Will Few Finally Bolt to Eugene?
Rumors of Mark Few leaving the Gonzaga basketball program to coach at the University of Oregon, his alma mater, have persisted ever since the U of O hired his buddy Pat Kilkenny as AD. But the stars have never lined up quite right for this to happen, namely because Oregon has never been bad enough to justify the ouster of longtime head basketball coach Ernie Kent, and Few seems to have learned a lesson from his predecessor, Dan Monson, whose decision to bolt Spokane for the bigger-time (back then, anyway) pastures of the University of Minnesota proved a disastrous one (he's now at Long Beach State).
But if there were ever a year where Few might end up supplanting Kent in Eugene, 2009 is it. The Ducks are terrible this year, sure to finish in the bottom half — if not the cellar — of the Pac-10 and miss the NCAA tourney by a good margin. Meanwhile, for the first time in his career, Few is on something of a hot seat in Spokane, where his Bulldogs have underachieved lately after a torrid start that, for a couple weeks at least, had them on a short list of national title contenders. So here's my prediction: If Gonzaga doesn't make it into the round of 16 come March, Few will end up in green and gold next season.
3 comment(s)
Justin says:
Green and Yellow. Not green and gold.
Posted On: Sunday, Jan. 18 2009 @ 5:36PM
Dave says:
Green and Gold? Are the Sonics coming back?
See, the Ducks are green and yellow. We have nothing to do with gold.
Posted On: Sunday, Jan. 18 2009 @ 7:17PM
Brian says:
We can't get of Ernie until we get a new stadium. Few also went to Creswell High School along with Luke Jackson. It took a little time to realize but its quite obvious they both suck now and we don't want either of them. We are the U of O, owned by Nike. We can get Obama to coach our team if we want. So when we replace Ernie it will be with someone like Bob Knight, Quin Snider, maybee a Van Gundy, Kareem Abdul Jabar or my choice Mike Jordan.
Posted On: Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 7:20PM