Gosar a candidate for UW job

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According to this story http://www.magicvalley.com/sports/college/csi/article_c1ce56b2-55cf-11e0-b939-001cc4c002e0.html Wyoming native and former UW player and graduate assistant Steve Gosar is a candidate for the Cowboys’ men’s basketball coaching job.

Notice what Gosar says that UW would be his dream job if. ….

Gosar seems to have a lot of support from fans, at least the ones that have commented on this blog.

Also, a UW plane landed in Eugene, Ore. this morning. Are any UW athletics officials on that plane talking to possible candidates? The plane is scheduled to leave Eugene at 2:30 p.m. MDT and arrive in Laramie at 3:57 p.m.

UW interviewed Old Dominion coach Blaine Taylor in Virginia earlier this week.

  • Bob

    Come on a Jr College coach. I don’t care if he did play for the Cowboys. When he doesn’t work out Burman and that College President need to go away too.

  • Scott Headrick

    Do you know who the leading canidates are for the job. And how much is Jeremy Cox or Ernie Kent getting looked at? One of those two would be a great at Wyoming. I feel that Goasr would be better suited as an assistant rather than a head coach.

    • rgagliardi

      Hi Scott,

      I would say right now Blaine Taylor and Mike Dunlap are pretty high on the list. So is former UW coach and current Florida assistant Larry Shyatt, but Florida is still playing in the NCAA Tournament.

      I don’t think Cox is out of the running, but as of now I don’t see him at the top of the list. As for Kent, I personally don’t think he’s the guy. Not to say he wouldn’t do well at Wyoming, but I just don’t see it happening.

      RG

  • Mike

    You have got to be kidding me Bob. Gosar, that just won the national junior college championship at a school where there is much more pressure to win than there is at Wyoming isn’t ready for a head job?….good thing they didn’t think that about the other 2 coaches that won national titles at that school. One you may be familiar with that coached at CSU named Boyd Grant. A pretty big name guy in Eddie Sutton also coached at CSI….and he didn’t accomplish what Steve Gosar did. Steve was also the lead assistant at D1 Portland State and helped guide them from a worst to first 3 year turnaround. The fact is that we need to hire an up and comer at Wyoming….and one that will stay after he turns the program. Steve Gosar is the only candidate that perfectly fits the bill.

  • Ron Smith

    Gosar is probably a good fix as Mikes says. But for whatever reason we are not looking for the FUTURE coaching potential but a currently recognized Divison 1 leader. Our best footballl hires were never Divison 1 head coaches but that is now being abondoned. I think we fans now fear what has always been said about us. Nobody but nobody would go to Laraimie unless they loved the coach and knew him to be a winner. If any of our current players bolt it will be a long haul for anyone that takes over.. A good hire and especially patient is what Tom B will have to live with.

  • DC

    Ugh. Retreads. Is the elephant in the room that Wyoming isn’t ready for a black head coach? Or am I not allowed to say that…because it sure smells fishy to me that all of the candidates are these horrendous retreads that NO OTHER SCHOOL would hire, yet we’re looking at them simply because of ties to the region or whatever.

    When will folks realize that you can’t recruit here like you do in other places. You’re not even going to attract good players of any kind this way, because the types of coaches you’re looking at are coming from places where it’s easier to find local recruits. You can’t win a title recruiting kids from Colorado and filling them with JUCO flameouts with a token Wyoming kid. You need a team built with kids who are underrated with a coach that can build a system and that takes a bit more than what the past few coaches have done here.

    This isn’t the 1980s and you’re not going to get recruits like that anymore. It’s a whole new era and if we don’t adapt to it, we’re going to keep losing and it’ll be even worse. Especially once we lose all of our current players.

  • Boyd

    Bob,

    The competitive performance of a sports team is completely irrelevant to whether Dr. Buchanan should continue on as the University President with the lone exceptions being a situation where the President condones activities in the athletic department that are illegal, violate NCAA rules or are generally detrimental to the university and surrounding community. I do not see that happening here partly because Dr. Buchanan seems to be exercising oversight over the hiring process. In the grand scheme of the University’s mission, a win/loss record does not really matter enough to affect the President’s job. To demand otherwise is to turn the priorities of the university upside down.

    For what it is worth, skills can be raw talent on the court but that rare commodity, skilled talent, is what dominates opponents. I will be satisfied with a coach that helps players improve from game to game and year to year while actually graduating students. Our guys are not all going to have the NBA to fall back on if they do not finish school.