There are a lot of people out there floating a lot of names for the Washington State Cougars’ men’s basketball coaching vacancy. Some of those names are pie-in-the-sky prospects (Thad Matta); others are the typical west coast guys who have had some modicum of success at midmajors (Leon Rice and Travis DeCuire); still others are once-hot-commodities-turned-reclamation-projects who might be just desperate enough to take the WSU job (Mark Fox).
Anyone can give you those names. Here at the search firm of POWERS and NUSSER, we specialize in identifying candidates who don’t immediately jump to the front of mind, but who might be an excellent fit for the specific needs of a particular program — like, say, a program that needs to find a creative way to maximize talent because we know it can’t win traditional recruiting battles.