11. The interview with Fraser is the strongest indication yet that Waddell has broadened his search from his original intention of hiring only someone with NHL head coaching experience. 12. There is some impatience with West, a former Ford assistant whose only previous head coaching experience was a year at I-AA UT-Chattanooga. 13. Then, when it was clear Harris had to go, he turned to someone with no head coaching experience, Kurt Rambis, to oversee the circus. 14. Though Brown had NBA coaching experience, he had spent the previous five years at the University of Kansas. 15. Toledo may be the strongest candidate of the three, with head coaching experience and prolific offenses everywhere he has coached, including UCLA. 16. Orr had one year of head coaching experience when lured from Siena. 17. All are longtime assistants, and Silas and Rothstein have head coaching experience. 18. Assistants Wayne Cashman and Craig Ramsay, both with head coaching experience, would run practices. 19. Current NFL assistants Chan Gailey and Dom Capers both fit that description and both have NFL head coaching experience, Gailey with Dallas and Capers with Carolina. 20. He expects to hire someone with NBA head coaching experience. |