Some highlights from the second half of today's Pac-10 media day:
Cal's Jeff Tedford was at the podium the second-longest -- I'm sure you know who was first. He talked about Jahvid Best's likely Heisman candidacy extensively.
Oregon's Chip Kelly cracked a joke about voting for Tim Tebow for the All-SEC team. He seemed to be a likable guy during his first media day.
Earlier, Arizona State linebacker Mike Nixon impressed. He talked with composure aside coach Dennis Erickson, who tried to be a funny man.
Taylor Mays made it known that he will do whatever it takes to lead the 2009 USC teamN even saying he would stare at a wall for hours instead of going to a party if it would help the team.
More to come.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Highlights thus far
UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel talked about USC's Thursday loss to Oregon State in 2008 and almost seemed to sympathize with the USC program... Almost.
Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian said his team would have "natural similarities" to the USC teams he helped coach, but that he would adapt to his current roster.
Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh is emphasizing toughness, saying that he thinks the Pac-10 is one of the toughest conferences in the nation, a "mighty-manned conference."
Washington head coach Steve Sarkisian said his team would have "natural similarities" to the USC teams he helped coach, but that he would adapt to his current roster.
Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh is emphasizing toughness, saying that he thinks the Pac-10 is one of the toughest conferences in the nation, a "mighty-manned conference."
Live at Pac-10 media day
Sitting in the ballroom at Pac 10 media day, where new commissioner Larry Scott just introduced a recap video for Pac-10 football. Washington State's up first.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
And we're back
Let's get back into the flow of USC sports, with Pac-10 media day coming up tomorrow and the school year (and football season, 35 days until San Jose State visits the Trojans) rapidly approaching.
I'll be live blogging from the scene tomorrow, as Pete Carroll and Taylor Mays take to the podium at approximately 12:10 p.m.
Here's the full schedule.
9:30 a.m. -- Introduction, Jim Muldoon
9:35 -- Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott
9:45 -- Paul Wulff/C Kenny Alfred, Washington State
10 -- Steve Sarkisian/OLB Donald Butler, Washington
10:15 -- Rick Neuheisel/MLB Reggie Carter, UCLA
10:30 -- Jim Harbaugh/RB Toby Gerhart, Stanford
10:45 -- Dennis Erickson/OLB Mike Nixon, Arizona State
11:10 -- Mike Stoops/FS Cam Nelson, Arizona
11:25 -- Jeff Tedford/TB Jahvid Best, California
11:40 -- Mike Riley/OLB Keaton Kristick, Oregon State
11:55 -- Chip Kelly/CB Walter Thurmond III, Oregon
12:10 p.m. -- Pete Carroll/FS Taylor Mays, USC
12:25 -- Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott
I'm very interested in hearing what Steve Sarkisian has to say tomorrow.
I'll be live blogging from the scene tomorrow, as Pete Carroll and Taylor Mays take to the podium at approximately 12:10 p.m.
Here's the full schedule.
9:30 a.m. -- Introduction, Jim Muldoon
9:35 -- Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott
9:45 -- Paul Wulff/C Kenny Alfred, Washington State
10 -- Steve Sarkisian/OLB Donald Butler, Washington
10:15 -- Rick Neuheisel/MLB Reggie Carter, UCLA
10:30 -- Jim Harbaugh/RB Toby Gerhart, Stanford
10:45 -- Dennis Erickson/OLB Mike Nixon, Arizona State
11:10 -- Mike Stoops/FS Cam Nelson, Arizona
11:25 -- Jeff Tedford/TB Jahvid Best, California
11:40 -- Mike Riley/OLB Keaton Kristick, Oregon State
11:55 -- Chip Kelly/CB Walter Thurmond III, Oregon
12:10 p.m. -- Pete Carroll/FS Taylor Mays, USC
12:25 -- Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott
I'm very interested in hearing what Steve Sarkisian has to say tomorrow.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
After a break, a roundup
Things have been pretty idle on the USC front over the past 10 or so days, so I took the opportunity to take a break from the blog. But I'm back with a couple of interesting tidbits.
After Robert Stock signed in mid-June, the other two top USC draftees have yet to do so. Brad Boxberger, a compensatory first-round selection of the Cincinnati Reds, is reportedly near an agreement, but nothing is imminent with No. 13 overall selection Grant Green and the Oakland A's.
