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Candid Coaches: Who was the best hire of the college basketball coaching carousel in 2022?
CBS Sports college basketball writers Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander surveyed roughly 100 coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled everyone from head coaches at elite programs to assistants at some of the smallest Division I schools. In exchange for complete anonymity, the coaches provided unfiltered honesty about a number of topics. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting the results of the questions asked.
Some of the biggest jobs in college basketball were officially filled after last season — among them Duke, Maryland, Louisville and Florida, each of which has won a national championship in the past two decades.
There were lots of interesting hires. But which school made the best hire?
We asked roughly 100 college coaches that exact question. What they told us is reflected below.
Who was the best head-coaching hire in 2022?
| 1. Shaheen Holloway, Seton Hall | 15% |
| 2. Sean Miller, Xavier | 13% |
| 3. Kevin Willard, Maryland | 12% |
| 4. Jon Scheyer, Duke | 10% |
| T-5 Thad Matta, Butler | 9% |
| T-5. Jerome Tang, Kansas State | 9% |
| 7. Frank Martin, UMass | 7% |
| 8. Kenny Payne, Louisville | 4% |
| T-9. Dennis Gates, Missouri | 3% |
| T-9. Chris Jans, Mississippi State | 3% |
| T-9. Mike White, Georgia | 3% |
| T-12. Fran Dunphy, La Salle | 2% |
| T-12. Todd Golden, Florida | 2% |
| T-12. Archie Miller, Rhode Island | 2% |
Others receiving votes: Dan Earl, Chattanooga; Chris Gerlufsen, San Francisco; Jonas Hayes, Georgia State; Rob Lanier, SMU; Bart Lundy, Milwaukee
Quotes that stood out
On Shaheen Holloway
- “I’m always for a program hiring an alum — especially someone with proven success. He loves that place, that community loves him. He has the charisma for the position. Outstanding hire.
- “Heading back to his alma mater, where he is beloved and knows the lay of the land, especially recruiting wise. Résumé was built on doing more with less — and (he) accomplished at Saint Peter’s what will never be done again. Also a really good human being.”
On Sean Miller
- “I’m a good friend of Travis Steele’s, and I hate how that happened, but Sean is tailor-made for Xavier, Cincinnati, the state of Ohio. Tough guy, knows the landscape, really good coach. Beloved by the fans and community. Sometimes all players, schools, fans need is a notion of confidence when they walk into the arena. He brings that out in people.”
- “Fearless, left for dead and one of the best coaches in the game. Understands modern-day CEO/coach/talent acquisition as well as anyone did before — and now he has even more room to expand his relationships and resources.”
On Kevin Willard
- “What he did at Seton Hall — with the lack of facilities in the backdrop of the old-guard schools in the Big East — is unbelievable. Now he has all the whistles and bells, and he’s a tremendous recruiter. Now he has a tremendous recruiting area, and a place which is a big name. I think in three years Maryland will win the Big Ten.”
- “Kevin has proven he’s a great more-with-less coach who makes no excuses. He finds overlooked talent and makes them better as well as anyone in the country. With an impressive campus, great location and football money — and the way he develops his players — look out.”
On Jon Scheyer
- “He’s already locked-up back-to-back No. 1 recruiting classes. Anybody who can do that, even at a place like Duke, is a great hire. He’s set himself up to win big quickly.”
- “He should be set up to continue the success at Duke. He’s coming in at the right point, where Duke hasn’t been winning national titles year in and year out, so the expectations aren’t anything too over the top.”
The takeaway
The fact that we got 20 different answers to this question is wild and evidence that there is no obvious perceived correct response — unlike last year when Texas’ Chris Beard got 61% of the vote.
(Worth noting: last year, Tommy Lloyd, who led Arizona to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and Hubert Davis, who took UNC to the NCAA Tournament title game, both got less than 3% of the vote. So things don’t always unfold the way the coaches — or any of us — often believe they’ll unfold. But I digress.)
