Mike Anderson is a good man. A good husband, father and person. He graduated his players, and mostly they stayed out of trouble.
But his chosen profession is a fickle one.
What he didn’t do at the University of Arkansas is the same thing 10 other SEC coaches in the past five years didn’t do — make it to the NCAA Tournament and win multiple games. Every school except Kentucky and South Carolina has changed head basketball coaches at least once since 2014.
Right or wrong, the measuring stick of a coach’s success is the NCAA Tournament.