***2026 NCAA MBB coaching carousel***
- Thread starter JP4CY
- Start date
Notable note: SMC is the only head coaching gig Bennett had, at any level.
Side note: Bennett was on Tim Floyd's coaching staff at Idaho, 1986-88.
Had a bad last 3 years for Carolina standards and it was happening when Duke has it rolling pretty good. Not a good combo for a UNC Head BB Coach.
Last edited:
Barkley and the studio crew talked about it after their loss and basically said he didn’t really want to keep coaching. So while he was pushed out, might actually be more mutual than a true firing.
TJ Otzelberger is not walking through that door
I don't know if he is the leading candidate for UNC or not but I remember seeing a lot of similar type posts about Matt Campbell as well. I could be wrong but if TJ does indeed get offered the UNC job (don't think he will) my guess is he will probably take it.
Yeah, its a home run for ASU. Really surprised he'd jump now, seems like he could have had interest from better programs for the last couple decades. He's been getting robbed in the portal though, maybe he wants to be on the other end of that. An underrated thing about him is his ties to overseas recruits, he built Saint Mary's on them, especially Aussies. It seems like foreign players are trending a bit more now in the CBB, could be his niche.
TJ won’t be their first choice, it’d be a situation to Campbell at Penn state. That’s no disrespect to TJ, UNC would be beyond lucky to have him but they’re gonna go for a bigger name. I also don’t think TJ leaves but in the NIL era you always gotta be a little worried about teams that have unlimited resources compared to us.
Believe he is from Mesa and believe I heard his elderly Dad still lives there.
