Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Kelvin?
A couple years back, Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson was the favorite to succeed Lute Olson at Arizona. Sampson was given his first head coaching job by Jim Livengood, then the athletic director at Washington State -- and now the athletic director at Arizona.Sampson has amassed quite a resume, 400 wins included, and spurned repeated overtures by Illinois (2000) and Michigan (2001), reportedly because he was waiting on Olson. But today Gregg Doyel has assistants Josh Pastner and Jim Rosborough as the likely successors to silver-haird Lute. I wonder if this means Sampson is out of the running...
