Staff

I must admit that I was not overwhelmed by Flanigan's choices, collectively considered. Given the fact that he had no head coaching experience, it would have been nice to see at least one assistant who filled that bill. However, Mitch Cole was a successful head coach at a lower level, so that should help. Kwanza Johnson has been an assistant under several head coaches (including Porter Moser) and has seen a lot of different styles and situations, plus he played for Tubby Smith. He probably will be a head coach one of these days. And even John Wooden at one point had no experience, so that fact alone does not tell the whole story. The question is, Can they teach basketball? More so than in football, the head coach in basketball controls the game situations, so the assistants are mainly there for teaching and recruiting. We shall see how they did.