College basketball coaching carousel grades, four years later: The best and worst from the 2022 hiring cycle

College basketball coaching carousel grades, four years later: The best and worst from the 2022 hiring cycle The fairest way to grade is to let time do its thing. Matt Norlander looks back at the hirings from four years ago and hands out appraisals By Matt Norlander Apr 28, 2026 at 10:18 am ET • 15 min read In 2017, I went to my editors and made the pitch: Let's resist vapid clickbait fodder and stop "grading" hirings before these coaches have even led one practice with their new teams, let alone been on the sideline for a single game. You can't properly grade something if you have no results from which to judge. We can, instead, exhibit patience and actually grade athletic directors on their hirings a full four years after the coaches got those jobs.

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