All eyes are on the Oregon head coaching slot..

Since i am not a baseball fan, the story i keep watching for is 'who will be hired as
Oregons' Mens Basketball coah ?

The Ducks are set to open their new, $200 million dollar facility in January 2011.
They have a new home...so what is a few million for a new coach ?
What exactly does Oregon need ? And what do they want ?
I watched maybe two or three Oregon games this season.
Before last season, the decision was that Oregon needed to play better defense.
They hired assistant Mike Dunlap . I can't say if that helped.
From what i saw, on TV, and very limited, was the players didn't listen to him on the sideline.
To be fair, maybe they didn't need Mike drawing up plays on a chalkboard.
But my overall impression was that the players lacked discipline.
The Ducks went 3-0 before losing to Portland. Next game they lost to Montana.
A win over Montana State, and then they were blown out by Mizzou.
Up next, they lost to St Marys.
Then, the Ducks reeled off 5 straight wins, including opening the PAC10 2-0 with wins over
(at) Washington and Washington State. Things looked 'great' up to this point, since UW was the favorite to win the PAC10.
And then the big crash; losing to OSU, UofA,ASU, Cal and Stanford - five straight losses.
A slight rebound with two wins over USC and UCLA.
And losing 5 more to the same five teams listed above from the pac10.
The Oregon Ducks finished theseason 16-16, with no post season invitations.
It was an improvement over 8-23 the year before.

Oregon will lose senior Tajuan Porter, 13ppg who suffered through shooting 36% in 2010.
(He also made 90% of his freethrows).
I'm not sure if all these players are coming back for next season..
Malcolm Armstead guard had a good year shooting 44% with 10 points per game average .
Michael Dunigan center shot 55% averaging 9 points and 5 rebounds.
Jeremy Jacob forward shooting 50% with 9 points and 5 rebounds average.
LeKendric Longmire a 6' 5" guard 7 points and 4 rebounds.But shot 10% on three pointers.(ouch!)
Teondre Williams guard averaging 6 points per game.
Josh Crittle who averaged about 3 points per game last season.
Freshman E J Singler showed some great play scoring 17 points in their win over WSU March 6th.

As i look at the roster, if it is correct - Oregon has lost only Porter and Catron. Two seniors.
They have some talented sophomores.

The choices for Oregons' new coach are slim to none this year..what they need is someone inpsiring to these players.
I can't find their schedule online. So I cannot imagine the good fortunes (or the horror) they will face early next year.
Tom Izzo is NOT coming to Eugene. There is also mention of Gillespie and Tubby Smith.
Let us put aside the 'usual' suspects.

But take a look at Tom Penders, who resigned from Houston.
Or Jerry Wainwright who was fired from DePaul.
And do not overlook the assistant Mike Dunlap, who won a few JUCO championships.
Mike is too quiet. Maybe humbled. A true coach, who speaks with his work ethics.
He turned down the chance to be head coach at Arizona in 2009-2010.

I would bring in Wainwright and call it done. Just sign right there.