With former UK player Travis Ford taking himself out of the running for the LSU job, who does LSU turn to in its search for a coach?
Four coaches appear in the running:
– Butch Pierre, who took over as interim coach when LSU fired John Brady in early February. Pierre turned heads by leading LSU to a victory over Florida, and then won four straight against Ole Miss, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama).
– Ole Miss Coach Andy Kennedy. Kennedy breathed new life into the Ole Miss program. He’s won more than 20 games in each of his two seasons in Oxford. That’s happened only a few times in school history (1937 and 1938; 1997 and 1998 and 1999; 2001 and 2002).
– Notre Dame Coach Mike Brey. He’s been rumored as a candidate for jobs for several years.
– Southern Illinois Coach Chris Lowery. He’s young, African-American and, by all accounts, dynamic. That would fit the bill of a coach who can excite fans, which former LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman set as a quality he saw as a necessity.
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
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