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Is the SEC a place where a basketball coach's career comes to die? 

Only a handful of SEC coaches have arguably upgraded in their next stop since 1992.

Here is a look at the effect of an SEC coaching job on some coaches since Arkansas joined the league.


Darrin Horn

On April 1, 2008, Darrin Horn was hired at South Carolina replacing Dave Odom, "The NIT King". Horn's '08-09 team went 21-10 record (10-6 SEC), scored two victories over Kentucky, and gained a share of the 2009 SEC Eastern Division title back when that was still a thing and determined seedings in the SEC Tournament. SC lost in the first round of the NIT to Davidson when Stephen Curry scored 32 points.

After a 10-21 (2-14 SEC) season in 2011-12, his third straight losing season, Horn was fired on March 13, 2012, finishing his tenure at Carolina with a 60-63 overall record and a 23-41 mark in the SEC. 

After some time as a TV analyst including the SEC Network, Horn joined Shaka Smart's staff at Texas for the '16-17 season.

Before the SEC
Horn was a Tates Creek and Western alum who played in three NCAA Tournaments in college.  After eight seasons as an assistant, 30-year-old Horn was hired as WKU's head coach replacing Dennis Felton who took the Georgia job and will be profiled later.

Horn coached the Hilltoppers to the NIT his second and third seasons. His third team was the Sun Belt regular season champion (12-2). They failed to win the conference tourney and were not selected to the NCAA-T.

Horn's fifth and final team at Western, '07-08, went 29-7 (12-2) and won the Sun Belt Tournament.  They advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen on a buzzer beater by Ty Rogers. The 6-6 Horn busted his head open entering a CBS production truck for an interview.

Horn was one of the hot new coaches when South Carolina hired him to replace Dave Odom who retired in '08 after finishing fifth or sixth in the SEC East for the third consecutive season. (Odom's '05 and '06 teams finished in the bottom half of the SEC East and went on to win the NIT). This seems more impressive now than it did then due to the trajectory of the SEC in post season play.
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Anthony Grant

In March 2009, Anthony Grant was hired to succeed the Mark Gottfried era after coaching three seasons at VCU and serving as an assistant on Billy Donovan's first national championship team at Florida. It was Grant's tenth and last season with Billy the Kid at UF as he left for Virginia Commonwealth.  In 2007, 11-seed, VCU upset Duke in the NCAA Tournament.  In 2009, also as an 11-seed, VCU lost their first round NCAA game to UCLA by one point. Only one of Grant's Bama teams would make the NCAA-T in his six seasons.

[A common theme on SEC hires emerges. If Coach X could coach VCU or WKU or Morehead or Kent State this far in the NCAA Tournament or to this big upset win over Duke in the state of North Carolina or Louisville in Rupp Arena, just think what they can do at SEC U.]

At 54-48, Grant had a winning SEC regular season career record which is not common. His teams were often just below the line. His second team was first in the then SEC West but did not get a bid (NIT runner up). His '13 team was 12-6, tied for second overall in the SEC but were bypassed for the NIT.  His last team at Bama was in that Last Four In/Next Four Out space up to the end when they folded and landed in the NIT for the third time in his six seasons.

Grant's 2012 team was (21-11, 9-7) and fifth in the conference and got his only NCAA bid losing by one in their NCAA game against Creighton.

Anthony Grant, who turned 50 in April, rejoined Billy Donovan with OKC as they became the only current or former SEC coaches of any kind of Final Four in 2016.
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Tony Barbee

In March 2009, Tony Barbee became the first black head coach at Auburn (18-50 in SEC games). He did not have a winning season in four seasons at Auburn and at sub-.400, left with the lowest winning percentage of any Auburn coach with more than 100 games.

His program came under FBI investigation when Varez Ward was arrested on charges of point shaving. Only nine of his 21 signees made it the '13-14 season due to dismissals or transfers.

Barbee's first head coaching job was at UTEP where he coached for four seasons. His UTEP team won Conference USA in 2010, the first season that John Calipari was at Kentucky. As a 12-seed, the Miners lost to eventual runner up Butler by 18 in their only game. UTEP was in the CBI postseason tournament finals the season before.

Tony Barbee played for Calipari at UMass and returned to his staff at Kentucky after his Auburn firing.  His first job in coaching was as an assistant at UMass and later at Memphis prior to the UTEP position. In 2002, RC Johnson required Barbee to write apologies to Nolan Richardson and JJ Sullinger after an incident in a Razorback game. Barbee shoved Sullinger after the latter had fallen into the Memphis bench. Coach Richardson felt that Barbee's letter of reprimand was a slap on the wrist at the time.
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Donnie Tyndall

On April 22, 2014, Donnie Tyndall was hired as head basketball coach at Tennessee. On March 27, 2015, Tennessee fired Tyndall after the NCAA notified Tennessee officials of possible NCAA violations at his previous stop, Southern Miss. On April 8, 2016, Donnie Tyndall was placed on a 10 year show-cause penalty.

Tyndall's only Vol team went 16-16 (7-11) after replacing Cuonzo Martin who left for the Cal Bears after a Sweet 16 appearance. Tyndall had coached Southern Miss to a 29-win season and NIT appearance after failing to win the C-USA Tournament.

Tyndall had also been in trouble with the NCAA at Morehead State (2006-12) where he replaced former UK legend Kyle Macy as head coach.  Tyndall reached the NCAA Tournament twice including a 2011 upset of #4 seed Louisville. His star player was Kenneth Faried.  Donnie was an assistant to John Brady during Brady's first four seasons at LSU. Tyndall's first head coaching job was also in Kentucky, leading St. Catherine College to 30 wins and the National Junior College Tournament in the '90's. St. Catherine announced that it is closing earlier this year due to financial difficulty.
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Rick Ray

Ray, then 42, was hired by Mississippi State to replace Rick Stansbury in 2012. It was his first head coaching job after having spent the prior six seasons as an assistant at Clemson and before that, Purdue. State AD Scott Stricklin at the time, "Rick fits the model of head coach we have sought to bring into our program over the last several years. He is bright, enthusiastic, disciplined and is a man of integrity. He has served with some of the top head and assistant coaches in college basketball and will bring a piece of all of them to our head coaching position."

Ray coached for three seasons at State (37-60, 13-41) and was replaced when Ben Howland became available.  The former actuary went to SE Missouri State where his team was 5-24 (2-14) in his first season ('15-'16).
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Trent Johnson

April 10, 2008, Trent Johnson followed the John Brady Era as LSU head coach. Johnson became the first black head coach of an LSU men's sports team. The SEC Coach of the Year's '08-09 team won 27 games and went 13-3 to win the SEC regular season. LSU beat Butler and lost to North Carolina in their second game of the NCAA-T.

