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I put this together for something I was working on, so I might as well share it here if anyone's interested. It looks at years of experience for the head coaches in the conference.

Atlantic 10 Head Coaches
- numbers reflect the year that they are going into as a head coach
- McKillop's years reflect total with Davidson, only 4 in A10
- separated into somewhat like groupings

Coach (years in A10 w/current program) (years in D1)
Bob McKillop (29) (29)
Phil Martelli (23) (23)

John Giannini (14) (22)
Chris Mooney (13) (14)
Mark Schmidt (11) (17)

Dan Hurley (6) (8)

Jeff Neubauer (3) (13)
Dave Paulsen (3) (10)
Travis Ford (2) (18)
Maurice Joseph (2) (2)

Keith Dambrot (1)(16)
Anthony Grant (1) (10)
Matt McCall (1) (3)
Mike Rhoades (1) (4)

Martelli and McKillop: They're veteran coaches, with lots of accumulated success, who have been around forever and could likely die on the court and still coach for a season or two more.

Giannini, Mooney, Schmidt: Combined, these three have 35 years of A10 coaching experience with 4 NCAA tournament appearances (2 for Mooney, 1 each for the others) to show for it.

Neubauer, Paulsen, Ford, and Joseph: All four took over for fired coaches, three for on-court reasons, one for off-court ones. Paulsen and Ford have gotten off to solid starts, GMU with more on-court success last season and SLU with good recruiting.

Dambrot/Duquesne, Grant/Dayton, McCall/UMass, Rhoades/VCU: Dambrot obviously has the most difficult job; he is also the most experienced of the first year A10 guys. As is almost always true, better to be the program whose coach was hired away than to be the one who had to fire him.
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Coach (years as head coach in Division 1)

Bob McKillop (29)
Phil Martelli (23)
John Giannini (22)
Travis Ford (18)
Mark Schmidt (17)
Keith Dambrot (16)
Chris Mooney (14)
Jeff Neubauer (13)
Anthony Grant (10)
Dave Paulsen (10)
Dan Hurley (8)
Mike Rhoades (4)
Matt McCall (3)
Maurice Joseph (2)

Overall, it's an experienced group. For example, Dan's 6 of 14 with regards to years in the A10 but 11 of 14 when looking at total Division 1 head coaching experience.

Three coaches had no previous D1 head coaching experience before getting their current jobs: Martelli (after being an assistant at SJU for 10 years), McKillop (Davidson was an independent team, then in Southern conference), and Joseph (mess of a situation, do not recommend imitating). The most notable recent conference example is Archie Miller, who took over at Dayton after 8 years of being an assistant at high-level programs.

Two coaches (Ford, Grant) have coached at higher levels and were fired.
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For each coach, you currently have

(years in A10) (years in D1)



Perhaps you could also add for each coach

(NCAA tournament victories) (NCAA tournament appearances)
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Native wrote:For each coach, you currently have

(years in A10) (years in D1)



Perhaps you could also add for each coach

(NCAA tournament victories) (NCAA tournament appearances)
Feel free to add anything of interest. This was for a larger project that looked at coaching experience across conferences. I just pulled out the A10 stuff for here. Also, I'm tired of looking at numbers :)
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Native wrote:For each coach, you currently have

(years in A10) (years in D1)



Perhaps you could also add for each coach

(NCAA tournament victories) (NCAA tournament appearances)
Here you go. I put years coached, NCAA appearances and NCAA tournament wins. For the years coached I didn't include this upcoming year because I figured it made more sense to only compare full seasons coached with tournament appearances/wins.

Bob McKillop (28) (8) (3)
Phil Martelli (22) (7) (7)
John Giannini (21) (1) (3)

Travis Ford (17) (6) (1)
Mark Schmidt (16) (1) (0)
Keith Dambrot (15) (3) (0)
Chris Mooney (13) (2) (2)
Jeff Neubauer (12) (2) (0)

Anthony Grant (9) (3) (1)
Dave Paulsen (8) (2) (0)
Dan Hurley (7) (1) (1)
Mike Rhoades (3) (0) (0)
Matt McCall (2) (1) (0)
Maurice Joseph (1) (0) (0)

Total years as D1 head coach: 174
Total NCAA tournament appearances: 37
Total NCAA tournament wins: 18
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Good stuff, thanks. So only 4 (Martelli, Mooney, Giannini, Hurley) have won tournament games as an A10 coach (newer guys obviously at a disadvantage here). One win in 6 trips from Ford is rough.
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With regards to Travid Ford, shouldn't he be grouped with DH in terms of A10 experience? Counting his days at UMass, he is going into his 5th season as a coach in the A10.
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Shaolin Swat wrote:With regards to Travid Ford, shouldn't he be grouped with DH in terms of A10 experience? Counting his days at UMass, he is going into his 5th season as a coach in the A10.
Possibly. I think there's an advantage to having familiarity with a league with regards to resources, scheduling, travel, etc. However, I do see a difference between time spent developing one program vs time at two in the same conference.
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Both fired coaches from last season are now back in the game. Jim Ferry was just named an assistant at Penn State, and Kellogg's had the LIU job for a few months.
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Well respected by a lot of the current coaches. Solid move.
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ace wrote:

Well respected by a lot of the current coaches. Solid move.
Wow!
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Impressive!
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Doherty is one that Dan has leaned on for advice in the past, as I recall. Good move indeed.
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Lousy coach but I wish him well in this role.
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Yeah seems like a very good move for the conf welcome Matt D
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