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Rob Howe of HawkeyeInsider.com talks about Pitt's Jamie Dixon a bit today. It's interesting how each day this week some of the same names rise up the message boards and the people that are tracking this. Yesterday was Dixon's day a bit. I received a call from someone that is paying close attention to all of this, and has some friends that are a bit removed from the action but still not citing anonymous message board posters...Dixon and his discontent with his contract was yesterday's conversation. I placed a few phone calls and what I heard back wasn't really substantive, which is the case on a lot of this...and left me feeling I was just dealing with an echo effect...
That being said, I put Dixon's name in GREEN the other day on the run down, meaning I think he is somewhere in between a long shot and a realistic candidate.
Last night and tweeted today, folks associated with HawkeyeReport.com (Kakert and Brommelkamp) have said there is some mutual interest between Iowa and Baylor coach Scott Drew. The folks I speak with have had Drew in their sights for a while, as a guy that Iowa should talk with, but nothing more...what I mean by that is not undercutting what others are saying about Drew's candidacy, rather, the people I am speaking with don't have any connections related to Drew's candidacy.
At this point in time, I would say that Dixon and Drew are the only two candidates that are established at BCS conference jobs that I think are possibilities. The Pearl trail has ended; he's not interested, and the fact that Forbes is lobbying hard for the job is your sign there. Draw a line through Jay Wright, not that I ever had any hope of that. I don't think Josh Pastner is a realistic candidate; he has the #1 recruiting class in the nation coming in next year and can probably turn that into a much better job in a year or two. I am not a Kevin Stallings guy and he could have had the job three years ago.
I also think that Tony Barbee is going to to either bide his time and stay at UTEP one more year, as they should be really good next year, or he will have other opportunities this year that may be more attractive to him.
If someone asked me to give them a three name group that I think the next coach at Iowa would come from, right now I'd say Dixon, Drew or Forbes. But I would wager anything of value on that
Depending on what takes place this weekend in the tournament, next week could yield more nuggets and a faster pace..keep an eye on what happens with Pittsburgh, Baylor and Tennessee in the tournament this weekend.
Even then, I don't think that the Parker Search Firm would have had enough time to identify a list of candidates that are willing to talk as well as perform the due diligence on them by the time Monday rolls around. I think it's far more likely that the next Iowa coach will be announced the week of March 29th; Lickliter was announced on April 2nd, 2007.
One more thing to keep watching: the other jobs that are open or will be the next week or two...Right now, Iowa, Oregon, St Johns, Seton Hall and Auburn are the bigger names open. Say a Scott Drew and or Jamie Dixon takes the Oregon job before Iowa fills its position...then their job opens up, and Iowa has another school to compete with to fill their vacancy, etc.
I'll be on 'vacation' from my radio job that week, but I am never on vacation from HawkeyeNation.com and will have my phone and laptop with me all the while and I will be making and taking the calls and sharing what I know with you during that time.
DID YOU KNOW: how the term term scuttlebutt became associated with the word 'rumor'? It's a nautical term, meaning an open cask of water that the sailors would drink from...and then it became associated with rumor, because the sailors would gather around the scuttlebutt and discuss things taking place on the ship...so it was the nautical version of the water cooler...Goood Day!
That being said, I put Dixon's name in GREEN the other day on the run down, meaning I think he is somewhere in between a long shot and a realistic candidate.
Last night and tweeted today, folks associated with HawkeyeReport.com (Kakert and Brommelkamp) have said there is some mutual interest between Iowa and Baylor coach Scott Drew. The folks I speak with have had Drew in their sights for a while, as a guy that Iowa should talk with, but nothing more...what I mean by that is not undercutting what others are saying about Drew's candidacy, rather, the people I am speaking with don't have any connections related to Drew's candidacy.
At this point in time, I would say that Dixon and Drew are the only two candidates that are established at BCS conference jobs that I think are possibilities. The Pearl trail has ended; he's not interested, and the fact that Forbes is lobbying hard for the job is your sign there. Draw a line through Jay Wright, not that I ever had any hope of that. I don't think Josh Pastner is a realistic candidate; he has the #1 recruiting class in the nation coming in next year and can probably turn that into a much better job in a year or two. I am not a Kevin Stallings guy and he could have had the job three years ago.
I also think that Tony Barbee is going to to either bide his time and stay at UTEP one more year, as they should be really good next year, or he will have other opportunities this year that may be more attractive to him.
If someone asked me to give them a three name group that I think the next coach at Iowa would come from, right now I'd say Dixon, Drew or Forbes. But I would wager anything of value on that
Depending on what takes place this weekend in the tournament, next week could yield more nuggets and a faster pace..keep an eye on what happens with Pittsburgh, Baylor and Tennessee in the tournament this weekend.
Even then, I don't think that the Parker Search Firm would have had enough time to identify a list of candidates that are willing to talk as well as perform the due diligence on them by the time Monday rolls around. I think it's far more likely that the next Iowa coach will be announced the week of March 29th; Lickliter was announced on April 2nd, 2007.
One more thing to keep watching: the other jobs that are open or will be the next week or two...Right now, Iowa, Oregon, St Johns, Seton Hall and Auburn are the bigger names open. Say a Scott Drew and or Jamie Dixon takes the Oregon job before Iowa fills its position...then their job opens up, and Iowa has another school to compete with to fill their vacancy, etc.
I'll be on 'vacation' from my radio job that week, but I am never on vacation from HawkeyeNation.com and will have my phone and laptop with me all the while and I will be making and taking the calls and sharing what I know with you during that time.
DID YOU KNOW: how the term term scuttlebutt became associated with the word 'rumor'? It's a nautical term, meaning an open cask of water that the sailors would drink from...and then it became associated with rumor, because the sailors would gather around the scuttlebutt and discuss things taking place on the ship...so it was the nautical version of the water cooler...Goood Day!
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