With CU head basketball coach Jeff Bzdelik taking the same job at Wake Forest, the Buffs have put UNC coach Tad Boyle near the top of their list of potential replacements.
Boyle holds a 56-66 career record in four seasons at UNC and led the Bears to a 25-8 record this season.
Other candidates in the mix for the job at CU include St. Mary’s coach Randy Bennett and Steve McClain, Bzdelik’s top assistant at CU. Some of CU’s top players have stated that they would prefer McClain to take the job.
Boyle, a Greeley native, led his hometown university to its first postseason berth since moving to Division I, and since a trip to the Division II NCAA Tournament in 1989.
Before coming to UNC, Boyle was an assistant coach for six years at Wichita State, working under Mark Turgeon, who is currently at Texas A&M, a Big 12 rival of Colorado. Boyle was also an assistant at Jacksonville State, Tennessee and Oregon.
Bzdelik, a former head coach of the Denver Nuggets, was 36-58 in three seasons at CU, never finishing above eighth in the Big 12. He was 50-16 in a previous coaching stop at Air Force.
Boyle has experience in the Big 12 as a player at the University of Kansas from 1981-’85, and has been unpopular among some CU boosters since spurning the Buffs to play at KU.
If Boyle leaves, a likely replacement at UNC would be Bears’ assistant coach B.J. Hill.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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