Six Degrees of a Coaching Change: Tracking the Coaching Carousel Part II

On Tuesday, we began tracking the 2011 Coaching Carousel.

Trust me when I tell you that the process is much, much more complicated that you think. In Part I, we learn how former Wyoming head coach Heath Schroyer is connected to UCLA recruit Jordan Adams, how Pat Knight's firing at Texas Tech led to Joe Jones getting the Boston University job, and the ironic job changes of the last two Villanova associate head coaches.

Part II has plenty of juicy nuggets as well. Like, for example, why Josh Pastner was able to hire Damon Stoudamire, how Keno Davis played a role in Fred Hill getting hired at Northwestern, and how Paul Hewitt losing his job at Georgia Tech ended up with Malcolm Armstead and Jamal Coombs-McDaniel ultimately transferring to Wichita State and Hofstra, respectively.


Hit the jump for Part II of the 2011 Coaching Carousel. Click here to browse through the entire Six Degrees of a Coaching Change Series:


March 8th: After four disappointing years with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Perry Clark resigned, refuting earlier reports that he had been fired by the Islanders. The former Miami and Tulane head coach had taken the job with A&M-CC after spending three years as a broadcaster.

• March 25th: Willis Wilson left his gig as an assistant to Josh Pastner at Memphis to take over for Clark. Wilson has been a head coach before, spending 16 years in that role at Rice University.
  
  
  • April 25th: Marty Gross was hired by Wilson as an associate head coach at A&M-CC after four seasons as an assistant at Wichita State.
  
  
  • April 29th: KT Turner completed Wilson's staff at A&M-CC after spending the past two seasons at Hutchinson Community College.
  
  
  • May 3rd: To replace Gross on his staff, Gregg Marshall hired Greg Heiar as an assistant. Heiar at spent time under WSU's associate head coach Chris Jans at Chipola Junior College before spending the past two seasons at Southern Miss.
  
  
  • May 9th: To replace Heiar, USM head coach Larry Eustachy reached into the JuCo ranks and hired former Midland JC head coach Ross Hodge.


• June 3rd: To replace Wilson, Memphis head coach Josh Pastner hired a guy you may have heard of before -- Damon Stoudamire.

March 9th: Barry Rohrssen's career at Manhattan came to an end after a 6-24 season at the helm of the Jaspers. It was Rohrssen's fifth season as the head coach at the MAAC school, but he managed a winning record just once in those five years.

• April 10th: After failing to agree on a contract with LIU's Jim Ferry, Manhattan reeled in Steve Masiello, a New York native, from his post as associate head coach under Rick Pitino at Louisville.


• April 12th: Rick Pitino filled the void left by Masiello by bringing his son, Richard Pitino, back into the program as the associate head coach and, potentially, as a coach-in-waiting for the Cardinals. Richard had been an assistant under Billy Donovan, a Rick Pitino disciple, at Florida. The younger Pitino's decision to return to Louisville opened up a spot on Donovan's staff for Norm Roberts and John Pelphrey.


• April 13th: Masiello's first move as the head coach at Manhattan was to keep Scott Padgett, his former teammate at Kentucky, on as an assistant. After that, he hired Matt Grady to be his associate head coach. Grady was previously at Morehead State in the same position.


• May 19th: Masiello completed his staff by hiring Rashon Burno, a former standout at DePaul who lost his job at Towson after one season when head coach Pat Kennedy was fired.

March 10th: The 10th was another rough day for head coaches as three positions opened up. Ricardo Patton was fired as the head coach at Northern Illinois after four seasons. Tom Asbury retired as the head coach of Pepperdine. It was his second stint at the SoCal school, as he was the head coach from 1989-1994. Finally, Cal St. Bakersfield opted not to renew the contract of head coach Keith Brown.

• March 11th: Marty Wilson, who was the associate head coach with the Waves under Asbury, was promoted to head coach at Pepperdine. Wilson is an alum and a nine-year member of the staff.
  
  
  • March 24th: Wilson named two new members of his coaching staff: Mark Amaral would be taking over the role of associate head coach -- the position that was vacated with Wilson's promotion -- and Bryant Moore would be joining the staff as an assistant coach.
  
