Overview: For every Fred Hoiberg, there are about a dozen guys like Chris Mullin, Eddie Jordan, Avery Johnson, Mike Dunleavy and, most recently, Juwan Howard and Jerry Stackhouse. Each accepted command of a Division I basketball program with little to no college coaching experience but most often extensive backgrounds playing and coaching professional basketball. Coaches who arrive from professional basketball without having worked extensively in college have about a 9 percent success rate. The problem isn’t whether they know and teach basketball strategy; it’s that knowing and teaching basketball strategy is about 35 percent of the job. One of the few who made this transition successfully: Fred Hoiberg, who now has reached March Madness in half of his 10 seasons as head coach at Iowa State and Nebraska. Young might want to get Hoiberg on the phone.

Grade: C-