We all have seen sports teams make terrible coaching hires. Sometimes, this involves hiring a terrible coach, somebody like Les Steckel with the Minnesota Vikings. Sometimes it’s a matter of hiring a great coach with just the wrong approach for the job he accepts, thinking Kelvin Sampson at Indiana.
Sometimes it’s all just so tone-deaf we’re left to shake our heads in amazement.
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Saturday night, while the NCAA was contesting the first couple of its Elite Eight games, multiple reports emerged — one from CBS Sports, another from ESPN — that Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings had entered contention to be hired as the new head basketball coach of the Pitt Panthers.