College hoops Coaching Carousel

Every year, there are great coaching hires. Last year Indiana snagged Tom Crean from Marquette as one of the bigger deals. Darrin Horn and Keno Davis both got their first major head coaching jobs, heading to South Carolina and Providence. So, with the coaching carousel of 09 coming to an end, what were the best coaching hires?

10. Mark Fox, Nevada to Georgia
Georgia needed to bring in a young coach with experience who could recruit and demand his players respect. They got that in Mark Fox. Fox is just forty years of age, which makes him the second youngest coach in the SEC(ahead of South Carolina coach Darrin Horn), but Fox doesn’t lack the experience it takes to compete in the SEC. In five years at Nevada, Fox was 123-43, coaching his team to the NCAA tournament three times, reaching the second round in his first season, and not missing the postseason one in his five years as coach. Fox’s teams finished first in conference four times and second once. In 2005 and 2006, Fox was named WAC coach of the year, both years in which he coached future pro Nick Fazekas. Georgia’s AD is a patient man. Fox shouldn’t need more than three years to get this program back to the Big Dance.

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