LSU went 2-14 and 3-13 in the SEC in Johnson's next two seasons to finish last in the then SEC-West. LSU was 18-14, 7-9 in '11-12, earning an NIT bid. Johnson left LSU for TCU with a 25-39 overall SEC record.

In '07-08 the Pac 10 Coach of the Year, Trent Johnson, led Stanford to a 28-8 record and a 3-seed in the NCAA-T where they reached the Sweet 16.  His teams won 62.5% of their then Pac 10 games in four seasons.

After LSU, Johnson's TCU teams went a combined 8-64 in the Big 12 and Johnson was fired in March, 2016.
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Dennis Felton

In April 2003, then 39-year-old Dennis Felton took the Georgia head coaching job after three consecutive Sun Belt Tournament Titles and NCAA Tournament appearances (with first game exits) at Western. Felton inherited scholarship player deficits after the program sanctions were levied during the tenure of Jim Harrick and Jim Harrick, Jr.

Dennis Felton coached the Bulldogs from '03-'09 with an 83-91 overall record.  Felton's team won the 2008 SEC-T in the tornado tournament giving UGa their first NCAA appearance since '02 which was vacated. Felton also made the NIT twice. Felton's associate coach Pete Herrmann was an interim coach at UGa finishing the '09 season after Felton was fired in January.
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Rod Barnes

Andy Kennedy was preceded by Rod Barnes a former All-SEC guard at Ole Miss in the late 80s. Barnes coached eight seasons and was 50-78 (39%) in SEC regular season games. Barnes took Ole Miss to the NCAA-T in three of his first four seasons and the NIT his second season. Barnes took Ole Miss to their only Sweet Sixteen in '01 after finishing 1st in the SEC-W. Rebels finished No. 9 in the nation with a 27-8 mark.

Barnes had an over-.500 conference record in his first four seasons. His last four seasons he typically finished 5th or 6th in the SEC-W and 4-12 was the typical record.

Rod Barnes had been a five-year assistant to Rob Evans when Evans made a rare, at least lateral move from an SEC job and landed at Arizona State. After his firing from Ole Miss in 2006, Barnes was briefly an assistant coach at OU and later a head coach at Georgia State. He is currently the head coach at Cal State Bakersfield where a team he coached returned to the NCAA-T for the first time since his 2002 Ole Miss team.
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Mark Turgeon

April 10, 2007, then 42-year-old Mark Turgeon was hired by A&M to replace Billy Gillispie who took the Kentucky job. Turgeon had been the head coach at Wichita State for seven seasons leading them to a Sweet 16 in his only NCAA-T appearance from there in 2006.

Turgeon's A&M team won the Preseason NIT as part of a fast start.  In his four seasons, A&M made the NCAA-T each season and making the Round of 32 three times. Turgeon was 38-26 in Big 12 games. His tenure preceded A&M's move to the SEC.

Turgeon took the head coaching job at Maryland in 2011.  His success both in conference and making the NCAA-T has improved as Maryland moved to the B1G from the ACC.

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Frank Haith

On April 4, 2011, then 45-year-old Frank Haith took the head coaching job at Mizzou replacing Mike Anderson. Purdue's Matt Painter had been rumored and reported to be the new head coach prior to Haith's selection.

Haith had been 43-69 in ACC conference games at Miami (F) including 6-10 his final season good for 9th place, an NIT quarterfinals finish, and an improvement from ACC 12th place the prior season.

The Nevin Scapiro scandal at Miami revealed some basketball violations and after a two-and-a-half year NCAA investigation, Haith was suspended for the first five games of Mizzou's '13-14 season.

Haith's first Mizzou team went 30-4 and were granted a 2-seed in the NCAA-T in which they suffered an upset by 15-seed Norfolk State. There is debate over whether Haith inherited a stacked lineup or a depleted lineup, but he did win the Iba and AP College Coach of the Year awards.

Haith's '13 team went 11-7 in the SEC earning a 9-seed. They lost to 8-seed Colorado State in Rupp Arena.  Haith's third and final Mizzou team went 9-9 and received an NIT bid. In 2016, NCAA violations forced Mizzou to vacate their wins from 2013-14 season.  Haith's official SEC record with vacated wins ended at 25-20.

Frank Haith took the Tulsa job on April 17, 2014 prior to the resolution of the Mizzou investigation.  His '16 Tulsa team made the NCAA-T.
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Kevin Stallings

55-year old Kevin Stallings was the dean of SEC basketball coaches for one season when he completed his 17th and final season at Vandy in 2016. His career highlight was defeating UK's 2012 national champions in the SEC Tournament final.  Stallings was 138–142 (.493) in SEC regular season games. He took the Pittsburgh job replacing Jamie Dixon.  His son plays in the Pirate organization.

Stallings' best run was '04-'12 including six of the seven NCAA appearances during his tenure and two Sweet Sixteens. This represents two of six times Vandy has made the Sweet Sixteen ever. Roy Skinner took Vandy to the Elite Eight during Kentucky's off season in '65 and in a 23-team tournament field winning one game. Vandy has not won the SEC regular season under Stallings.

Stallings finished as the Vandy coach with the most wins with a 332-219 overall record in 17 seasons. Roy Skinner is the Vandy coach with the most SEC regular season wins with 171 (63.8%) in 16 seasons to Stallings' 138 (49.3%).

Stallings was a teammate of Arkansas native Joe Barry Carroll during his playing days at Purdue. 

Kevin Stallings replaced Jan van Breda Kolff in 1999, who had come off a 14-15 season and 5th place finish in the SEC-East. Stallings had just completed a 16-15 record and 7th place finish leading Illinois State in the Missouri Valley Conference.  His '97 and '98 teams had made the NCAA Tournament after winning the conference regular season and tournament titles.
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Billy Donovan

Then 49-year-old Billy "The Kid" Donovan left Florida as the third winningest coach in SEC history behind Coaches Rupp and Brown.  Coach Donovan has two NCAA championships, one other NCAA finals appearance, and a Final Four in 2014 after going 21-0 in the SEC regular season and tournament.  His three prior teams ('11, '12, and '13) all reached the Elite Eight. Donovan passed Coach Rupp to record the most NCAA Tournament wins of any SEC coach.

Florida won the SEC Tournament three consecutive seasons, '05, '06, and '07, to go with the '14 SEC-T title. The Gators won the SEC regular season title outright in '07, '11, '13, and '14 and shared it in '00 and '01. His only Florida teams to fail to make the postseason were his first and his last.  The Kid came to Florida in 1996 after two seasons at Marshall. Prior to that he was an assistant to Rick Pitino for five seasons at Kentucky.
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John Pelphrey

John Pelphrey completed his 4th and final season at UofA in '11. His SEC regular season conference record was 25-39 (39%) which prorated to 6.25-9.75. Pelphrey's first team advanced to the NCAA-T second round. That was his only post season appearance for Arkansas.

