I went through and reviewed every power conference school's coach outside the Big Ten to see what the potential pool of candidates might be. There were some definitely interesting tiers and a reasonable pool of "maybes" to consider:
Hall of Famers (Roy, K, Boeheim, Wright, Calipari, Pitino, Self, Huggins)
"Unicorn Hires" (Miller, Bennett, Altman, Buzz)
Early on the job (Mike White, Avery Johnson, Bryce Drew, Jerod Haase, Prohm, Underwood, Beard, Smart, Mullin, Hurley)
Good Coaches, probably last stop (Larranega, Hamilton, Dixon, Kruger, Mike Anderson)
No thanks, not good (Manning, Pastner, Brownell, Stallings, Gottfried, Christian, Cooley, Thompson, Leitao, Weber, Kent, Tinkle, Romar, A. Kennedy, B. Kennedy, Fox, Barnes, Jones, K. Anderson)
Don't know how to classify, but no (S. Drew, Alford, Pearl, F. Martin, Howland)
Remaining Coaches: Krystkowiak, Enfield, C. Martin, Boyle, Holtmann, McDermott, Willard, Wojo, Mack, Brey)
Ranking the remaining coaches:
1) Krystkowiak
2) Mack
3) Enfield
4) Holtmann
5) Brey
6) Wojo
7) McDermott
8) Willard
9) C. Martin
10) Boyle
Add in Archie Miller, Gregg Marshall, Kevin Keatts, Eric Musselman from the Mid-Major ranks and my personal top 5 goes like:
1) A. Miller
2) L. Krystkowiak
3) G. Marshall
4) C. Mack
5) Keatts/Musselman (tie)
Enfield, Holtmann are right there though. Brey gives me a big meh feeling, but I get he has been pretty successful.
