Tag: Jerod Haase

College Sports Wire floats Jerod Haase as potential Washington State candidate

College Sports Wire pegs Jerod Haase as a candidate for the Washington State job in a unique swap.

The coaching carousel in college basketball is spinning rapidly, and one interesting opening is the Washington State job. Kyle Smith left for Stanford, and now the Cougars are searching for a head coach despite them making the NCAA Tournament and making it to the Round of 32.

Andy Patton of College Sports Wire laid out some candidates for the Washington State opening and discussed ex-Stanford coach Jared Haase in a unique swap of coaches:

A trade of head coaches between Stanford and Washington State could become a reality if the Cougars decide to pursue Haase, who was fired after eight seasons at Stanford which resulted in zero NCAA Tournament appearances.

Haase had far more success at UAB when they were in Conference USA, going to the NCAA Tournament in 2015, and perhaps a move to the WCC where Washington State will be housed the next two seasons will help him find some of that success.

The 49-year-old brought high level talent to Palo Alto, and if he can recruit well and compete with Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s in the WCC he will be right back on his feet while helping this program through a tough transitional period.

Haase was let go by Stanford at the end of the season and Washington State’s Kyle Smith quickly made the transition in a bit of a surprising move. However, Stanford is joining the ACC in 2024, so that could have been a big reason why.

Other options from Patton include Leon Rice, Joe Pasternack, David Riley, and Chris Victor.

This mistake by Stanford men’s basketball could haunt them for years to come

Stanford basketball coach Jerod Haase was let go on Thursday, magnifying the Cardinal’s mistake not hiring Mark Madsen last offseason.

They say hindsight is 20-20, but Stanford’s decision to retain head coach Jerod Haase after last season – instead of hiring prominent alumni and Utah Valley coach Mark Madsen – was viewed as a crucial mistake at the time.

And it looks even worse now.

Madsen instead took the head job at Cal and is clearly in the process of turning the Golden Bears around, while Stanford floundered in mediocrity for another season before ultimately doing what should have been done last year, letting Haase go.

Haase was dismissed shortly after Stanford’s loss to Washington State on Thursday in the Pac-12 Tournament, and held himself accountable for the team’s struggles in an emotional postgame press conference.

“I have not won here to the level that I expect,” Haase said. “Just like I hold my team accountable, I’m being held accountable, and I have no issue with that.”

Stanford failed to make the big dance in all eight of Haase’s seasons in Palo Alto, finishing with a nearly perfect .500 record at 126-127 overall. While he was able to add high-end talent as a recruiter, including Harrison Ingram and Andrej Stojakovic, the on-court results just were not there and the program wanted to find new leadership before moving to the ACC.

Meanwhile, Cal has a full year head start on their rebuild – and it adds a little salt to the wound that Stanford’s bitter rival is in a better place because of Madsen, who almost certainly would have taken the Cardinal job if they had made it available one year ago instead of giving Haase one more – ultimately uninspired – season.

Former UNC assistant coach Jerod Haase out at Stanford

Jerod Haase was a longtime Roy Williams assistant (2003-2012) at UNC. His 8-year head coaching stint at Stanford came to an end last week.

From coaching with legendary head coaches in UNC’s storied basketball history, plenty of Tar Heel assistants have since received head coaching opportunities – both in-house and elsewhere.

North Carolina’s current head coach, Hubert Davis, was a longtime Roy Williams understudy. He has UNC, which will play in Saturday’s ACC Championship game against longtime rival NC State, playing like a National Championship contender.

Jerod Haase, another Williams understudy, was an assistant coach in Chapel Hill from 2003-2012. He primarily coached the JV squad, but was part of the coaching staff that led UNC’s 2005 and 2009 National Title-winning teams.

Haase turned his successful stint as a Williams assistant into two head coaching jobs: first at UAB, then at Stanford. Haase led UAB to two wins in the 2015 Big Dance, which Stanford liked and decide to hire him.

As much promise that Haase’s past coaching career delivered, he did not deliver in California.

On Thursday, March 14, after eight seasons leading the Cardinal, Haase was fired.