In basketball, two future recruits (one class of 2010, one 2011) have given verbal commitments to new USC coach Kevin O'Neill.
Elizabethtown (Ky.) forward Curtis Washington went from being an unknown to a commit in a matter of weeks, reports Jody Demling of the Louisville Courier-Journal, via Scott Wolf at Inside USC. He'll be at USC in 2010.
Junior-to-be Gelaun Wheelwright has also given O'Neill a verbal, reports Eric Sondheimer of the L.A. Times. Wheelwright is a 6-foot-1, 170-pounder who is somewhat of a point/shooting guard tweener.
After Robert Stock signed in mid-June, the other two top USC draftees have yet to do so. Brad Boxberger, a compensatory first-round selection of the Cincinnati Reds, is reportedly near an agreement, but nothing is imminent with No. 13 overall selection Grant Green and the Oakland A's.
In basketball, two future recruits (one class of 2010, one 2011) have given verbal commitments to new USC coach Kevin O'Neill.
Elizabethtown (Ky.) forward Curtis Washington went from being an unknown to a commit in a matter of weeks, reports Jody Demling of the Louisville Courier-Journal, via Scott Wolf at Inside USC. He'll be at USC in 2010.
Junior-to-be Gelaun Wheelwright has also given O'Neill a verbal, reports Eric Sondheimer of the L.A. Times. Wheelwright is a 6-foot-1, 170-pounder who is somewhat of a point/shooting guard tweener.
Friday, June 26, 2009
DeRozan, Gibson go in first round
Two USC players were selected in the first round of the same draft for the first time in the program’s history Thursday.
Guard/forward DeMar DeRozan was selected ninth overall by the Toronto Raptors and the Chicago Bulls tabbed forward Taj Gibson with the 26th pick.
Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo had been open with the fact that he coveted DeRozan. When other teams that had worked out the Compton native passed him over, Colangelo snatched him up.
DeRozan, 19, spent just one year at USC, averaging 13.9 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. His recruitment was highly documented and deemed a huge coup for former USC coach Tim Floyd.
Colangelo said in a press conference Thursday that his staff had long had their eye on DeRozan.
“He’s a very talented player, and he’s got a chance to be special,” Colangelo said. “For us, at nine, to get a player of his caliber, we’ve got a chance to really come out of this in the right position.”
At first, DeRozan struggled at the college level, reaching double digits point-totals in only two of his first five games as a Trojan. But by the end of the season, DeRozan showed scouts how much he had improved.
In the month of March — in which he played seven games — DeRozan scored 19.1 points per game in leading USC to a Pac-10 Tournament championship and second-round appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
“He might’ve started slowly, but as the season progressed, he became a very important part of the run they were making,” Colangelo said. “He was very good down the stretch. He grew as a player, and I’m sure he grew as a person with all the things that he was going through, and that’s a great experience for him to build upon here.”
Gibson, who turned 24 Wednesday, chose to forgo his senior season after a three-year career in which he averaged 12.4 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 2.4 blocks per game. He is USC’s career record-holder in blocks.
Bulls GM Gar Forman pulled the trigger on Gibson during his first draft at the controls. He had been Chicago’s director of player personnel until May, when he was promoted.
To add to his team’s young core that includes NBA Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose and small forward Luol Deng, Forman took two forwards in the first round: Wake Forest’s James Johnson and Gibson.
“[Gibson] runs the floor well, which is important for our bigs to run with Derrick [Rose],” Forman told the Chicago Tribune. “He also can play out on the floor some and can handle and pass it. USC ran offense through him. And he can make a 15-footer."
USC’s Daniel Hackett and Marcus Johnson had also officially declared for the draft, but neither of them were taken in the draft’s two rounds. Hackett has signed a contract to play for Benetton Treviso in Italy, while Johnson’s plans are unknown.
Guard/forward DeMar DeRozan was selected ninth overall by the Toronto Raptors and the Chicago Bulls tabbed forward Taj Gibson with the 26th pick.
Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo had been open with the fact that he coveted DeRozan. When other teams that had worked out the Compton native passed him over, Colangelo snatched him up.
