I think that Odom will have more success at his next job following VCU but this is also his 4th D1 head coaching gig so that experience helps. One could also argue that he is a better fit at UVA than he was at VCU. I don't think that could be said for any of the others that left.
Yeah, he was desperate to get out of Utah and the timing worked. If we'd been in the market a couple years earlier and he came straight here it might be a better comparison.
100% true for everyone except maybe Will Wade. LSU is a pretty good landing spot. They're a football school, but they do care about basketball, unlike Penn State, Texas, etc.
True, but (as you acknowledged) he didn't leave VCU for McNeese. You could say Shaka found his spot in Marquette as well, but he didn't leave VCU for there. All of the coaches who left VCU years ago finally found their landing spot, but all of them (so far ... maybe not Odom) had to fail first after leaving us.
Just an FYI: Wade was thriving at LSU before the Feds came after him.
Yeah, I guess in Wade's case it was more like "too much too soon" rather than a bad fit. LSU would have been on board with everything he did if he wasn't so sloppy about it. He wanted to hit the ground running though.
Sure, but that is a pretty big caveat. Bernie Madoff had a good little business going before the feds came after him as well.
Oh absolutely he was, but I think we can all agree that being investigated by the feds and eventually suspended from coaching is a failure.
LSU certainly wouldn't have distanced themselves from him as quickly as they did but I don't know that he wouldn't have gotten caught with the feds being involved.
Suspended right before the NCAA tournament one season and fired right before the NCAA tournament the following season. He actually never won a tournament game at LSU.
Did Dana Kirk fail? Personal failure Yes but was very successful on the court at Memphis State his next job including taking a team to the Final 4. ( year big east had the other 3 spots)