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Who will be the new coach?

I just read on another board that George Karl was interviewed on 1460 The Fan this afternoon and mentioned he was interested in the job. Anyone else hear this or is this poster full of it?
 
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My biggest concern about Karl is that he has no college coaching experience. In the wake of recent events I would think Geiger would place a premium on someone who has experience running a program within the rules laid down by the NCAA. Not questioning his integrity, but while Obie's mis-step was pretty profound, there are a lot of subtle rules as well. We don't want so much as another gym bag incident for a good long while after this.

On the other hand, Obie was just such a coach.
 
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osubartender23 said:
]I dont think its necessary for the next OSU coach to have local ties. Unlike football , Ohio is not a huge hotbed for basketball talent(2006 could be the exception). I think it should be someone who is a great X's and O's coach, someone who can handle himself on and off the court, someone who can recruit and most importantly someone who has the basketball style that kids would like to play for. Aggressive up tempo offense, and hard nosed down and dirty pressing defense.
I agree with you about not needing the local ties like a football coach would. I'm more concerned about someone like Dawkins just using OSU as a stepping stone to get back to Duke when Coach K retires.
 
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Cleamons: "I would be excited by the opporunity"

By the time he boarded the Lakers' afternoon flight to Detroit for Game 3 of the NBA Finals, assistant coach Jim Cleamons already had a voice mail full of messages about the suddenly vacant head coaching job at Ohio State.
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But it only took one day after that for Cleamons' name to emerge in speculation about O'Brien's possible successors. And Cleamons said Wednesday that he would be interested in returning to coach at his alma mater.

"I've got a lot of contacts out there," Cleamons said. "I think a lot of the school, I think a lot of the basketball program. I can tell you that I would be excited by the opportunity."
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Cleamons is close to Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel from their days at Youngstown. In the meantime, Cleamons was a finalist in 1998 for the head coaching job at Loyola University, a Division I school in Chicago.
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Cleamons returns to Columbus, Ohio, about once a year and has numerous friends and family still in the state, many of whom called Wednesday. He said he does not know Ohio State Athletic Director Andy Geiger and has not received a call about the job.

"I'm trying to figure out exactly what the policy and procedure is," Cleamons said. "I would be interested but we'll have to wait and see."

Interest is a prerequisite, I suppose. Like I said, Knight and Cleamons are my choices, even if they might not be all that realisitic.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~25387~2203025,00.html
 
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Jim Cleamons... wasn't he the head coach at Dallas when JJ was there? Does he have any college coaching experience?

My neighbor (HUGE NC State Bball fan) found out we might look at Sendek and he was thrilled... "Please take him" he said. That doesn't sound too promising.
 
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Between Cleamons and Dawkins, I think we'd want Clemons. Coaching at your school is a big deal and I'm not sure we could keep JD. Also, the NBA connections JC has could be enormously helpful in recruiting not just the stars that could play anywhere for a year and then make the jump, but talent (better than OB was bringing in) that is smart enough to want to put in three or four with a good jumping off point to the League. Young, black coach with significant NBA experience recruiting young, black talent with realistic NBA potential, I'll take that.
 
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Cleamons' career as best as I can piece it together:
--assistant at Furman(years?)
--assistant at OSU(years?)
--head coach at Youngstown St 87-89
--assistant with Bulls 89-96
--head coach of Mavericks 96-97 and first 18 games of 97-98
--1998, head coach of woman's ABL team in Chicago
--assistant with Lakers

I can't find anywhere that gives the years he was purportedly an OSU assistant, so I'm not sure that ever happened.

Here's a quote from a 2001 article about the Cavs' coaching vacancy:
Lakers assistant Jim Cleamons hasn't heard from the Cleveland Cavaliers about their vacant head coaching job.
"I would definitely like to be a head coach again, but I'd also like to go back to college again," he said. "One thing I haven't been able to do is win an NCAA title."
Cleamons grew up in Columbus, Ohio, attended Ohio State and played five seasons for the Cavs.
"Ohio has a warm spot in my heart," he said. "If they call, I've always said I'll be happy to talk to anyone about my future. If they don't call, I have no future. I'm not chasing the job."

http://www.detnews.com/2001/pistons/0106/08/pistons-233921.htm
 
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Katz: Matta or Waters would come to OSU

The uncertainty of the investigation could scare away some OSU coaching candidates. The timing doesn't help, either. Ohio State is considered one of the premier jobs in the country with the ability to be the first choice of every player in the state. Coaches like Thad Matta (Xavier), Gary Waters (Rutgers), Herb Sendek (N.C. State) and Tom Crean (Marquette) are all entrenched at their schools and would have to be told they were the top choice before considering leaving at this point. But Matta and Waters would certainly go if called. The job is too good to pass up.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=1819347
 
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