names of the day

andrea cohen

On Friday, Day 11 of Operation Find A Basketball Coach, I heard two names all day long. Tim Floyd was name No. 1, and Kevin Stallings was name No. 2.

The USC coach seems like a longshot because he turned down LSU already this spring (he’s a Mississippi native and La. Tech grad).

As for Vanderbilt’s Stallings, the Nashville City Paper had a blurb on its website Friday afternoon with a Vice Chancellor saying OSU hadn’t asked permission to speak with Stallings. So if that’s on the table (and I’m not saying it is), it’s not yet in the works.

The other interesting news today was a CBSsportsline.com report from Gary Parrish (an excellent reporter with ridiculously good sources, in my experience and opinion) that said OSU contacted Washington State’s Tony Bennett (possibly at the Final Four) and said if/when Self said no OSU would pay Bennett big bucks to come to Stillwater. Bennett, who turned down a BUNCH of jobs this spring, said no.

Mike Holder said “not true” when emailed the article.