Pelphrey, then 39, replaced Stan Heath on April 9, 2007 after Oregon's current coach Dana Altman changed his mind and returned to Creighton. Pelphrey's USA team had won the Sun Belt Tourney in 2006 and lost to Florida in the NCAA-T Round of 64. His 2007 team lost in the first round of the NIT.  He had been an assistant to Billy Donovan from '94 to 2002. Donovan was an assistant coach at Kentucky when Pelphrey was an All-SEC forward there.

After Arkansas, Pelphrey returned to Donovan as his head assistant working mostly on Arkansas' dime.  Pelphrey was an analyst on the SEC Network in '15-16 after Donovan left for OKC. For '16-17, Pelphrey is an assistant at Bama for Avery Johnson.
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Billy Gillispie

Billy Gillispie coached for two seasons at UK. He filed a lawsuit against Kentucky for breach of memorandum of understanding that was settled out of court. One more error in judgment Gillispie made was getting arrested for a DUI at a Parkway exit service station in Central Kentucky the evening before the scheduled settlement.

Gillispie was 20-12 in SEC regular season play (62.5%). Gillispie's '08 team which was 12-4 in the SEC was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA-T. That team lost a home game to Gardner Webb. His 8-8 SEC team in '09 accepted a bid to the NIT snapping UK's NCAA consecutive appearance record dating back to the '91 season when UK was on probation. UK's previous NIT appearance had been in '79 following their national championship season. BCG's last game in Lexington would be played in Memorial Coliseum as Rupp Arena had already been booked for Disney on Ice. Patrick Patterson's mother Tawanna got in Mitch Barnhart's face after the game demanding that Gillispie goes or Patterson goes -- to the NBA draft.  Reporter Cutler chased Gillispie around the basketball office as UK officials attempted to notify him of his dismissal.

Winning the Press Conference, Losing the Job
Gillispie noted that he was neither UK's first nor seventh choice at the introductory presser enduring himself to the hearts of fans who imagine chewing the fat with the coach in a rocker at the general store while enjoying a dope and a moon pie. It was a change in complexion as Kentucky again drew from Southwest to draw a coach from a future SEC school. Gillispie's '07 A&M team had defeated Louisville in Rupp Arena which also went a long way with fans. That team went 27-7 and reached the Sweet 16. It was rumored that Arkansas had offered BCG to replace Stan Heath. Gillispie agreed in principle to a new A&M contract that was sitting on his desk when he left for Lexington.

Going Back to Tejas
After time in the John Lucas After Care Program, BCG took the Texas Tech home for coaches lacking emotional intelligence. His '11-12 team went 1-17 in the Big 12 (good enough for 10th) and in a deja vu moment, the Tech administration tried to track down Gillispie to let him know he was being dismissed after reports of player mistreatment surfaced.

Gillispie returned to coach his alma mater Ranger College. They had to forfeit 30+ games due to the use of ineligible players.

Gillispie never embraced the blue blood social scene in Lexington opting for young blood. He would blow off long-standing traditonal speaking engagements to the Rotary Club and the like. His best moment was one he had intended to remain anonymous. While listening to a small town radio station's Trading Post show, he heard of a young woman who wanted to sell her old car to be able to attend her father's funeral in Northern Ohio on short notice. Gillispie had the station verify the story and then paid for the woman's trip and bought her a new suit of clothes.
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Cuonzo Martin

Cuonzo Martin was 39 when he took the Vol head coaching job after leading the Missouri State Bears for three seasons. The Vols went 10-6 in the '12 SEC regular season and earned second place via the SEC tie-breaker. Tennessee lost to Middle Tennessee State in the second round of the NIT. The '13 team went 11-7 in SEC play but lost in the opening round of the NIT to Mercer.

Tennessee fans started a petition drive in the midst of the '13-14 season to replace Martin with Bruce Pearl whose show cause was ending and who wound up at Auburn. The Vols went on a tear as the players noted that they increased their intensity in defense of their coach. Tennessee got by Iowa in the First Four and then advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. On April 15 it was reported that Cuonzo had taken the Cal Bears job after Mike Montgomery retired. Martin's 2016 Cal team made the NCAA Tournament.

Martin was 32-20 (61.5%) in SEC play in three seasons.

In late 1997, Martin was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Martin began aggressive treatments and chemotherapy and the cancer went into remission. He worked as an assistant to Gene Keady at Purdue for eight seasons. He is the fifth D1 coach from the Gene Keady coaching tree.

Bruce Pearl was coach for six seasons at UT prior to Martin. The Vols have now had eight coaches spanning the original 12-Team SEC Expansion Era ('91-92 to present).
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Recent Update on Cuonzo Martin's successor: http://www.sunherald.com/sports/college/conference-usa/university-of-southern-mississippi/article91008467.html

QuoteJACKSON – An attorney for former Southern Miss basketball coach Donnie Tyndall said the NCAA's Committee on Infractions missed its deadline to respond to the coach's appeal in the case.

Don Jackson said in a motion that because the NCAA missed its Tuesday deadline, any response from the committee should be denied. It also requests that all previous penalties against Tyndall be dropped.

NCAA disagrees with Jackson's assessment. NCAA spokeswoman Emily James said in an email response to The Associated Press that the committee "did not miss its deadline for the filing." She said she could not elaborate because of the membership's confidentiality rules.

NCAA gave Tyndall a 10-year show-cause penalty in April after the governing body ruled the former Southern Miss coach orchestrated academic fraud designed to land recruits as well as other misconduct that included trying to cover up payments to athletes and potential evidence.

Tyndall was fired as Tennessee's coach in March 2015 due to the possibility the NCAA might penalize him.

The NCAA ruled in April that Tyndall "acted unethically and failed to promote an atmosphere for compliance when he directed his staff to engage in academic misconduct" while coaching at Southern Miss from 2012-14.

Tyndall appealed the ruling in June.

Southern Mississippi self-imposed a two-year postseason ban that took effect in 2015. The program is under probation until 2020 and will lose four more scholarships over the next three years.

Tyndall's show-cause penalty – which essentially makes him unemployable at the NCAA level – runs through April 7, 2026. Even if he is employed after that date, he must sit out 50 percent of his team's first full season.

Count me among those disappointed in Donnie Tyndall

QuoteTyndall built the image of an affable character on his rise from Morehead State to Southern Miss to Tennessee.

Tyndall showed his true colors in his worst hour - an obstinate man who refuses to be accountable for his program's actions from 2012-14 as the USM basketball coach.

NCAA handed down severe punishment for Tyndall while USM avoided a further postseason ban. The school will have to reduce basketball scholarships by four over the next three years.

With a 10-year show-cause stamped in red letters across his forehead by the NCAA, Tyndall again pointed the finger elsewhere rather than owning up to NCAA's claim that he is the man who orchestrated a plan to blatantly cheat at USM.

"There are 4,000 pages of transcripts and documentation, 40 people were interviewed, and not one bit of evidence directly links me to the violations, and not one person involved linked me to the violations except Adam Howard," Tyndall told CBS Sports. "And Adam Howard said this after he initially lied. And then he lied again. And then we had to fire him at Tennessee. And then he cut a deal in March for full immunity if he would talk on me. So then he talked on me."

Tyndall is trying to paint the 30-year-old Howard, one of his top assistants at Morehead State, USM and Tennessee, as a bitter former employee who turned on him late in the NCAA investigation for his own benefit. This is the same Adam Howard who Tyndall praised as someone who reminded him of himself as a young coach when he first arrived at USM.

Overwhelming evidence

If you want to scour the 47 pages of NCAA's ruling, you'll find all the information you need to understand how far Tyndall went to break the rules and then cover it all up with investigators breathing down his neck.
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Jon Rothstein ‏@JonRothstein 7h7 hours ago

One thing to keep in mind: Rick Stansbury's presence at Western Kentucky could eventually turn Conference-USA into a multi-bid league.
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Rick Stansbury

In March 2012, then 52-year old Rick Stansbury finished his 23rd season on staff at Mississippi State, his 14th as head coach.  His regular season conference record ended at 122-102 or 54.5%. That prorates to 8.7-7.3 across a 16-game schedule. Stansbury's teams won the SEC-Tourney in '02 and '09. They won the regular season title in '04. State under Stansbury went to the NCAA Round of 32 four times, his biggest advancement, the last time in '08.

Stansbury's teams made the NCAA six of fourteen times. They participated in post season play every season but two.

An obsession with getting Renardo Sidney eligible and the resulting team disunity led to the downfall of Stansbury in Starkville. He was replaced by Rick Ray who struggled to rebuild and was ultimately replaced last season by Ben Howland.

After a year away from coaching, Stansbury joined Billy Kennedy's staff at A&M and has been credited with helping the Aggies become the second best recruiting school in SEC mens basketball.

In March 2016 Stansbury landed the head coaching job at Western and has already landed a top 10 recruit and some top grad transfers.

A native of Western Kentucky, Stansbury played for the late Lou Cunningham at then Campbellsville College. Sweet Lou's son Phil was a long-time assistant at State.

Stansbury was a long-time assistant to Richard Williams who led State to the 1996 SEC Tourney championship over Kentucky and the NCAA FInal Four.
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https://twitter.com/GaryParrishCBS/status/760886690982535169

QuoteHilltoppers might be running C-USA in two years.

That's because they have, over the past few days, reportedly secured commitments from Lamonte Bearden, who averaged 13.7 points and 4.2 assists last season at Buffalo, and Moustaphe Diagne, a top-70 prospect from the class of 2015 who originally signed with Syracuse but never enrolled. Both will sit out this season per normal NCAA transfer rules and be eligible in 2017-18, which will also likely be Mitchell Robinson's first and only season of college basketball. Robinson, of course, committed to Western Kentucky last month. He's ranked 10th in the class of 2017. That's 10th in the entire nation.

Simply put, no C-USA school has collected players like this since Memphis left for the American Athletic Conference, and it's why Western Kentucky was wise to hire Rick Stansbury in March. The former Mississippi State coach has always been a top-shelf player-getter. And he's spent his first four months on the job reminding folks of as much to the point where it's not a stretch to suggest Western Kentucky could have -- in Robinson, Bearden and Diagne -- the three most-talented prospects in Conference USA in 2017-18.
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Jeff Lebo

Jeff Lebo coached Auburn for six seasons ('04-'10) going 35-61 in regular season SEC play and prorating to 5.8-10.2. He led Auburn to only one NIT appearance with a 10-6 SEC record in '09.  A former Tarheel player, Lebo had been a head coach at UT-Chattanooga and Tennessee Tech. Lebo replaced long-time Auburn coach Cliff Ellis one season after Ellis had led Auburn to the Sweet Sixteen.

Lebo was replaced at Auburn by current Calipari assistant Tony Barbee who struggled.

Jeff Lebo is currently the head coach at East Carolina.  His team was invited to the CIT in three of his first four seasons including the '13 championship.  His last two teams have gone 10-26 in the American conference dragging his overall career record to 99-100 and his overall regular season conference record to 37-63.
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John Brady

John Brady coached LSU for 10.5 seasons in a feast or famine type of run.  Brady finished sixth in the SEC-W five times.  This included three of his first four seasons and his last two seasons. Brady's teams earned first round SEC-T byes in five other seasons.

Brady's 2006 team reached the NCAA-T Final Four. This was LSU's fourth Final Four appearance ever but their only one during the SEC Expansion Era to-date. Brady also reached the NCAA-T Sweet 16 in his third season. Brady's teams reached the NCAA-T four times and the NIT two times.

Brady's SEC conference regular season record was 74-93 (44.3%) prorated to 7-9 as an average season. Brady's 2000 team shared the SEC regular season title with an overall 28-6 record (12-4 SEC). His Final Four team finished 27-9 (14-2 SEC) and was outright SEC regular season champs.

Brady, of course was hired to replace Dale Brown who had the second longest SEC Basketball coaching tenure ever (1972 to 1997). Brady had coached Samford to three consecutive 11-5 records in the Atlantic Sun without post season play prior to being hired by LSU at age 42. He inherited a team on probation and struggled early with retention while also coaching multiple SEC Players of the Year.

Brady was fired on Feb. 8, 2008 with Butch Pierre serving as interim. Brady coaching Arkansas State for eight seasons resigning after the 2016 season with this teams having not reached the post season.
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Dave Odom

Dave Odom was coach at USC for seven seasons. He made the NCAA-T once and the NIT three times. Odom's Gamecocks were the NIT runnerup his first season in Columbia and NIT champs in '05 and '06. He led the Gamecocks to one NCAA-T.

Odom's SC teams never earned a first day bye in the SEC-T. His SEC regular season record of 41-71 (36.6%) prorates to a shade under 6-10 on average.

Odom, then 58, replaced Eddie Fogler in 2001 after 12 seasons at Wake Forest.  Odom's team led by Tim Duncan went to 1996 Elite Eight and two other teams made the Sweet 16.  Odom's last Demon Deacon team finished fifth in the ACC and were eliminated in the first round of the NCAA. Fogler's last SC team finished fifth in the SEC-East.

Dave Odom is currently Tournament Chairman of the Maui Invitational.
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Former Minnesota women's coach Pam Borton: Tubby Smith learned of firing from ESPN

QuoteBorton goes into detail on the firing of men's basketball coach Tubby Smith following the 2012-13 season, which she said could have been handled better by then-Athletic Director Norwood Teague.

"Tubby's name was scrolling across ESPN's sports-ticker at the bottom of the television screen and his phone was ringing off the hook before the athletic director gave him the news. ... He was asked to vacate the building that day and his office belongings and boxes would be delivered to his house."