DeRozan, 19, spent just one year at USC, averaging 13.9 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. His recruitment was highly documented and deemed a huge coup for former USC coach Tim Floyd.
Colangelo said in a press conference Thursday that his staff had long had their eye on DeRozan.
“He’s a very talented player, and he’s got a chance to be special,” Colangelo said. “For us, at nine, to get a player of his caliber, we’ve got a chance to really come out of this in the right position.”
At first, DeRozan struggled at the college level, reaching double digits point-totals in only two of his first five games as a Trojan. But by the end of the season, DeRozan showed scouts how much he had improved.
In the month of March — in which he played seven games — DeRozan scored 19.1 points per game in leading USC to a Pac-10 Tournament championship and second-round appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
“He might’ve started slowly, but as the season progressed, he became a very important part of the run they were making,” Colangelo said. “He was very good down the stretch. He grew as a player, and I’m sure he grew as a person with all the things that he was going through, and that’s a great experience for him to build upon here.”
Gibson, who turned 24 Wednesday, chose to forgo his senior season after a three-year career in which he averaged 12.4 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 2.4 blocks per game. He is USC’s career record-holder in blocks.
Bulls GM Gar Forman pulled the trigger on Gibson during his first draft at the controls. He had been Chicago’s director of player personnel until May, when he was promoted.
To add to his team’s young core that includes NBA Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose and small forward Luol Deng, Forman took two forwards in the first round: Wake Forest’s James Johnson and Gibson.
“[Gibson] runs the floor well, which is important for our bigs to run with Derrick [Rose],” Forman told the Chicago Tribune. “He also can play out on the floor some and can handle and pass it. USC ran offense through him. And he can make a 15-footer."
USC’s Daniel Hackett and Marcus Johnson had also officially declared for the draft, but neither of them were taken in the draft’s two rounds. Hackett has signed a contract to play for Benetton Treviso in Italy, while Johnson’s plans are unknown.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
O'Neill in as head coach of USC
Here's the story for the Daily Trojan.
It started off with a bang.
USC athletic director Mike Garrett introduced new men’s basketball coach Kevin O’Neill at a Varsity Lounge press conference Monday, saying, “Kevin, the floor is yours.”
O’Neill’s first public comments as the coach of a program under intense scrutiny from the NCAA?
He pointed over to his wife, 32-year-old Roberta. “There won’t be any questions about recruiting, I trust,” O’Neill said. “I can recruit, obviously.”
All joking aside, O’Neill, 52, made a favorable impression in his first step on a long road back for both him and the USC basketball program.
Former coach Tim Floyd had made inroads in raising the national profile of what had long been a largely irrelevant program, but, facing a looming NCAA investigation this offseason, he decided to resign.
The one-paragraph resignation email sent to Garrett came June 9, less than a month after Floyd was accused of delivering an envelope of cash to the handler of former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo.
Since then, the inquiries grew louder and louder, leading Garrett and Senior Vice President of Administration Todd Dickey to deliver unprecedented video statements posted on USC’s official website.
Many wondered where USC would find its next coach, considering both the likelihood of NCAA sanctions that could limit postseason play and/or scholarships and the sheer lack of talent left on the roster, as only nine scholarship players remained after a mass exodus of both current players and incoming recruits.
Well, Garrett and USC found him, toiling as an assistant coach and special assistant to the general manager for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, just one year removed from spending the 2007-2008 season as the interim head coach at Pac-10 rival Arizona.
“We’ve been through a lot, and, in looking at different potential candidates all over the country…I came to the conclusion that I really felt elated about the fact that this is the kind of person who was available,” Garrett said.
Reports say that Garrett first offered the job to Pittsburgh head man Jamie Dixon, the former protégé of now-UCLA coach Ben Howland. After Dixon said no, both NBA Finals analyst (and former NBA head coach) Jeff Van Gundy and current UNLV coach Lon Kruger reportedly rebuffed offers from USC as well.
Nevertheless, Garrett — who has caught much flak for his coaching hires over the years, including the notion that Pete Carroll was his fourth choice to become the football head coach in 2000 — insisted that O’Neill was indeed his first choice for the job.
