Which School Made the Best Coaching Hire in 2025? Which Program do you trust to follow the rules?
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Candid Coaches series rolls on with two more poignant questions -- Who made the best new hire in College Basketball in 2025, and do you trust programs to abide by the new guidelines. 00:47 - Who is the best new coaching hire in 2025? 11:30 - College Basketball coaches en masse do not respect the new recruiting rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Gary Parish, welcome back, CBS Sports, I on college basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting. |
| 0:23.4 | Dodo birds and leaky black cow booms here with me. |
| 0:24.1 | Strong job! |
| 0:27.9 | If you watch it on YouTube, you know what to do to the like button. |
| 0:32.9 | Shout to Brandon Davies and we haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel. |
| 0:34.5 | Please also do that while you're here. |
| 0:36.9 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:37.6 | Our Candid Coaches series has continued this week over at CBSSports.com. |
| 0:42.4 | We've discussed on the pod the first four questions already. |
| 0:46.9 | Today what we're going to do is focus on the latest two, specifically the questions we asked and answered on Wednesday and Thursday. |
| 0:54.9 | Here are the questions we asked, and we asked the questions to more than 100 college basketball |
| 0:59.6 | coaches. |
| 1:00.9 | Who was the best coaching higher in 2025? |
| 1:04.4 | And given that there is now what amounts to recruiting rules in a salary cap in college athletics. |
| 1:12.1 | Do you trust that your competitors are going to follow the new rules? |
| 1:16.7 | Let's take those questions in the order that we asked him. |
| 1:19.6 | Who was the best coaching hire of 2025? |
| 1:23.1 | The leading vote getter, according to his coaches, was Iowa's Ben McCollum. He got 25% of the vote. |
| 1:30.9 | Will Wade, follow that at NC State, 22% of the vote. After that, Sean Miller at Texas, |
| 1:36.6 | 21% of the vote. So three different coaches combined to get 68% of the vote, but Ben McCollum got more than anybody else. Cal Boone, |
| 1:47.1 | how would you have answered that question? Let's say me and Matt Norlander decided to ask, |
| 1:51.5 | more than 100 college basketball coaches plus Cal Boone, who was the best higher of 2025? |
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