Smith went 124-81 (.610) with the Gophers and was fired immediately following an NCAA Tournament Round of 32 loss to Florida.

It's yet another bad look for Teague, who resigned in 2015 following revelations that he sexually assaulted multiple University of Minnesota employees. In her book, Borton delves deeper into events surrounding Teague's administration.

It should be noted that Borton herself was fired by Teague in March of 2014, following 12 seasons leading the women's program. She had a 236-152 record and led Minnesota to the Final Four in 2004.

Also note that Norwood Teague was reportedly sexually harrassing Star Tribune Gopher basketball beat writer Amelia Rayno.

She thought she was getting an exclusive.
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Tubby Smith

Tubby Smith coached UGa for two seasons making the NCAA-T in both. His '96 team reached the NCAA-T Sweet 16. Coach Smith's SEC regular season record was 19-13 (59.4%) which prorates to 9.5-7.5.  He was the first Georgia coach to lead back-to-back 20 win seasons. He was the first black head coach at a major sport in Georgia history.

Smith had been an assistant on Rick Pitino's first Kentucky teams before taking the Tulsa job and leading them to the NCAA Sweet 16 in '94 and '95.  Tubby replaced long-time Georgia coach Hugh Durham. Tubby was replaced by his head assistant Ron Jirsa.

Tubby Smith left Georgia to come to UK for the '97-98 season and coached at Kentucky for 10 seasons. His first UK team won the NCAA National Championship.

Coach Smith's SEC regular season record was 120-40 which of course prorates to 12-4. Each Smith team at UK went to the NCAA-T second round at a minimum. He had six teams make the Sweet Sixteen and four make the Elite Eight including the Championship team.

Smith's '03 team went undefeated in the SEC regular season and won the SEC Tourney (19-0) before advancing to the Elite 8. Smith's '04 team was the NCAA Tourney #1 overall seed before being eliminated in the second round by Mike Anderson's UAB team.

Coach Smith's teams won the SEC-T five times: '98, '99, '01, '03, and '04. His teams won the SEC regular season outright in '98, '03, and '05 and shared the title in '99 and '01. Smith left UK to coach Minnesota. After a stint to bring emotionial stability to the head coaching role at Texas Tech, Tubby Smith took the Memphis job replacing Josh Pastner.
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Bruce Pearl

Bruce Pearl, then 45, was hired by Tennessee to replace Buzz Peterson. He was coach for six seasons at UT.  In SEC regular season play, Pearl was 65-31 (including his 8-game suspension in '11), a 68% winning percentage. This prorates to a 10.8-5.2 SEC average season.

Pearl took UT to the NCAA-T each season. 2010 was the Vols first Elite Eight appearance in program history. Pearl has also made the Sweet Sixteen twice. Tennessee won the SEC regular season crown in '08 and finished with an overall 31-5 record. The Vols earned a first round SEC bye in Pearl's first four seasons, failing in the Elite Eight season and his last season when the Vols finished fifth in the SEC East. Out of conference road wins were enough to propel UT into the tourney in '11 with only 19 total wins.

Pearl hosted Ohio State hustle guy Aaron Craft and his family to a cookout at his house, lied about it to the NCAA, and the Crafts turned him in. Pearl was given a three-year show cause penalty by the NCAA. Tennessee administration abandoned the 2011 Vol team competing in the NCAA-T and perhaps learned this lesson: no SEC school has a birthright to automatic NCAA-T inclusion to which you can hire any goober, kick back, then expect to get your bid. Any SEC school is a bad hire away from a prolonged drought.

Pearl had a career 80% conference winning percentage at Wisconsin-Milwaukee and took a 12-seeded team to the Sweet 16, beating Bama and Boston College, the season before he was hired to Tennessee. He had been essentially blacklisted from Division I coaching for taking responsibility for reporting alleged recruiting violations against Illinois in 1989 when Pearl was an Iowa assistant. Pearl won a D-II Championship during his nine-year run at Southern Illinois.

Pearl, on his 54th birthday, was named Auburn's 20th head basketball coach replacing Tony Barbee who was not able to leverage his William Wesley connnections and the SEC's then newest arena. Pearl is 9-27 in SEC conference games in his first two seasons and his overall percentage is under 40%. His quick fix grad and juco transfers have largely let him down. He has moved into the top three of SEC recruiting rankings.

Auburn's best run under Pearl was in the 2015 SEC Tournament when his team who had to play on Wednesday, won three games before losing to then undefeated Kentucky who had the double-bye.  That team increased their total SEC wins from four to seven and gave hope for the near future which were then dashed by the 2016 team.

AD Jay Jacobs, in August 2016, stated that if Pearl is not the one to turn around Auburn mens basketball, they might as well burn down Auburn Arena.
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Mark Gottfried

Mark Gottfried coached at Bama for 10.5 seasons. His regular season SEC record was 84-83. Gottfried led Bama to five straight NCAA-T appearances from his 4th season to his 8th. His '04 team (20-13, 8-8 SEC) made the NCAA-T Elite 8, Bama's best showing in the Big Dance ever. Bama made the post season 8 times under Gottfried reportedly turning down an invite to the CBI in '08.

Gottfried's '02 team was the SEC regular season champion (12-4). His '03 team was Number 1 in the AP poll for two weeks, the first time ever for Bama.

Gottfried's teams had missed the NCAA tournament the last two years, and he was ostracized over the abrupt departure of perennial lead guard Ronald Steele. Steele, a preseason first-team AP All-America in '07 was plaqued by injuries. Bama attributed Steele's departure to another injury. Steele said there was more to it.

Gottfried had signed a six-year contract with Bama in 2005 making him the school's first $1 million basketball coach with a larger salary than Mike Shula. The contract ran through 2011 including a buyout. Financial terms tied to his resignation were not released. Nor will they be.

Philip Pearson was an interim coach at Bama who replaced Mark Gottfried in season in '09. Pearson was 5-6 during his regular season run.

David Hobbs preceded Gottfried at Bama from '92-93 to '97-98. In his six seasons, Bama made the second round of the NCAA-T twice. Hobbs had a 110-76 overall record during his Bama tenure and a 50-46 record in SEC conference play.

Gottfried had led Murray State Mafia to two consecutive NCAA cups o' joe before being hired by Bama at age 34 in 1998.  He, of course, was a former Bama player helping them make the Sweet 16 with Wimp Sanderson in all three of his seasons. He is Bama's career three point percentage holder at 48.5% and made 8 in one game, in the early days of NCAA three point adoption.

After some time as a broadcast analyst, Mark Gottfried took the NC State in 2011 where he has led the team to the Sweet 16 twice. His most recent team is the first to not make the NCAA-T.  His ACC record is .500. After whooping Duke, Gottfried joined a select roster of coaches who have defeated #1 teams at two different schools.
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Stan Heath

Stan Heath coached the Hogs for five seasons. His SEC regular season record was 31-49 (39%) which prorates to 6.2-9.8. Heath's last two teams made the NCAA first round in '06 and '07.

