Last week I wrote about the Houston Cougars reportedly looking into Hiring a corrupt as hell Coach to build their men's basketball team back up and get out of town ahead of violations that will leave the school on NCAA probation.

According to Yahoo! Sports, the school?will indeed hire Kelvin Sampson as their new Head Coach.?

No word on if the people who will officially announce the hiring have any shame.

Article Link:?http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--university-of-houston-to-hire-kelvin-sampson-as-head-coach-163540532.html

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Danny Manning seems poised to leave Tulsa in the dust after taking the team to the NCAA tournament in just his second year with the team. He has been touring current ACC doormat Wake Forest for a couple of days and the Demon Deacons look like they'll have their new coach sooner rather than later.

I'm all for advancing in your field, but is it really worth leaving behind a school where you have had success and could very well continue that success in a Conference that is not a powerhouse only to head to the ACC?

The ACC is a conference where Coaching careers go to die if you aren't coaching Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse and as of next year Louisville.

Yes, there was a time when Wake Forest was a solid mid level program in the conference, but with the increasing conference realignment bringing in more traditional basketball power schools, this potential move seems a bit short sighted.

Yes, there is more prestige saying you coach in the ACC, but come on now, it's Wake Forest!

Speaking of the ACC, Boston College has Hired their new men's basketball coach. The new man in charge is former Ohio coach Jim Christian.?

I'm all for giving the new guy a chance and all, but seriously, my first reaction to hearing about the hiring was WHO?!

He did well in two seasons at Ohio, going 49-22 but the Ohio is not the same as coaching in the ACC.

Article Link:?http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040314aab.html

The last coaching news involves a former national power in women's basketball. Louisiana Tech made a splash and got more media attention than they have in years when they announced the hiring of Tyler Summitt as their new head coach.

After the firing of Teresa Weatherspoon following two straight losing seasons, the Lady Techsters were looking for someone to rebuild the program back to its glory days.

Summitt's hiring was not universally acclaimed though. I take part in a women's basketball message board and while some were taking a let's wait and see approach, others were furious that he was hired.

Why you ask? Well, Summitt is just 23 years old. And of course, another part of the complaining was that he got the job on name recognition alone.

After all, he is the son of former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt. And despite being an assistant at Marquette for two years and coaching numerous AAU teams while a student, that's all a lot of people will see.

And the unspoken aspect that I got from tone of the message board posts was that people were pissed that either A. a woman wasn't hired for the job or that a black woman was fired (despite an overall winning record) and a white guy was hired. Again, just my impression of the tones of some of the respondents.

During his introductory press conference Summitt announced that he'd hired for Lady Techster player Mickie DeMoss to be his associate head coach. DeMoss, who was a longtime assistant at Tennessee, left the WNBA's Indiana Fever to take the job at La. Tech.

As for me, of course I'm in the wait and see crowd but I do know that the hiring does make me actually care about how the new season goes for the Lady Techsters, something I never would've said in the last 10 plus years.

You can read more here:?http://www.latechsports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/040214aaa.html

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