  
  • May 24: Sam Kirby was hired by Cal Poly to replace Amaral. He spent last season at a small school in California.
    


• March 23rd: After spending ten years in the Michigan State program -- the last four as associate head coach -- Mark Montgomery finally got a chance to be a head coaching, taking over for Patton at Northern Illinois. He is the eighth Izzo assistant to get a head coaching gig.
  
  
  • April 5th: Montgomery announced his coaching staff at NIU. He hired former Dayton assistant Jon Borovich, who lost his job when Brian Gregory went to Georgia Tech, and Lou Dawkins, a head coach at a Saginaw, MI, high school. Montgomery also retained Todd Townsend, who will enter into his fourth season as a Husky assistant.
    
  
  
  • April 20th: After spending the past six seasons as the head coach of IPFW, former Indiana high school legend Dane Fife replaced Montgomery as an assistant on Tom Izzo's staff. It was a bit of a surprise, as Fife seemed destined to get a high-major position eventually. IPFW set a school record for wins in each of his six seasons.
  
  
  • April 20th: On the same day that Fife announced his decision to leave IPFW, the school announced that Tony Jasick, who had spent the past six seasons as the associate head coach under Fife, would be taking over as the new head coach.
  
  
  • May 23th: Jasick completed his staff by hiring Jon Coffman, who was previously the top assistant at Colgate.


• March 30th: After Brown didn't have his contract renewed at Cal St. Bakersfield, the newly D-I program -- '10'11 was their first year as a fully D-I independent -- hired Rod Barnes as their head coach. Yes, that's the same Rod Barnes that was fired from his head coaching position at Georgia State just eight days before Brown lost his job.
  
  
  • April 28th: Barnes made two hires to his staff at Bakersfield. Jeff Conarroe came along with Barnes from Georgia State, where he was the director of basketball operations for the past four years. Kevin Missouri was hired as as assistant coach after spending the past two seasons as a graduate assistant at UAB.
  
  
  • June 25th: Barnes hired former Oklahoma assistant coach Brian Goodman to be his associate head coach with the Roadrunners. Goodman was out of a job when Jeff Capel was let go by the Sooners.

March 11th: Larry Smith lost his job as the head coach at Alcorn State, something that tends to happen when you go 12-78 in three years. He wasn't fired, per se. He was "promoted" to director of athletic development. Providence head coach Keno Davis was fired, however. Davis had been the head coach for the Friars for three seasons after winning a national coach of the year award at Drake in 2008.

• March 22nd: To replace Davis, Providence kept it in the Northeast by hiring Fairfield head coach Ed Cooley. Cooley spent five years as the head coach at Fairfield.
  
  
  • April 5th: To replace Cooley, Fairfield dipped their hands into the Ivy League, hiring Sydney Johnson away from Princeton. Johnson got the job after leading the Tigers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2004.
  
  
  • April 18th: Cooley filled out his coaching staff, bringing two assistants from Fairfield with him to Providence. The one new hire that he made was Andre LaFleur as his associate head coach. LaFleur had previously been as assistant with the UConn Huskies. The opening on the UConn staff allowed former UConn assistant and Penn head coach Glen Miller to get a promotion to LaFleur's old job.
  
  
  • April 20th: Princeton replaced Johnson with his fellow Princeton alum and former teammate, Mitch Henderson. Henderson had been an assistant coach at Northwestern under Bill Carmody, who was his head coach in 1997 and 1998 with the Tigers.
  
  
  • May 13th: Henderson officially announced he staff at Princeton. He retained Brian Earl, who has spent the past four seasons in the program, and brought in Marcus Jenkins, who spent the past four seasons as the director of basketball operations at Richmond. The third assistant is Craig Moore.
    
  
  
  • May 19th: Sydney Johnson announced his coaching staff at Fairfield. He brought Tony Newsom, who was on his staff at Princeton for the past four years, in as an associate head coach. He hired Brian Nash as an assistant after Nash took last season off. Completing his staff, Johnson retained Tyson Wheeler, the director of basketball operations under Cooley, as an assistant coach.
    