It’s always tough to see coaches fired, especially when Tar Heel lore is a big part of their past. Haase always seemed like a players’ coach, which makes this news tougher.

If you’ve learned anything from watching sports today, however, it’s that they’re a results-based business. Haase did not produce at Stanford, with the Cardinal’s lone postseason berth being a trip to the NIT in 2017-2018.

Who will be the next man in charge of leading Stanford, the 1942 NCAA Tournament Champions, back to the level of prominence it enjoyed in the late 90’s and early 2000s?

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Stanford basketball continues to struggle under hot-seat head coach Jerod Haase

The clock is ticking for a Pac-12 coach who is squarely on the hot seat.

We asked our Pac-12 basketball panel about the coaches who will likely be fired at the end of the season.

Matt Zemek: Jerod Haase at Stanford and Mike Hopkins at Washington.

Zachary Neel: I think you see Mike Hopkins out at Washington.

Matt Wadleigh: I have Mike Hopkins being fired.

Don Smalley: Hopkins (Washington), Wayne Tinkle (Oregon State).

So far this season, Jerod Haase has done little to suggest that he will retain his job for one more season. Haase and Stanford had a quality win opportunity on Wednesday night against Arkansas in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in The Bahamas. Arkansas played a terrible game, shooting poorly and failing to generate good offense. While Stanford’s defense had something to do with that, the Cardinal were hardly on top of their game.

One Stanford player, Spencer Jones, was outstanding against Arkansas. Jones scored 27 points on 10-of-20 shooting, 5 of 10 on 3-pointers. If you take away Jones’ shooting numbers, Stanford shot under 36 percent from the field and only 20 percent from 3-point range. The Cardinal gave up 19 turnovers, too. They weren’t good. Yet, Arkansas shot just 30 percent from the field and made only 4 of 19 3-pointers.

The game was there for the taking. Stanford couldn’t take it. The Cardinal already lost at home to Santa Clara and need high-end wins to create an NCAA Tournament resume to save Haase’s job. Haase has been coaching Stanford since 2016, and he still doesn’t have a single NCAA Tournament. He has won one postseason game, an NIT first-round game. That’s it.

In seven-plus seasons.

If he doesn’t make the NCAAs this season, that has to be it for him.

Stanford faces Michigan on Thanksgiving Day in the Battle 4 Atlantis. A loss there would cement Stanford’s position as a team going nowhere. If the quality wins don’t emerge soon, Haase’s bizarrely long tenure at Stanford will finally come to an end.

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Bay Area bloodbath: chances of Stanford and Cal firing basketball coaches are soaring

It’s becoming increasingly harder to see how Stanford and Cal can continue with their current head coaches. That and more in this #Pac12 notebook.

It’s getting late very early in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stanford and Cal basketball are facing the very real possibility that they might have to fire their head coaches.

We can talk about how the pandemic hurts recruiting and the transfer portal. We can talk about how Cal has limited resources and will need UCLA to pay some money to Berkeley when the Bruins leave for the Big Ten. New media rights dollars will help cover the costs for the Bruins, so that Cal has more cash on hand to keep the lights on. We can talk about so many other things which limit Stanford and Cal basketball right now. Yet, none of this can be viewed as remotely tolerable.

One would have to think that in Palo Alto and Berkeley, changes are about to come. Two programs can’t be this dead, this adrift, this lifeless, this flat.

Stanford — which led by four points with 3:45 left — didn’t make another field goal in the remainder of regulation time and lost to Colorado to fall to 5-8 for the season, 0-3 in Pac-12 play.

Cal scored just 43 points and lost by 15 to Utah. Cal and Stanford are the only two Pac-12 teams to be 0-3 through three conference games. Cal has won only one game this season.

It’s not as though Jerod Haase of Stanford and Mark Fox of Cal are new coaches, either. Haase has been at Stanford since 2016. Fox has been in Berkeley since 2019.

Even with limitations existing at both schools, it’s hard to see how either coach will be around for the 2023-2024 college basketball season.

Let’s look at other notes around the Pac-12 in both basketball and football: