It is a tough job, but there are already many candidates. Personally, if they are all interested my top 3 in order would be:
Matt Kingsley
Dave Klatsky
TJ Sorrentine
Kingsley has done it for 21 years at Yale and hving been to countless practices, he is a brilliant strategist and many of the top Yale signees from 2012 on have credited hime (along with Simon) as key recruiter.
Let’s go TJ.
Who started this week as the new head coach of the Wizards’ summer league team.
I’d take any of these three, no questions asked. I have to imagine that TJ would say no, given the Summer League coaching gig that Bruno mentioned, but would love to be wrong about that. Would Kingsley or Klatsky take a job like this one this late in the cycle? Genuine question. I always assumed that Kingsley would takeover at Yale when James Jones finally got tired of NIL and the like, but I know that there’s been some negative press about Yale Athletics and their recently renewed AD of late. My main concern with Klatsky is that he would pull a Glen Miller when Fran retires, though I suppose that would be a good problem to have.
You could see Jones coaching another 10 years at Yale, so I would think that Kingsley might be interested. According to Wikipedia, 5 previous assistants to Jones have become head coaches, so this would follow a known pattern for Kingsley, who likely also knows Jeremiah Jenkins well given their time in CT. Klatsky appears to have few, if any, ties to New England, while Sorrentine has longtime times to RI and Brown. Can you recall other NBA assistant coaches leaving their positions to become head coaches in the Ivy League?
Would Mike Brennan, Associate Head Coach at Princeton, former head coach at Vermont, be a candidate?
Mike was head coach at American.
Brennan is not involved. Nor are TJ or Klatsky. There are 3 remaining candidates.