“Everyone I talked to was not shying away from USC,” Garrett said. “It was not a selling job, it was more of a find the right fit.
“I think Kevin was my first choice because when I started talking to him, he’s the one that I wanted to have. He’s the guy that fit what I needed. It was a natural fit.”
But O’Neill himself doesn’t come without controversy.
He’s known as a Bob Knight-lite, a fierce competitor who sometimes lets his emotions get the best of him.
Many of his former players have expressed distaste with his methods. He’s never been a player’s coach; rather, he’s been labeled as more of a defensive-minded, let-the-offense-flow kind of guy.
The still-fiery O’Neill attacked those conceptions Monday.
“I’m a different coach than I was the first time I was in college. I really don’t apologize for how I coach at all. I coach hard, I’m aggressive…but it’s like anything else. Over 20 years, you do change a little bit.
“I’m not for every player, and that’s all there is to it. Every coach isn’t for every player,” O’Neill said. “But, I’ve been in a multitude of players’ weddings, and pro and college guys don’t invite you to be in their weddings unless they like you a little bit.
“I’m a great defensive coach. But what people think is that if you’re a defensive coach, you don’t coach offense, or if you’re an offensive coach you don’t value defense. I value the whole game.”
USC returns only one player who averaged more than 18 minutes per game last season: senior guard Dwight Lewis. Junior guard/forward Marcus Simmons and sophomore forwards Nikola Vucevic and Leonard Washington will be the only other returners who contributed last season.
Despite that, O’Neill said he expects to compete immediately.
“I think we’ve got a good core group of guys,” O’Neill said. “It would be my expectation that, when we hit the practice court, that we’re thinking about nothing short of being in the NCAA Tournament.
“This is a competitive group, and I think these guys will play good basketball every single day, I think they’ll work hard, and I think they’ll surprise some people.”
As for the NCAA investigation, it’s ongoing.
It didn’t seem to bother O’Neill much.
“I really didn’t care what had happened, and we didn’t get into detail because that’s not my place,” O’Neill said. “I was taking the job no matter what. I wanted the job from the beginning because it’s USC. The fact that there’s an investigation going on never changed my view of the university at all.”
Reports have said the earliest any NCAA sanction could come would be October. Until then, the program is left to hope they won’t be too short-handed this season.
“We’re in limbo, we don’t know,” Garrett said. “They’re in the process, so are we, and we’re working to get to the point where we can finally come to a resolution.”
Garrett stressed, though, that O’Neill — with 12 years of experience as a head coach at the college or pro levels, including stints with Marquette and the Toronto Raptors — was the right man to lead the program out of the shadow of investigation and into a new image.
“He’d be a great coach for us any season, let alone what we’re going through now,” Garrett said. “I know he’ll guide us the way we should be guided.”
It started off with a bang.
USC athletic director Mike Garrett introduced new men’s basketball coach Kevin O’Neill at a Varsity Lounge press conference Monday, saying, “Kevin, the floor is yours.”
O’Neill’s first public comments as the coach of a program under intense scrutiny from the NCAA?
He pointed over to his wife, 32-year-old Roberta. “There won’t be any questions about recruiting, I trust,” O’Neill said. “I can recruit, obviously.”
All joking aside, O’Neill, 52, made a favorable impression in his first step on a long road back for both him and the USC basketball program.
Former coach Tim Floyd had made inroads in raising the national profile of what had long been a largely irrelevant program, but, facing a looming NCAA investigation this offseason, he decided to resign.
The one-paragraph resignation email sent to Garrett came June 9, less than a month after Floyd was accused of delivering an envelope of cash to the handler of former USC basketball player O.J. Mayo.
Since then, the inquiries grew louder and louder, leading Garrett and Senior Vice President of Administration Todd Dickey to deliver unprecedented video statements posted on USC’s official website.
Many wondered where USC would find its next coach, considering both the likelihood of NCAA sanctions that could limit postseason play and/or scholarships and the sheer lack of talent left on the roster, as only nine scholarship players remained after a mass exodus of both current players and incoming recruits.
Well, Garrett and USC found him, toiling as an assistant coach and special assistant to the general manager for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, just one year removed from spending the 2007-2008 season as the interim head coach at Pac-10 rival Arizona.