If you would’ve asked me to predict the winner of this poll before we actually conducted it, I would’ve probably told you Duke’s Jon Scheyer because he’s already out-recruited the rest of the country two years in a row. Or perhaps I would’ve gone with Xavier’s Sean Miller or Butler’s Thad Matta because they both have established and proven track records of winning at the high-major level.
That said, Shaheen Holloway is a totally reasonable leading-vote getter.
It’s not just that he took Saint Peter’s — THE PEACOCKS! — to the Elite Eight of the 2022 NCAA Tournament after finishing in the top three of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in each of the past three seasons that makes Holloway a perceived great hire. It’s also the way he seemed to develop a strong culture within the program, one where the players appeared to love and respect him so much that they literally attended his introductory press conference at Seton Hall.
That said something to me.
It’s impossible to definitively know how any hire will unfold — evidence being that Nebraska’s Fred Hoiberg got more votes than UCLA’s Mick Cronin and Arkansas’ Eric Musselman in this poll three years ago but is still looking for his first 11-win season with the Huskers while Cronin has been to the Final Four and Musselman has made back-to-back Elite Eights. But, for whatever it’s worth, you can also count me as a believer in Holloway. He’s already done (way) more with less at Saint Peter’s and flourished on the sport’s biggest stage. I suspect he’ll next do big things at Seton Hall, and, based on the results of this poll, a good bit of his colleagues agree.
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Chrome tests replacing New Tab Page site grid with carousel
Given the very large user base, Google is often hesitant to make major changes to Chrome. The Android browser has been experimenting with different New Tab Page designs, and the latest sees Chrome adopt a carousel to show your recently visited sites.
The Chrome New Page on Android has long consisted of the Google logo, Omnibox for search and URL entry, and shortcuts for recently visited sites. Favicons are used and have historically been arranged in a 4 x 2 grid.
Google is now testing a carousel design that houses up to 12 pages, but you only see 4–5 in one go, versus 8. As such, you have to scroll and tap versus just being able to do the latter. This section is no longer as tall as a result, which marginally benefits the Discover and Following/RSS feed.
This change dates back to a previous Chrome redesign attempt that would have massively overhauled the New Tab Page. Besides the carousel for recently visited sites, there would have been another carousel for “Continue browsing” that showed your open tabs and replaced the Tab Grid. That design was never widely rolled out but was quite stark for breaking Chrome’s navigation paradigm and greatly elevating the NTP over the tab switcher.
In recent months, Google toned back that design, but the carousel is clearly being resurfaced. It’s not the biggest change, but one that adds unnecessary horizontal scrolling and makes the New Tab Page not as fast to interact with.
This carousel on the New Tab Page is not widely rolled out for all users but began appearing for more of my devices (Chrome 102 stable) over the weekend.
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Perseverance Has Run Into a Problem on Mars: Pebbles
A small pile of pebbles is clogging up the Perseverance Mars rover’s operations.
The rover, which is collecting rock samples for eventual return to Earth, began to struggle on Dec. 29, after extracting a core from a rock the mission team nicknamed “Issole.”
According to a NASA blog, the problem occurred in the device that transfers the drill bit and sample out of the rover’s drill arm and into a carousel inside the rover’s chassis for storage.
During the transfer, sensors within the rover recorded a higher-than-normal amount of friction at an unexpected point in the process.
The rover shut down and sent an alert back to Earth. Operators requested more data from the rover, but Perseverance took about a week to respond due to the mismatch between Martian days and Earth days, which restricts how quickly data can transfer.
Once the data arrived, the team ordered the rover to act as its own mechanic by removing the drill bit and undocking its drilling arm in order to photograph its own innards.
The resulting images revealed the problem: a small pile of pebbles inside the carousel. These bits of debris fell off the sample during the transfer process, blocking the drill bit from sitting properly inside the bit carousel.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
The carousel is designed to operate even in the presence of some debris, but NASA operators are taking their time to work out a solution.
“This is not the first curve Mars has thrown at us – just the latest,” Louise Jandura, chief engineer for sampling & caching at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, wrote in the blog post.
“One thing we’ve found is that when the engineering challenge is hundreds of millions of miles away (Mars is currently 215 million miles from Earth [346 million kilometers]), it pays to take your time and be thorough. We are going to do that here,” she added.
The Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. It is exploring Jezero Crater, which was once a river delta.
The goal is to take rock and soil samples to assess the crater for signs that it once hosted life. The rover has equipment that can do some analysis on board, but the hope is that a future Mars mission will be able to retrieve and return the rover’s rock samples to Earth.
This is not the first time the Perseverance team has had to overcome a sampling hiccup. The rover’s very first attempt to collect a rock sample failed. But the rover soon succeeded in collecting a pair of rock samples in quick succession.
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This article was originally published by Live Science. Read the original article here.
2022 NFL coaching carousel tracker: Nagy, Zimmer, Flores out; updates, latest news and rumors on firings
The NFL coaching carousel is upon us with the conclusion of the regular season, as plenty of teams will begin to make decisions on the future of their franchise. The Las Vegas Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars began the process of searching for their next coach during the season with the in-season firings of Jon Gruden and Urban Meyer. (Jacksonville has already begun the process of searching for their next head coach.)
The Denver Broncos didn’t waste any time in firing Vic Fangio, making them the third team that will be looking for a new head coach in 2022. The Minnesota Vikings and Chicago bears are two other teams that made a decision on their coaches, moving on from Mike Zimmer and Matt Nagy, respectively.
With all the coaches on the move around the NFL, we’ll be tracking every single firing around the league (and the coaches who are going to be retained). To keep you up to date on the latest firings, rumors and hirings, make sure to keep tabs on the coaching tracker below.
Dolphins
- Fired: Brian Flores
- Hired: TBD
Flores never made the playoffs in three seasons in Miami, but he’ll be one of the most sought after candidates in this hiring cycle. He’s the only head coach to start a season 1-7 and finish with a winning record (2021), as the Dolphins went 24-25 in his three seasons — with two winning campaigns. Flores went 24-18 in his final 42 games as a head coach.
The firing of Flores is the most surprising of this head coaching cycle, even if the Dolphins never had an offense ranked above 22nd in his three seasons at the helm. Miami has uncertainty at quarterback with Tua Tagovailoa and a poor offensive line, a task the next head coach will have to inherit. Flores overachieved in Miami, despite the Dolphins trying to stock up draft capital and missing on free agent signings over the last three years.
Vikings
- Fired: Mike Zimmer
- Hired: TBD
The Vikings fired Zimmer on Monday after eight seasons leading the franchise. While Zimmer finished 72-56-1 in his tenure, the Vikings were just 15-18 over the last two seasons and failed to make the playoffs both seasons. Minnesota is just 33-31 since losing in the NFC Championship Game in the 2017 season, having the 27th ranked defense in 2020 and the 30th ranked defense in 2021.
Minnesota has a quarterback in Kirk Cousins and a high-powered offense, yet Cousins has a $45 million cap number for 2022. The next head coach of the Vikings will be tasked with fixing a defense that has been one of the worst in the NFL the last two years and how to manage the Cousins situation (which will be the task of the next general manager going forward as Rick Spielman was also fired).
Bears
- Fired: Matt Nagy
- Hired: TBD
The Bears moved on from Nagy after four seasons leading the franchise, as Nagy finished with a 34-31 record with only one losing season (2021). Nagy lead the Bears to the NFC North title in his first season and won coach of the year, but went just 20-27 since. He was tasked with developing quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, but the Bears moved on from him despite making the playoffs in two of Trubisky’s three seasons as a starting quarterback.
Nagy and general manager Ryan Pace traded up and drafted Justin Fields, only to have Andy Dalton start over him to start the season as Fields struggled in his development. The Bears have a top-ten defense in yards allowed, but the next head coach will be tasked on fixing a talented and broken offense. Fields is a good centerpiece for a coach that likes to develop quarterbacks.
Broncos
- Fired: Vic Fangio
- Hired: TBD
The Broncos fired Fangio after he failed to get them in the playoffs after three seasons in Denver, compiling a 19-30 record in his tenure. Denver hasn’t made the playoffs in six seasons, and is still searching for that franchise quarterback the team hasn’t had since Peyton Manning.
