Steve Lavin? Are you serious?
It looks like North Carolina State is trying to raise its basketball program's Q rating when it should be worried about Ws.
Granted, Steve Lavin had a moderate amount of success at UCLA in his run there - including five Sweet 16s in his first six years at the helm of the Bruin ship.
But Lavin has been out of the game for three years now for a reason - and it's not his sense of style or his ability to talk a good game on TV.
Lavin was criticized roundly during his UCLA tenure as being a guy who was deficient on the Xs and Os - which isn't the kind of thing that you want to hear about your head coach, considering the nature of the job.
It isn't likely that someone with Lavin's, ahem, credentials would succeed in the coach-heavy Atlantic Coast Conference - where legends like Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams roam the sidelines just down the road from Raleigh, and Gary Williams is just up the interstate in College Park, Md.
State would be well advised to leave Lavin where he is now - stylin' and profilin' for the television cameras - and look for a basketball coach to take over its program.
- Chris Graham