STF Preseason Primer: The Coaching Carousel

I love College Basketball above all other sports, and yet I still sometimes find myself lost in the coaching roundabout when a new season starts. I either forget a coach moved, or, if it's a smaller school, never heard about it in the first place. This primer should help us all keep track of who went where, and we're going to show you biblical-style, so you know how it really went down.

Dan Monson to Long Beach State (Resigned at Minnesota) begat
Tubby Smith to Minnesota (jumped before he was pushed) begat
Billy Gillespie to Kentucky begat
Mark Turgeon to Texas A&M begat
Gregg Marshall to Wichita State begat
Randy Peele to Winthrop.

Stan Heath to South Florida (involuntary) begat
John Pelphry to Arkansas begat
Ronnie Arrow to South Alabama begat
Perry Clark to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Ritchie McKay to Liberty (involuntary) begat
Steve Alford to New Mexico (jumped before he was pushed) begat
Todd Lickliter to Iowa begat
Brad Stevens to Butler.

Tommy Amaker to Harvard (involuntary) begat
John Beilein to Michigan begat
Bob Huggins to West Virginia begat
Frank Martin to Kansas State.

Rob Judson to Involuntary Retirement begat
Ricardo Patton to Northern Illinois (suspiciously timed retirement and sudden un-retirement) begat
Jeff Bzdelik to Colorado begat
Jeff Reynolds to Air Force.

Ronny Thompson to Involuntary Retirement begat
Billy Taylor to Ball State begat
Brett Reed to Lehigh.

Reggie Theus to the Sacramento Kings begat
Marvin Menzies to New Mexico State

Joe Scott to Denver begat
Sydney Johnson to Princeton.

Mark Schmidt to St. Bonaventure begat
Mike Rice to Robert Morris

Tim Miles to Colorado State begat Saul Phillips at North Dakota State

The Book of Resurrections

Rick Majerus - Saint Louis - formerly Utah
Louis Orr - Bowling Green - formerly Seton Hall
Cliff Ellis - Coastal Carolina - formerly South Alabama, Clemson, Auburn
Mack McCarthy - East Carolina - formerly UT-Chattanooga
Rod Barnes - Georgia State - formerly Ole Miss
Kerry Rupp - Louisiana Tech - formerly interim HC at Utah
Tim Carter - South Carolina State - formerly UT-San Antonio
Roger Reid - Southern Utah - formerly Brigham Young
Robert Moreland - Texas Southern - formerly Texas Southern
Jim Wooldridge - UC-Riverside - formerly Kansas State

The Book of Elevations

First time head DI coaches (of those not mentioned above) took the reins for the following programs:

Dino Gaudio - Wake Forest - Assistant at Wake Forest
Tom Moore - Quinnipiac - Assistant at UConn
Tim Jankovich - Illinois State - Assistant at Kansas
Kevin Broadus - Binghamton - Assistant at Georgetown
Benjy Taylor - Chicago State - Assistant at Tulane
Keno Davis - Drake - Assistant at Drake
Kirk Earlywine - Eastern Washington - Assistant at UNC-Wilmington
Marty Simmons - Evansville - Assistant at SIU-Edwardsville
Bob Nash - Hawaii - Assistant at Hawaii
Kevin McKenna - Indiana State - Assistant at Creighton
Gene Harris - Florida A&M - Assistant at Alabama
Kevin Willard - Iona - Assistant at Louisville
Donnie Jones - Marshall - Assistant at Florida
Joe Pasternack - New Orleans - Assistant at Cal
Brad Greenberg - Radford - Assistant at Virginia Tech
Bill Grier - San Diego - Assistant at Gonzaga
Kerry Keating - Santa Clara - Assistant at UCLA
Matt Brown - Missouri-Kansas City - Assistant at West Virginia
Jim Boylen - Utah - Assistant at Michigan State
Heath Schroyer - Wyoming - Assistant at Fresno State