“We’ve been through a lot, and, in looking at different potential candidates all over the country…I came to the conclusion that I really felt elated about the fact that this is the kind of person who was available,” Garrett said.
Reports say that Garrett first offered the job to Pittsburgh head man Jamie Dixon, the former protégé of now-UCLA coach Ben Howland. After Dixon said no, both NBA Finals analyst (and former NBA head coach) Jeff Van Gundy and current UNLV coach Lon Kruger reportedly rebuffed offers from USC as well.
Nevertheless, Garrett — who has caught much flak for his coaching hires over the years, including the notion that Pete Carroll was his fourth choice to become the football head coach in 2000 — insisted that O’Neill was indeed his first choice for the job.
“Everyone I talked to was not shying away from USC,” Garrett said. “It was not a selling job, it was more of a find the right fit.
“I think Kevin was my first choice because when I started talking to him, he’s the one that I wanted to have. He’s the guy that fit what I needed. It was a natural fit.”
But O’Neill himself doesn’t come without controversy.
He’s known as a Bob Knight-lite, a fierce competitor who sometimes lets his emotions get the best of him.
Many of his former players have expressed distaste with his methods. He’s never been a player’s coach; rather, he’s been labeled as more of a defensive-minded, let-the-offense-flow kind of guy.
The still-fiery O’Neill attacked those conceptions Monday.
“I’m a different coach than I was the first time I was in college. I really don’t apologize for how I coach at all. I coach hard, I’m aggressive…but it’s like anything else. Over 20 years, you do change a little bit.
“I’m not for every player, and that’s all there is to it. Every coach isn’t for every player,” O’Neill said. “But, I’ve been in a multitude of players’ weddings, and pro and college guys don’t invite you to be in their weddings unless they like you a little bit.
“I’m a great defensive coach. But what people think is that if you’re a defensive coach, you don’t coach offense, or if you’re an offensive coach you don’t value defense. I value the whole game.”
USC returns only one player who averaged more than 18 minutes per game last season: senior guard Dwight Lewis. Junior guard/forward Marcus Simmons and sophomore forwards Nikola Vucevic and Leonard Washington will be the only other returners who contributed last season.
Despite that, O’Neill said he expects to compete immediately.
“I think we’ve got a good core group of guys,” O’Neill said. “It would be my expectation that, when we hit the practice court, that we’re thinking about nothing short of being in the NCAA Tournament.
“This is a competitive group, and I think these guys will play good basketball every single day, I think they’ll work hard, and I think they’ll surprise some people.”
As for the NCAA investigation, it’s ongoing.
It didn’t seem to bother O’Neill much.
“I really didn’t care what had happened, and we didn’t get into detail because that’s not my place,” O’Neill said. “I was taking the job no matter what. I wanted the job from the beginning because it’s USC. The fact that there’s an investigation going on never changed my view of the university at all.”
Reports have said the earliest any NCAA sanction could come would be October. Until then, the program is left to hope they won’t be too short-handed this season.
“We’re in limbo, we don’t know,” Garrett said. “They’re in the process, so are we, and we’re working to get to the point where we can finally come to a resolution.”
Garrett stressed, though, that O’Neill — with 12 years of experience as a head coach at the college or pro levels, including stints with Marquette and the Toronto Raptors — was the right man to lead the program out of the shadow of investigation and into a new image.
“He’d be a great coach for us any season, let alone what we’re going through now,” Garrett said. “I know he’ll guide us the way we should be guided.”
Monday, June 22, 2009
SC Basketball hires two new coaches
Women's basketball, that is. Here's the release, while I work on the O'Neill story.
The USC women’s basketball team’s coaching staff is now compete with the addition of assistant coaches Kelley Gibson and Mary Wooley. The pair have joined the new USC staff of head coach Michael Cooper and associate head coach Ervin Monier to lead the Women of Troy in the coming 2009-10 season.
“In these hires, I think we’ve found two talented, energetic and passionate coaches who will help us return this program to an elite status,” Monier said of the new USC assistants.