Fangio built a strong defense in Denver, but general manager George Paton bought low on Teddy Bridgewater in the hopes Denver would finish with a winning record and compete for the playoffs. The Bridgewater experiment didn’t last, but Denver has a talented roster that could compete for the AFC West with a much better signal-caller. Denver already has Dan Quinn as a candidate for its next head coach, and more candidates are expected to be revealed in the coming days.
Raiders
- Fired: Jon Gruden
- Hired: TBD
Gruden was the first head coach to be fired after a series of emails were released in an investigation into the Washington Football Team that included racist, homophobic and sexist emails sent from Gruden. The Raiders went with interim head coach Rich Bisaccia for the remainder of the season. Bisaccia has gone 7-5 and has Vegas in the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
The Raiders job will be an attractive one if Bisaccia isn’t retained, and the team could have interest in Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh. Vegas may get a later start on searching for its head coach since the Raiders made the playoffs.
Jaguars
- Fired: Urban Meyer
- Hired: TBD
The Jaguars fired Meyer 13 games into his first season after a series of incidents led to his dismissal. Interim head coach Darrell Bevell filled in the final four games for the Jaguars, who have already begun the process of searching for a head coach. The Jaguars have interviewed Doug Pederson, Todd Bowles, Jim Caldwell, Byron Leftwich, and Kellen Moore over the last two weeks — and also plan to interview Bill O’Brien.
With Trevor Lawrence and the No. 1 overall pick, the Jaguars job will be an attractive one.
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Has Debris Obstructing Bit Carousel After Latest Sample Collection
Debris in Perseverance’s Bit Carousel: Pebble-sized debris can be seen in the bit carousel of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover in this January 7, 2022, image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
On Wednesday, December 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a 
Zoomed-in view of the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) image, highlighting the location of the sample debris. The area within the blue box is roughly 6.5 millimeters squared. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The anomaly occurred during “Coring Bit Dropoff.” It’s when the drill bit, with its sample tube and just-cored sample nestled inside, is guided out of the percussive drill (at the end of the robotic arm) and into the bit carousel (which is located on the rover’s chassis). During processing of previous cored rock samples, the coring bit traveled 5.15 inches (13.1 centimeters) before sensors began to record the kind of resistance (drag) expected at first contact with the carousel structure. However, this time around the sensor recorded higher resistance than usual at about 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) earlier than expected, and some much higher resistance than expected during the operation.
The team requested additional data and imagery to ensure proper understanding of the state post anomaly. Because we are presently operating through a set of “restricted Sols” in which the latency of the data restricts the type of activities we can perform on Mars, it has taken about a week to receive the additional diagnostic data needed to understand this anomaly.
Imaging Perseverance’s Sample: This image shows the cored-rock sample remaining in the sample tube after the drill bit was extracted from Perseverance’s bit carousel on January 7, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Armed with that data set, we sent up a command to extract the drill bit and sample-filled tube from the bit carousel and undock the robotic arm from the bit carousel. During these activities, a series of hardware images were acquired.
The extraction took place on January 6, 2022, and data was downlinked early in the morning on January 7. These most recent downlinked images confirm that inside the bit carousel there are a few pieces of pebble-sized debris. The team is confident that these are fragments of the cored rock that fell out of the sample tube at the time of Coring Bit Dropoff, and that they prevented the bit from seating completely in the bit carousel.
The designers of the bit carousel did take into consideration the ability to continue to successfully operate with debris. However, this is the first time we are doing a debris removal and we want to take whatever time is necessary to ensure these pebbles exit in a controlled and orderly fashion. We are going to continue to evaluate our data sets over the weekend.
This is not the first curve Mars has thrown at us – just the latest. One thing we’ve found is that when the engineering challenge is hundreds of millions of miles away (Mars is currently 215 million miles from Earth), it pays to take your time and be thorough. We are going to do that here. So that when we do hit the unpaved Martian road again, Perseverance sample collection is also ready to roll.
Written by Louise Jandura, Chief Engineer for Sampling & Caching at
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