Over the last five years there have been 45 coaching changes at the power conferences, Big East and a handful of other programs that have a high profile/top-25 team (New Mexico, VCU, UNLV).
I thought it might be useful to take a look at how the vacancies were filled.
2011 – 10 changes: 4 Power Moves; 3 Mid-Majors; 2 Assistant Coaches; 1 Ex-Coach/TV analyst
2012 – 8 changes: 3 Power Moves; 4 Mid-Majors; 1 Assistant Coach
2013 – 6 changes: 2 Power Moves; 1 Mid-Majors; 3 Assistant Coaches
2014 – 10 changes: 2 Power Moves; 3 Mid-Majors; 3 Assistant Coaches; 2 Ex-Coaches/TV Analysts
2015 – 11 changes: 2 Power Moves; 4 Mid-Majors; 2 Assistant Coaches; 2 Ex-Coaches/TV Analsyts; 1 NBA Front Office/Alum
Power Moves (hiring another coach directly from a power conference or major program): 13
To —– Coach ——— From — Year
- Arkansas — Mike Anderson — Missouri — 2011
- Missouri — Frank Haith — Miami — 2011
- Maryland — Mark Turgeon — Texas A&M — 2011
- Oklahoma — Lon Kruger — UNLV — 2011
- South Carolina — Frank Martin — Kansas State — 2012
- Kansas State — Bruce Weber — Illinois — 2012
- TCU — Trent Johnson — LSU — 2012
- UCLA — Steve Alford — New Mexico — 2013
- Texas Tech — Tubby Smith — Minnesota — 2013
- California — Cuonzo Martin — Tennessee — 2014
- Virginia Tech — Buzz Williams — Marquette — 2014
- Texas — Shaka Smart — VCU — 2015
- Tennessee — Rick Barnes — Texas — 2015
From this list, five of the coaches were pushed/jumped or just fired that same year from their previous school (Haith, Weber, Johnson, Smith and Barnes).