Once again CBS Sports presents our Candid Coaches series, which spotlights relevant topics and issues in men’s college basketball. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander polled nearly 100 coaches in recent weeks on a variety of subjects. Coaches spoke on background and were provided anonymity to offer unfiltered opinions. Today, we look at the variety of new faces in new places.
Changes in the NIL landscape, and the frenetic nature of the transfer portal, has accelerated the rate of turnover in college coaching.
To wit: 18% of the power-conference head-coaching structure flipped back in the spring. That’s 14 out of 79 jobs. That’s a good chunk, and in fact college hoops had 14 ACC/Big East/Big Ten/Big 12/SEC flips for the second straight year. As far as I can tell, 28 high-major coaching changes in a two-year period is a college basketball record.
In 2025, we had makeovers at Maryland, Miami, Indiana Iowa, Villanova, Virginia, Texas and Texas A&M and still six more in the big-boy leagues. Some of these hirings will flame out by 2030. Others will prove to be home runs, with perhaps one, two or three of the coaches in new perches this year fated to thrive for well over a decade at their new schools.
Candid Coaches: Who is the best X’s and O’s coach in college basketball right now?
Gary Parrish
Which school made the best decision in moving forward with its men’s hoops program over the next five-plus years? This was our question to nearly 100 coaches and here are the results of our survey.
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