Where'd you hear that from Nic Wise? I agree Richardson would be a pretty good choice. What pull does UH have for recruiting though? It's a better place to live than Lubbock or College Station, but most of the top Houston recruits either go to Texas or OOS. Facilities? Coaching? Girls? Atmosphere? National TV? The city? Yao was a 3 out of 10...hahaha
I imagine that yao's ratiing was lowered because there was about a snowball's chance in Shenzen in the summertime of him playing NCAA basketball.... Is that the same Chris Anderson who plays for the Nuggets llisted in UH's recruiting class btw?
Nolan Richardson If you can recruit to FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS YOU CAN RECRUIT TO ANYWHERE Rocket River
WHO'S NEXT? A look at some possible replacements for Ray McCallum at the University of Houston: John Lucas, former NBA coach ·Why: Has strong local ties and would be able to recruit the area. Roots run deep in the community. ·Why not: Wasn't a huge success in the NBA, but neither was Rick Pitino. Josh Pastner, Arizona assistant ·Why: A terrific recruiter for the Wildcats, his ties to the local basketball scene would be a gold mine for the Cougars. ·Why not: At 25, is he ready to run a major program? Dave Rose, BYU assistant ·Why: A former Cougar, he might bring the same zeal and excitement to the program that Art Briles brought to football team. ·Why not: Briles had stronger ties to Texas from his days as a high school coach at Stephenville and an assistant at Tech. Rose has been at BYU for six years and before that was at Dixie College in Utah for seven years. Larry Eustachy, former Iowa state coach ·Why: A former AP national coach of the year, he knows how to win and excels at finding star junior college players, something UH could use right away. ·Why not: It may be too soon after his troubled departure from Iowa State. Brings some serious baggage. Would UH be willing to take the PR hit? Billy Gillispie, UTEP coach ·Why: In two seasons, he turned the Miners around, leading them to a 22-6 record after a 6-24 mark last year. ·Why not: Hard to imagine he'd leave UTEP after just two years, and he will likely command a higher salary than the Cougars can pay. FIVE LONG SHOTS FROM AROUND TOWN Joe Curl, UH women's coach -- He got the Lady Cougars in the NCAA tournament this year and they are ranked No. 11 in the country. At least deserves an interview. Of course, it would help if the men's team had the equivalent of Chandi Jones. Michael Young, UH assistant -- Has no head coaching experience but well-respected locally and popular with the current players. Ronnie Courtney, TSU coach -- Like Art Briles, he was a sensation as a high school coach, and he got the Tigers to the NCAAs last year. Ron Cottrell, Houston Baptist coach -- They stay under the radar, but the Huskies have been very good for a long time, winning at least 25 games each of the past seven years. Rudy Tomjanovich, former Rockets coach -- OK, so it's a reach, but he's tanned, rested and ready. Why not one of Houston's most beloved sports figures? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DID YOU KNOW? ·Not counting McCallum's replacement, the Cougars have had six different head coaches in the primary revenue sports -- men's basketball and football -- since 1998. ·UH had just two basketball coaches in its first 40 years -- Alden Pasche (1946-56) and Guy V. Lewis (1956-86). McCallum's replacement will be the school's fifth coach since 1986. ·Under Lewis, UH reached 14 NCAA tournaments, reached the Final Four Five times. Since Lewis, the Cougars have been to the NCAAs three times, all under Pat Foster. ·The Cougars have not won an NCAA Tournament game since 1984.
Coogs need Josh Pastner! NOW! best assistant recruiter in the nation...Kids go to AU not for Olsen, but rather for Pastner, hes young but thats good http://arizonaathletics.ocsn.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/pastner_josh00.html
He graduated. I think he's playing league ball in Austin now and was on the EA sports regional team. Klotz redshirted.
He's a really good recruiter, but don't think players are going there b/c of him. 1) Lute 2) PG U There are other rumored benefits... I haven't heard a thing about his actual coaching skills. Would not be a great choice for UH.
