http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3368860
Sources: Stanford hires Johnny Dawkins to succeed Johnson
By Andy Katz
ESPN.com
Duke associate head coach Johnny Dawkins has accepted the head coaching job at Stanford, multiple sources told ESPN.com.
Dawkins just completed his 11th season on the bench with his college coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Dawkins was in the mix for the Georgetown opening a few years ago when the Hoyas hired John Thompson III and is in charge of player development for the U.S. Olympic team coached by Krzyzewski.
Dawkins will succeed Trent Johnson, who abruptly left for LSU after leading the Cardinal to the Sweet 16. He inherts a team that will lose the Lopez twins, Brook and Robin, to the NBA draft, but will return its primary perimeter players in Mitch Johnson, Lawrence Hill and Anthony Goods, who will all be seniors next season.
Andy Katz is a senior writer for ESPN.com.
Stanford is hiring a guy who has zero head coaching experience and is from a line that has produced zero successful head coaches. He may have been K's top assistant and lead recruiter, but he was recruiting for K. Stanford deserves a coach with final 4 experience! What was the administration thinking? Change the 'Stanford' to Marquette, and you have what the critics would have been saying if MU hired Dawkins.
Quote from: tower912 on April 26, 2008, 01:25:30 PM
Stanford is hiring a guy who has zero head coaching experience and is from a line that has produced zero successful head coaches. He may have been K's top assistant and lead recruiter, but he was recruiting for K. Stanford deserves a coach with final 4 experience! What was the administration thinking? Change the 'Stanford' to Marquette, and you have what the critics would have been saying if MU hired Dawkins.
Mike Brey might disagree with you.
In this article they list the Coach K tree.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/080418