HEATH TO BE ANNOUNCED AT 4pm TOMORROW!

[VeryBullish]

Sooooo when do season tickets go on sale??? With the hiring of heath, we should have at least 2000 more people in the stands.

[mulheap]

The Tribune beat the Times to the punch!  :

http://www.tbo.com/sports/bulls/MGB4WOD710F.html

Check out the dateline.

[NormalBull]

You know what they say mulheap...Hindsight is 20/20 vision.   ;D  That is funny.  Good catch.

Normal

[windbane]

Great news.  I tried not to get my hopes up for Heath because, well, several coaches declined, but he seems like a great candidate and perhaps the best out of all we went after (yet to be determined of course).  He'll have a chance here to prove Arkansas wrong.  I don't expect us to be much better next year but making the Garden tourney would be nice.  Hopefully we can do that (which was sort of the goal for this past year), but as soon as next year if Heath can get at least 1 recruit like he was getting for Arkansas we could jump up the ranks.  Al Jefferson would have to go to college for a year, now.

[Apis Bull]

Heath named South Florida coach

By Andy Katz

ESPN.com

Former Arkansas coach Stan Heath landed quite nicely after being fired just a week ago, getting the head coaching job at South Florida.

 

Stan Heath was fired from Arkansas, despite leading the Razorbacks to two consecutive 20-win seasons. Overall, he's 112-77 in six seasons as a Division I head coach.

Heath replaces Robert McCullum and jumps from being fired in the SEC to hired in the Big East, a week to the day he was let go in Fayetteville.

South Florida will hold a 3 p.m. ET news conference Tuesday in Tampa, the school announced Monday.

Heath leaves an Arkansas team that was 7-9 in the SEC, 21-14 overall and went to two straight NCAA Tournaments, including last month, losing to USC in the first round. He takes over a program that finished 3-13 in the Big East, 12-18 overall and hasn't made the Big East tournament in the past two seasons since moving over to Conference USA.

Heath was stunned that he was let go at Arkansas last week when athletic director Frank Broyles called him for a scheduled end-of-season meeting. Broyles tried to get Texas A&M's Billy Gillispie to replace Heath but apparently has settled on Creighton's Dana Altman.

South Florida athletic director Doug Woolard pursued Winthrop coach Gregg Marshall and flew him to Tampa after visiting with him in his home but was rebuffed.

He then made a play for ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla after also talking to South Alabama's John Pelphrey and former Virginia coach Pete Gillen. His next turn was to go after Kevin O'Neill, the former Marquette, Tennessee and Toronto Raptors' coach.

A source close to Woolard told ESPN.com on Saturday that O'Neill was close to being the coach but there could be a hiccup in the process. Later, ESPN.com learned that an offer wasn't tendered to O'Neill and that Woolard and Heath had clearly hit it off. Heath emerged as the leader in the last 24 hours and the deal was sealed.

Senior writer Andy Katz covers men's college basketball for ESPN.com.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2822896

[jfcohio]

Sorry, can't get real excited about a coach from Arkansas that got fired. This is simply a, hope for the best and see what happens, signing.

[Apis Bull]

Deposed Heath agrees to become South Florida coach  

  April 2, 2007

By Gary Parrish

CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer

Former Arkansas coach Stan Heath has reached an agreement to become the next coach at South Florida, CBS SportsLine.com has learned. An official announcement should come within 24 hours.

Heath just completed his fifth season at Arkansas and reached his second consecutive NCAA Tournament before getting fired last week, despite being set to return all five starters from a probable Top 20 team.

Heath replaces Robert McCullum and inherits a program that has finished at or near the bottom of the Big East the past two seasons.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10104033

[Guest]

Where are all you people now who couldn't shut the f**k up about how Woolard was blowing this coaching search?

I'll say it again... IN DOUG I TRUST.

Hey _EI... according to GoDaddy... COACHSTANHEATH.COM is available!

: ;D : ;D

[pioneerb]

He also recruited ronnie brewer. He left after his jr. year. Good recruiter.

[sdgukhsdgl]

front page story on ESPN.com and Sportsline.com ... not too bad