H-Town, we have a candidate for you March 9, 2004 By Gregg Doyel SportsLine.com Senior Writer Tell Gregg your opinion! Arizona assistant Josh Pastner was too young to start a recruiting service in 1991, but he spent that summer watching amateur basketball and mailing reports. Hal Pastner remembers a coach in the Big Ten calling to subscribe to the service, and telling the stunned coach, "Josh is only 13 years old!" Josh Pastner was too young to recruit for his father's Houston Hoops club team, but he discovered Stephen Jackson in nearby Port Arthur. Hal gave his seventh-grader the phone and turned him loose. It was Jackson's high school coach who figured out Josh's voice was cracking from puberty, not a cold, and asked, "Isn't there an adult involved?" Pastner was too young to run the Hoops, by then an elite club team, but at age 17 he was player-coaching a team with Jackson, now in the NBA, and NFL receiver David Boston. Pastner later recruited T.J. Ford, Emeka Okafor and Lawrence Roberts, who won the 2000 Global World Championships in Portland, Ore. Pastner was coach. He was 22. By then Pastner had graduated from Arizona in 2 1/2 years and earned his master's the following year. He had become a member of Lute Olson's administrative staff at 21, and a full-time assistant at 24. Olson sent him on the road to recruit, gave him opponents to scout and assigned him big men to instruct, including Luke Walton and Channing Frye. Today Josh Pastner is 26, too young to become a Division I head coach. Houston athletics director Dave Maggard should call him anyway. Maggard, who reassigned fourth-year coach Ray McCallum on Monday, has said he won't comment on candidates but will discuss the opening with local resident John Lucas. Maggard should discuss the opening with the another Houstonian, Pastner, whose alma mater is Arizona but whose heart belongs to "H-Town." "I was always a Rockets fan, a Houston Cougars fan, a Rice Owls fan," Pastner said Tuesday. "I was a Houston guy. That's the whole thing. Whether it was the Astros, Oilers, whoever -- I was a Houston guy, and I still am a Houston guy. I love H-Town." Pastner should become Houston's guy. He doesn't smoke or drink, not even coffee, and is the first and last person in the Wildcats' office, going 16 hours easy. In fourth grade, watching a Celtics game on TV, he told his dad basketball would be his life. It is. "I'm working all the time," Pastner said. "I hate -- no, let's just say I dislike -- even leaving for a lunch break. I want to eat at my desk." Olson believes the youngest assistant he ever hired is ready to become the youngest coach in Division I history. "He could do a very good job. He's excellent on the floor -- very demanding, very thorough," Olson said Tuesday. "He's great off the court in terms of his contact with the players, great with P.R. in the community. And from a recruiting standpoint, I don't think there's anyone that's any better than Josh." As of late Tuesday morning, Pastner said he hadn't been contacted by Houston but made it clear he'd take the call. "First and foremost, my focus is to win a Pac-10 championship and national championship," said Pastner, a freshman guard when Arizona won the 1997 NCAA title, and a UA staffer at the 2001 final against Duke. "I love Arizona, love my job here. But also, the U of H job -- just the job in general -- it's a tremendous job. It's a sleeping giant, and when it awakes it can be really scary, like back in the day with Phi Slama Jama. There's no doubt it can compete with the high majors. You can win there." No one has in a decade. Alvin Brooks, Clyde Drexler and McCallum failed, and now Guy Lewis' once-mighty program is in Maggard's hands. He has shown vision and courage before, making ex-Cougars receiver Art Briles his football coach after the 2002 season. Briles was a longtime Texas high school coach with just three years as a college assistant. That sounds like Pastner, only 20 years younger. Is he too young? Sure he is, kind of like IBM stock, once upon a time, was too young. Hal Pastner doesn't pretend to be unbiased, but he feels Maggard could make the investment of a lifetime. "Some (candidates) might say, 'Houston, what a great stepping-stone,'" Hal Pastner said. "I think Josh would come here and say, 'This is my program. I'm here to make this the rest of my life.' Kind of like Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith did at Duke and Carolina, 25 years from now, people would look at Houston as Josh's program. But it's up to the athletics director. He has to decide." Doesn't sound like all that tough a decision. http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/7157975
Dude's pretty damn ambitious. If he knows his basketball X's and O's, then maybe he's a better choice then I thought.
