Georgia made it official hiring Nevada's Mark Fox as their new head men's coach...
FOSG Karen Graham caught up with the new Dawg at about the 2:20 mark...
Fellow FOSG Buck Lanford anchors Fox 5 Atlanta's coverage of Friday stuff...
Dave Morris and John Helsley and our friends at newsok.com let us in on the new Jeff Capel extension for seven years at an undisclosed value...
Helsley's article is in black...
Dan Wolken starts the Memphis coverage with the idea that Scott Drew is now their new number one man in their search... to Drew's friend's surprise...
And Geoff Calkins is, apparently, not high on the Scott Drew bandwagon...
To wit...
If the Memphis Tigers hire him — and word is that they just might — it could turn out to be the best thing for this city since pulled pork.
But that’s not what people who know Drew seem to think. I made a lot of calls on this. And Drew was invariably described as:
1) A phony.
2) A man who has never met a recruiting rule he couldn’t bend.
3) A lousy bench coach.
4) And, really, what more do you need?
It’s not just me, saying worrisome things about Drew, either. It’s everyone. Jeff Goodman, the national college basketball writer for FOX Sports, said on my radio show that hiring Drew would be a mistake. Texas coach Rick Barnes has publicly criticized Drew’s recruiting tactics.
George Lapides — a newspaperman without a newspaper — took the extraordinary step on his radio show of warning Memphis not to hire Drew.
Lapides said he thought about saying the same thing when Memphis was on the verge of hiring Tic Price. When the Price era played out as it did, Lapides vowed never to keep quiet again.
Finally, Paola Boivin has a new Number One at Arizona- Virginia Tech's Seth Greenberg.
From her work in the Arizona Republic:
Whether this has gone past the measuring interest stage is uncertain. The Roanoke Times' Mark Berman just emailed me back and said he was told by the Hokies' athletic director, Jim Weaver, that he hasn't been contacted by Livengood.
By the way, cross Xavier's Sean Miller and UNLV's Lon Kruger off your lists. Not interested.
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