Another Name At The Top

University of South Alabama men's basketball coach John Pelphry is rumored to be among the top of the candidates for the Ole Miss coaching job. It is being reported that Pete Boone and another athletic department official are currently at the Sun Belt Conference Tournament to see Pelphry and his style of coaching. Pelphry played college ball at the University of Kentucky. He then took a job with Oklahoma State and then coached under Billy Donovan at Marshall and most recently Florida. Pelphry has been the coach of the Jaguars for four seasons.

After a 14-14 record in his first season, a 12-16 in season two and a 10-18 record in season three, his team is currently 22-6 and are in the semi-finals of the Sun Belt Tournament tonight. They will probably win tonight and be in the championship tomorrow against Western Kentucky.

I know the infamous Bobby Cook is high on this guy. But I can not say the same. Yes he has performed well this year and that is why he is getting attention form us. I think he has a good background by playing at Kentucky, coaching with Sutton at OK-State and then with Donovan. But his record just does not flatter me. Going into this season he did not even have a winning record as a head coach.

We do not have four years to waste for a guy to turn this program around. I hope Boone and Hartwell will look more places than the Sun Belt Tourney for a coach. You would think they would leave there and head over to our tournament in Nashville and chat it up with John Treloar while at the same time showing interest in Kennedy, who from what I hear may turn down the Cincy job if offered it.