Then 37, Heath was hired to follow the Nolan Richardson era. In his one previous season as a head coach, his veteran Kent State team won 30 games, went 17-1 in the MAC, and advanced to the Elite Eight. Immediately prior to that, Heath was an assistant to Tom Izzo at Michigan State.

Heath was hired by UCF in April 2007. The Bulls made the NCAA-T once in seven seasons.  He is currently an assistant at Boston College.
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Jim Harrick

Jim Harrick coached UGa for four seasons and he and Jim Harrick, Jr. left UGa with NCAA sanctions. Harrick's vacated victories leave him well under 50% during his SEC regular season career.  Harrick, then 60, was hired in 1999 to replace Tubby Smith's successor, Ron Jirsa.  Harrick was 33-31 in SEC games prior to revelations that his son was giving out A's in a Basketball Strategy class that did not require attendance.  Harrick, Sr. would up officially 0-11 in SEC play in his last two seasons after vacating 21 conference wins and a Round of 32 appearance in the '02 NCAA Tournament.  He was officially 12-34 in conference play and did reach the first round of the '01 NCAA Tourney. His firing ended his college coaching career.

Harrick had won the NCAA Tournament with UCLA in '95 and was fired a year later for instructing an assistant coach to lie about attendees at a dinner on an expense report (one was O'Bannon).  Harrick is currently the third winningest coach in UCLA history after Coach Wooden and Ben Howland.  Harrick led Rhode Island to the Elite Eight and followed with a first round NCAA-T exit before getting hired by Georgia.
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Cliff Ellis

Renaissance man Cliff Ellis coached Auburn for 10 seasons going 73-87 (45.6%) which prorates to 7.3-8.7 over his career. Ellis took Auburn to the NCAA-T in '99, '00, and '03. The '99 team finished 29-4 and Auburn won the SEC Tourney. The '00 team was an SI preseason pick to win it all. Agent dealings cost Auburn's Porter eligilibilty. The '03 team made the Sweet 16.  His last Auburn team in '04 went 5-11 in SEC play.

Ellis was 48 when he took over Auburn after 10 seasons at Clemson where he is the winningest coach in Tiger history.  His sixth Clemson team made the NCAA Sweet 16 but not of his last four teams received an NCAA-T bid.

After a three-year hiatus, Ellis took the head coaching position at Coastal Carolina. He has led them to two trips to the NCAA-T, two trips to the NIT and two trips to the CollegeInsider (CIT) tourney.

Ellis replaced Tommy Joe Eagles who was the SEC Men's Coach of the Year in his first season ('89-90).  Eagles went 3-13 in the SEC in his last season at Auburn in '94.  He died of a heart attack on a recruiting trip on July 30, 1994 for his new school, New Orleans. 
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Buzz Peterson

Bruce Pearl was preceded at Tennessee by Buzz Peterson who was Michael Jordan's college roommate. Buzz coached four years at UT. His regular season conference record was 29-35 (45%). This prorates to a 7.25-8.75 average season. Buzz failed to make the NCAA-T and his team was eliminated in the NIT first round in two tries.

Peterson had won the 2001 NIT in his sole season at Tulsa, the proving ground for SEC coaches. His team had made the NCAA-T the year prior at App State. Peterson returned to the Carolinas to coach after parting ways with Tennessee. His most recent stop was at UNC-Wilmington where he coached four seasons, ending in 2014 with a 20-50 Colonial conference record.  At last check, Buzz is a senior advisor to basketball operations for the Hornets, working for his college roommate.
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Jerry Green

Jerry Green coached UT for four seasons from '97-98 to '00-01 replacing Kevin O'Neill. His regular season conference record was 41-23 (63%) going 12-4 twice. This prorates to a 10-6 average. Green took the Vols to the NCAA-T each season with the Sweet Sixteen being their crowning achievement. At the time it was UT's second Sweet Sixteen appearance ever and first in 19 seasons. Tennessee shared the SEC Regular Season championship in 2000.

N.Y. Times: Green, 57, did not attend the news conference, but he issued a statement. ''This ends an emotional time for me because I have never before left where I felt that my work was incomplete. Even though I feel optimistic about the prospects for next season, I believe that in the best interests of myself and the university, it is time for a change.''

Green had been Oregon's coach for 5 seasons including a 7th place finish in the then-Pac 10 in his final season before being hired by Tennessee.

Green's predecessor, former Marquette Coach Kevin O'Neill had been 14-24 in SEC regular season play.

Replacing a coach who has won 63% in SEC regular season play must have meant that the Vols had a good one in waiting. Buzz Peterson failed to make the NCAA-T and his team was eliminated in the NIT in the first round in two tries going 29-35 in SEC play.
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Eddie Fogler

Eddie Fogler left an SEC Regular Season champion and Sweet Sixteen team at Vandy to take the USC rebuilding job in 1993. Vandy was NIT champs in Fogler's first season at Vandy in '90.  Fogler was 38-30 in SEC games at Vandy.  He had left a successful 3-year stint at Wichita State.

His first two seasons in Columbia were tough, finishing 5th in the then SEC-East twice. Fogler's 1997 team went 15-1 in the SEC winning the regular season title outright and beating UK, the eventual national runnerup and SEC-T winner on their Senior Day. They were eliminated in the first round of the NCAA-T. Fogler took a USC team to another NCAA-T first round elimination the next season. These two were Fogler's only NCAA-T appearances for USC. They also made the NIT twice.

In Fogler's eight seasons in the SEC at USC, his regular season record was 57-71 (44.5%) which prorates a tad better than 7-9. His final three seasons yielded on 17 regular season conference wins.

Fogler replaced Steve Newton who coached the first two seasons that USC was in the SEC.

Fogler did not return to a head coaching position.  He is currently an analyst for Fox Sports.  He also helped Vandy find Bryce Drew as there new head coach replacing Kevin Stallings.
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Ron Jirsa

Tubby Smith had coached UGa for two seasons making the NCAA-T in both. His '96 team reached the NCAA-T Sweet 16 when he was called to replace Rick Pitino for the '97-98 season.

Tubby's head assistant Ron Jirsa coached UGa for two seasons going 35-30 overall and 13-19 in SEC action.  His two teams were selected for the NIT with the '98 team making the semi-finals at MSG. Tubby's son GG stayed to lead Georgia's offense for his senior season while Saul moved with Tubby to Kentucky.

The long time assistant had been Tubby's associate coach at Tulsa when Smith was hired to be Georgia's first black coach for a major program.

Georgia replaced Jirsa with former UCLA national championship coach Jim Harrick where scandal and vacated victories would come.