  
  
  • June 7th: Carmody hired former Rutgers head coach Fred Hill to replace Henderson on his staff, meaning that the firing of one crappy former Big East coach led to another crappy former Big East head coach getting a new job.


• March 28th: Luther Riley was hired out of the high school ranks to replace Larry Smith as head coach of the Alcorn State Braves.

March 12th: Jim Boylen will never get the chance to usher in the Pac-12 era at Utah as he was fired after a second straight losing season. He was with the Utes for four years. On the same day, Georgia Tech also fired head coach Paul Hewitt after 11 seasons with the Yellow Jackets. Hewitt probably lasted longer than he should have, as the contract he signed after his 2004 run to the Final Four had a $7.2 million buyout that he will be paid monthly over the next five years.

• March 28th: Georgia Tech had their options for a replacement limited due to the amount of money that they have to pay Hewitt over the next five years, but they were still able to make a pretty good hire in Dayton's Brian Gregory.
  
  
  • April 2nd: Dayton hired one of the most promising young assistant coaches in the country as they landed Arizona assistant coach Archie Miller. Miller is the younger brother of Arizona head coach Sean Miller.
  
  
  • April 28th: After hiring Kevin Kuwik away from Thad Matta's staff at Ohio State, Miller grabbed Allen Griffin off of Mo Cassara's staff at Hofstra. On the same day, Gregg Marshall replaced Chad Dollar, who left Wichita State to become an assistant at Georgia Tech, with Dana Ford.
  
  
  • May 5th: Brian Gregory completed his staff at Georgia by officially hiring his longtime assistant at Dayton, Billy Schmidt. Former Wichita State assistant Chad Dollar and former DePaul director of basketball operations Josh Postorino were Gregory's other two hires.
  
  
  • May 19th: Joe Pasternack, who was the head coach at New Orleans until the school decided to drop from D-I to D-III, replaced Archie Miller as an assistant at Arizona.
  
  
  • June 2nd: With an opening on his staff at Hofstra, Cassara hired former UConn assistant Pat Sellers, who had to spend last season coaching in China after he was implicated in the Nate Miles scandal with the Huskies.
  
  
  • June 6th: Archie Miller completed his staff, as he officially hired Tom Ostrom, who had spent the past four seasons as an assistant coach under John Pelphrey at Arkansas before Pelphrey lost his job.
  
  
  • June 15th: Former UConn player Jamal Coombs-McDaniel decided to transfer to Hofstra in large part due to the fact that Sellers was hired as an assistant coach there.
  
  
  • June 16th: Former Oregon guard Malcolm Armstead transferred to Wichita State where Dana Ford, who was an assistant where Armstead played in JuCo, was hired.


• April 3rd: Utah ended their search for a head coach by signing Larry Krystkowiak to a five-year contract. Krystkowiak spent last season as an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets.
  
  
  • April 12th: Will Clyburn, Utah's leading scorer and rebounder last season, was one of eight players to transfer out of the program once Krystkowiak was hired. Clyburn decided to transfer to Iowa State.
  
  
  • April 18th: Krystkowiak officially completed his coaching staff. On the 8th, he hired Tommy Connor, a Utah alum that spent the past 12 seasons as the head coach at Westminster College. On the 10th, DeMarlo Slocum was hired as an assistant coach after three years in the same position at Colorado State. And finally, on April 18th, Krystkowiak hired Andy Hill, who had spent the past seven seasons as an assistant at Montana, two of which were under Krystkowiak during his tenure with the Grizzlies.
  
  
  • May 10th: Montana hired Jonathon Metzger-Jones away from UC-Santa Barbara to replace the departed Andy Hill.
  
  
  • June 1st: JJ O'Brien, who was another one of the eight transfers out of the Utah program, eventually settled on San Diego State, where he will have three seasons of eligibility left.
  
  
  • June 7th: In the ugliest of the Utah transfers, Josh Sharp, who spent the past two seasons on a Mormon mission, decided to transfer to BYU. Sharp never played for Utah, redshirting the 2008-2009 season.