🎠 It’s time for our annual coaching carousel recap + primer 🎠
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander break down the most notable hires of the 2026-27 college basketball coaching carousel. From Michael Malone at North Carolina to Will Wade returning to LSU and everything in between. Let's discuss many of the 52 total changes in this year's chaos.
(0:00) Intro + coaching carousel by the numbers
(4:00) How NIL changes the dynamic of the carousel
(9:15) What is the most interesting hire this year? Gerry McNamara & Michael Malone (17:20) - Henri Veesaar sidebar)
(29:30) three more high-profile hires: Wade to NC State, Bennett to ASU & Hodgson to Providence
(47:00) The rest of the high-major hires
(1:07:00) Seven notable mid-major hires
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. This is the CBS Sports High-owned College Basketball podcast, |
| 0:19.6 | where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds, and leaky black. |
| 0:23.6 | Per usual, Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:25.7 | If you're watching on YouTube, honor Brandon Davies, the only way you should. |
| 0:29.2 | Smash that like button. |
| 0:30.2 | And if you haven't yet subscribe to the IOn College basketball podcast, please do that. |
| 0:34.2 | Wherever you listen to podcasts like Spotify and Apple, let's get into it. |
| 0:38.7 | Every year, once the season is over, after the coaching carousel has stopped spinning |
| 0:44.8 | and when the transfer portal slows down a little bit, we dedicate an episode of the I-on |
| 0:51.3 | College basketball podcast to the schools that just, you know, |
| 0:54.5 | hired new coaches for one reason or another. |
| 0:57.6 | This, this is that episode. |
| 1:00.0 | And I want to start by letting you, Matt Norlander, tell us how many coaching changes |
| 1:04.2 | did we actually have this offseason? |
| 1:06.6 | What's the number? |
| 1:07.6 | And is it high or low relative to recent years? |
| 1:11.3 | Hello, happy Tuesday, April 28th, everyone. |
| 1:14.4 | To this point, I say to this point, let's not have any more than we need. |
| 1:19.4 | 52 changes, which is down from the past, well, at 25, 24, 23, 22 22 and 21, all had more than 52. |
| 1:29.0 | 2020 was the COVID year. |
| 1:30.7 | There was hardly any movement there. |
| 1:32.6 | I don't even know if there were two dozen changes that year in general. |
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