at Xavier, Drake, Evansville, Indiana State, Wright State and Indianapolis.
Daily Dirt I from earlier today….
http://hoopdirt.com/blog/8b4e5caa/daily-dirt-3-14-13/…
• Current South Alabama interim head coach Jeff Price is the hot name at Lynn University. Many believe that if he doesn’t get the South Alabama gig, he will be the heavy favorite to return to Lynn where he built a dynasty from 1993-1999 (134-44). Price, who has also been the head coach at Georgia Southern and West Virginia Wesleyan, took over at USA when Ronnie Arrow retired in December.
• The ink isn’t even dry on Mike Gillian’s resignation at Longwood, and already the names are starting to fly. The most talked about name so far is former Virginia Tech and current ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg. He had spent 9 seasons at VTech (170-123) before getting fired after last season. He has been a DI head coach for 22 seasons (VTECH, South Florida, Long Beach State – 383-293). I’m definitely interested to see how this search will play out.
• Old Dominion has hired a search firm to cull through the candidates for their vacancy. The search firm will narrow down the field and then hand it over to an ODU committee. The members of the committee are expected to be named by the end of the week.
• I have heard that East Central CC (MS) head coach Maurice Bowie resigned his position after a 2-21 season. It sounds like the search to find his replacement won’t start for a few weeks