After an assistant coaching stint at Dayton, Jirsa was head coach at Marshall for four seasons going 43-74 with no post-season.  Jirsa later rejoined Tubby Smith as an assistant at Minnesota until Tubby's firing in 2013 to bring in Richard Pitino. At last check, Jirsa is an assistant at Radford.
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Jan van Breda Kolff

Playing for his father Butch at Vandy, Jan van Breda Kolff was the 1974 SEC Player of the Year followed by an 9 year ABA/NBA basketball career.

Jan replaced Eddie Fogler in '93 who had taken Vandy to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen after winning the SEC regular season championship.  He coached six seasons at Vandy (104-81 overall, 43-53 SEC) and his '97 team (19-12, 9-7) earned an NCAA-T 10-seed followed by a first round loss to Xavier.

Jan van Breda Kolff's '99 Vandy team finished (14-15, 5-11 SEC), fifth in the then SEC-East. He was replaced by Kevin Stallings.

van Breda Kolff had finished his second season at Cornell in his first head coaching job.  Cornell had improved from 7-19 to 16-10.

In his first job after Vandy, Jan led 2000 Pepperdine to the WCC championship and another NCAA-T bid.  He was hired at St. Bonaventure in 2001.  The Bonnies had to forfeit every win from the 2003 season over a player eligibilty issue. Although cleared of wrongdoing, van Breda Kolff has not coached in the NCAA again.  His last coaching job was the Nashville franchise in the new ABA for two seasons ending in 2010.
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Kevin O'Neill

Kevin O'Neill coached UT for three seasons and could not get a rebuilding job accomplished. O'Neill was hired after his Marquette team defeated UK in the '94 NCAA-T second round to replace Wade Houston, the Tennessee coach when Arkansas joined the SEC.

O'Neill was 14-24 in SEC regular season play finishing in the SEC-East cellar all three seasons. He made the post season once, a first round elimination in the NIT in a season which his final record was (14-15, 6-10). It was his best season at Tennessee.

Jerry Green replaced O'Neill in 1997.

Kevin O'Neill's next stop was Northwestern where his teams were 9-39 in B1G play. He was the interim coach at Arizona when Lute Olson decided to take a leave of absence. His wins that season were later vacated.  O'Neill coached USC from '10 to '13, going 19-35 in the Pac 10/12. It was his last college coaching job to date.

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David Hobbs

David Hobbs started high school coaching in 1972 right out of college before taking an assistant coaching job at his alma mater, VCU. In 1985, Hobbs became an assistant for Wimp Sanderson and replaced him as head coach following the 1992 season.

Hobbs' Bama teams advanced to and lost in the NCAA-T Round of 32 in '94 and '95. The '94 team was 12-4, second to Arkansas in the SEC. His '96 team made the NIT Final Four at MSG.  He was let go following the 1998 season.  Hobbs was 50-46 in SEC games with his last two teams both going 6-10.

David Hobbs became an assistant for his friend Tubby Smith at Kentucky from 2000 to 2007. Hobbs has since been a scout for the Bobcats and has coached the Japanese National Team.
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Lon Kruger

Lon Kruger, then 38, inherited scholarship reductions from the Norm Sloan when he took the Florida job prior to the '90-91 season.  He had led Kansas State to four consecutive NCAA-T appearances including an Elite 8.  After a rebuilding season, his second Florida team advanced to Madison Square Garden for the NIT semifinals.

Kruger's '94 Florida team became the first in program history to advance to the Final Four. He was named SEC Coach of the Year in '92 and '94. His '96 team fell to fifth in the SEC-East. His SEC record was 51-47 (18-game schedule in '91).

Illinois hired Kruger to replace the then retiring Lou Henson.

Florida replaced Kruger with then 30-year-old Billy Donovan who was coaching Marshall. He did all right.

Lon Kruger returned to the NCAA Final Four in 2016 coaching Oklahoma.
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Steve Newton

The year South Carolina joined the SEC they hired Steve Newton from the Murray State Mafia where his teams led the race to four consecutive OVC championships.  Gamecocks were 8-24 in SEC play in Newton's two seasons and he was hired as an assistant athletic director for SC.  After two years in that post, Newton was AD at Southern Indiana until he retired at Southern Indiana in 2001.  He got his start in coaching in Indiana high schools less than ten years after Milan High won the Indiana state championship (the team depicted as Hickory High in Hoosiers).

South Carolina hired Eddie Fogler from Vandy to replace Newton and in '97 they would have their best regular season ever.

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Tommy Joe Eagles

Tommy Joe Eagles was the Auburn head coach when the SEC expanded.  During his five seasons, AU was 29-55 (34.5%) which prorates to 5.5-10.5. Eagles won the 1990 SEC Coach of the Year award defeating Rick Pitino et al.

Cliff Ellis replaced Eagles at Auburn.

Eagles had led LaTech to post season play in each of his four seasons including a second round NCAA in 1989, immediately prior to being hired at Auburn.  Prior to LaTech, the Louisiana native had been a high school coach at Ruston and Simsboro.

Eagles was named head coach at the University Of New Orleans in 1994.  On a recruiting trip to Utah, he died of heart attack before coaching his first game.
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Wade Houston

Wade Houston coached at UT for five seasons. He was the first black head coach in a major sport in SEC history. Houston was Denny Crum's long time assistant at UofL and he brought his son Allan who became UT's all-time leading scorer.

Coach Houston's teams failed to make the NCAA-T. They did qualify for the NIT twice. He twice lost 22 games overall and his last season, '93-94 saw a 5-22 record, UT's worst in history. Houston's all-time SEC regular season record was 27-57.

He was replaced by Kevin O'Neill whose Marquette team had eliminated UK in the round of 32 in the '94 NCAA-T.

Wade Houston is currently involved in the cut throat world of regional trucking out of Louisville.
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Rob Evans

Rob Evans was coach at Ole Miss for six seasons beginning with Arkansas' second season in the SEC. Evans was the first black coach of a major sport at Ole Miss. He replaced Ed Murphy. 

Evans led the Rebels to NCAA-T appearances in his last two seasons of '97 and '98. It was Ole Miss first NCAA-T appearance since winning the SEC-T in 1981 for their first ever NCAA-T trip. Evans also led Ole Miss to a huge win in Rupp Arena over Tubby Smith's National Championship team on Valentine's Day, 1998. It is to-date one of only two wins by the Rebels over UK in Lexington. The first was in 1927. Coach Evans was 86-81 overall (43-53 SEC) at Ole Miss.

The '98 team, his last at Ole Miss was (22-7, 12-4) when he left to take the Arizona State job. ASU was trying to recover from a point shaving scandal. He is one of the few SEC coaches who left, if not at the top relative to his school's historical success, at least very near it.  Evans was 55-89 in the then Pac-10 and was let go in 2006. He was, of course, an assistant to John Pelphrey and later an assistant at TCU for Trent Johnson. He is currently as assistant to Tony Benford at North Texas. Benford was an assistant to Evans at Arizona State.