Kelley Gibson comes to USC from Maine, where she worked for two seasons as an assistant after spending a year at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and one as a graduate assistant coach at American University. During her time at UMBC, Gibson helped push the Retrievers to their first-ever NCAA Tournament berth as the America East Tournament champions. As a player, Gibson was an all-conference player at Maryland, graduating in 1999 with a degree in kinesiology before moving into the pro ranks. Gibson played internationally in Russia and in Israel and also had a successful WNBA career with the Houston Comets. A Comet from 2000-2004, Gibson helped win the 2000 WNBA championship and ranked in the top-10 on Houston’s all-time games played chart. In 2003, she was awarded the WNBA’s Off-Season Community Assist Award for her work throughout local communities.
“Kelley brings a player’s pedigree that Coach Cooper wanted for our staff’s completeness. She will be able to transfer her knowledge and experience as an athlete to our current players and our future recruits. Her success is a direct result of her resiliency, and our young ladies will benefit from her as a tangible example of what it takes to succeed,” Monier said of Gibson. “Kelley is going to be a dynamic coach in all aspects of our program.”
Mary Wooley joins the USC coaching staff after serving as director of operations at Temple for three seasons. She also was the program’s graduate assistant for three seasons while pursuing a master’s of education in counseling psychology, finishing that degree in 2005. She currently is in the dissertation stage of her PhD in kinesiology, specializing in exercise and sport psychology. As a player, Wooley competed for four seasons at South Carolina Aiken, winning one conference championship and back-to-back Northern Division titles. Also as a Pacer, Wooley helped her team to the program’s first-ever NCAA Division II appearance. Wooley and new associate head coach Ervin Monier worked together at Temple while Dawn Staley served as the Owls head coach.
“Mary has exuberance, enthusiasm, freshness and a needed skill set that gives our staff great balance,” Monier said of Wooley. “She has a connection with this generation that is invaluable. Her work ethic is an expression of efficiency and relentlessness. She’s coming from a winning environment and she’ been preparing to meet this challenge for the last six years. She’s going to be exceptional.”
“Kelley and Mary have so much energy and hunger to be a part of the USC coaching family,” Monier said. “Coach Cooper and I are fortunate to have them, and we can’t wait to get started.”
I'm here at the Kevin O'Neill press conference. O'Neill hasn't yet arrived to the podium, but the room has already almost filled. And yes, there is a podium.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Things to come this week
Live blogging from the Kevin O'Neill presser.
A preview of Thursday's NBA draft as it applies to USC basketball.
Live NBA draft blogging.
A preview of Thursday's NBA draft as it applies to USC basketball.
Live NBA draft blogging.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Kevin O'Neill in as USC basketball coach
The former interim head coach at Arizona and head coach of the NBA's Toronto Raptors was hired Saturday as Tim Floyd's replacement as the next USC men's basketball coach. More in the coming days. I'll be live blogging at the O'Neill press conference at 12 Monday.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Theus interviewing today
Former Sacramento Kings and New Mexico State head coach Reggie Theus is interviewing with USC athletic director Mike Garrett today for the vacant head job with the Trojan men's basketball team. You may remember that Theus was my first choice to take over the position, as I laid out in this post. More information on the interview here.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Mainstream USC basketball coverage
An interesting piece from ESPN's Andy Katz here.
An excerpt that will likely catch your eye:
Multiple sources said that through an intermediary, USC made an inquiry about current ESPN/ABC analyst Jeff Van Gundy, but was rebuffed. According to sources, the Trojans are doing background checks on Reggie Theus, a former Sacramento Kings and New Mexico State coach; P.J. Carlesimo, a former Seattle SuperSonics head coach, San Antonio assistant and Seton Hall coach; and Jim Boylen, the Utah Utes head coach who has served as an assistant with Houston, Golden State and Milwaukee.
An excerpt that will likely catch your eye:
Multiple sources said that through an intermediary, USC made an inquiry about current ESPN/ABC analyst Jeff Van Gundy, but was rebuffed. According to sources, the Trojans are doing background checks on Reggie Theus, a former Sacramento Kings and New Mexico State coach; P.J. Carlesimo, a former Seattle SuperSonics head coach, San Antonio assistant and Seton Hall coach; and Jim Boylen, the Utah Utes head coach who has served as an assistant with Houston, Golden State and Milwaukee.
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