Here is your candidates that are set to interview.

[una04]

hoopdirt.com/north-alabama-search-update/

What does everyone think???

TJ Cleveland – Assistant Coach Arkansas. Played for the Razorbacks, and has been an assistant there for the past seven seasons. Also been an assistant at Alabama-Birmingham and Missouri.

Larry Cordaro – Head Coach LSU Alexandria. Led his team to the NAIA DI National Championship game this season. Is 115-17 in four seasons at LSUA.

Brock Morris – Was an assistant at South Alabama last season. Is an Alabama native and a graduate of the University of Alabama. Has also worked at Louisiana-Lafayette and Southern Idaho.

Philip Pearson – Had spent the past nine seasons on the staff at Georgia, serving most recently as the associate head coach. Alabama native who played and coached at Alabama. Has also been an assistant at Arkansas-Little Rock and Murray State.

Tony Pujol – Assistant Coach Wyoming. Has been on the Cowboys staff for the past two seasons. Spent five years as an assistant at Alabama, and also worked at VCU.

James Strong – Assistant Coach Belmont. The Huntsville, Alabama native has spent the last seven seasons at Belmont. Former player at Vanderbilt who also spent six seasons on the Commodores staff.

Cliff Warren – Associate head coach UMass. Former head coach at Jacksonville – won Atlantic Sun Championships in 2009 and 2010. Has also worked at Maryland, Georgia Tech, and Siena.

[brandon]

Cleveland and Warren would be my top 2.

[rmfl1988]

TJ Cleveland and it's not even close. Gotta put butts in the seats and that style of basketball is fun to watch. I wonder if Scotty Thurman was interested and/or will join TJ if hired. Just please God no Anthony Grant disciple (Pujol) 

[una04]

My top 4 picks would be in order:

1. TJ Cleveland
2. Larry Cordaro
3. James Strong
4. Cliff Warren

[unafied]

I heard good things about Phillip Pearson when he was an assistant under Mark Gottfried at Alabama. I would be surprised if he isn’t out of our price range, but who knows. Might want a shot at running his own program. Same for TJ Cleveland.

Cordaro sounds intriguing. He’s obviously been successful, though it’s hard to know if that would translate to a D1 job. He is also the only one that doesn’t have a tie to our state or at least the ASUN.

Cliff Warren turned around a horrible team (went 1-26 his first season), won consistently for a few years, then sort of tailed off. Hard to know what to make of it. Still, would be nice to have someone who has proven they can win, and probably knows how to recruit Florida. Might not be an awful choice.

I won’t pretend to know a lot about most guys on the list, but I agree with rmfl1988: I’ll pass on anyone associated with Anthony Grant.

I do really like this list though, at least at first glance. Love all the Alabama ties. Makes you believe a guy might decide to stay a while if he is successful for us.

[brandon]

Mar 23, 2018 16:06:42 GMT -6 unafied said:

I heard good things about Phillip Pearson when he was an assistant under Mark Gottfried at Alabama. I would be surprised if he isn’t out of our price range, but who knows. Might want a shot at running his own program. Same for TJ Cleveland.

Cordaro sounds intriguing. He’s obviously been successful, though it’s hard to know if that would translate to a D1 job. He is also the only one that doesn’t have a tie to our state or at least the ASUN.

Cliff Warren turned around a horrible team (went 1-26 his first season), won consistently for a few years, then sort of tailed off. Hard to know what to make of it. Still, would be nice to have someone who has proven they can win, and probably knows how to recruit Florida. Might not be an awful choice.

I won’t pretend to know a lot about most guys on the list, but I agree with rmfl1988: I’ll pass on anyone associated with Anthony Grant.

I do really like this list though, at least at first glance. Love all the Alabama ties. Makes you believe a guy might decide to stay a while if he is successful for us.

If they are on the list, then we must not be out of their price range or they would not have put their name in the hat. But I like the idea of someone who has won A-Sun championships and has ties to recruiting in Florida. 

[brandon]

The more I read about these guys, James Strong is standing out to me more and more. He seems like a hard nosed guy.

[catscratchfever4]

Pretty impressive list! I am VERY relieved. Strong was a heady player for the 'Dores and could open the doors of Nashville to the Lions. I like all the candidates. Grant was such a huge disappointment at Bama but many times the assistants are unfairly tainted by the head coach stubbornly refusing to change when his system is obviously not right for the talent available. That can make an assistant a better coach after witnessing, first hand, what happens when you doggedly try to force a square peg into a round hole.
Wow! I can't believe how much better this list makes me feel. I was really worried but this IS a D1 list here including Cordaro who's been associated with D1 for most of his career .

[tuna85]

Not as up to date on basketball as I am on football but these all look like good candidates based on the write-up.

On some earlier posts I saw a mention of pursuing Tubby Smith. Just saw where he is considering the coaching position at his alma mater, High Point. High Point is, I believe in the Big South.