He was replaced by his head assistant, former Ole Miss star Rod Barnes.

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Ed Murphy

Rob Evans' predecessor was jovial Ed Murphy who coached Ole Miss from '86 to '92, their first season in the SEC.  His Ole Miss team was 4-12 in '92 SEC play.  His biggest issue was players wanting to party all the time.

Murph coached West Georgia from '93 to '07 before retiring at age 65.
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Richard Williams   

Richard Williams coached State for 12 seasons. In '91 he took them to their second NCAA-T appearance ever and first since '63. (State had waived appearance opportunties in prior seasons. The '63 appearance is remarkable.) Then student, Richard Williams would observe the practices run by State coach Babe McCarthy.

State shared the '91 regular season championship with LSU [UK was on probation]. In '96 State won the SEC-T over Kentucky and made the NCAA-T Final Four losing to Syracuse. Williams also led State to the Sweet 16 in '95.

During his tenure, State made the NCAA-T three times and post season play five times.

Williams's overall regular season SEC percentage was 89-113, 44% which prorates to an average 7-9.  Williams had a combined 23-49 in his first four seasons and finished at State with a 4-12 campaign. State was 26-8 overall in '96. He was a two-time SEC Coach of the Year.

Williams was replaced by his long-time assistant Rick Stansbury.

Richard Williams started as a volunteer 7th grade coach and was eventually hired as a part-time coach by then State head coach Bob Boyd.  He was an assistant when he was hired as head coach replacing Boyd in 1986.

After some time off, Williams coached teams in the ABA revival, the WBA, and Pearl High School.  He was an assistant to John Brady at Arkansas from '10 to '14.  Williams was most recently hired to be the analyst on Mississippi State basketball radio broadcasts.
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Hugh Durham

Hugh Durham was the coach at UGa from '78 to '95 and of course was coaching the Bulldogs when the SEC expanded. In his SEC regular season career, Durham was 148-150. He was 31-33 during the SEC's 12 team era making two NIT first round appearances. He was SEC Coach of the Year, four times. He was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.

Coach Durham took UGa to the NCAA Final Four in '83. UGa made four other trips to the Big Dance during his UGa tenure.  Georgia won the SEC Regular Season championship in '90.

Coach Durham took Florida State to the NCAA final game in '72 losing to UCLA.

After coaching at Georgia, Durham coached eight seasons at Jacksonville ending his career in 2005.
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Wimp Sanderson

Winfrey Sanderson coached Bama's first year in the expanded SEC and his last of 12 seasons as Bama's head man.  Sanderson was 10-6 in his last SEC regular season taking Bama to the SEC-T finals and the NCAA 2nd round. Sanderson was associated with Bama athletics for 32 years until Nancy Watts' face made contact with his fist.

Sanderson led Bama to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA-T six times. His teams won the SEC Conference Tourney in '82, '87, '89, '90, and '91. Bama also won the SEC regular season title in '87.  He was 132-82 in SEC regular season games during his entire run.  He was 3x SEC Coach of the Year and National Coach of the Year in 1987.

Wimp Sanderson had been an assistant at Bama since 1960 when taking over the head coaching job in 1981. He was replaced by David Hobbs who was his head assistant. Sanderson replaced CM Newton, who took an adminstrative job with the SEC Office before coaching Vandy and later becoming UK's athletic director.

Sanderson coached UALR from '94-'99, going 49-37 in Sun Belt games and making the NIT once.
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Rick Stansbury

In March 2012, then 52-year old Rick Stansbury finished his 23rd season on staff at Mississippi State, his 14th as head coach.  His regular season conference record ended at 122-102 or 54.5%. That prorates to 8.7-7.3 across a 16-game schedule. Stansbury's teams won the SEC-Tourney in '02 and '09. They won the regular season title in '04. State under Stansbury went to the NCAA Round of 32 four times, his biggest advancement, the last time in '08.

Stansbury's teams made the NCAA six of fourteen times. They participated in post season play every season but two.

An obsession with getting Renardo Sidney eligible and the resulting team disunity led to the downfall of Stansbury in Starkville. He was replaced by Rick Ray who struggled to rebuild and was ultimately replaced last season by Ben Howland.

After a year away from coaching, Stansbury joined Billy Kennedy's staff at A&M and has been credited with helping the Aggies become the second best recruiting school in SEC mens basketball.

In March 2016 Stansbury landed the head coaching job at Western and has already landed a top 10 recruit and some top grad transfers.

A native of Western Kentucky, Stansbury played for the late Lou Cunningham at then Campbellsville College. Sweet Lou's son Phil was a long-time assistant at State.

Stansbury was a long-time assistant to Richard Williams who led State to the 1996 SEC Tourney championship over Kentucky and the NCAA FInal Four.

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Dale Brown

Dale Brown had the second longest SEC Basketball coaching tenure ever.  Brown coached from 1972 to 1997. Coach Brown first made the post season in his seventh season at LSU. Brown then made the post season 15 consecutive years. His teams failed to make the post season his last four years. Coach Brown's teams made the NCAA-T ten consecutive seasons.

Coach Brown's teams made the NCAA-T Sweet 16 five times, the Elite 8 four times, and the Final Four twice. LSU won the SEC regular season championship outright in '79, '81 and '85 and shared the title in '91. LSU won the SEC Tourney in 1980, the second year of the revived tournament. Coach Brown's best record was with his '81 team which went 31-5 (17-1 SEC).

Brown's SEC regular season record was 238-200 (54.3%) or 8.7-7.3 prorated. His latter seasons after SEC Expansion were some of his tougher seasons. Coach Brown went 39-57 (40.6%) in six seasons prorating to 6.5-9.5.
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Rick Pitino

Rick Pitino was coaching UK when the SEC expanded. Pitino's regular season SEC record during his 8 seasons at UK was 104-28.  During the SEC expansion era Pitino was 80-16 (83.3%) which prorates to 13.3-2.7.

Pitino's teams won the SEC-T each season (five times) during the expansion era except in '96 when they won the NCAA-T. Pitino's teams went to the NCAA Elite 8 five times, the Final Four three times, and the NCAA final game twice. Pitino left UK to coach the Celtics.  UK was ineligible for post season play in '90 and '91.

Pitino was hired by CM Newton to replace Eddie Sutton after UK had received near death penalty sanctions.  He had been the coach of the NY Knicks.  After leaving UK for the Celtics and Larry Bird not coming through that door, Pitino became UofL's head coach in 2001 reigniting the UK-Louisville in-state rivalry. He won a national championship for Louisville in 2013.
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Tom Jurich insists Louisville will dispute the failure to monitor Andre McGee charge against Rick Pitino every step of this process.

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