**UPDATE: Stanford announced at GoStanford.com that Jerod Haase will be the next head coach for the Stanford Men's basketball team.
Stanford is expected to announce UAB head coach Jerod Haase as their new head coach.
The news comes via a report from Jeff Goodman of ESPN's twitter:
Haase has spent the past four seasons as the head man for UAB. He guided the Blazers to a 80-53 record. Haase's squads had 3 winning seasons.
In the 2014-15 season, UAB won the Conference USA tournament championship and made it to the NCAA tournament advancing to the Round of 32 in 2015 as a 14-seed.
In this past season, UAB won a Conference USA regular season crown and had a record of 26-7. The Blazers were upset early in the C-USA tournament and ended up as an automatic qualifier for the NIT where they lost on the road at BYU.
Before his time at UAB, Haase was Roy Williams right hand man serving as an assistant under Williams at both Kansas and North Carolina for 14 seasons. Together they had won 255 of 317 games.
He played college ball at Kansas and Cal.
Comments
Excited for a new era
The roster is talented, and I think this guy can take us back to the NCAAs
By andrewelkadi00 on 03.25.16 8:54am
Definitely excited
If Haase is the coach, let’s hope he can take this team in a great direction.
By nickdempsey on 03.25.16 8:59am
A bit out of left field
Outside of his one season playing at Berkeley, he’s spent his entire career out east, and he doesn’t have experience with a school with the academic standards of Stanford. He’s done a good job rebuilding UAB though, so he definitely can coach. Hopefully he does well!
By JYTLM on 03.25.16 9:41am
he grew up in CA
South Lake Tahoe. So maybe he also wanted to be closer to family?
By Chris96 on 03.25.16 12:09pm
I'm sure he's got plenty of reasons to come to Stanford
But I’m not sure how Stanford ended up going after him.
By JYTLM on 03.25.16 8:21pm
Geography is irrelevant. Look at where some of the best Stanford players came from recently (off the top of my head):
Dwight Powell: Toronto/Florida
Chasson Randle: Illinois
Marcus Sheffield: Georgia
Stanford recruits nationally.
Plus there’s that InterFaceTwitterSkype thing that the kids all use these days..and jet aeroplanes.
Not to mention that Lawrence, Kansas is pretty much right smack in the middle of the country. Although, it is east of Sacramento, so maybe you’re correct there.
FYI, Montgomery came from that academic powerhouse U. of Montana (FYI, he also advised Stanford on this hire).
By Cardinal&Orange on 03.25.16 9:04pm
Some other players
Anthony Brown: CA
Robert Cartwright: CA
Josh Huestis: MT
Mike Humphrey: AZ
Dorian Pickens: AZ
Marcus and Malcolm Allen: NV
etc.
Most of the roster still comes from the west. And despite the technological advances, recruiting still takes relationships.
I never said Haase wouldn’t be successful at Stanford. Just that he seems like a strange hire considering his experience.
By JYTLM on 03.25.16 9:25pm
Every player you listed there was recruited to Stanford by Johnny Dawkins, who probably never spent more than 2 days in "the West" before becoming HC at Stanford.
Haase was an AC (ergo, a recruiter) at schools (KU, UNC) that recruit wherever the heck they please. So he has that experience.
Geography is largely irrelevant at a school like Stanford because it has to be: The pool of eligible and desirable players is too small, especially in a sport like basketball.
Coaches get on planes and fly places if they need to see or talk to a player in person. That’s why they have budgets. Or they call/tweet/whatever (compliant with NCAA regulations, hopefully).
The biggest factor at play concerning geography is proximity to family, but that has zero to do with the coach’s experience.
Haase’s success at Stanford will depend on his ability to bring in players that buy into whatever his system is, and whether that system actually works here.
By Cardinal&Orange on 03.25.16 10:47pm
Alright, looks like I've got a reason to root for Stanford now
This eases the sting of losing to you with Andrew Wiggins…though, of course, not completely
By 2.1 seconds left on 03.25.16 10:43am
A good hire
I have to commend Muir for making what looks on paper to be a good hire. That’s all we can really go on.
I look forward to seeing a different team next year.
By winflop on 03.25.16 2:08pm
Who?
By SneakToBetterSeats on 03.25.16 6:07pm
If you're still asking this question in 3 years
Then Muir will have failed. I don’t think you’ll be asking this question in 2 years much less 3.
- Played for Roy Williams at Kansas after transferring from Low APR U
- Assistant under Williams at Kansas and UNC for 12 years
- Head coach at UAB for four years – won a school record 26 games this season. one NCAA (last yr), one NIT (this yr). In a mid-major where the only NCAA bid goes to the conf tournament champion, that’s a pretty good record especially since it took him a year or two to rebuild the program from his predecessor.
By winflop on 03.25.16 9:03pm
From a Duke assistant to a North Carolina assistant. Progress?
By SneakToBetterSeats on 03.25.16 6:12pm
He's also been a successful HC
Which Dawkins wasn’t. That’s a BIG difference.
By winflop on 03.25.16 9:03pm
Huge
Sure, it’d be nice if he were more seasoned, but the mere fact that he has been a successful HC and probably alrealdy has a good sense of what he wants his teams to do, is a major step up from when Dawkins took the reins. Johnny had a fabulous resume, but zippo time as the man in charge.
By Cardinal&Orange on 03.25.16 9:10pm
My only concern is whether he truly understands and can be successful with the admissions process.
This will be completely different from his previous stops.
By Cardinal-in-TX on 03.25.16 10:54pm